Green Wood Collection

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

Wessex / Bockhampton Lane
Wessex scenery: Bockhampton Lane near Dorchester, model for Mellstock Lane in Thomas Hardys novel Under the Greenwood Tree

The burial of Thomas Hardys heart among his own people: the vicar of Stinsford in Dorset ( Mellstock of Under the Greenwood Tree ) bearing the casket containing it

The Labour Party Cabinet under Ramsay MacDonald
The Labour Party Cabinet under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Date: 1929

Robin Hood resting in a tree

Butchers van, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A butcher poses beside his new delivery van. Tom Greenwood was a family butcher at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, and clearly took pride in his new mode of transport. circa 1920

James Greenwood
A portrait of James Greenwood who rose to prominence in 1866 after his colourful account of an incognito stay in the Lambeth workhouse tramps ward was published in the Pall Mall Gazette

New York Pilots Monument. In Greenwood Cemetery Long Island, America Date: 1855

Andre Morell and Joan Greenwood, Chichester Festival Theatre
Actor Andre Morell and his actress wife Joan Greenwood on a tea break between rehearsals at Chichester Festival Theatre. Joan Greenwood is wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette

Queens Park Bridge
Queens Park Suspension Bridge, built to the designs of Charles Greenwood, Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: completed 1923

Songs for a highwayman
Three songs sung by highwaymen: Hurrah for the Road, I ll ask the Sylph who round thee flies and Waving Greenwood Tree. All upbeat and merry, revelling in their life of crime. Date: 1845

Cover page of pamphlet, A Night in a Workhouse
The cover page of A Night in a Workhouse -- an undercover expose of conditions in the casual ward of the Lambeth workhouse in London

Arthur Greenwood (1880-1954) British Labour politician who served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health during the Labour government of 1924

Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909)
Photographic portrait of Frederick Greenwood, the English author, journalist and publicist, pictured c.1909

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