Tuesday, October 22, 2024

CHALLENGE TO YOUTH FLASHBACK

                                     

Battered  copy of  l937-1938  edition of  The Boy's Own  Annual , containing  the speech by  Stanley Baldwin , his last as British  Prime Minister ,  to a  gathering   of 10,000 young men and women , between the  ages of  12 and 16, from every  Dominion and Colony , in  May  1937 at  the Great Empire Rally of  Youth in the  Royal Albert   Hall.  Earl   Baldwin  said  to  be  " an  old reader " of  the  Boy's Own  Paper.  Annual  found  in Townsville  tour.