Grew Collection

HMS Daffodil IV on her return to the Mersey from Zeebrugge. The Zeebrugge Raid, which took place on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the British Royal Navy to neutralize the key Belgian port of

Nehemiah Grew
NEHEMIAH GREW medical, surgeon

Mariner, Wondrous Cold
The ship enters the icy waters near the South Pole: And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold

Tooth from Coelodonta antiquitatis, woolly rhinoceros
This woolly rhino tooth, together with two others were found in 1668 at Chartham, near Canterbury in Kent by natural historian John Somner

Cat punting postcard by Louis Wain
Wain had a disturbed life and eventually died in a mental hospital in 1939. His cats became more agitated images as he grew older. Date: 1903

Head and shoulders portrait of Marshal Radetzky
One of a large series of postcard portraits of men and women who featured prominently in the 19th Century -the Great Century - Das Grosse Jahrhundert

Claridges Hotel
Claridges was founded in 1812 as Mivarts Hotel, in a conventional London terraced house, and it grew by expanding into neighbouring houses. In 1854, the founder (the father of biologist St)

Ypres Ramparts CWGC Cemetery seen across the moat
The earliest settlement in this area is thought to have been near Langemarck in about AD960 and gradually a cluster of villages grew up around the Yperlee

Kaiser Wilhelm IIs sons
The six sons of Kaiser Wilhelm II pictured in 1900: (l to r standing) Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942), Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951), Adalbert (1884-1948); (in front) Oskar (1888-1958)

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Old Fort, Tuli
Black and white lantern Slide of Old Fort, Tuli - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 10

Johann Georg Hamann
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN German Philosopher who grew impatient with Rationalism and Abstraction

Barnardos Emigrants in Canada
Promotional card of a home in Canada where one of Barnardos child emigrants grew up. Barnardos began sending children to Canada in 1872. Date: circa 1914

A French woman collects the tickets on the Paris Metro
As the need for more soldiers grew, many jobs normally carried out by men, women were brought in and trained to do their tasks

Romulus & Remus Statue
The golden statue in the Vatican, Rome, of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf. Legend has it that when Romulus grew up he founded Rome (circa 753 BC). Date: early 1930s

Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length. Date 1897

German Navy lampooned - World War One
Propaganda postcard from the First World War lampooning the German Naval capability as a rusting weed-encasted hulk, unable to repond to the effective and nimble Allied naval fleet

Garricks Birthplace
The Raven Hotel, Hereford, England, where the famous actor David Garrick was born, 19 February 1717. He grew up to be a great Shakespearian actor. Date: 1717 - 1779

Birth Register 1760S
The church register at Neston, the Wirral, Merseyside, England, recording the birth of Emy Lyon in 1761. Emy grew up to be no other than Lady Emma Hamilton. 1760s

George Bidder (Older)
GEORGE PARKER BIDDER Child prodigy who grew up to be a successful engineer. Date: 1806 - 1878

Lear / Nonsense / Parma
There was a Young Lady of Parma, whose conduct grew calmer and calmer; when they said, Are you dumb? she merely said, Hum! that provoking Young Lady of Parma

Lear / Nonsense / Buda
There was an Old Person of Buda, whose conduct grew ruder and ruder; Till at last, with a hammer, they silenced his clamour, by smashing that Person of Buda

Lear / Nonsense / Cromer
There was an Old Person of Cromer, who stood on one leg to read Homer; When he found he grew stiff, he jumped over the cliff, which concluded that Person of Cromer

Lear / Nonsense / Ischia
There was an Old Person of Ischia, whose conduct grew friskier and friskier; He dance hornpipes and jigs, and ate thousands of figs, that lively Old Person of Ischia

Queen Victoria with Alexander Battenberg
Queen Victoria holding her grandson, Prince Alexander of Battenberg, later Marquess of Carisbrooke(1886-1960), eldest son of Priness Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg

Alice drawn by Lewis Carroll c. 1862
Illustration taken from the original manuscript of Lewis Carrolls (Rev. C.L. Dodgson) Alice in Wonderland, showing Alice curled up as she grew and grew. Rev

An Underground Drinking Cellar, San Francisco, 1884
Engraving showing an underground drinking cellar with, in the background, a stock index board marked on the wall, San Francisco, 1884

American Civil war. The War excitement in New York
As the war progressed, thirst for news grew. Recruitment drives for the Union army concentrated on skilled and fit firemen, who had their own regiment, the New York Zouaves

Tom Thumb / Pony Carriage
The stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton - pictures here with miniture carriage and attendants. Achieved great fame under circus pioneer P T Barnum. Grew to 3ft 4 inches

Saint Anastasia (Of Rome
SAINT ANASTASIA (OF ROME) martyred during the reign of Diocletian after her husband, denied access to her bed, grew suspicious of her nocturnal visits to the poor

Myth / Tibet / 2 Neighbours
THE STORY OF TWO NEIGHBOURS A poor man showed kindness to a sparrow, who gave him a seed which grew riches. His rich neighbour stole it, but it didn t have the same effect

France / Domremy / Pensee
JOAN OF ARC View of the town of Domremy, where the French heroine grew up

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