Bishop Gallery

Aerial view of Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Isles of Scilly

Aerial view of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it. Because of landing difficulties a helipad was built at the top of the lighthouse in 1976. Date: circa 1980s

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ANDREW BESLEY

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Papaver (Poppy), two varieties

Two varieties of Papaver (Poppy) -- Papaver flore pleno rubrum (Double Red) and Papaver Eraticum rubrum (Wild Red), drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629), one of many plates in a book entitled Hortus Eystattensis sive diligens et accurata omnium plantarum, florum, stirpium ex variies orbis terrae partibus. The book contained illustrations of the flowers in the garden of Prince Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, in Eichstatt, Germany. Date: 1613

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Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Team, 1908

Photograph of the Wolverhampton Wanderers Football team of the 1907-1908 season. The players pictured are: Back row, left to right: W. Shepherd (Director), W. Wooldridge (Captain), J. Jones, K. Hunt, J. Addinbroke Lee (Secretary), T. Lunn, Harrison, A.J. Evans (Chairman). Middle row, left to right: Ward, Hedley, J.H. Jones, Radford, Pedley. Front row, left to right: Bishop, Collins, Shelton

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