This photographic exhibition is titled The Long And Extraordinary Life of Madame Pune.

When Italian artist Marco Dellacand came to England to study English, he rented a flat at the top of a house in Sunnydale Gardens, Penge.

Soon after moving in, he found an old box filled with photographs and diaries. Initially disgusted by its smell and condition, he intended to throw the box away.

A few months later, he met one of his neighbours and began to hear stories about the woman who had lived in the flat before him, Madame Pune.

As tales of her life were revealed to him, the contents of the box became more meaningful.

It emerged that Madame Pune was born in 1910 into the Russian royal family.

She moved to England with her mother in 1917 to escape the Russian revolution, settled in Penge and changed her name to Natalie Toms.

After boarding at Roedean School, she became a chorus line dancer in London before marrying and returning to Penge.

The photographs here document her life from childhood to dancing in the Broadway Scandals and include interior details of the house she lived in with her husband, Jeffrey Pune.

They range from the mundane to grander moments such as her astride her horse, Tzar, in 1948.

Details from her diaries add to the intimate nature of this personal exhibition.

Key moments of Madame Pune's life are shown and we are handed the extraordinary parts of her life's journey.

Call 01273 685447.