Turner Collection

Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase. 1839

Queen Mary, Cunard cruise ship
Poster by Turner of the Cunard liner, the Queen Mary

Beeston Castle, Cheshire. Turner, Joseph Mallord William 1775 - 1851

J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). British painter. Rain, Steam an
J.M. W. Turner (1775-1851). British Romantic landscape painter. His work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Rain, Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway (1844)

British Boxer Freddie Mills - signed postcard from 1941
Frederick Percival ( Freddie ) Mills (1919-1965) - English boxer, and the world light heavyweight champion from 1948 to 1950

Normandy Invasion 1944
A depiction by C.E.Turner of a scene during the early morning of 6th June 1944 as British forces make an amphibious landing on one of the Normandy beaches during D-Day

Boxing - Fives Court with Randall & Turner sparring
The interior of Fives Court in Little St. Martins Lane, a popular venue for the Fancy in the heyday of the prize ring, showing Jack Randall and Ned Turner sparring

Turner Street, Blyth, Northumberland
Turner Street, Blyth, near Cramlington, Northumberland, England. Showing the Cash Boot Company Date: 1920s

Lockheed P-38 Lightning in action; Second World War, 1944
Illustration showing an US Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning shooting down a German aeroplane during the Second World War

Flying for the Summer Week-end by C. E. Turner
Illustration from 1928 by C.E. Turner reflecting the growing rise of civilian flying in the 1920s. The caption reads, ...only last month there was a house-party at which the ten guests

The Eddystone Lighthouse, 1878
Engraving of the Eddystone Lighthouse, during a storm, from the picture by J.M.W. Turner, 1878. Date: 1878

Victorian woman (Polhill-Turner family)
An upper class Victorian woman, probably a member of the Polhill-Turner family of Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire. Seen here in a studio photograph, leaning on the back of a chair

Police and Fire Brigade attending a fire at Chelsea FC
Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade attending a fire at Chelsea FC. This photograph by Sub-Inspector C R C Turner shows Inspector A J Jones (Officer in Charge) and others at Walham Green

Pevensey Bay, Sussex
Distant view of Pevensey Bay, Sussex, viewed from Crowhurst Park Date: circa 1850

Fucus bulbosus, kelp
Plate 161 from Fuci, or coloured figures and descriptions of the Plants referred by botanists to the genus Fucus (1808-1819), Volume III, by Mary Dawson Turner

Victorian mother and three children (Polhill-Turner family)
A Victorian mother and three children. They are Mrs Polhill-Turner (nee Emily Frances Barron, d 1913)), wife of Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (1826-1881), with Alice (Alice Kate Frances)

Douglas Dakota picking up a glider, Normandy; Second World W
Illustration showing a Douglas Dakota, C-47 Skytrain, swooping down with a hook trailing to pick up a Waco glider, Normandy, France, 1944

Boxing / Randall V Turner
Jack Randall sparring with Turner in the Fives Court

Fucus radiatus, kelp

Cartoon, Henry Jameson Turner, actor
Cartoon, Henry Jameson Turner -- A Strand Veteran. He was the longest-serving actor at the Strand Theatre, London, and also ran a theatrical agency. 1883

Sunset, in the style of Turner. Nicholl, Andrew 1804 - 1886

Stonehenge / Turner
Stonehenge at sunset

Music cover, Papa Loves Mambo, Perry Como
Music cover, Papa Loves Mambo, by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning and Bix Reichner, recorded by Perry Como, from an MGM film starring Lana Turner and Ricardo Montalban. 1954

The Summer Car of the River: Motor-launching on the Thames
An illustration by C.E. Turner depicting the fashion for motor-boats or motor-launches during the 1920s among the upper classes

State of Oklahoma, USA - Turner Falls, 70ft high - between Davis and Ardmore Date: circa 1940

DECIMUS BURTON 1800-1881
DECIMUS BURTON Achieved early renown with his design for the Coliseum in Regents Park. Later laid out Hyde Park and designed the Palm House at Kew with Turner. Date: 1800 - 1881

The Last Post by C. E. Turner
Buglers sounding the Last Post at 9pm before the British monument to fallen soldiers at Ypres, the Menin Gate. Date: 1930

Book cover design, The Romance of Aeronautics: an Interesting Account of the Growth and Achievements of All Kinds of Aerial Craft, by Charles C Turner, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912

Victorian girl with her nanny (Polhill-Turner family)
An upper class Victorian girl, Beatrice (Emily Beatrice Violet, d 1930), standing on a chair, with her nanny standing next to her. They lived at Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire

Turning Wood on a Lathe
A turner uses a lathe powered by a foot pedal to carve and shape a length of wood

Lana Turner in a scene from Calling Dr Kildare (1939) wearing a Dolly Tree gown Date: 1939

Lana Turner in Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938) wearing a Dolly Tree creation originally designed for Virginia Grey in Rosalie (1937), with Robert Young Date: 1937

LAUNCESTON / TURNER 1827
Launceston, Cornwall Date: circa 1827

C17 WOOD TURNER / WOODCUT
A wood turner Date: 17th century

The Country Club at Johannesburg
The rendezvous of Rand society - the Johannesburg Country Club situated in a suburb of Auckland Park. Date: 1929

Turners Home
Sandycombe Lodge, Turners villa at Twickenham, Surrey

Jack Roper, Lusitania survivor
Jack Roper, a surviving crew member of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by German U-Boat torpedo on 7th May 1915

Cricket / Team / Yorkshire
Yorkshire: Turner, Wardall, Whitehead, Dodworth, Mounsey, Draper, Tunnicliffe, Peel, Hawke, Jackson, Wainwright, Brown, Hunter, Hirst

Man with broken umbrella stands in pouring rain
Man in raincoat, hat and galoshes standing in the middle of a field in pouring rain holding up a broken umbrella for protection. (John Turner self-portrait.) Date: 1930s

Poker, detail
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

Fire shovel, reverse
Cast polished steel fire shovel with a decorative brass handle, a floral finial and a bell-shaped blade with a pierced flower motif, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a poker

Poker
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

The Sinking of the the Scharnhorst at the Battle of North
Illustration showing the German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst listing to starboard as she sank at the end of the Battle of North Cape, approximately 7.30pm on 26th December 1943

SCARBOROUGH / TURNER 1812
Scarborough, Yorkshire: distant view of the castle, from the beach Date: circa 1812

Jumble Sale, revue, Vaudeville Theatre, London
Jumble Sale, a revue by John Hastings Turner, music by Philip Braham, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. circa 1920

HMS Indomitable - Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier - The Church. Date: 1943

Harold Turner, ballet dancer in Casse Noisette (Nutcracker), The Vic-Wells Ballet, supplement to The Dancing Times, December 1937 Date: 1937

Finished electronic valves, Ernest Turner Electrical Instruments factory, High Wycombe in 1951

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