Blackmore Collection

Devon / Doone Valley 1919
Devon inland scenery: Doone Valley

Red Indian Chief, Eastbourne, Sussex
Edward Blackmore, an Eastbourne plumber and adopted member of the North American Sioux Indian Tribe. In 1964 he travelled to South Dakota to meet the tribe, and during his visit he was made a Chief

John Ridd meets Lorna Doone
A scene from the novel set in 17th century Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore. Lorna, from the notorious Doone clan, meets John Ridd, destined to be her lifelong love. Date: 1937

Thomas Merthyr Guest, Vanity Fair, CG
THOMAS MERTHYR GUEST (1838-1904) Wealthy landowner, shown on horseback in red hunting jacket, smoking a pipe. Caption: Blackmore Vale Date: 1838 - 1904

Wessex / Blackmore Vale
Wessex scenery: Blackmore Vale, Dorset, setting for a scene in Thomas Hardys novel Jude the Obscure

LORNA DOONE/BLACKMORE
John Ridd and Lorna are called before Ensor Doone, who says Fools you are - be fools for ever, before he dies later. Date: First published: 1869

FALL / RETRIEVER / FLAT / 1914
BLACKMORE ZULU Date: 1914

Dorset - Blackmore Vale
Dorset scenery: Blackmore Vale from Shaftesbury Date: 1925

Blackmore Vale - Wessex
Blackmore Vale, Dorset: the setting for one of the episodes in Thomas Hardys novel, Jude the Obscure Date: 1906

Lots Wife, a modern comedy, Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth
Lots Wife, a modern comedy by Peter Blackmore, Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth, with Nora Swinburne and J H Roberts, previously at the Savoy Theatre, London. circa 1938

Red Indian Chiefs wife, Eastbourne, Sussex
Phyllis Blackmore, wife of Edward Blackmore, an Eastbourne plumber. Both of them were adopted members of the North American Sioux Indian Tribe

Red Indian Chief and wife, Eastbourne, Sussex
Edward Blackmore, an Eastbourne plumber, with his wife Phyllis, both of them adopted members of the North American Sioux Indian Tribe

View of Rodgrove, in the Blackmore Vale Hunt area, Dorset, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

View of Malmsmead, Exmoor, North Devon, with Badgworthy Water in the foreground and Lorna Doone Farm in the distance. Date: circa 1980s

Lorna Doone Farm, Malmsmead, Exmoor, North Devon, with Badgworthy Water in the foreground. Date: circa 1980s

Perly-cross, a novel by RD Blackmore. Poster shows a man dressed as a clergyman carrying a bible in one hand and a walking stick in the other. Date 1894

Lorna Doone / Devon Scene
Lornas bower, Exmoor. Date: First published: 1869

Wedding at Lorna Doones church, Devon
An unusual wedding at Lorna Doones church (St Marys Church, Oare, which features in the novel by R D Blackmore), near the village of Malmsmead, Exmoor, Devon

Sir Richard Blackmore
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE English physician and writer

Lorna Doone & John Ridd
Lorna Doone meets John Ridd by a stream, when he is fishing for loache. Date: First published: 1869

Mid-Air Repair
American aviator Blackmore realises, while over Wellington, that his under- -carriage is malfunctioning, so he gets out and repairs it in mid-air !

R D Blackmore
RICHARD DODDRIDGE English novelist, author of Lorna Doone (1869)

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