Felix Hookham reading ‘The Specialist’ by Charles Sale, beside his wife and daughter, Repulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong

Felix Hookham reading ‘The Specialist’ by Charles Sale, beside his wife and daughter,  Repulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong

Collection

Hookham, Felix

Identifier

Hh-s171

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Hh-s171. Felix Hookham is reading ‘The Specialist’ by Charles Sale. To his left: his wife Hilda (aka Nita) Hookham and daughter Peggy (Margaret Evelyn Hookham, later Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE, 1919-1991). ‘The Specialist’ is a humorous tale, famous in its day, about a philosophical carpenter building an outside toilet. The implied joke in this photograph may relate this book to Peggy’s newly built paper model castle?

Caption on photograph

Us in the sun porch of our room at Repulse Bay Hotel. Peggy's paper model castle on the window sill.

Location

Hong Kong

Estimated Date

1930

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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