Geese Gallery

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915

Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord's), during the ground's use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I. With only five geese visible on the cricket square, it seems likely that the majority of the fowl were kept at the Nursery end of the ground (pictured in background). The caption reads: The Close of the Innings: "Fielders returning to the pavilion. (see also: 10218978). Date: 1915

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898.jpg

Illustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, "Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese

© Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

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Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking

Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34, man plucking quill feathers from geese in the Lincoln Fnes 35 and stage coach postillion with a whip made in Daventry 36. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

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