Spoke Collection

Wheelwrights making cart wheels
Wheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Harold Macmillan at the United Nations General Assembly
Photograph of (Maurice) Harold Macmillan speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, 29th September 1960. In a powerful speech the British Prime Minister spoke on Britains colonial record

Ufos / Villa / Albuquerque
The three occupants of this UFO spoke with Paul Villa near Albuquerque, New Mexico Date: 18 April 1965

Ufos / New Mexico / Villa
UFO from Coma Berenices whose nine occupants spoke with Paul Villa for 90 minutes at Peralta, though what they talked about, no one knows 1 of 4

Spoking a Wheell
A wheelwright fitting spokes to the hub of a wheel, Berkshire, England. Date: 1930s

Harold Macmillan addressing the Conservative Party Conferenc
Photograph showing (Maurice) Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) delivering his speech to the Conservative Party conference at Scarborough, Yorkshire, 15th October 1960

Richard Robert Jones
RICHARD ROBERTS JONES (aka Dic Aberdaron, from his home town) Welsh traveler and linguist, spoke 14 languages ancient and modern

19th century brass and wood ship's wheel, made in Belfast
MARITIME: A good 19th century brass and hard wood ship's wheel with the legend NORTHUMBRIAN MAID. BELFAST. 1843 in the brass central boss, on display stand

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

The Pnyx where Demosthenes spoke, Athens

Flemish Soldiers Memorial Crypt, Zonnbeke
The crypt is in the local cemetery. There was considersable acrimony between the French speaking population and those who spoke Flemish

Wheelwright hammering a metal cover onto a wooden wheel in a yard. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Japan - A group of three Ainos, the aborigines
Lantern slide of a group of three Ainos, the aborigines. The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia

If Only We Spoke the Truth by Bruce Bairnsfather
A disgruntled gentleman in evening dress thinks aloud, I wish you drank something cheaper, while glowering at his female companion who looks somewhat worse for wear due to all the champagne shes

The coming of the Loud speaker
Photograph of a loud speaker being used at Stamford Bridge football stadium. The man seated at the table spoke into the telephone receiver

Spoke Wheel Car, Glynns of Antrim - a man with horse drawn cart outside a thatched cottage with family looking out of the door. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

The Watering Cart by W H Pyne
The Watering Cart. An aquatint from W H Pynes Costume of Great Britain, plate 39, 1808 Date: 1808

Suffragist Frances Sterling. Frances Mary Sterling (1869-1943), member of the london Society for Womens Suffrage, joint Hon. Sec. of the N.U.W.S.S until 1911

Santa Filling Stockings
" He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, & filled all the stockings..." Date: First published: 1823

Alexei of Russia during wartime
Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaievich of Russia (1904-1918) in field uniform. While other Royal children performed small engagements or were photographed to raise money for war charities

African Boat Boy
A boy in the a pond in the West African section of the Paris Exhibition, France. He only spoke an African language and was known as the silent black watchman

Animals / Apes and Monkeys
Coco, the Human Monkey drives his friends through the streets of London; he also spoke several words intelligibly

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