The triple-arch bridge, Suzhou Market Street (苏州街; Suzhoujie), Summer Palace, Beijing

Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqikong Qiao 十七孔橋) and ‘Spacious Pavilion’ (廓如亭), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

The triple-arch bridge, Suzhou Market Street (苏州街; Suzhoujie), Summer Palace, Beijing

Banbi Bridge (半壁桥), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

‘Strolling Through a Picture Scroll’ (Huazhongyou 画中游), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

‘Strolling Through a Picture Scroll’ (Huazhongyou 画中游), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

‘Strolling Through a Picture Scroll’ (Huazhongyou 画中游), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

Biddy Carlisle taking a snap beside the ‘Tower for Loving the Hill’, Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

Madame de la Cour, Summer Palace, Peking

Sir Miles Lampson, Summer Palace, Peking

Sir Miles Lampson, with a camera, Peking

Sir Miles Lampson, Summer Palace, Peking

Visitors at ‘Strolling Through a Picture Scroll’ (Huazhongyou 画中游), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

Two moon gates, Hanxu Hall (涵虚堂 / 涵虛堂 / Hánxūtáng), Nanhu Island (南湖島), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

The Caccia's Temple

Peking Club swimming pool, Peking

Chojo Maru, Chefoo

A picnic on the Marble Boat (石舫), ‘Boat of Purity and Ease’, Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

Looking at goldfish (‘flowers that move’), British Legation, Beijing

Judge's Box, Autumn Races, Peking

The autumn races, Peking

Ann Phipps and D'Arcy Baker-Carr, Autumn Races, Peking

Sir Eric Teichman at the Autumn Races, Peking

French, American and British Ministers, Peking

Sir Miles Lampson with a camera

'The Niecery' - Sir Miles Lampson with nieces

British Legation, Peking

British Legation entrance gate, Peking

British Legation, Peking

Minister's Room (Sir Miles Lampson’s office), British Legation, Beijing

The Hall, British Legation, Peking

Passage across the courtyard, British Legation, Peking

Waiting Room, British Legation, Peking

Sitting Room, British Legation, Beijing

Dining Room, British Legation, Beijing

Inner Hall, British Legation, Beijing

The Chinese Drawing Room, British Legation, Beijing

The Chinese Drawing Room, British Legation, Beijing

The Drawing Room, British Legation, Beijing

The Drawing Room, British Legation, Beijing

The Drawing Room, British Legation, Beijing

Sir Miles Lampson

British Legation, Peking

Lady Rachel Mary Hele Phipps Lampson

The start of a paper hunt (paperchase), Ma-Ta-Hsia, near Beijing

Crew of HMS Suffolk at the British Legation, Peking

An elderly Chinese man

Lama priests and a prayer wheel, Yonghe Temple (雍和宮) ‘The Lama Temple’, Beijing

‘Strolling Through a Picture Scroll’ (Huazhongyou 画中游), Summer Palace (頤和園), Beijing

The Great Wall of China at Badaling

A cameleer leading a caravan of camels in winter, Beijing

SS Ranchi, seen from HMS Veteran

S.S. Ranchi

Sir Miles Lampson and group

The Great Wall of China

British Legation Lodge (Ta Tau Tze), near Beijing

British Legation Lodge (Ta Tau Tze), near Beijing

A view over the plain from the British Legation Lodge (Ta Tau Tze), near Beijing

Caravan of camels

View from the British Legation Lodge (Ta Tau Tze), near Beijing