Downing Collection

Winston Churchill - Giving the V for Victory sign
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - Giving the V for Victory sign. Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdon from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Date: circa 1940

Harrys New York bar in Paris. Patrons attempting to break the world record for drinking two litres of beer in seventeen seconds. C. 1947

Portrait of Winston Churchill
A colour tinted photograph of Winston Churchill stood in the gardens of 10 Downing Street during the second world war

Winston Churchill entering No 10 Downing St by David Wright
Painting by David Wright showing Prime Minister Winston Churchill entering No. 10 Downing Street after winning the General Election in 1951

HAWKER HURRICANE 1
Though lacking the glamour of the Spitfire, the plainer Hurricane is more widely used, downing more German aircraft than the rest of the defences combined

David Lloyd George leaving Downing Street
Lloyd George pictured leaving Downing Street after his resignation with his wife and daughter Megan. His resignation announcement featured in the Court circular of 19th October

10 DOWNING ST 1930S
The door of number 10 which is the official residence of the British Primeminister

Arms of the Principal Colleges of Cambridge University
The Coats of Arms of the Principal Colleges of Cambridge University circa 1910s

Queens Park Rangers FC football team, in green and white stripes: Miles (Trainer), Foster (Director), Murphy, Cross, Collins (Captain), Downing, White, Singleton, McLean (Assistant Trainer)

Lord de Grey and Ripon, Vanity Fair, Ape
GEORGE FREDERICK SAMUEL ROBINSON, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827-1909), known as Viscount Goderich (1833-59) and as the Earl de Grey and Ripon (1859-71)

Downing Street sectional drawing
A cut-away illustration of No. 10 Downing Street: the quiet backwater from which great men have ruled a great empire. 10 Downing Street from the garden front with Nos 11 and 12 at right

Anthony Asquith as a boy at 10 Downing Street, London
Anthony Asquith (1902-1968) as a boy at 10 Downing Street, Central London, when his father, Herbert Henry Asquith, was Prime Minister

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Police removing suffragettes chained to railings 1908
Police officers removing Edith New and Olivia Smith from the railings of 10. Downing Street. The image is interestingly captioned

Winston Churchill, 10 Downing Street, London
Winston Churchill at the door of 10 Downing Street, London, during the General Strike of 1926. 1926

Downing Street, London - Home of the British Prime Minister at No. 10 and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at No. 11. Date: circa 1907

Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
Thank you letter from Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, headed 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, SW1 -- many of these were reproduced to look like an original handwritten letter

WW2 Christmas Card, Good Health!
A WW2 Christmas greetings card, the illustration portrays a Royal Navy sailor downing a drink to good health with a Gliderborne troop. Date: circa 1940s

Landscape From The Air
A landscape painting of fields and trees under a cloudy blue sky, painted from the air, which is significant as the artist, George Guy Barry Downing was a member of the Royal Flying Corps

Fine House
A watercolour painting of a grand, snow covered house with a front garden area of trees and bushes. Date: circa 1917

Blue Robed Figure
A painting showing the lonely figure of a young person wearing blue robes, sitting on some fine terrace pillared walls. Date: circa 1916

Farmhouses
A painting of some industrial farmhouses with a smokestack rising high, they are placed in the centre of a countryside of patched fields and rows of trees. Date: circa 1916

Prime Minister's home, 10 Downing Street, London
The British Prime Minister's home, 10 Downing Street, London Date: circa 1908

The Comic Novel or Downing Street and the Days of Victoria by Lynx - title page by the Artists Fun Society Date: 1840

Victorian boy on beach near Dover, Kent
Victorian boy on beach near Dover - Young England Date: 1860

People's March for Jobs 1981 Petition
At 10 Downing Street, thousands of petition forms are handed in to Ian Gow, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary, by Eric Varley, Labour MP for Chesterfield

Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterand
Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), Conservative British Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990, now Baroness Thatcher. Seen here with Francois Mitterand (1916-1996), President of the French Republic

Quintin Hogg Hailsham Lord Mcgarel Baron Peerage
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Winston Churchill Cabinet Room 10 Downing Street
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IDDESLEIGH DIES
STAFFORD HENRY NORTHCOTE first earl IDDESLEIGH he dies at the Prime Minister's residence in Downing Street Date: 1818 - 1887

GEOFFREY HOWE (1926 - )
GEOFFREY MP and Thatcher's longest serving cabinet minister. Became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1979. Made a life peer in 1992. Date: 1979

Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED DOWNING FRIPP (1865 - 1930), surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. Appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to his successor King George V

David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London Date: 1921

Winston and Clementine Churchill with Free French boys
Winston and Clementine Churchill with Free French Forces boys, aged between 16 and 20, at Downing Street. The boys crossed the English Channel one dark night in canoes, in a dangerous 36-hour trip

Two garlanded Napiers carrying Welsh schoolchildren in national dress to 10 Downing Street to meet David Lloyd George and his daughter, Megan. Date: circa 1918

Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister, leaving 10 Downing Street, London, to enter his motorcar. 1911

Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, London
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), British Conservative Prime Minister, standing outside 10 Downing Street, London, at the time of the General Strike of 1926. 1926

Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London. circa late 1930s

Neville Chamberlain, PM, outside 10 Downing Street
Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, outside 10 Downing Street, London. circa late 1930s

Outbreak of WWII - crowds outside Downing Street
A large crowd gathered outside 10 Downing Street at 11 o clock on 3 September 1939, at the time the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was broadcasting the announcement of war. Date: 1939

Downing site, Downing Street, Cambridge University. Date: circa 1908

Crowd in Whitehall, near Downing Street, WW1
A crowd in Whitehall, London, near Downing Street, on 3 August 1914, at the start of the First World War. 1914

Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED DOWNING FRIPP (1865 - 1930) Surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. Appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to his successor King George V

Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson (1916-1995), Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, British Prime Minister, pictured in one of the rooms at 10 Downing Street in Whitehall, London. Date: 1966

Sir Anthony Eden (right) shakes hands with French Premier Guy Alcide Mollet (1905-1975) - on 30th October 1956 outside number 10 Downing Street after discussions regarding Israels invasion of Egypt

10 Downing Street, London - prior to restoration and the addition to the terrace (to the south toward Whitehall). Date: circa 1930s

WW2 poster, Warship Week, Winston Churchill
WW2 poster, Warship Week, A message from the Prime Minister, with a portrait of Winston Churchill and a letter from him in support of the National Savings Movement and the Warship Week Campaign

The Imperial War Cabinet, 1917
Photograph taken at 10 Downing Street of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917. Front row, Henderson, Lord Milner, Lord Curzon, Mr Bonar Law, David Lloyd George, Sir Robert Borden, Mr Massey

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