Comprising black-and-white photographs of the following:
A holiday at Newton Ferrers, Devon, on Stephen Roskill’s return from China, Easter 1935.
The Roskill family and their nanny Louise Reymond and other servants at the family homes at Fletchers in Sidlesham, Sussex, Summer 1935; St Vincent House in Porchester, Hampshire, 1936; and Blounce, in South Warnborough, Hampshire, 1936-8, including renovations of the house, gardens and farm buildings.
The Roskills’ children, Nicholas, 1934-8, Mark, 1934-8, Tessa, 1936-8, and Mary and Thomas, 1938.
Visitors including Roderick Eustace Enthoven and Natalia Paresce, [1935]; Michael (‘Zog’) Zvegintzoff, [1936]; Millicent Parish, 1938; Diana Zvegintzoff, 1938; and Margaret (‘Madge’) Denham, 1938.
A holiday at Mandelieu-la-Napoule, in France, with Oliver Roskill, Michael (‘Zog’) and Diana Zvegintzoff, and Mary Jacqueline (‘Jacky’) Tyrwhitt, Summer 1935.
A holiday in Provence, France, including Les Baux-de Provence, Arles, Montmajour Abbey, and Avignon, with Lisa and Tamara Van den Bergh, Easter 1936.
RMS Queen Mary on her maiden voyage, [May 1936].
A holiday at Lake Garda, in Italy, with Oliver Roskill and Millicent Parish, July-August 1936.
The Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, June 1937.
A holiday at Les Andelys, in France, May 1937.
A last view of the Van den Bergh family home at 8 Kensington Palace Gardens, [1937].
The christening of Tessa Roskill at Blounce, 10 April 1937, and Mary and Thomas Roskill at Blounce, [16 October] 1938.
A holiday at Bamberg and visiting Ernst Arthur Voretzsch at Burg Colmberg, in Germany, and at Ossiacher See and Wörthersee, in Austria, including ‘acquaplaning’, August 1937, with Kenneth Lindsay.
The children on holiday with Louise Reymond’s family (Reymond-Golay family) at Le Sentier, in Switzerland, [June] 1938.
HMS Warsprite in harbour at Villefranche-sur-Mer, April 1938.
A holiday at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, in France, April 1938, including the hotel La Colombe D’Or.