Furze Collection

Common furze or whin, Ulex europaeus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Dwarf furze, Ulex minor (Ulex nanus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Gorse, Ulex europaeus
Gorse, furze or whin, Ulex europaeus. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Moret after an illustration by Pierre-Joseph Redoute from Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceaus Traite des Arbres et Arbustes, Paris

Union Workhouse, Ticehurst, Sussex
The Ticehurst Union workhouse on Union Street, Ticheurst. The building, erected in 1835, was designed by Sampson Kempthorne. It later became known as Furze House or The Furzes

Curtis British Entomology Plate 89
Hymenoptera: Abia nigricornis = Abia lonicerae (Black-horned Sawfly) [Plant: Genista anglica (Needle Furze)] Date: 1824-39

Union Workhouse, Ticehurst and Flimwell, Sussex
The Ticehurst Union workhouse on Union Street, Ticehurst and Flimwell, Sussex. A uniformed policeman stands at the gate. The workhouse, erected in 1835, was designed by Sampson Kempthorne

The Furze Platt Hand Axe
The Furze Platt hand axe from the Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) about 400, 000 years ago. Found in Britain in 1919 the hand axe weighs 2.8 kilos and is 30.6 cm long

Sylvia undata, Dartford warbler
Plate 59 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Plants / Ulex Europaeus
FURZE, or WHIN, or GORSE Date: early 20th century

Flowers May & June 1863
Flowers of May & June: VIOLA TRICOLOR (Heartsease, Wild Pansy); CRATAEGUS (Hawthorn, May blossom); ULEX UEROPAEUS (Gorse or Furze)

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