24 Heartwarming Photos of Camberley Kate and Her Stray Dogs From Between the 1950s and 1970s

Looking after stray and rescued dogs the rather odd Camberley Kate was regularly seen walking them around the town. All towns have at least one eccentric resident who is known throughout the area and Camberley is no exception. Kate Ward, or Camberley Kate as she is affectionately nicknamed was well known to residents until her death in the 1970s.

Kate was a dog lover who rescued any stray pup that was sent her way and estimates indicate she cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime. Although she may be gone, her memory lives on around the globe. Kate was born in 1895 in Middlesbrough but by the age of 10 she was being raised in a strictly religious home by her aunt. Aged 19 she left domestic service in Bradford and moved down south.

Records don’t show why she moved to Camberley but it is possible she went to work as a servant for the Royal Military Academy on the London Road, as many other girls of her age did at the time.

She bought her first house in the town for £600 in 1943. This was to become home to the first of many rescued dogs; a lame greyhound who was destined to be put down by the vet. She took it home and from then on became dedicated to looking after strays. She never turned down a stray.

She lived in a small terraced cottage in the Yorktown area on the London Road, a few doors down from The Lamb pub (now demolished). Someone built her a green wooden cart so that she and her pack of stray dogs could make the four mile round trip to the town centre every day to collect donations and sell postcards with her picture on. More importantly perhaps, the trips allowed her to collect more strays from the Police Station.

Woe betide anyone who tried to take a photo of her without making a small donation towards the upkeep of her beloved dogs! Kate could be quite feisty on occasions. Residents recall tales of Kate giving someone a good and loud telling off for taking, what she saw as liberties! Other funding to support her came in the form of legacies and public generosity, although apparently she mentioned a “gentleman” who supported her financially too.

A local vet called Geoffrey Cradock, supplied Kate’s charges with the necessary veterinary care from 1954 until her death in 1979, aged 84. According to him...

“All the dogs were incredibly healthy and they lived to a ripe old age. She had great humour, great character and great determination. I shall miss her very much indeed.”

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45 Vintage Cover Photos of Czech Weekly News Pestrý Týden in 1927

Pestrý týden was a Czech illustrated weekly magazine published November 2, 1926 to April 28, 1945, during the First and Second Czechoslovak Republics and during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

The magazine helped establish top photo-reporters of the 1930s, such as Karel Hájek, Václav Jírů and Ladislav Sitenský. Published and printed by Grafické závody (‘Graphic Works’) by Václav Neubert and Sons, based in Smíchov, Prague it was issued in 963 numbers.

Here below is a collection of vintage cover photos of Czech weekly news Pestrý týden in 1927.

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20 Stunning Portraits of a Young and Beautiful Cicely Tyson in the 1960s and 1970s

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in Sounder, won a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, died on January 28, 2021, at the age of 96. Her death was announced by Larry Thompson, her longtime manager, who did not specify the cause.

“With heavy heart, the family of Miss Cicely Tyson announces her peaceful transition this afternoon. At this time, please allow the family their privacy.” according to a statement issued through Thompson.

Born on December 19, 1924 in East Harlem to West Indian immigrant parents, Tyson rose from humble beginnings. After graduating from high school she worked as a secretary for the American Red Cross before becoming a model; at the top of her game she appeared in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. She studied at the Actors Studio and with Lloyd Richards and Vinnette Carroll, who featured Tyson as Barbara Allen in a 1959 Off Broadway revival of the musical The Dark of the Moon. She segued into the variety show Talent ’59 on Broadway and appeared in a production of Jolly’s Progress in which she also understudied Eartha Kitt, before a role in The Blacks ignited her stage career.

In 1961 Tyson was one of the original cast members in The Blacks, which ran for two years at the St. Mark’s Playhouse. Her co-stars included Roscoe Lee Browne, James Earl Jones, Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques. The role of Virtue won her the Vernon Rice Award, a feat she repeated for the 1962 production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. She starred with Diana Sands in the 1963 Broadway production of Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright, which closed during a newspaper strike, and later that year appeared Off Broadway in The Blue Boy in Black with Billy Dee Williams. She moved on to Carroll’s musical Trumpets of the Lord as well as the 1966 production of A Hand Is at the Gate, the 1968 play Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights and the 1969 program of Lorraine Hansberry readings To Be Young, Gifted and Black.

Interspersed with her stage gigs, Tyson appeared in a number of television shows, including a dramatic presentation of Brown Girl, Brown Stones in 1960 and Between Yesterday and Today. East Side/West Side star George C. Scott, having been impressed by her performance in The Blacks, asked for her to play his assistant in the 1963 CBS series.

Tyson was active in charity and arts organizations including Urban Gateways, the Human Family Institute and the American Film Institute. She received awards from the National Council of Negro Women and the NAACP as well as the Capitol Press Award.

The actress was one of 25 Black women honored for their contributions to art, entertainment and civil rights as part of Oprah Winfrey’s 2005 Legends Ball.

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Everyday Life of Puerto Rico in the Mid-1940s Through Amazing Color Photos

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.

Puerto Rico from 1944 to 1947

Puerto Rico is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques.

The capital and most populous city of Puerto Rico is San Juan. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates.

These amazing color photos from Tom Lehman were taken by Dr. H. Clair Amstutz that documented everyday life of Puerto Rico from 1944 to 1947.

Aibonito. Ambulance by Don Emanuelli's house

Aibonito. Children on rural road

Aibonito. Four horses carrying bundles of tobacco

Aibonito. Man with ox team

Aibonito. Ox cart backed up to tobacco warehouse

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20 Wonderful Black and White Photos of Cloris Leachman in the 1960s and 1970s

Cloris Leachman, a multifaceted Oscar-winning actress who gave a tour de force performance as a desperately lonely Texas housewife in The Last Picture Show and a tour de farce portrayal of the grim-faced Transylvanian housekeeper Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein, died on January 27, 2021 at her home in Encinitas, California. She was 94.

Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne “Buck” Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father’s family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She is of Czech (from her maternal grandmother) and English descent.

After graduating from high school, Leachman attended Illinois State University and Northwestern University, where she majored in drama. After winning the title of Miss Chicago 1946 (as part of the Miss America pageant), she acted with the Des Moines Playhouse before moving to New York.

Leachman made her credited debut in 1948 in an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour (1948) and appeared in many television anthologies and series before becoming a regular on The Bob & Ray Show (1951) in 1952. Her movie debut was memorable, playing the doomed blonde femme fatale Christina Bailey in Robert Aldrich’s classic noir Kiss Me Deadly (1955).

Other than a role in Rod Serling’s movie The Rack (1956) in support of Paul Newman, Leachman remained a television actress throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, appearing in only two movies during the latter decade, The Chapman Report (1962) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Though she would win an Oscar for Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show (1971) and appear in three Mel Brooks movies, it was in television that her career remained and her fame was assured in the 1970s and into the second decade of the new millennium.

Leachman was nominated five times for an Emmy Award playing Phyllis Lindstrom, Mary Tyler Moore's landlady and self-described best friend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and on the spin-off series Phyllis (1975). She won twice as Best Supporting Actress in a comedy for her "Mary Tyler Moore" gig and won a Golden Globe Award as a leading performer in comedy for "Phyllis", but her first Emmy Award came in the category Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1973 for the television movie A Brand New Life (1973). She also won two Emmy Awards as a supporting player for Malcolm in the Middle (2000). The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005).

She was silly, serious, hard-working and had a very, very long career — all qualities that helped make her one of Hollywood's most decorated and versatile performers.

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Fascinating Vintage Photos of British Youth in the 1950s

Take a look back at the youth, the spivs, the Teddy boys and girls in post-war England in the 1950s through 20 fascinating black-and-white vintage photographs: 

Four young men at a smart London bar, 1953. (Bert Hardy)

A gang member lounging outside a coffee stall, London, 1953. (Charles Hewitt)

A pair of young women by the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London, 1953. (Alex Dellow)

A young couple in a London pub, 1954. (Bert Hardy)

A group of young people playing cards, 1954. (Bert Hardy)

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Fabulous Portrait Photos of a Young and Handsome Robert Taylor in the 1930s

Born 1911 as Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, American actor and singer Robert Taylor began his career in films in 1934 when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He won his first leading role the following year in Magnificent Obsession.

Taylor’s popularity increased during the late 1930s and 1940s with appearances in A Yank at Oxford (1938), Waterloo Bridge (1940), and Bataan (1943).

During World War II, Taylor served in the United States Naval Air Forces, where he worked as a flight instructor and appeared in instructional films.

From 1959 to 1962, Taylor starred in the series The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. In 1966, he took over hosting duties from his friend Ronald Reagan on the series Death Valley Days.

Taylor was one of the most popular leading men of his time. A chain smoker, he died of lung cancer at the age of 57.

Take a look at these vintage photos to see handsome portrait of a young Robert Taylor in the 1930s.

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