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What on earth has Mr Poole done to her ladyship's hair?

Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick and Emily Ursula Clare nee St. Leger At thepeerage She died in 1927 aged 73, so we are before that.

Is this part of the NLI series "How not to photoshop"?

Kelloggs Corn Flakes had a set of toy plastic dogs as in-pack giveaways in the 1960s and the poodle was a dead ringer for this chap down to the partially shorn legs. I sometimes worry about the things I remember! I wonder if this doggy might be Percival Puddingbowl III?

Paddywhack56 That's a good beginning and I really like the name!

William James (Will) Mahoney (1894-1967), vaudevillian and theatre manager, was born on 5 February 1894 at Helena, Montana, United States of America. Will first performed on stage in 1902. He and Frank ('The Mahoney Bros') devised an act and eventually played on the vaudeville circuit. By 1914 they had toured North America and Mexico, and had visited Melbourne. Single-minded, and a perfectionist, Mahoney was said to be the highest-paid variety star in America, allegedly earning $5500 per week by the early 1930s. He and his partner Bob Geraghty worked in Britain in 1934-38. Their shows, Radio New York, Why Be Serious and Bats in the Belfry, featured an American artiste, Evie Hayes. She was aged 25 when Will married her on 26 March 1938 at the register office, Westminster, London. That year Frank Neil, managing director of the Tivoli vaudeville circuit in Australia, brought Mahoney, Hayes and Geraghty to Melbourne. Their first performance at the Tivoli Theatre on 22 August 1938 marked the beginning of seventeen successful tours of Australasia. As part of their contract, they appeared in Cinesound Productions Pty Ltd's 1939 film, Come Up Smiling (renamed Ants in his Pants). In January 1943 Mahoney joined Geraghty in the management of the Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane. Popular with American and Australian servicemen, the theatre attracted entertainers from overseas, among them Mahoney's friends Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Gary Cooper, Larry Adler and Artie Shaw. Following the end of World War II, variety shows attracted smaller audiences and the Cremorne began to lose money. In 1948 Mahoney closed his theatre and returned to the U.S.A. to revitalize his career. His reception was overwhelming and he was acclaimed as 'the most versatile variety artist in the world'. Accepting another Tivoli contract, he came back to Australia in April 1959. He and Evie settled in Melbourne, played in musicals, and taught young performers. They appeared together in Funny Girl in 1966 until Mahoney collapsed on stage in November. He died on 9 February 1967 in South Melbourne and was buried in Melbourne general cemetery; his wife survived him, as did the son of his first marriage and the daughter of his second. Local and international media paid tribute to the 'little American leprechaun with the laughing blue eyes, endearing smile, black bowler hat, and magic dancing feet'. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mahoney-william-james-will-11038

Thank you Vesna, I was wondering who he was ...

One of the sugar cane train's locomotive was Invicta (Leeds Fowler 0-6-2T) Purchased new in 1907 for the Invicta Sugar Mill, it spent all its working life in Sugar Mills in the Bundaberg area. Restored and returned to service with ASCR in November 2008, currently under complete restoration again. The loco was purchased by Mr Buss of the Invicta Sugar Mill, then located near the Kolan River. At the end of 1918 the mill was sold and moved to Giru in North Queensland, while the rolling stock was sold to Gibson and Howes (Bingera). When Invicta Sugar Mill was dismantled in 1918, Invicta was used to marshal the sugar cane from the Invicta area to Ralphs Siding where other locomotives transported the Sugar Cane to Bingera Sugar Mill. Invicta worked in the Bingera area until the early 1960s when it was sold to Millaquin Sugar Company during the sugar industry expansion program, to work at Qunaba Sugar Mill. Invicta was retired in 1978 before the steam era ended. In 1981 it was donated to the HMAS Nirimba Navy Training College at Quakers Hill Sydney. In July 1993 BSTPS made a submission to the Australian Navy for the return of Invicta to Bundaberg. The locomotive was returned and an official handover took place on 20th November 1993. The loco was dry stored until restoration started in 2003. A team of 20 members worked over four years to complete the restoration, with most of the work undertaken by the members themselves Invicta was recommissioned 17 November 2007 with a 100th birthday celebration attended by roughly 200 members and guests. Source: www.bundabergcanetrains.org.au/history/

City's oldest mill to close THE 123-year history of Fairymead Mill has come to an end, with Isis Central Sugar Mill and the state government blamed for its closure. THE 123-year history of Fairymead Mill has come to an end, with Isis Central Sugar Mill and the state government blamed for its closure. Bundaberg Sugar general manager Grant Maclean, who started at Fairymead himself in 1967, said the mill had "a lot of wonderful history''. Hundreds of workers have been employed at the mill since it was established in 1882 and at least 80 people will lose their jobs following yesterday's announcement. "Closing the mill is not something we wanted to do, but when the cane supply went down we had no option,'' Mr Maclean said. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/bundaberg/citys-ol...