Picture No | 12025816 |
Date | 1938 |
Description | Jasmine Bligh, television announcer |
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Jasmine Lydia Bligh (20 May 1913 – 21 July 1991), one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. Along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell, she provided continuity announcements introducing programmes in-vision. Daughter of daughter of Noel Bligh (son of the 8th Earl of Darnley), her sister was Susan Bligh, the well-known mannequin. The Bystander describe her as, 'another of Mayfair's Glamour Girls: good-humoured and decorative."
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 7 September 1938 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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