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You cannot be serious!

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    What? No short skirts, no popping the spare tennis balls up the legs of their drawers and only two rackets🤔 That can't be tennis.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie You cannot be serious!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    "Simonne Mathieu[a] (French pronunciation: [simɔn matjø] née Passemard;)[1] (31 January 1908 – 7 January 1980) was a tennis player from France, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, who was active in the 1930s. She won the French Championships singles title in 1938 and 1939.

    During World War II, she created and led the Corps of French Volunteers in the Free French Forces, the first female unit in the military history of France.”

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonne_Mathieu
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Very successful player, I wonder are all the others in the album as famous?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Madame Mathieu playing in 1929 - youtu.be/GlZee-dj7Qs?si=oUTaw8Wamp2klqEj

A spot of Birdwatching

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Peckwater Quad, Oxford. I think it must be this east side, enjoying "after a luncheon" sunshine. The graffiti has been cleaned up! ...
    maps.app.goo.gl/YNYjfg1ECq82TyuU8

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peckwater_Quadrangle
  • Wendy: said:
    love the jackdaw signature!!!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Wendy: Excellent penmanship for somebody with claws!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The Hon. M. Ponsonby at right could be Maurice John George Ponsonby later 4th Baron de Mauley of Canford
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Wow, the morbid looking gent bottom left is F. G. Vyner. Per thepeerage, Frederick Grantham Vyner... He died on 21 April 1870 at age 23 at Greece, murdered by brigands.

    A bit about it here: The captives were not treated poorly. Another Old Etonian, Frederick Grantham Vyner, reportedly ran races and tossed boulders with his captors.

Protesting in a Top Hat - my word!

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  • John Spooner said:
    There was a protest on October 17th 1909 which fits the bill. Fermanagh Herald - Saturday 23 October 1909:
    A demonstration organised by the British Social Democratic Federation, in co-operation with the Labour Party, Fabian Society, and other organisations, was held in Trafalgar Square, London, on Sunday afternoon, to protest against the execution of Senor Ferrer, and was attended by between nine thousand and ten thousand people.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    John Spooner That's some crowd. Will the newspapers be our friend in uncovering Francisco Ferrer's alleged wrongdoing?

    Date fairly securely established as 17 October 1909 then, thank you, and the postcard was sent on 10 September 1910.
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Methinks the protest was a bit late.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Francisco Ferrer was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer
  • John Spooner said:
    The protest in Trafalgar Square was mild in comparison with what went on in Italy. It was "in the throes of a general strike" in protest against the "inquisitorial Spanish government", the Spanish consuls in Milan, Carrara and Florence resigned, and "immense bodies of soldiery" were guarding the Vatican day and night. (Daily Chronicle).,

    It seems that the 'secular' aspect of Ferrer's teachings were seen as a threat to certain parts of the Spanish establishment.