Royal Navy friends on a beach, with gin and biscuits, Weihai (威海)

Royal Navy friends on a beach, with gin and biscuits, Weihai (威海)

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: FH01-064. F. Hagger is on the left. On the lable of the bottle: COATES & Co PLYMOUTH GIN. (The Plymouth Gin Distillery was founded in 1793 and operated as Coates & Company until 2004). On the label of the box on the right: Peek, Frean & Co. LONDON BISCUITS.  (Peek, Frean & Company was a major biscuit company, in operation from 1857 until 1989).

Caption in album or on mount

ISLAND PASTIME’S

Location

Weihai

Date

1932

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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