2-720-469 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Life By The Thames in Early Edwardian Days', 1902, (1933). People sitting in the garden of the Ray Mead Hotel, Boulters Lock, Maidenhead, Berkshire. The women use parasols to avoid tanning: 'for gentlemen did not prefer bronze, and sunburn was regarded as most unladylike!'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]