1892 Collection (page 18)

Llantwit-Vardre Cottage Homes, Glamorgan, Wales
The Pontypridd Union cottage homes at Church Village, Llantwit Vardre, Glamorgan, Wales. The homes, opened in 1892, housed pauper children away from the workhouse

Dionys Ordinaire / Demare
Dionys Ordinaire (1826-1892) French author

Toynbee Hall
The Drawing-Room of this philanthropic-educational institution in the Commercial Road in Londons East End, , scene of many a fierce political discussion

Corporal Bassett VC recipient 6 / Stamp
CYRIL ROYSTON GUYTON BASSETT (1892 - 1983) New Zealander recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

Lieut Woolley VC recipient 5 / Stamp
GEOFFREY HAROLD WOOLLEY VC OBE MC (1892 - 1968) The first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest

Grvin Alfred / Gill
Grevin Alfred (1827-1892): Press cartoonist, caricaturist, creator of waxworks and theatre costumes

Anatole de la Forge / Gill
Anatole de la Forge (1821-1892) French politician, Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies. Most noted for his action during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 from whence came the nickname defender

Leon Cladel / Gill
Leon Cladel (1835-1892) French Novelist

Alexis Bouvier / Gill
Alexis Bouvier (1836-1892) French novelist and playwright

Gooseberries
Angler Leveller Whinhams Industry

PLUMS
Count Altanns Gage Grand Duke Green Gage Early Orleans Gisbornes monarch, The Czar

NECTARINES
Lord Napier (Rivers) Humboldt (Rivers) Dryden (Rivers)

Raspberries
Rivers Hornet Sweet Yellow Antwerp Baumforths Seedling

PEARS
Fondante d Automne Louise Bonne of Jersey Beurre d Aremberg Glou Morceau

Barberry / Berberry
barberries, aka berberries

Alpine Strawberries (these are probably what we would call Wild Strawberries)

GRAPES
Duke of Buccleuch Lady Downes Seedling Gros Colman

CURRANTS
Victoria (red currant) White Dutch Black Naples (black currant)

NECTARINE
Pine Apple Nectarine (Hows that for a confusing name !)

PLUMS
Jefferson Victoria Coes Golden Drop Diamond Ponds Seedling Autumn Compote

PLUMS
Early Transparent Gage Rivers Early Prolific

Rosie Dolly and Mortimer Davis
Rosie Dolly (1892-1970) one half of the famous performing American identical twins, The Dolly Sisters, with Mortimer Davis Jnr, known as The Fat Boy

PEARS
Pitmaston Duchess Durondeau

PEARS
Summer Beurre d Aremberg Bwurre Diel

APRICOTS
Royal Grosse Peche Large Early Montgamet Date: 1892

PEACHES
Alexander Rivers Early York, with blossom

PEARS
Catillac Josephine de Maines Marechal de Cour

CHERRIES
Morello Late Black Bigarreau Bigarreau Noir de Gueben Mayduke

Cobnuts, Filberts
Kentish Cobnuts Filberts These are both cultivated varieties of the Hazel-nut

PEARS
Doyenne de Comice Souvenir du Congres Beurre Superfin

PEARS
Gansels Bergamot Van Mons Leon de Clerc Portugal Quince Durandeau

PEARS
Jargonelle Beurre d Amanlis Clapps Favourite

PEARS
Olivier de Serres Easter Beurre Nouvelle Fulvie

The Wales family in mourning
Alexandra, Princess of Wales with her four children, from left; Princess Maud, Alexandra, Princess Louise (standing), Prince George and Princess Victoria

Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia (1892-1980), later Duchess of Brunswick, only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured in 1908

Prince George of Battenberg and his wife Nada
The wedding of Prince George of Battenberg (1892-1938), 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven and Countess Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby, the daughter of an exiled Russian Grand Prince

A scene inside a cafe
Flo: I say, do you believe that awful story about Doris? Elsie: Of course I do- which one? An illustration of two ladies catching up with the gossip inside a cafe

Spring! By A. E. Bestall
A scene of a winter sunset showing an elderly gentleman walking with his granddaughter across a snow covered field. A sprightly fairy is trying to tug the gentleman back

Dress And Fashion Note For Skiiers, by A. E. Bestall
Fashion ideas for the first time skiier. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years

A scene on a bus, by A. E. Bestall
Precocious Boy: Mother, aint we ever going to get out of this damded bus? Mother: Hush, child! How many more times am I to tel you not to use that word

A childs bathtime. By A. E. Bestall
Child (hearing knock at the door): If you come in, Uncle, you must excuse me being all pink! A bathtime scene depicting a mother bathing her young daughter

A bathtime scene, by A. E. Bestall
Small Girl (owner of the teddy bear), after careful inspection of herself after her bath: You know, mummy, God must be magic, Hes made me without a single seam

Superstition. By A. E. Bestall
A humorous cartoon showing a young woman driving her uncle through the countyside. She is reassuring her passenger about how safe and experienced she is, not concentrating on the road sign ahead

Election Results at the Carlton Club, London, 1892
Engraving showing the hall of the Carlton Club, with a large group of members watching the notice boards for news of the General Election of 1892

Interested Spectators, 1892
Engraving showing two Victorian women and a dog, standing on a small bridge, admiring the river scene below during the summer of 1892

East London from St. Pauls Cathedral, 1892
Engraving showing a birds eye view of East London, with the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral in the foreground, 1892

Rev. Henry Mackenzie (1808-1892)
Engraved portrait of the Right Rev. Dr. Henry Mackenzie (1808-1892), then Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, pictured in 1870

Cumberland / Hohenzollern
VIKTORIA LUISE, only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, pictured with her fiancee, Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick- Luneburg, son of the Duke & Duchess of Cumberland

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