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British Empire Marketing Board poster - Takoradi Harbour

Native Chiefs in Palaver, Takoradi Harbour in Ghana, West Africa. Native chiefs meeting a British official or governor of the area during a period when large parts of Africa still formed part of the British Empire. The poster, by G. Spencer Pryse boasts of British materials and British engineering and the fact that the harbour was opened by the Rt Hon. J. H. Thomas (who may be the British officer in uniform in the picture)

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Valerie Ryshworth-Hill in ATS uniform on a motorbike

One of two identical photographs of Valerie Ryshworth-Hill in ATS uniform on a motorbike, 1940s (c).From a collection of photographs collected by Lt Col Anthony Ryshworth-Hill and Valerie Ryshworth-Hill (later Valerie Wilkinson).Ryshworth-Hill served in Austria, Ghana and Turkey in various staff officer and diplomatic capacities. Date: circa 1949

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Governor and Chief Scout in Ghana, West Africa

The Governor and Chief Scout of the Gold Coast, Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke, welcomed with a traditional yell by an Ashanti scout group in Ghana, West Africa. He was arriving to open the 1951 session of the Supreme Council Meeting of the Boy Scouts Association (Gold Coast Branch). Date: 1951

© Mary Evans / The Scout Association

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