Gorse Collection

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

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 3
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse. Date: 1887 - 1956

Stretford Gorse Hill Chester Road early 1900s

Gorse in Bloom
Etching showing gorse in bloom, a yellow shrub of the pea family. They cover a landscape, centred by five tall trees with a silhouetteed form. Date: circa 1930

Cape gorse, Aspalathus angustifolia (Borbonia lanceolata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817

Briers, Furzes, Gorse and Thorn (The Tempest). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare, Day and Haghe, London, 1845

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

Heath, Erica viscaria subsp. gallorum (Echium flowered scarlet heath, Erica coccinea var. echiiflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S

Four fine English Springer Spaniels in a patch of heathland
1903

Manton Gorse, Cottesmore Hunt area, near Oakham
View of Manton Gorse, a covert in the Cottesmore Hunt area, near Oakham, Leicestershire. Date: 1936

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

Gorse and kissing are always in fashion by Florence Hardy
Gorse and kissing are always in fashion. A boy kisses the girl he likes on the cheek amongst the gorse bushes

Gorse and Fern To Keep the Fairies Out, a May Eve Custom - a view of children outside a thatched cottage, one of whom is hanging a fern above the door of the cottage. (Location: Ireland)

Ashe Gorse, Meynell Hunt area, Staffordshire
View of Ashe Gorse, a popular covert in the Meynell Hunt area, Staffordshire. Date: 1936

Philo Gorse, in the Cheshire Hunt area
View of Philo Gorse, in the Cheshire Hunt area, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

Orton Gorse, Atherstone Hunt area, Warwickshire
View of Orton Gorse, in the Atherstone Hunt area, Warwickshire. Date: 1936

Copson Gorse, Atherstone Hunt area
View near the Copson Gorse covert, looking towards Three Pots, in the Atherstone Hunt area (Warwickshire and Leicestershire). Date: 1936

Firefighters in action at a gorse fire

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 2
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse. Date: 1887 - 1956

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 4
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH A writer of quality, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse photographed attending the flowers in her home at Holland Park, London. Date: 1887 - 1956

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

Warwickshire Gorse
A fine view of Gredenton Hill, near Fenny Compton, Watwickshire, England, with a mass of gorse (broom) in flower in the foreground and the winding Avon Dassett road. Date: early 1960s

Gorse in Bloom
Gorse (or Broom) in bloom on the high ground above Teston village, Northamptonshire, England. On the right, in the distance, is Creston Hospital, in lovely rural surroundings. Date: 1960s

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

Ulex Europaeus Flore Pleno (Double Gorse), an evergreen shrub of the Fabaceae family. Seen here growing at the side of a pond, with bright yellow flowers

Hunting Series (5 of 5) - Grouse Shooting - On the Moors

Golf in the 17th Century
Three seventeenth century golfers

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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