Barnaby Collection

Fashionable 1950S Hat
A woman wears a felt hat which has a felt ribbon tied around it. The model features a beauty spot on her cheek. Date: 1950s

Life of Charles Dickens - Newgate Prison Barnaby Rudge. Part of Box 330 Charles Dickens (Life and Works) slide no. 3 Date: circa 1890s

Barnaby Rudge, theatre production based on the Dickens novel

Barnaby Rudge and Grip. Artist: Nellie Joshua. Date: circa 1907

Gabriel Varden, Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens Characters by Frank Reynolds for Buchanans Whisky - Gabriel Varden, Barnaby Rudge. 1912

Dolly Varden, Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens Characters by Frank Reynolds for Buchanans Whisky - Dolly Varden, Barnaby Rudge. 1912

Dickens scrap - Gabriel Varden and Sim Tappertit
Charles Dickens scrap - Gabriel Varden and Sim Tappertit in the novel Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 4. 19th century

TV detectives
Columbo (Peter Falk), Tom Barnaby (John Nettles), Frost (David Jason), Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), Miss Marple (Joan Hickson), Inspector Wexford (George Baker), Poirot (David Suchet)

1960S TYPIST
A typist (or perhaps the secretary or the Receptionist) at Barnabys Picture Library types out a letter on Company letterheaded paper. Date: 1960s

Dolly Varden, character in Barnaby Rudge
Dolly Varden, a character in Barnaby Rudge, a novel by Charles Dickens. 1883

Little girl and her German Shepherd dog standing in front of a house. Date: circa 1920s

Barnabys Library
The Georgian shop at 19 Rathbone Street (off Oxford Street), London, which housed Barnabys Picture Library (established 1931) from 1969 until it closed in 2001. Date: 1969 - 2001

Barnabys Shelves
Shelves of box files, arranged in subject order at Barnabys Picture Library. Date: 1980s

Barnabys Box Files
An employee of Barnabys Picture Library shows a visitor his way around the collection. The prints are kept in boxes on shelves, which you can see here. Date: 1960s

Cover design, Master Humphreys Clock, a weekly periodical edited and written by Charles Dickens, published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841

Little boy and his dog on a sandy beach. Date: circa 1920s

Three boys and a dog on wasteland
Three boys and a dog on an area of wasteland. The boys are sitting round an improvised campfire set up on a piece of corrugated iron at the foot of a tree

Two boys and a shaggy dog on a garden path. Date: circa 1920s

A smiling schoolboy and his terrier dog (sitting up on a wall) pose for their photo in the sunshine, with a thatched cottage in the background. Date: circa 1920s

A smiling schoolboy and his two dogs pose for their photo in the sunshine. Date: circa 1920s

A smiling boy and his bull terrier dog pose for their photo. Date: circa 1920s

A smiling boy and his terrier dog pose for their photo. Date: circa 1920s

The trotting gelding Billy D. with Running Mate: owned by J.B. Barnaby, driven by John Murphy. Date c1881

Barnaby Rudge

KINGs HEAD, CHIGWELL
The Kings Head inn, Chigwell, Essex, made famous by Charles Dickens, as the Maypole in his novel Barnaby Rudge (1841). Date: 17th century

Fitting Shop Sign
Workmen fitting the new facia shop board sign for Barnabys Picture Library Rathbone Street, central London. Date: 1991

Swanson House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. One of the many residences of Charles Dickens and where he wrote " Barnaby Rudge"

Bransby Williams / Rudge
BRANSBY WILLIAMS English stage actor, also in early films, seen here in the role of Barnaby Rudge

Wansford Bridge
Shepherd Barnaby is forewarned about a tidal wave & takes his sheep to the top of the church tower & rings the bell in warning so that others might escape

Dickens / Barnaby Rudge
The coquettish Dolly Varden

Aftermath of the Riots
The aftermath of the Gordon Riots

Hugh Surprises Dolly
Walking home one evening, Dolly Varden is surprised by Hugh of the Maypole who emerges on to the path in front of her

The Vardens at Breakfast
Simon Tappertit (left) joins Gabriel and Dolly Varden at the breakfast table

Emma Reads the Letter
Emma Haredale reads the letter given to her by Dolly Varden

Joe and Dolly in Love
Joe Willet and Dolly Varden declare their love for each other in front of Joes astonished father Mr John Willet

Joe Willet Leaves
Joe Willet bids farewell to Dolly Varden in the workshop of the Golden Key, watched in secret by Simon Tappertit

Dolly Ties Sash
Dolly Varden stoops to tie her fathers sash, watched by her mother Martha on the right and Mrs Miggs who holds out his sword

Gordon Riots
The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London

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