Peter Berthoud
Postcards of London Life in 1950 by Charles Skilton
A celebrated series of postcards depicting London Life by renowned publisher Charles Skilton crop up regularly on eBay and the like. The...
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Peter Berthoud
- Apr 12
Snow White - The Shooting Game by Chad Valley for British Home Stores c. 1938
One day, around 84 years ago, Chad Valley produced an exceptionally odd gun-themed Disney game, The Snow White Shooting Game. The...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 22
The London Post - A New Game, Jaques & Son,102, Hatton Garden. Published c. 1870
The London Post is a set collecting game, described by Jaques in an advert as: 64 Cards, with beautiful Illustrations, in Colours, of the...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 20
The RMS Queen Mary in Trafalgar Square, Jig-Saw Puzzle
Manufactured for Cunard White Star Limited by The Chad Valley Co. Ltd., Harbourne, England, 1936. This magnificent puzzle was produced by...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 10
LOBO - A 90 Year Old Card Game Based on the London Underground
LOBO is the first game I know of based on the London Underground railway system. Published by Thomas De La Rue & Company Ltd of Bunhill...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 7
Discovering London - The Board Game
As a tour guide in London I have traded as Discovering London for over a decade. When I came across this board game last year I had to...
Peter Berthoud
- Feb 25
Skits: Produced c 1884 by Jaques & Son, 102 Hatton Garden, London
A beautiful antique card game by one of my favourite London Makers, Jaques & Sons, London. Each of the forty old counties of England has...
Peter Berthoud
- Dec 7, 2021
Owzthat - More Outside Sports Tabled Together in 1932
Owzthat, the classic cricket game, never had a maker’s or manufacturer’s name on the tin and the inventors name had been forgotten for...
Peter Berthoud
- Dec 5, 2021
A 90 Year Old Cricketing Mystery Solved - Owzthat!
For nearly nine decades aspiring cricketers and cricketing fans throughout the world have enjoyed playing the diminutive classic game...
Peter Berthoud
- Apr 8, 2018
High Suspense in Mayfair
This is what being a telephone engineer involved in 1930s London. Twice a year the steel wires which support London's telephone cables -...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 7, 2018
Golf and Guns: London's Rooftop Playground in the 1930s
High above London, men and women were at play in 1938. Back then one could shoot guns and play golf on a rooftop. Here are some...
Peter Berthoud
- Feb 17, 2018
Hyde Park: Shepherd and His Sheep
In the 1920s and 30s a Scottish shepherd grazed his sheep in Hyde Park. George Donald travelled down each year from Aberdeen together...
Peter Berthoud
- Jan 30, 2018
1930s Advertising in Holborn
A selection of adverts from The Official Guide to Holborn 3re 1931 (published by J. Burrow & Co, Cheltenham). I enjoy the insights these...
Peter Berthoud
- Jan 27, 2018
Time Out London will be 50 this August
Time Out reaches its Golden Jubilee on 12th August 2018. On this day back in 1968 the first edition was published in London. A radical...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 8, 2016
The Ugliest Statue in London?
Well, according to George Bernard Shaw, the famous “Wedding Cake” statue, part of the memorial to Queen Victoria, would be a contender....
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 26, 2015
Save the Porters Rest on Piccadilly
In 1861 this curious piece of street furniture was installed on Piccadilly. It stood there for over a hundred and fifty years. In the...
Peter Berthoud
- May 20, 2014
The Real Story of A-Z Maps by Phyllis Pearsall
The legend of Phyllis Pearsall, founder of Geographers' A-Z Map Company, has become controversial in recent years. The debate about...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 13, 2014
America in London - Top Six Sights in the 1950s
In the early 1950s Charles Skilton issued a set of six postcards entitled "America in London" promising them to be "Of interest to all...
Peter Berthoud
- Mar 6, 2014
When Madame Tussaud's Tested A Commando
In 1947, 110 would be Royal Marine Commandos embarked upon a nationwide, five-day long, “personal initiative” test. Taking the initiative...
Peter Berthoud
- Feb 20, 2014
A Love Letter from Edwardian London in 36 Views
On November 18th 1904 Miss Gwen James of Glamorganshire received an unusually large quantity of post. Through her door at 22, Regent...