Greenery Collection

The Wolverton Mechanics Institute soiree
The anniversary meeting of the Wolverton Mechanics Institute in the large engine room of Wolverton Station.1, 500 people attended the soiree

Britannia and Eve front cover, December 1952
Front cover of Britannia and Eve featuring an illustration showing a group of children, from the late 18th or early 19th century, gazing in awe at a festive arrangement of greenery, candles

Britannia and Eve Christmas 1951 cover
Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine, December 1951 featuring an illustration by Pauline Baynes of a festive medieval scene with numerous children trudging through the snow having collected

Royal Arch, Brighton, erected for royal visit
Royal Arch, Brighton, erected in honour of the visit of King William IV and Queen Adelaide Date: 1830

Waterside summer scene on a paper lace greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

LADY & GREENERY LADY & GREENERY
A lady goes out into the woods to gather festive foliage Date: circa 1900

Christmas decorations: decorating the hall, 1877
Four girls decorate the hall of their home with enough greenery to start a flower shop. Date: 1877

Christmas decorations: childern bearing holly - greenery
Children arrive home and proudly display the foliage theyve brought. Date: circa 1897

Pretty girl walking along a rural path with two turkeys pecking at the greenery on either side. Date: 1908

Waterside summer scene on a Christmas paper lace card. Date: circa 1890s

Waterside summer scene on a New Year paper lace card. Date: circa 1890s

Two Spanish women on a balcony - Cadiz, Southern Spain
Delightful scene by Manuel Garcia y Rodriguez showing two Spanish women on a balcony festooned with flowers - Cadiz, Andalusia, Southern Spain Date: 1904

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1887
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number for 1887 with a lady decorating her house with garlands of greenery. Date: 1887

Tahiti scene by Leon Carre
Illustration by Leon Carre to accompany a story in The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1930 entitled, Tahiti Tihare - a Polynesian Legend

Japan - Japanese woman with sickle and laden basket backpack Date: circa 1910

Woman selling greenery in street, Covent Garden, London
Woman selling greenery on a pavement stall in a street in Covent Garden, London. Date: circa 1960s

British Caribbean runner standing with ADT sponsored foil wrap, buildings, people and greenery in the back ground Date: 1990

British Caribbean man standing on raft on the Rio Grande, Jam
British Caribbean man standing on the raft on the Rio Grande in Jamaica. Jamaican man standing with the bamboo stick further down on the raft. Greenery in the back ground Date: 1976

Angel with greenery on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Country church with ivy leaves on a Christmas card in the shape of a flower. Date: circa 1890s

Rural scene with waterfall on a New Year card with decorative lacy border. Date: circa 1890s

Mill and wheel on a cutout birthday card with rustic border and verse. Date: circa 1890s

Mill and wheel on a cutout New Year card with rustic border and seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Boy and girl in fishing boat on a Christmas card
Boy and girl with their dog in a fishing boat on a Christmas card, with ivy leaf and branch border and seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s

Rural scene with waterfall on a Christmas card
Rural scene with waterfall and rocks on a Christmas card, with decorative lacy border. Date: circa 1890s

Snow scene with church and bells on a Christmas card with decorative branch and ivy leaf border -- Bray Church. circa 1890s

Girl gathers Christmas decorations, 1898
A woman carries a billhook to help her cut down foliage to decorate the house. Date: 1898

B Ward, Christmas 1918, Quex Park VAD Hospital
B Ward in Gallery 1 of the Powell-Cotton Museum on Christmas Day 1918. This was the first Gallery of the Museum, built in 1896

Christmas 1918 in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House on Christmas Day 1918. The room is highly decorated with flags, greetings, paper decorations and festive greenery

Home decorating for Christmas with festive greenery
Decorate your home with inexpensive Christmas greenery - from a tree to wreaths and decorations for tables, side-boards, windows, hallways and walls Date: 1914

Collecting holly for Christmas Decorations
A family driving out in the snow to gather holly for their Christmas decorations. Date: 1931

Bryum capillare, bryum mosses
Bryum mosses (bryum capillare) are noticed more in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden during the winter months when other plants have died back. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, 2003

Paving stones in the Wildlife Garden

Alnus glutinosa catkin, alder catkin
Bryum mosses (bryum capillare) are noticed more in the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden during the winter months when other plants have died back. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, 2003

Little girl on a New Years postcard

Zwingenberg Castle, Zwingenberg, Hesse, Germany
View of Zwingenberg Castle from across the River Neckar, in the town of Zwingenberg, in the state of Hesse, Germany. 2010

Flowers & Feathers
Baskets of flowers with feathers, to take the place of ferns or other greenery, are the latest idea in home decoration. Date: 1930s

New Forest near Brockenhurst
View of the New Forest near Brockenhurst

A Pond in a woodland setting
A pond at the edge of woodland near Chiselhampden, Oxford. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Landscape in the evening light
A verdant green countryside view of a farm nestled into a lush English valley in the evening light. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Bridge
Echoing the composition of Monets series of pictures of the bridge in his garden over a pond at Giverny, this oil painting by Malcolm Greensmith studies the dappled reflection of light on the water

Kestrel and English Countryside scenery
A Kestrel sat on a fencepost is set into the border framing a n atmospheric view of the late summer light throwing the shape of the trees of an English countryside into sharp relief

Light through the trees and a perched Little Owl
Hazy mid-afternoon light falls through two large trees, sat in the middle of a classic English countryside scene of rolling fields and low distant hills

Distant View of Pyramids
A distant view of the pyramids at Giza, showing the lush greenery of the Nile-irrigated fields in such close proximity to the barren desolate Sahara

Street Trade / Lettuce
A young man sells lettuce and other green salad ingredients on the street. He is using a distinctive large-framed backpack wicker basket

Card; Kittens
Two kittens, who have been sealed inside an envelope with some greenery, peer out in astonishment at a fly... a typical German Christmas scene

Royal Gardens Versailles
A perspective view of the VISTA in the Royal Gardens at Versailles with fashionable couples, dogs and even children enjoying a stroll amongst the greenery

Girl on Toboggan
A girl in a muff sits on a toboggan holding some greenery and other things

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