Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Land girls on their way

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The crops have to be harvested within fourteen days circa 1942

13th June 1962

the two men present each other with flowery compliments

Meux's Brewery

Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Land girls on their wayBlind Hookey, 1878. Russia, Tukey and Germany are amongst those seated at the card table. John Bull, the representative of the British people, refuses to join the game. This relates to the recent Treaty of San Stefano which laid down the terms for peace between Russia and Turkey. Lord Salisbury had despatched a circular to the Powers objecting to a number of the terms of the Treaty. There was a growing distance between Russia and Britain at this time