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Shaw, George Bernard, here, here, here, here; Caesar and Cleopatra, here, here, here; Saint Joan, here; You Never Can Tell, here
Sherrin, Ned, here
Shrödinger, Erwin, here
Sickert, Joseph. See Gorman, Joseph
Simey, Iliff, here, here
Simey, Margaret, here
Simey, Thomas, here
Simon, Tim, here, here
Singin’ in the Rain (film), here
Smith, Herbert, here
Smith, John (literary agent), here, here, here, here, here, here
Song to Remember, A (film), here
South Bank Show (television programme), here, here, here
South, Lynda, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; wins scholarship to Merchant Taylors’, here; meets BB, here, here; friendship with BB, here–here; influence on BB, here, here, here; subject of poem by BB, here; writes ‘Us versus Them’ with BB, here, here–here; sense of humour, here, here, here, here, here; fears lesbian element in friendship with BB, here–here; advises BB about Austin, here, here, here, here; and Charles Robinson, here, here, here; and George Greggs, here, here, here, here, here; meets Rik Medlik, here–here; bridesmaid at BB’s wedding, here; desire to break with past, here; friendship with BB cools, here; destroys letters from BB, here
Spark, Muriel, here, here, here, here
Spiegl, Fritz, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Springtime for Hitler (film), here
Stalin, Joseph, here, here, here
Stevenson, Robert Louis, here; Treasure Island, here
Stevenson, William, here, here
Stoker, Willard, here, here
Stoney, Kevin, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sutcliffe, Stuart, here
Sweet William (film), here
Swift, David, here
Sykes, Peter, here, here, here
Symonds, John, Prophecy and the Parasites, here–here
Symons, Julian, here, here
Tasker, Billy, here; BB’s fictional portrayal of, here
Taylor, Brian (Brodie), here
Taylor, Dr Cyril, here, here, here, here, here; becomes BB’s doctor, here; concerns about BB’s pregnancy, here; invites BB to Italy, here; BB’s suicide attempt, here–here; death, here
Taylor, Mrs (cleaning lady), here, here, here, here
Taylor, Pat, here, here, here
‘There’s Something in Your Eyes’ (song), here, here
Thomas, Liz. See Sharp, Liz
Thompson, Deborah (née Bainbridge), here, here
Thompson, Marion (née Bainbridge), here
Thompson, Robert, here
Titanic (film), here
Todes, Cecil, here
Todes, Lili, here, here
Tomlinson, David, here
Towers, George Ripon, here, here
Towers, Sarah Ann (née Bainbridge), here, here, here, here, here
Trevor, William, here
Trueman, Brian, here
Turner, Brenda, here
Tutin, Dorothy, here
Unger, Mike, here
Usher, Neville, here
Vaughan Williams, Ursula, here
Vigo, Paul (penpal), here, here
Voll, Gerhard, here–here
Waite, Terry, here, here; Terry Waite Takes a Different View, here
Wanamaker, Sam, here
Waring, Derek, here
Warner, John, here
Warren, Tony, here
Washington Harold. See Retler, Harold
Waterston, Sam, here
Watson, John Selby, here, here, here, here, here
Waugh, Auberon, here
Waugh, Harriet, here
Weldon, Fay, here
Wenton, Ritchie, here
Wesseling, Harry (penpal), here
Westwater, Rosalie, here, here, here
Whalley, Joanne, here
‘What’d I Say’ (song), here
Whatham, Claude, here, here
‘When Love Disappears’ (song), here
White, Charles Valentine, here, here, here
White, Charles W., here, here
White, Elizabella (Auntie Belle), here
White, Joan, here, here, here, here
White, Stanley, here
Whitelaw, Billie, here, here
Wilkin, Fr Vincent, here
Williamson, Henry, here
Willis, Edward (‘Ted’), here
Wilson, A. N., here, here, here, here; BB as public speaker, here; Duckworth’s treatment of BB, here; BB’s drinking, here; breakfasts with BB, here
Wilson, Colin, The Outsider, here
Wilson, Don, here, here
Wilson, Tony, here
Wolfe, Thomas, here, here
Wood, Nora Winifred. See Davies, Nora
Woodward, Tim, here
Words Fail Me (television play), here, here
Wyatt, Woodrow, here
Yad Vashem, here, here
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, here
Young Communist League (YCL), here
The Bainbridge family c.1898, shortly before the death of William Bainbridge in 1899. From left: John, George, Ellen, James, Richard (seated), Deborah, William.
Beryl’s father, Richard ‘Dick’ Bainbridge, in Conway in 1926, around the time he first met Winnie Baines.
Beryl’s mother, Winnie Baines, on holiday in July 1924.
Dick and Winnie on their wedding day, 6 July 1927.
Ian and Beryl c.1933.
Winnie and Beryl c.1937.
Beryl and Ian c.1945.
Beryl, sporting her much loathed perm, with her dog Pedro, c.1947.
Beryl in a photograph taken by the Regent Studio, Liverpool, in 1948.
Beryl’s list of boyfriends. It covers the period 1944 to 1949, and features 17 names.
Beryl on holiday in Greystones, Ireland, in July 1948.
Beryl with her hair cropped to play the role of young David Cartwright in A. R. Whatmore’s The Sun and I, 1949.
Kenneth Ratcliffe, who joined the Playhouse company in 1950, with Beryl’s dog Pedro in 1951.
Dick and Winnie in party mode in the 1950s. From left: Lily Baines, Leonard Baines (‘Uncle Len’), Dick, Ruth Roche, unknown, Winnie.
Beryl leaning on the gate of 65 Parliament Hill in Hampstead, during her first period in London, 1952–53.
Beryl and Austin’s wedding day in Hightown, 24 April 1954. From left: Nora Davies, Gordon Green, Lynda South, Austin, Beryl, Bill Bateman, Winnie, Richard.
Beryl and Austin on their wedding day in Hightown, 24 April 1954.
Aaron and Jo-Jo in the early 1960s. Austin’s portrait of Beryl is hanging in the background.
Austin standing next to the Crossley, outside 45 Catharine Street, c. 1958. The car was later sold to Mick Green.
Beryl in a publicity photograph taken by John Sidney Bailie, c. 1959. Bailie lived at 15 Huskisson Street, a few doors down from Beryl and Austin.
Beryl at the wedding of her cousin, Hilary Baines, in 1959, shortly before her separation from Austin.
Donald Michael Green, the ‘Wild Colonial Boy’ of A Weekend with Claud.
Beryl with Cyril and Pat Taylor in Italy in August 1962. The Taylors had invited her out to stay with them as she was feeling very low at the time.
Beryl with Alan Sharp, c.1964.
Beryl and Rudi in 1966, with Iliff Simey (standing on left) and his wife and their son, at Coed Nant Gain, near Mold in North Wales, the setting for Another Part of the Wood. Austin is taking the photograph.
Beryl with Aaron, Jo-Jo and two-year-old Rudi in 1967. The painting in the background is of Stanley Haddon and Aaron. The portrait in the foreground is of Leah Davis.
Beryl with Austin, Jo-Jo and Rudi at 42 Albert Street in 1968.
Beryl with Harold Retler in Wanakena, June 1968, during their trip across America in a VW camper.
Beryl with Don McKinlay, on the doorstep at Albert Street, c. September 1968.
Graham B
etts, Beryl, Jo-Jo, Pagan Davies and Austin in the front garden at Albert Street, c.1972.
Beryl with Michael Holroyd, who she met on an Arts Council writers’ tour in March 1975.
Beryl with Joseph Hansen c.1975.
Beryl with Clive de Pass, c.1977.
Beryl with Neville the shop dummy in the study-cum-bedroom that occupied the middle floor of 42 Albert Street. Neville was often seated in the window to make it look as if there was a man in the house.
Colin Haycraft in the Duckworth offices at the Old Piano Factory, 1989.
Beryl in 1988, during the writing of An Awfully Big Adventure.
Beryl and Anna Haycraft at 22 Gloucester Crescent c. 1996.
Family group gathered outside 42 Albert Street to celebrate Beryl’s birthday in 1989. From left: Charlie Russell, Jo-Jo, Aaron, Julie Gallagher, Beryl, Rebecca Hussey, Bertie Russell, Rudi, Mick Ford, Abby Ford, Rachel Ford.
Beryl and Brian Masters at a Duckworth party in the Old Piano Factory, Camden Town, 1990.
Bernice Rubens in the garden of her Belsize Park flat in 1989. Beryl was a frequent guest.
Beryl in ‘The Laboratory’, the room at the top of the house where she wrote, seated at a child’s desk. The word processor is a Logica VTS 2200 with twin 5½ inch floppy disk drives, which she used from the early 1980s until 2005.
A self-portrait which Beryl drew at the request of the owner of Books & Co, during a trip to New York.
Beryl and the author during one of their weekly meetings to deal with the post, c. 2000.
Beryl’s gravestone at Highgate Cemetery. The statue of the little girl had featured in her garden.
Beryl in June 2009 holding a dummy cigarette to stave off cravings, after being told to give up smoking.
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