Beadle Collection

Mr Bumble with Oliver
Stern Mr. Bumble holds the hand of apprehensive young Oliver Twist, as they walk away from the workhouse

Bank of England Beadle, City of London. 1899

Dickens / The Chimes
Trotty Veck - a poor ticket porter whose outlook is converted from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Years Eve

Late C18 Fire Engine
Known as a bed-poster, this London engine is a manual machine worked by pumping handles on either side : a Beadle and a Watchman are in official attendance

Beadle, Bank of England Date: 1921

Charing Cross, Carlton House and the Quadrant, Regent Street. Statue of King Charles I by Le Sueur at Charing Cross 70, Carlton House by architect Henry Holland demolished in 1826 71

Open-top single-decker bus, Beadle 16 seater on A2 long. Date: circa 1940

Cartoon, Mr Parnell, like Oliver Twist, asks for more. Lord Salisbury plays the part of the Beadle, dishing out thin soup. A comment on Conservative resistance to Irish Home Rule. 1886

Beadle of the University of Paris, 16th century
Beadle of the University of Paris, Bedeau de l universite de Paris, reign of King Henri III of France. Drawn and lithographed by Alexandre Massard after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres gallery

ENGLISH BEADLE / KITCHENER
William Kitchener, Beadle of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden & Ely Rent. A Beadle was a minor parish official employed to usher and keep order during services. Date: circa 1780

Tatler cover - West End Arcadians - 1959
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing a coat of glove cape trimmed with white fox and a hat also of white fox from Bazaar on the Kings Road (Mary Quant)

Beryl Edna Beadle CEng FRAeS 1929-2009
Beryl Edna Beadle, CEng, FRAeS, 1929-2009. Date: 1929

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Bumble the Beadles Wife. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Bumble the Beadle. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Bumble the Beadles Daughter. late 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Bumble the Beadles Son. late 19th century

William Kitchener, Beadl
WILLIAM KITCHENER, described as a conceited coxcomb, is beadle to Saffron Hill and other wards in Holborn, London, to whose householders he presents his likeness. Date: flourished circa 1730

Beadle
A beadle of 1813 holding his staff of office. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1902

Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, The Great Adventure, showing a street in Bunnyborough, with the pompous beadle Mr Swizzle, his shopkeeper wife Mrs Swizzle, and various rabbits. Date: 1921

WW1 National Savings poster
J P Beadle WW1 National Savings poster 1917 Date: 1917

Lady Kindersley as a waste paper merchant, WW1
Lady Kindersley, formerly Miss Gladys Beadle, pictured near her home in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, collecting waste paper with the aid of her children and two donkey carts

Panorama of a fashionable wedding, 1855
Panorama of a fashionable wedding in 1855-relations, clergy and hangers on depicted. Date: 1855

Mungo Watson
MUNGO WATSON - beadle of Lady Yesters church, Edinburgh : the caption reads Prayers at all prices which suggests that his conduct was not above reproach. Date: ? - 1809

Lincoln Memorial Statue
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Bust of the American President by Andrew O Connor, loaned to the Gresham Committee by the Lincoln Presentation Committee. Date: early 1930s

Burlington Arcade, London showing one of the N. Peal shops and the chief Beadle. N. Peal is still in the same location today!

Pancake Day at Westminster School
Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) at Westminster School -- the pancake is tossed, and the boys compete to get the largest portion, the winner receiving a guinea

Lear / Nonsense / Quebec
There was an Ol Man of Quebec, a beetle ran over his neck; But he cried, With a needle, I ll slay you, O beadle! that angry Old Man of Quebec

Lear / Nonsense / Cheadle
There was an Old Person of Cheadle, who was put in the stocks by the beadle; For stealing some pigs, some coats, and some wigs, that horrible person of Cheadle

Beadle of Ely Place
The Beadle at Ely Place, Holborn, London, calling out the time at the gateway between 10 p.m. and 5 o clock in the morning, as was the tradition for many years

London / Ely Place
Ely Place, Holborn, London, where the Beadle used to close the gateway and call the hours between 10 p.m. and 5 o clock in the morning, as was the tradition for many years

Beadle and Trader
A Beadle dressed in his official uniform overturns the stall of a street seller, trading without a licence

Pyne - Parish Beadle
THE PARISH BEADLE A kind of policeman, whose job is to make sure everyone behaves properly in church and enforce the proper observation of the Sabbath

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