Scrapbook for 1933

11/20/2024

This pretty much does what it says on the tin as it takes us on a review of 1933. It's a Britain recovering from the Great War in 91 degree sunshine, but in Berlin too, with people milling around and leisurely sitting in cafés, the shadow of what's coming is beginning to eclipse events there. The US is seeing the depression in full swing with opportunity going down the drain as surely as the prohibited booze. Back in Britain, cycling helps people take to the great outdoors with some jolly community singing in the presence of the Duke of York. Society events are still thriving and the fashions are high at the horse racing with Gordon Richards dominant but not at the Derby where King George V took centre stage. Helen Jacobs and Dorothy Rand were doing their stuff at Wimbledon as was Fred Per