King George V’s Silver Jubilee 1910 - 1935

Stephen King - Hall blue cloth hardback

Commemorative Book.

This book not only celebrates the 25 years of service but also shows some key events and very interesting photographs:

§  Photographic portraits of the King and Queen by Vandyk,

§  The King, (when Prince of Wales), in the first Rolls Royce car,

§  Old-time Horse Bus,

§  The First Aerial Derby 1912,

§  The King visiting the Kaiser 1913,

§  The Murder that started WWI,

§  French town of LOUVAIN destroyed by artillery after WWI,

§  British Empire Exhibition 1924 at WEMBLEY,

§  Sir Alan Cobham return from Australia at the end of his 26,000-mile flight, landing on The Thames outside the Houses of Parliament. 1926.

§  Genre: Commemorative

§  Whether you’re a fan of recent history milestones, or just looking to add a great read to your collection, this book is a perfect choice.

Printed by: 

R. Clay Bungay Suffolk.

Published by:

Evans Brothers, Ltd. Montague House, Russell Square, London, WC1

Notes: Carl Vandyk (17 January 1851 – 18 November 1931) was a successful London photographer^[1] born in Bunde, Germany. From 1882 he owned a studio at Gloucester Road taking images of the British Royal Family, his new studio in 1901, was opened in Buckingham Palace Road.

Sir Alan Cobham, on 30 June 1926, he set off on a flight from Britain (from the River Medway) to Australia, where 60,000 people swarmed across the grassy fields of Essendon Airport, Melbourne, when he landed his de Havilland DH.50 floatplane (it had been converted to a wheeled undercarriage earlier, at Darwin). During the flight to Australia, Cobham's engineer of the D.H.50 aircraft, Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after they left Baghdad on 5 July 1926. The return flight was undertaken over the same route. Cobham was knighted the same year.