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Illuminated letter to Captain Percy Joseph Sillitoe (Chief Constable of the East Riding of Yorkshire) congratulating him on his appointment as Chief Constable of City of Sheffield, 1926

Sir Percy (22 May 1888-5 April 1962) was born in London in 1888. He served in the South Africa Police, later becoming Chief Constable of Chesterfield in Derbyshire and then the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was appointed Chief Constable of the City of Sheffield in 1926. He served in Sheffield for 5 years and was well known for dealing with the violent gangs which were active in the city. In 1931 he was appointed Chief Constable of Glasgow. He was appointed CBE in 1936, knighted in 1942 and in 1943 was put in Command of the new joint Kent force. He became Director General of MI5 in 1946.
Original at Sheffield Libraries: arc02603

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Dramatic Sunset from the edge of a cliff over the Magaliesberg Mountain Range looking towards the flat agricultural North-West Province of South Africa. Magaliesberg Mountains, North-West Province, South Africa

© Mitchell Krog

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RMS Transvaal Castle by G. H. Davis

Detailed cross-section drawing of the new mailship for the Union-Castle fleet, R.M.S. Transvaal Castle, which made her maiden voyage from Southampton to South Africa on 18 January 1962. She was built by John Brown's on the Clyde and launched a year before that by Lady Cayzer, wife of Sir Nicholas Cayzer, Chairman of the Union-Castle Line. The ship could carry more than 700 passengers and was 760 feet long and 90 feet wide from port rail to starboard rail amidships. There was no first, second or tourist class and every passenger had run of her public rooms which included a 200 seat cinema, a sunlit swimming pool, an Elizabeth Arden beauty salon and a gymnasium. En route to South Africa, during the 13 and a half day voyage, the ship stopped at Las Palmas, Port Elizabeth and East London on the way there and Madeira instead of Las Palmas on its return route. Date: 1962

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