The entrance to Fort Brockhurst (picture from Britain’s Past)
Monarch Butterfly Madeira
Basic form of the Calderon coat of arms
Christmas 1901 Cartoon by George Calderon
A happy memory of Trinity College: undergraduates breakfast together in Downy V. Green, p. 77.
Jean Ryckaert, May 1916.
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K.N. Das Gupta and Margaret Mitchell in an Indian Dramatic Society production of The Maharani of Arakan, 1913?
Colonel Sir Walter Coote Hedley c. 1920
George and Kittie Calderon 1905
Patrick Miles in his summer house, 11 December 2016
George Calderon, 1912
George Calderon c.1901
Unpublished watercolour by George Calderon, Tahiti 1906
Frontis piece by Frank Calderon
Sir Richard Vincent Sutton c. 1913
Book sent to George Calderon in Russia by his mother, Christmas 1895.
Michel and Vera Fokine in “Scheherazade”, 1914 (The Music And Theatre Library of Sweden, creative commons)
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Cambridge Tales 5: ‘East of the Rhine’
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Cambridge Tales 5: ‘East of the Rhine’ (Concluded)
One afternoon in the last week of November, there was a soft knock on the door of my room. Before me stood an elegantly thin woman in her late twenties, wearing an extremely expensive-looking bleu nuit cashmere coat with a … Continue reading →