Drake Collection (page 12)

Sir Francis Drake, The Spanish Armada is in Sight (19 July 1588) -- despite which, according to legend, he stayed and finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. 1588

Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on board his ship, the Golden Hind, in April 1581, not long after his circumnavigation of the world. 1581

Submarine D 1 with HMS Drake in her wake
British submarine " D 1" with H.M.S. " Drake" following in her wake. All the latest British submarines during the First World War period were fitted with wireless telegraphy

Shardeloes country house during wartime
Scenes from a country house, Shardeloes, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, during World War II. The house was used as a maternity home for evacuee mothers, offered as it was by the owners

Six illustrations from a theatre production of Drake, a pageant-play in three acts by Louis Napoleon Parker, starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Sir Francis Drake

Drake by Louis N. Parker. For the revival. His Majestys Theatre is written on the front of the card and 1915 on the reverse, but the run ended on 11th November 1914

Nathan Drake
NATHAN DRAKE Doctor and essayist Date: 1766 - 1836

Plymouth Sound 1930S
Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, with Drakes Island in the distance. Date: 1930s

Francis Drake Bowling
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE The sign at the bowling green at Plymouth Hoe, Devon, where Sir Francis Drake was playing a game of bowls when he saw the Spanish Armada in 1588. Date: 1545 - 1596

What Every Girl Can Do by Willoughby Drake R. N
Promotional postcard for What Every Girl Can Do by Sub-lieutenant Willoughby Drake R. N. First produced at His Majestys Theatre, Walsall, 22nd January and Palace Theatre, Battersea, 1st October 1917

Memorial to Sir Francis Drake, Plymouth Hoe, Devon
Memorial to Sir Francis Drake at Plymouth Hoe, Devon, on the site of the original bowling green where he is said to have heard about the approach of the Spanish Armada. Date: circa 1980s

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