Oliver Messel Stage Set Design Colonnade For 'Tough At The Top' 1949 Samuel Agar The new lace making machines

The new lace making machines were perceived to be destroying skilled jobs and to be emboldening the master manufacturers to treat their workers with contempt

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The Committee appointed to rebuild the Royal Exchange having purchased his old Establishment and awarded him the sum of Fifteen Hundred Pounds

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Oliver Messel Stage Set Design Colonnade For 'Tough At The Top' 1949 Samuel Agar The new lace making machinesOliver Messel 1904 1978. British School 20th. Century. Stage set design titled 'Colonnade' for 'Tough at The Top.' 1949. Provenance: Redfern Gallery 20 Cork St, London, Purchased by Sydney Bernstein 1951. Exhibited at The Oliver Messel Exhibition, V&A Museum, 1983. 36. 5 by 23 cms image. 50 by 36 cms overall framed. Oliver Messel was the foremost British stage and costume designer of the 1930s, 40's and 50's. His often unconventional and opulent