By boat, by plane, by car (....and by Zeppelin?)
By boat ....
.... by plane ....
.... by car ....
... and by Zeppelin?
How exotic fruit came to Nottinghamshire
A pre-war collection revealed
These colourful images come from a curious collection of pre-war orange wrappers compiled during the 1930s and 40s by Eveline Gladys Fox of Normanton near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.
In those days oranges usually came individually wrapped in tissue paper which bore miniature colourful and imaginative pieces of art depicting their country of origin or grower.
It was not uncommon at the time for children to collect and make scrapbooks of the illustrations, and Eveline Fox's book contains well over 100 different examples.
Rather like stamp collecting, the humble orange wrapper provided a glimpse of the wider world for people who, in all probability, would never travel to the far-away countries depicted. Today, such labels are avidly collected. Try searching the internet and you will find many examples up for sale.
Eveline Gladys Fox was born c.1923, the eldest daughter of William Percy Fox and his wife, Gladys, who ran a farm at Normanton near Southwell. Eveline had a younger sister and brother; Hilda and Peter (b.1928 d.2007).
Eveline was brought up on the farm but subsequently married Reginald Gill of Newark. She died in 1999 and is buried (with her husband) in Newark Cemetery.