According to Cecil Beaton, in his The Book of Beauty: "The Ruthven Twins are the most striking pair. Richly carved with large full mouths, high cheek bones, and knobbly noses,they are as decorative as a pair of Assyrian rams."
Well-known socialites, the Ruthven twins, aka the Hon. Alison and the Hon. Margaret Ruthven, briefly took the stage as the Ralli Twins in the 1920s, appearing in the " Shake Your Feet" at the London Hippodrome. 1927
1927: Guests attending a charity ball
Left to right, standing:
John Foster, John Barron, Lady Jean Ruthven, Mr Thomas, Claude Duveen.
Left to right, seated:
Hon Allison Ruthven, Hon Margaret Ruthven and the Hon Adele Biddulph. #EGI
Alison Mary Hore-Ruthven was born in 1902, the daughter of Walter Hore-Ruthven, 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland.
Alison on her wedding day, clearly see the husband's stair fail
Margaret Hore-Ruthven 1901 - 1970
Alison Ruthven weds Mr. J.L. Barran at the Guards' Chapel in London
Note the huge Old World building and columns behind them. It was destroyed in the bombing, surprise, surprise!
These postcards of the windmills, canals and cities of the late 1890s Netherlands were created using the Photochrom process, a technique for applying lifelike colour to black-and-white images.
The Never-Stop Railway was a step-on, step-off method where people walked slowly onto moving carriages that went around the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley 1925.
These railway carriages never stopped at platforms, but passed by slowly enough for people to hop on and off.
This railway consisted of 88 unmanned carriages, on a continuous double track along the northern and eastern sides of the exhibition.
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method. The system was entirely automatic without locomotive driver or guard, with a high carrying capacity.
The carriages never stop and passengers are expected to hop off while it is still in motion. The lack of stopping meant the railway was able to gain greater speeds than the trains running on the London Underground at the time.