Butts Collection

The Railway Sleeper
An exhausted conscript on Nation Service sleeps at Darlington Railway Station en rout to or from a posting to the Northern military base at Catterick, York. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Shooters Hill is named after the archery butts located here in the 16th century : later it was a favourite haunt of highwayman, attacking travelers bound for France

Bronze statue of a drunken faun from the house of the Patrician, Regio IX, Insula VIII. Now in the Museum of Naples. Chromolithograph by J.G

Walks of London - London Bridge, Borough, Newington ?
Walks of London - London Bridge, Borough, Newington Butts and St Georges Fields

Rowton House, Newington Butts, London
Feet-Washing Room at the Rowton House, Newington Butts, South London, opened in 1897 as a cheap hostel for men. Date: 1897

Fishmongers Almshouses
The almshouses were on the area west of Newington Butts and south of St Georges Road. Erected in two phases: firstly St. Peters Hospital was built by the company in 1615-1618; the other

Rectorial House, Newington Butts. Singular building made of oak, chestnut and cedar, with roof in 14 casts or directions forming a well in the centre

The Gate of the Ancient Abbey of St. Saviours Bermondsey. Founded 1082 by Aylwin Child for Cluniacs from France. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of

Crossbow shooting at the butts, 16th century
Man with crossbow shooting at the butts (marks) in a school of archery, 16th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval archery scenes
Archery practice with bow, 14th century (top), crossbow shooting at the butts at a school, 16th century (middle), and archers at crossbow practice, 14th century

Bronze statues of house gods from the bathhouse
Bronze statues of house gods from the Thermae bathhouse at Regio IX, Insula IV, 5. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by MIss Amy Butts from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures

Bronze statue of an Amorino (infant cupid) with a dolphin from the Thermae (baths) at Regio IX, Insula IV, 5. Chromolithograph by J.G

Aquarium with fish and lobster from the House
Painting of an aquarium with fish and lobster from the House of the Patrician or Centenary (Casa del Centenario), Regio IX, Insula VIII. Chromolithograph by J.G

Painting of a still life showing meat, wine, bread and a knife from the ala at house 16, Regio IX, Insula V. Chromolithograph by J.G

Crocodile and pygmies from the House of the Pygmies, Pompeii
Crocodile and pygmies from the House of the Pygmies (Casa dei Pygmeii) 9, Regio IX, Insula V. Chromolithograph by J.G. Bach after an illustration by Miss Amy Butts from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan
B Hangars - Armament Butts and Pyrotechnic Stores in background. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965)

Water tanks 1916
Travelling butts of water for the thirsty soldiers at the Front in World War One. Date: 1916

Newington Butts
The church and its churchyard at Newington Butts, Southwark - a good example of an inner- city cemetery. (At this date it was in Surrey.) Date: 1807

Sir William Butts
SIR WILLIAM BUTTS Physician to king Henry VIII. Date: ? - 1545

Cigarette butts in a tin

London Birdseye 19
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : from London Bridge through the Borough, to Newington Butts and St Georges Fields

C14 Archery at Butts
Archers practise at Butts

Cigarettes in Ashtray
A close-up photograph of an ashtray full of cigarette butts, with a government health warning, torn from a cigarette packet, in the centre

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