Brook Collection

Stoney Middleton, Middleton Dale, Derbyshire
Stoney Middleton - a village in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. It at the foot of the limestone valley of Middleton Dale. Date: 1904

Old Towngate - Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
Old Towngate, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. Holmfirth has become well known as the location of the situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine

A Meet of the New Forest Buck-Hounds at Fountain Court, Broo
Members of the New Forest Buck-hounds meet at Fountain Court, the hunters and dogs at the ready. Those present include Constance, Duchess of Westminster, Lady Mary Grosvenor, Harry, Fry

Bechers Ghost - the Grand National
The ghost of Captain Becher watches as horses and jockeys jump over Bechers Brook during the Grand National at Aintree. 1930

Some Grand National
A number of jockeys who were expected to ride in the 1938 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree " walking the plank" at the famous Bechers Brook

CLARIDGES HOTEL, Brook Street, London : built 1895 on the site of Mivarts, and generally reckoned as the most prestigious hotel in London. Date: circa 1905

River Dee at Invercauld near Braemar
See Scotland by Western SMT Coach Tours - The River Dee at Invercauld near Braemar. circa 1960s

LCC- MFB Stoke Newington fire station
Stoke Newington fire station was one of the last to be built by the MFB in 1886 prior to the creation of the London County Council in 1889

Advertisement for Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, London
Advertisement for the Bechstein Hall, Brook Street, London, in a building containing a concert hall, practice rooms, offices and showroom, built in 1929 by Bechstein, the German piano manufacturers

Riverbank scene
A summer riverbank scene with pale calm hazy water, dappled with lilypads and ducks, daisies and a small dragonfly. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Wedding of Dan Everard and Dollis Brook
Scene at the wedding reception of Dan Everard and Dollis Brook, performers in the Pelissier Follies. The wedding took place at Finchley Parish Church, north London

Natasha Parry on Tatler cover 1957
Actress Natasha Parry, wife of director Peter Brook, featured on the front cover of The Tatler and Bystander magazine, 20 November 1957

Claridges Restaurant
Dining at CLARIDGEs HOTEL, Brook Street, is apt to be pricey - dinner could set you back anything from ten shillings and sixpence to twelve shillings and sixpence

Silhouette of hunting scene
Silhouette of a hunting scene, showing a horsewoman leaping a stream while a dog follows the scent of the fox

Scotland - Strathclyde - Glen of Orchy

The One Pound Look by Ricardo Brook
Front cover of The Bystander special issue focusing on the fall in the value of the pound during the first half of 1920. Here a rather aristocratic looking gentleman is fashioned out of a pound sign

Chattertons House, Brook Street, London, 1857
Engraving showing the exterior of the house in which Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), the English Romantic poet, lived and died

LCC-MFB Hammersmith fire station, West London
Located at 1-3 Brook Green Road W6, Hammersmith fire station opened in 1877. It was it closed in 1914 with the opening of a new Hammersmith fire station in Shepherds Bush Road

Corning Egg Farm, Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA early 1900s

Brook Bridge, Entrance - Unidentified Park in Birmimgham (possibly the Bourne Brook?) Date: circa 1910

Watery Lane, Quinton - Moor Street, Birmingham - Wintery scene. Date: circa 1910s

Hockley Brook, Birmingham. Date: circa 1908

H L Brook, pilot Date: 1935

Upper Brook Street, Ipswich early 1900's

Ipswich Upper Brook Street early 1900s

Brook Street, Selby early 1900's

Selby Brook Street early 1900s

Gilda Brook Road, Eccles, early 1900s

Eccles Gilda Brook Road early 1900s

Brook Street, Ilkley, early 1900s

Ilkley Brook Street early 1900s

The Brook
A painting of a barefooted woman in a green outfit, walking along the stony surface of a fresh water brook of a woodland. Date: circa 1915

The Garden of Si-Sci
Still life oil painting featuring a figurine of a Japanese Lady smiling, wearing green and red robes, alongside some blue and pink flowers. Date: circa 1930

Photographs of the Grand National, including two falls, and group clearing Becher's Brook. Captioned, The Grand National: Luck - Good and Bad - Round the Course'

Watendlath, Keswick, Cumbria - Lake District. Date: circa 1900s

Brook War Hospital Date: circa 1916

WYCLIF'S ASHES SCATTERED
After his death, the Council of Constance condemns Wyclif for heresy : his body is exhumed, burnt and the ashes cast into the brook Swift, and carried to the wide world... Date: 1384

Swiss Family Robinson Books Wyss First Published
swiss, family, robinson, books, wyss, first, published, 1812, die, schweizerische, mrs, three, sons, cross, brook, second, journey, discovery, desert, island, cast, exploration, children, rifle

Babbling brook, North Wales. Date: circa 1920s

Hackney Views
Views of prominent Hackney buildings - Brook House, 1765, Barbers Barn, 1750 and Shore Place, 1736. Date: 1875

Landowner discovering poachers netting partriduges on his land, 19th century. Mr. Jorrocks sees Benjamin wringing the neck of a partridge that Joshua Sneakington has handed him from a net

A Day Wtih Lord Rothschilds Stag Hounds
Page from The Tatler featuring photographs of hunting with Lord Rothschilds pack. Top left picture: A big jump over Cublington Brook; Lord Rothschild in full cry

Parasitic lamprey eels
Sea lamprey eel, Petromyzon marinus 1, mouth 2, river lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis 3, 4, and brook lamprey, Lampetra planeri 5

Lampreys, sole, sea zebra and eel
Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus 1, European brook lamprey, Lampetra planeri 2, Dover sole, Solea solea 3, sea zebra, Zebrias zebra 4, and moray eel, Muraena helena 5

The Battle of Bloody Brook
An ambush on the escorted harvest wagons for the Deerfield settlements by Nipmuc warriors, led by the sachem Muttawmp. This was in retaliation to the Deerfield colony encroaching on their allies

Sketch cover - the Ranee of Sarawak in Biarritz
Sylvia Leonora, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak, born The Hon. Sylvia Leonora Brett, (1885 - 1971). Married Charles Vyner Brooke in 1911

Sports
Cross country. A brook. Men in 1930s sportswear jumping a wide brook. Artist G D Rowlandson. Date: c.1930

Narrow escape of Duke of York after Battle of Tourcoing
Narrow escape of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763-1827) wading through a brook after the Battle of Tourcoing, 18 May 1794. 1794

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