Lawn Collection

A Game of Bowls, Britain, 1903
Photograph showing an English gentleman about to deliver his bowl during a game of lawn bowling, 1903. Fellow players and spectators closely watch his technique

A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn
Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a typically convoluted method of weeding a garden lawn. A man is hosted by ropes supported by a teepee configuration of poles worked by

View of Tulloch Castle, Scotland, with pipers
View of Tulloch Castle in the town of Dingwall in the Highlands of Scotland, at the time of a royal wedding between Dom (Prince) Miguel of Braganza (1878-1923), Duke de Viseu

Crockett Court, Galveston, Texas, USA -- a new development of brick cottages overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, probably intended as short-stay holiday accommodation. 1937

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Gentleman with shire horse, Mid Wales
A gentleman holding the reins of a shire horse in front of a house, probably somewhere in Mid Wales. A little girl watches from a distance

Poster, Ransomes Lawnmowers, sold by Broughton & Wilks, Banbury. circa 1900s

Frank Riseley
Frank Lorymer Riseley (1877 - 1959), British tennis player. Date: 1904

Lawn Terrace, Silloth, Cumbria. Date: circa 1910

Salisbury Cathedral 1924
Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire

Ransomes Lawnmowers Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for an Ideal Homes Exhibition stand for Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd. promoting Ransomes Lawnmowers. The image shows a decorative green model on a tidy lawn

Little girl playing in a garden by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a red smock standing in a garden, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Essex County Asylum, Brentwood, Essex
The Essex County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1853 at Warley Hill, Brentwood, Essex. It later became Brentwood Mental Hospital and then Warley Hospital

Union Workhouse, Bagthorpe, Nottingham
Front entrance of the Nottingham Union Workhouse at Bagthorpe, Nottingham, with staff seated outside. Designed by Arthur Marshall

A Game of Bowls, England, c. 1872
Engraving showing a close game of bowls on a bowling lawn somewhere in England, c.1872. Four players appear to be vigorously contesting the result

Lawn Mower Advt, 1884
British advertisement for a lawn mower and garden roller

Some English lawn tennis players
A group of English tennis players. From left at top: E. d S. H. Browne, Rev. J. T. Hartley (Wimbledon Champion 1879, 1880), C. W. Grinstead, Miss Maud Watson (Lady Champion, 1884), H. F

The Berkshire County Asylum, Moulsford, Wallingford
The Berkshire County Lunatic Asylum at Moulsford, near Wallingford. Later known as the Berkshire Mental Hospital, it was renamed Fairmile Hospital in 1948

Major Walter Clopton Wingfield - devised, developed and popularised the game of lawn tennis in the early 1870s. 1881

Manchester, England - Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, England - the busy Piccadilly Street and Piccadilly Gardens showing shop fronts, cars, and businesses. circa 1910s

Tatler cover - Gabrielle Chanel & Alain Gerbault
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a snapshot taken at Eaton Hall, Cheshire seat of the Duke of Westminster, where Alain Gerbault, captain of the Firecrest and French lawn tennis star, was staying

Centre Court, Wimbledon
Overhead view of the famous Centre Court at Wimbledon - the Lawn Tennis Championships being one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar. Date: 1927

Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Founded in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society as an Anglican missionary school, it is the oldest university in West Africa

Witanhurst tennis game
Judges playing tennis internationals at Lady Crosfields house Witanhurst in Highate Village, north west London. Here the first fixture of the newly formed Bar Lawn Tennis Association is seen in

Hayley Mills in The Chalk Garden
The young British actress Hayley Mills (b.1946) during the filming of The Chalk Garden, released in 1964. Date: 1963-1964

Advert for Ransomes lawn mowers
An advertisement for Ransomes lawn mowers, showing three different products available. Date: 1883

Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, Bedfordshire
The Three Counties asylum at Arlesey (misspelt on picture), near Stotfold, Bedfordshire, opened in 1859, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire

Heath Robinson Cartoon
Cartoon, All for Lawn. A few timely suggestions for levelling our lawns in preparation for the coming tennis season. Groundsman flattening grass

Wimbledon / Semi-Final 81
Lawford versus Renshaw in the fifth round of the all-comers match at the Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon

Page of Victorian adverts - 1890
Various adverts for The Graphic, May 1890. May 1890

Photo of Lawn Mower 1930
Two men riding on a lawn mower Date: circa 1930

Inveralmond House, Perth, Scotland
View of Inveralmond House, Perth, Scotland

National Childrens Home (NCH) Milton School, Farnborough
Boys on the lawn at the Milton Industrial School run by the National Childrens Home (NCH) in Farnborough, Hampshire. In 1933, the establishment became Milton Approved School

Little girl watering flowers by Muriel Dawson
A little girl watering flowers in a garden, by Muriel Dawson. circa 1930s

Miss Kathleen McKane, tennis player
Miss Kathleen McKane (Kitty McKane Godfree) (1896-1992), tennis player, Englands lawn tennis hope, and rival to the French player, Suzanne Lenglen

Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon 1887
A page of vignettes from the 1887 Wimbledon Championships in London SW19 including the champion H.F. Lawford, E. Renshaw, C.Cole and that years ladies winner taking centre page, Miss Lottie Dod

1958 Tatler cover: fashionable lady in a park
Shes happy because shes going away this weekend-and she has no cares about humping heavy luggage. Everything shes taking with her-bar the Borzoi-will fit into two small cases.The dress she wears for

Kew Gardens, with Pagoda
A View of the Lake & Island seen from the Lawn with a distant prospect of the Temples of Arethusa and Victory, & the great Pagoda in the Royal Gardens at Kew

Lawn Mower Advert C1890
British advertisement for a lawn mower

Lawn tennis at Wimbledon 1877
Lawn tennis at Wimbledon - match for the inaugural Championship held in July 1877. 1877

George Eliot / Rosehill
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home of the English novelists friends, the Brays, at Rosehill, near Coventry Date: 1819 - 1880

Tennyson Farringford
Alfred lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) the poets home at Farringford, Isle of Wight

Middlesex Hospital Garden, Mortimer Street, London. Date: circa 1910s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker and Bogie
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cracker subjecting a small dog called Bogie to a nightly ordeal, holding her collar in his mouth and dragging her round the lawn on her back. Date: 1927

Residence of Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Residence of the film star Bing Crosby, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Mr Morrison and his aeroplane on Hove Lawns, Brighton

London / Temple Gardens
Sun patterns cast by young trees and iron railings on the lawn at Temple Gardens, London, England. Date: 1930s

Soundwell Demo
A typical local meeting supporting the Cause - participants in a protest meeting at Soundwell, Avon, pose for their photo on the lawn of the Salem Chapel

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