Ena Towler
1 portrait of Ena Towler
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Ena Towler
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1921
7 1/2 in. x 5 5/8 in. (192 mm x 144 mm) image size
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x85767
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- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 portraits.
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- Place made: United Kingdom: England, London (photographer's studio, 38 Dover Street, London)
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Marie Stopes, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of family planning, opens her first clinic in London, offering a free service to married women. While Stopes's forthright and open-minded attitudes have helped to change opinion about family planning and sex, her opinions on eugenics have been criticised and are now out-of-step with current thinking.Art and science
British-born star of Hollywood Charlie Chaplin visits London where he is greeted by thousands. In 1921 Chaplain made his film, The Kid, which told the story of a tramp who finds an abandoned baby in an alley and decides to look after him. The portrayal of poverty in the film drew on Chaplain's own experiences of growing up in a working class family in London.International
The Anglo-Irish Treaty partitions Ireland into the Irish Free State (later the Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland. The Irish Free State was granted independence, while six of the Northern counties of Ulster decided to remain part of Britain. The treaty came into effect in 1922.Comments back to top
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Ann Crabtree
03 January 2019, 20:53
Ena Towler was the 1st Great Aunt of my husband, Mark V. Crabtree, OBE. She was born Annie Eliza Towler on 01/01/1897 at 43 Spencer St. Burnley to James Henry Towler and Annie Towler, formerly Pitchford. On 25 March 1921, when she was 24 she married Alfred Riess, 48 years, bachelor, Variety Agent, at Wesley Chapel, Hargreaves Street, Burnley. His address is given as 44 Burleigh Mansions, Charing Cross Rd., London and hers as 1 Sefton Avenue Burnley. Her father was a retired grocer at the time of her marriage but has given grocer, tripe dealer and colliery banksman as his profession in various census records.