| Description | Features photographs from around the world, including some portraits of celebrities Nellie met. Includes photographs of Nellie, her colleagues and friends, and inhabitants of countries she visited on the World Cruise of R.M.S. Franconia in 1927 including Hawaii, South Africa, New Zealand, Tasmania, Brazil, Fiji, Manila, Panama Canal, India, West Indies, Argentina, United States of America, Canada, Egypt, Gibraltar, China.
Also includes some family and British holiday photographs, typescript of prime minister and Anthony Eden's speeches to the crew on board SS Franconia on 13 and 14 Feb 1945, newscuttings and memorabilia, including signed photographs from celebrity passengers: Tommy Bupp, Margaret Leighton, Yehudi Menuin, Myra Hess, Harriet Cohen, Michael Redgrave, Tommy Farr, Kay and Kate Kamen and Micky and Minnie Mouse, Diana Wynyard, Fay Marbe, Carl Brisson, Steffi Duna, Madeleine Carroll, Ivy Tresmand, Esther Sutherland and Marcelle Rogez. |