A SUMMER’S EVENING.—A typical scene, of only a short lifetime ago, on the Thames. Drawn by the famous artist Bernard Partridge for “Punch” in 1900, it is included in “Leslie Baily’s B.B. C. Scrapbooks,” reviewed below. The scene evokes the leisureliness of life of the period—when “People were not in such a hurry to rush from one thing to another,” as the actress Dame Irene Vanbrugh summed up the outlook oh life at the turn of the century in one of the Scrapbook programmes. Everyone wears a hat and a tie, including the lady with the punt-pole whose dress is the epitome of style. Only missing are the young rascals who would suck lemons close to the German bands so that they were unable to play their instruments.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31333, 1 April 1967, Page 4

A SUMMER’S EVENING.—A typical scene, of only a short lifetime ago, on the Thames. Drawn by the famous artist Bernard Partridge for “Punch” in 1900, it is included in “Leslie Baily’s B.B. C. Scrapbooks,” reviewed below. The scene evokes the leisureliness of life of the period—when “People were not in such a hurry to rush from one thing to another,” as the actress Dame Irene Vanbrugh summed up the outlook oh life at the turn of the century in one of the Scrapbook programmes. Everyone wears a hat and a tie, including the lady with the punt-pole whose dress is the epitome of style. Only missing are the young rascals who would suck lemons close to the German bands so that they were unable to play their instruments.