Folly Collection (page 3)

Oxford Canal
A fine impression of the Oxford Canal, at the Folly, Napton, Warwickshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Boat House, Oxford
The Boat House at Folly Bridge, Oxford Date: 1821

Rushton, Northamptonshire
The triangular lodge at Rushton, Northamptonshire Date: 1841

Thomas Biggin Broadbent
THOMAS BIGGIN BROADBENT Dissenting churchman and educator, author of The Folly of Vice, to which this portrait is the frontispiece. Date: 1793 - 1817

Grand Union Canal Boat
A happy little boy aboard The Folly motor cruise boat on the Grand Union Canal at Napton, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

The Wallace Monument, Stirling, Scotland
The Wallace Monument, on the summit of Abbey Craig, Stirling, Scotland - designed by architect John Thomas Rochead. Date: circa 1920s

Moroccan Moorish Market (rather a folly/fraud of an image, as it depicts an Ottoman Fountain in Morocco, even though the Ottoman Empire never stretched as far as Morocco....!). Date: circa 1910s

Funicular railway - Santiago, Chile
The Lower Station for the funicular railway running up the steep slope of the San Cristobal Hill, Santiago, Chile. The hill was named by the Spanish conquistadors for St Christopher

Paper House at Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts
Pigeon Cove, Rockport, Massachusetts - the interior of the Paper House - made entirely of newspapers. Built by Mr. Elis F

Brazil - Belem - Baptista Campos Park
The Castelinho (Castle) folly at the Praca Batista Campos (Batista Campos Square) in Belem, Para, Brazil Date: 1906

Angels Weeping
Angels weep at the spectacle of human folly... Date: 1904

Hillside folly at Vrsac, Serbia
A hillside folly at Vrsac (Versec, Versecz, Werschetz, Varset, Virsac) in Serbia

Lear / Nonsense / Lady / Bush
There was an Old Lady whose folly induced her to sit in a holly, Whereon, by a thorn, her dress being torn, She quickly became melancholy

Fortune and the Child
FORTUNE & THE CHILD or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall

Fortune & the Schoolboy
FORTUNE & THE SCHOOLBOY or Child or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall

Ruins of Nether Hall
The ruins of Nether Hall, Roydon, Essex, England. This fine old red brick archway is all that remains of a magificent mansion which was built in 1470

Exotic Pipe 1845
Fashionable French gentleman leans against the stone urn of a chateau to have a chat with his friend and a smoke from his extemely long pipe

Les Salons D aujourd hui
The ladies (above whom hover cherubs) are deserted by the men in favour of the card table, above which is a devilish winged beast perhaps suggesting gambling folly

Triangular Lodge
Part of the curious Triangular Lodge at Rushton, Northants. built by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1593, planned as an emblem of the Holy Trinity, everything in a series of threes

King Alfreds Tower, (1722) 160 feet high, on the Somerset - Wiltshire border: " Alfred the Great, A.D. 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders"

A Ruined building in the English countryside. Whether the remains of a castle, part of a manor house or just a Victorian folly - sadly we cannot tell. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Perils of Crinolines No4
A young lady in a cage crinoline is confronted with the folly of the new fashion as she is prevented from negotiating a staggered stile on a country walk

THE FOLLY
Londons floating Coffee House The Folly on the Thames

Make-Believe Muffin-Man
A little boy in picturesque green costume plays at being a muffin-man in a brooding, leafy landscape. He wanders up a pathway leaving his playmates behind

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