Grow Collection

The nursery rhyme, Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle-shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: c. 1930

Dig for Victory poster - WWII
World War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that

Poster: Dig For Victory Now
Poster encouraging people to Dig For Victory Now, and enjoy your own vegetables all the year round. 1940s

Jesus Feeds 5000
When a crowd of five thousand, who have gathered to hear him, grow hungry, Jesus provides them with food - five barley loaves and two fishes suffice for all

Absence Makes Heart
A photograph with the model posed as a homage to Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by Marcus Stone

Gardening Book / Tobacco
Baccy, Grow and Smoke Your Own An instruction booklet on how to grow your own tobacco

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary - Nursery Rhyme
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row

Gladys Cooper in 1923
Gladys Cooper (1888 - 1971) English actress of stage and screen. Playing here in " Peter Pan, the Boy that never Grow Up". 1923

Henry De LA Beche
Sir Henry Thomas DE LA BECHE Distinguished geologist, responsible for the Geological Ordnance Survey, and for the institution which would grow into the Geological Museum

Punch / Infant Electricity
King Steam and King Coal wonder what the Infant Electricity will grow into

Poster, Dig for Victory, Grow More Food, WW2
Poster, Dig for Victory, Grow More Food. 1940s

Poster, Dig for Victory, WW2
Poster, Dig for Victory, step on it! 1940s

Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still, WW2
Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still. 1940s

WW2, Jack And The Beanstalk
This illustration shows Peter the Royal Air Force Pilot, meeting Jack in a dream, his beanstalk will not grow, so Peter is suggesting that they save some time

WW2, Digging For Victory
An illustration of a young boy helping with the Digging For Victory campaign set up by the British Ministry of Agriculture to encourage civilians to grow their own food during times of harsh

Advert, Dig for Victory Now! Ministry of Agriculture, WW2 Date: 1942

Spanish Civil War. Camperols: Perque no manqui pa als nostres soldats, sembreu! (Country people: grow wheat to make bread for our soldiers! ). Propaganda poster from the Republican side

Woman head in plant pot
Front cover idea for Die Dame in wash and watercolour on a cosmetic theme - a woman's head appears to grow, plant- like, out of a flower pot circa 1928

Postcard design - When can I see you?. A gardener keeping an eye (through a magnifying glass!) of a little plant slowly growing larger. Date: circa 1937

If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields. The mother, widow and little daughter of a British soldier who died early in World War One visit his

Watching a Policeman
When I grow up I want to be a Big Bobby. A young boy admiring a policeman in the street. Artist: Elizabeth Travis Date: 1914

Some Rejected Posters by John Hassall - Makes the Hair Grow. John Hassall reigned supreme as the poster king during the first two decades of the twentieth century

Botanic Gardens Chelsea
The Chelsea Physic Garden (as it is now known) was established as the Apothecaries Garden in London, England, in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries to grow plants to be used as medicines

Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832

Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832

The Dream Pedlar - Where Mushrooms Grow
Where Mushrooms Grow - illustration in The Dream Pedlar by Lady Margaret Sackville. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

How Does My Garden Grow by Muriel Dawson. 1942

Firemens Farm in the Heart of the City WWII
In the centre of London near St. Giles Cripplegate, firefighter members of the N.F.S. which station was damaged in the air raids in 1940 attend a large plot, consisting of vegetable

Small puple flowers grow off of long green stems

Childrens pastimes
Where the Golden Apples Grow. Children in the sun picking ripe apples. Artist: Sybil Barham

Gathering the cucumber harvest, Esher, Surrey. Although cucumbers often grow along the ground, these are growing down from the roof. Date: 1930s

The boy who shouldn t grow up
" The boy who shouldn t grow up". John Bull: " Theres your new navy suit. Now you must promise me you won t grow out of it." Germany: " Well

WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940

Suffragettes Never Been Kissed. Portrays five stereotypical suffragettes old, ugly spinsters as oil paintings in a dark wood frame

Cartoon, K and His (Anti) German Garden, WW1
Cartoon, K and His (Anti) German Garden, showing Lord Kitchener watering his garden during the First World War to grow more army recruits ready for a spring offensive. Date: 1914

Philippines. Natives cutting abaca. Colored engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1876

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

Fairy Tears
A fairy sheds tears while pleading with the North wind to allow her to return home. The tears grow into snowdrop flowers

Communist China - agricultural training
Scene on a farm in Communist China - an older woman trains three younger women in grafting and growing techniques on a cotton plantation. circa 1960s

Illustration, Mary Mary Quite Contrary
Illustration (possibly the frontispiece), Mary Mary Quite Contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row. Date: 1895

Boy in Hand-Me-Downs
A country boy, looking after geese, wears clothes handed down by his brothers, his father, even his grandfather - He ll grow into them soon enough ! Date: 1895

Babies Grow on Trees
Babies grow on trees, waiting for you to pick them. Date: circa 1905

Ottele Von Hoe (115)
JOHANN OTTELE VON HOHE Long-lived German citizen whose beard had a long time to grow long in. Drawn when he was only 115 years old. Date: 1542 - 1663

Olive region, Italy
Olives and their oil are a staple part of the Italian diet. Climate conditions vary across different places in Italy, resulting in a variety of olives that thrive in one place

Fashion accessories: handbags and scarfs from Debenhams, Lon
Accessories grow in beauty and prestige - new and decorative handbags and a scarf from Debenham s, London Date: 1927

Favourite Sayings - No plough, many weeds
Black and white lantern slide of painted image of vegetation in front of a fence while in the background a man is ploughing a field.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Miss Hermione Kennedy digging somewhere in France
Miss Hermione Kennedy, the daughter of Lady Alexander Kennedy, widow of the late Lord Alexander Kennedy, snapshotted digging in the garden of a British soldiers buffet somewhere on the Western Front

How Does My Garden Grow? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy tends his springtime bulbs, watched by a robin on a branch. Date: 1942

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