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Business Keeps Going UpHumorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan having to saw a hole in the ceiling to accommodate his ever growing sales projection
Map of Ceylon showing tea industry plantationsMap of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) showing tea industry plantations. Date: circa 1920
Wardian case with plantsA Wardian case, containing several plants
Annual and Biannual flowersA wonderful array of garden flowers in bloom including chrysanthemums, foxgloves (digitalis), hollyhocks, pansies, sweet peas, gladioli, iris, petunias and nasturtiums. Date: 1930
Dig for Victory poster - WWIIWorld War Two poster encouraging British civilians to dig for victory, featuring somebody doing just that
Fat Lucy MooreLucy Moore, the American Fat Girl, weighs 292 kg (46 stone) and is still growing. Where will it end ?
Poster: Dig For Victory NowPoster encouraging people to Dig For Victory Now, and enjoy your own vegetables all the year round. 1940s
The Rules of Life by H. M. BatemanA baby in a highchair is presented with a long list of rules for life by a queue of influential people including his nurse, his parents, teacher, police officer, judge and vicar. Date: 1930
Bees in springtimeBees enjoy collecting pollen from abundant catkins on pussy willow branches growing by a river
Possession is nine points of the law by Louis WainIllustration by Louis Wain showing a cat occupying a cast-off saucepan or cooking pot during snowy weather. A selection of birds, including a magpie and a blue tit bemusedly face the cat
Flying for the Summer Week-end by C. E. TurnerIllustration from 1928 by C.E. Turner reflecting the growing rise of civilian flying in the 1920s. The caption reads, ...only last month there was a house-party at which the ten guests
Tropical plant and orchid houseCross-section view of a tropical plant and orchid house
Brochure illustration, W Barratt & Co Ltd, Northampton, showing the Footshape Works where the boots and shoes are made, with addresses of branches below, in London, Bradford, Brighton and Leicester
Horticultural Society conservatory, Chiswick, LondonPeople inside the large conservatory (or greenhouse) of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, west London
The Crossword Craze / 1920A dashing couple display the growing crossword craze with their checked attire and similarly squared-off small dog!
Girl Picks Flowers C1887A girl picks some rather wild flowers growing in a country garden
Clematis Montana Rubens, a hardy climbing plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, with pink flowers. Seen here growing up the side of a house
Three tots on beach, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, WalesThree small children wearing sun hats hold hands in the sunshine and walk to the sea on the beach at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. First published The Sunday Times
Leek Show winnersTwo prize winners at a Leek Show displaying their impressive vegetables alongside a couple of equally impressive mantel clocks, presumably their prizes
Flower industryEmpire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, British bulbs flowering in a field Date: 1927-1933
Shortia Galacifolia (Oconee Bells, Acony Bell), a rare American wildflower of the Diapensiaceae family. It has white flowers. Seen here growing in a plant pot
The Hay crop from Suttons Grass SeedsA promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds
Union Workhouse, Wincanton, SomersetThe Wincanton Union workhouse, Somerset, with extensive vegetable gardens in front which were cultivated by the workhouse inmates. The workhouse opened in 1838 and was designed by George Wilkinson
Gathering Seaweed at Le Hocq, Jersey, Channel Islands - the principle growing agent for the famed Jersey Royal Potatoes, although used less these days. Date: circa 1910s
Hops are picked in Surrey near Farnham Palace and sold at Weyhill Fair. Date: 1891
Women rice planters walk along a road to work in BaliFive young women rice planters walk along a road to work in Bali, Indonesia. They wear Asian conican straw hats. Some of the girls are barefoot. Date: circa 1985
The Parable of the Seed - Matthew 15. circa 1688
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠Still life with a bottleGUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨 1886-1945). Still Life with Bottle. 1927. Contemporary Art. Oil on canvas. Private Collection
27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - Victoria, Australia27 Cases of Apples from just one tree - the State of Victoria, Australia Date: circa 1908
Tudor Cottage vegetable garden, Walton, EssexStanding in the vegetable garden of Tudor Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, a bowler hatted and bearded gentleman proudly displays one of his marrows, while a woman stands on the path. circa 1900
Limone, Lake Garda, ItalyLimone sul Garda is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy (northern Italy), on the shore of Lake Garda
Garden Path winning the Two Thousand Guineas at NewmarketGarden Path, a brown filly belonging to Lord Derby and ridden by Harry Wragg, pictured winning the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket against Major David Wills Blue Peter colt
Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, horned womanMargaret Vergh Gryffyth, Welsh woman who exhibited herself with a 10 centimetre horn growing from her forehead
Advertising insert, Eppss Cocoa
Elder-Tree MotherThe mother is covered all over with elder-flowers
A woman of the Auvergne collecting walnutsA woman of the Auvergne region of France loading a wickerwork pannier backpack with the walnuts she has been collecting in her straw basket Date: 1910
Edward Vii / French FleetEdward VII welcomes the visit of the French fleet to Portsmouth - an outward expression of the growing rapprochement between the two countries
Wardian case with ferns 1857Fern case in the shape of a small aviary with canaries. Scale of the design is three feet long, the space reserved for plants extending 10 inches on either side of the cage or aviary which is 16
Author Sue Townsend - 1Sue Townsend, 1946-2014. Writer - author of Adrian Mole books. First published The Times Date: 1988
Fig Tree growing out of a tomb in Watford ChurchyardA Fig Tree growing out of a tomb in Watford Churchyard - the legend runs that a lady buried in the vault from which the tree is growing was an atheist
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA - Pineapple Plantation Date: 1920s
Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still, WW2Poster, The need is growing, Dig for Victory still. 1940s
Sugar beet farming in Sweden
Owners house, Tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Examining tobacco plants at a plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Removing tobacco plants from a bed at a plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Transplanting tobacco plants at a plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Harvesting tobacco plants at a plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Curing barns at a tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Delivering plants to a curing barn, Tobacco plantation, USADelivering plants to a curing barn at a Tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Processing tobacco at a plantation in Virginia, USA, early 1900s
The cutting room, tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
Loading a ship at a tobacco plantation, Virginia, USA, early 1900s
WW2 - Growing UpAn illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Growing Up, written by Angela Thirkell. The image depicts an interior scene where two wartime women and a man in military uniform enjoy tea. Date: 1945
Le Front A Neuf PervyseA landscape etching of some thick, gnarled trees, growing at a slant on a steep section of river bank, a haystack is just visible in the background grasslands. Date: circa 1921
The Hop Garden, Wrotham, Kent Date: 1875
The MillLino cut showing an old mill covered by a diagonally growing tree. Date: circa 1929
Thomas Cook Vesuvius Postcard pictures & mapCook had the Funicular built for their growing tours. Travellers rushed to the kiosk at the top to buy and then post right there a postcard
Ivy-covered house Date: 1960
Wives who save their husbands hair! Date: 1925
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Milicianos! No dsperdicieis municiones, viveres ni energias (Militia! Don't waste neither munitions, provisions nor energies)
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). No deixeu cap arada inactiva ni gens de terra sense treballar (Dont't leave neither inactive plough nor unworked land)
Neville Chamberlain with RH Stoughton and Samuel HoareNeville Chamberlain (Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940), British Conservative politician, and Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940
Typical Sunday scene on a country road 1925: The Growing danCongested country road. The increased volume of motor traffic and the ever growing death toll from road accidents was becoming the subject of grave public concern at the time. 1925
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
Comic postcard, Large man walking on the beach Date: 20th century
Allotment studies by G. E. StuddyNo. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain
Fruit of the Country Bananas - Palma, Canaries, Spaincirca 1910s
Ruins of ancient Roman arch, probably Rome, ItalyVintage late 19th century photograph - ruins of ancient Roman arch with weeds growing from the top, probably Rome, Italy
Lee ChurchView of the medaeval church which has long since been demolished. This was replaced in 1814, then in the 1830s demolished to make way for the present St Margarets Church
Intensive vegetable production, 1940Intensive vegetable production. Inter-cropping as a war time necessity, 1940. Date: 1940
What digging for victory really means, 1940This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940
Gathering the leaves of the tea plant, China. (2 of 4) Date: 1832
Cultivation of the tea plant, China. (1 of 4) Date: 1832
Woman gathering tea, China. 1857
Tea gathering in Japan. Date: 1881
Advertisement for Stones Ginger Wine. Date: 1893
Vineyard in Montmartre, Paris, France. Date: 1950s
Cartoon, Another Juliet. Trixie Southbank, who is tired of being an extra and wants to play Juliet, asks John Hollingshead (1827-1904), manager of the Gaiety Theatre, for a matinee slot
Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe
Advert, Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, ScotlandAdvert for Bell & Bieberstedt, Seed Growers, Leith, Scotland. 1905
1911 Census - John Bull being measuredFront cover of The Sphere, of John Bull being measured to see if his waist has grown from the decade before. Date: April 1911
Using Riley spray on greenfly in a vineyard, Algeria 1885Using the Riley insecticide spray on greenfly in a vineyard, Algeria. Date: 1885
Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s
