Beckett Collection

Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BARCLAY BECKETT Irish dramatist and novelist Date: 1906 - 1989

Joe Beckett, British heavyweight boxing champion
Joe Beckett (1892-1965), Heavyweight Boxing Champion of Great Britain, in action

David Buck - English actor
David Buck (1936-1989), English actor, known for his role as Richard Beckett in the series Plays of Mystery and Imagination. Date: 1966

Leeds Workhouse and Burmantofts Cemetery
A very early photograph of Leeds Workhouse from Burmantofts Cemetery, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The workhouse, designed by William Perkin and Elisha Backhouse

Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Leeds
A very early photograph of the Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The Schools were erected in 1846-48 by the Leeds Board of Guardians to house

E. W. Beckett MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
ERNEST WILLIAM BECKETT MP, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (1856-1917) born Ernest William Denison. British banker and Conservative politician. Caption: Whitby Date: 1856-1917

Moral and Industrial Training School, Leeds
A very early view of the Moral and Industrial Training School, Beckett Street, Leeds, now part of the St James Hospital site Date: 1860s

Group of smiling Labour politicians
A group of smiling Labour politicians, including Tony Blair, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Gordon Brown, Margaret Beckett and John Prescott. Cherie Blair can be seen in the lower left-hand corner

Robin Cook and Margaret Beckett, Labour politicians
Robin Cook (Robert Finlayson Cook, 1946-2005) and Margaret Beckett (Margaret Mary Beckett, nee Jackson, b 1943), both of them British Labour politicians and MPs

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

St Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire
The massive (and rather disliked) west end of St Albans Abbey designed by Edmund Beckett, First Baron Grimthorpe. Potentially the site of the place of death of Britain's First Christian Martyr

A portrait of Mrs Anthony Eden and her son Simon, 1926 Date: 1926

Mrs Anthony Eden by Madame Yevonde
Mrs Anthony Eden, nee Beatrice Beckett photographed by Madame Yevonde. The Tatler describes the picture as her latest portrait but in fact the image dates back to 1935 when a colour version of her as

Mrs. J. A. Davison & Dalmatian by Madame Yevonde
Mrs J. A Davison, formerly Cynthia Beckett, daughter of Sir Gervase Beckett, pictured with a Dalmatian, According to The Tatler, she was an enthusiastic patron of the breed

Mrs J. A. Davison by Madame Yevonde
Mrs J. A. Davison, wife of Captain J. A. Davison M.C. the Rifle Brigade and the second daughter of the Hon. Sir Gervase and Lady Beckett. Date: 1926

Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Carpentier v Beckett
Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Georges Carpentier vs. Joe Beckett - The knockout - French fighter Carpentier watching his fallen rival - 4th December, 1919 Date: 1919

Mechanism of the Great Cloak 1857
In 1851, Edmund Beckett Denison designed the mechanism for the clock of the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament in London), responsible for the chimes of Big Ben. Date: 1857

Pretty Darlings, musical comedy, Palace Theatre, Gloucester
Pretty Darlings, a musical comedy revue by Syd Beckett and Edwin Turner, at the Palace Theatre, Gloucester. circa 1915

WW1 - Major V Ls Beckett - Yorkshire Regiment - Roll of Honour - The Sphere October 28th, 1916. Date: 1916

The Hon. Priscilla Brett
The Hon. Priscilla Leonie Brett (1921 - 2000), third daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Esher pictured in The Bystander as a debutante in 1939

Lady Anne Beckett
LADY ANNE BECKETT (nee Lowther) wife of sir John Beckett Date: ? - 1871

Stage and society, London, 1921 featuring Maud Allan who is performing at the Coliseum, Pamela Beckett and the actress Margaret Bannerman Date: 1921

Mrs Anthony Eden & son Simon by Madame Yevonde
Mrs Anthony Eden, nee Beatrice Beckett pictured with her baby son, Simon. In 1923, shortly before Edens election to Parliament

The Merry Mummers, World War One entertainment troupe
The Merry Mummers entertaining troops at a West African Concert Party organised by Major P. a Beckett, son of the late Arthur a Becket of Punch

Leeds Union Workhouse, West Yorkshire
The main build ding of the former Leeds Union Workhouse on Beckett Street, Leeds. The building is now home to the Thackray Medical Museum. Date: 2000

Beckett House, once the modern office block premises of the Department of Environment, now demolished. Date: 1970s

Leeds Town Hall, Yorkshire, England, was designed by 29 year-old Hull architect Cuthbert Brodrick. The clock tower was designed by Edward Beckett Denison. Date: completed 1858

BECKETTs COTTAGES
Ancient cottages at West Tarring, Sussex, England. These are known as Becketts Cottages, because Thomas-a- Beckett was born in this village. Date: 1930s

All-Services Club celebrates anniversary, 1944
Anthony Eden looks in on the anniversary party of the All-Services Club, of which his wife is the president. Subaltern Mary Churchill, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill

The Carpentier-Beckett Fight, 1919
Photograph showing Georges Carpentier (white shorts) punching Joe Beckett during their fight for the Heavyweight Championship of Europe, 4th December 1919

Samuel Barclay Beckett
SAMUEL BARCLAY BECKETT Irish dramatist and novelist

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