Leek Collection

Staffordshire County Asylum, Cheddleton, near Leek
The Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1898 on Cheadle Road, Cheddleton, near Leek. It was later known as Staffordshire Mental Hospital, then St Edwards Mental Hospital

Leek Show winners
Two prize winners at a Leek Show displaying their impressive vegetables alongside a couple of equally impressive mantel clocks, presumably their prizes

Rudyard Hotel, near Leek, Staffordshire in April 1908. A group pose outsde the front door of the Hotel in a view which is virtually identical even today. Date: 1908

Leek early 1900's

Leek Derby Street early 1900s

Derby Street, Leek early 1900's

Leek Cattle Market early 1900's

Bath Street, Leek early 1900's

Leek Bath Street Cawdrey Buildings early 1900s

1840s Victorian Map of Staffordshire

Stationery, M Garding & Sons, Market Place, Leek - plumbers, glaziers, gasfitters, decorative painters, electric light and bell fitters. Date: 1913

Blue leek, Allium caeruleum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweets Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854

Wild garlic, Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon, and sand leek, Allium scorodoprasum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Vegetables, Plantes potageres. Tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus, salad burnet, Poterium sanguisorba, leek, Allium porrum, garden sorrel, Rumex acetosa, and spinach leaf, Spinacia oleracea

Round-headed leek or ball-head onion, Allium sphaerocephalum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Round-headed leek or purple-flowered garlic, Allium rotundum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Sand leek or rocambole, Allium scorodoprasum. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Wild leek, Allium ampeloprasum (Allium porrum). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Victory onion or Alpine leek, Allium victorialis. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Nodding onion, Allium cernuum
Nodding onion, ladys leek or bowed-umbelled garlic, Allium cernuum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical

Curtis British Entomology Plate 697
Diptera: Phasia speciosa Curtis = Phasia obesa [Plant: Allium scorodoprasum (Sand Leek)] Date: 1824-39

House Leek (Sempervivum Funckii) - a close in view of the flower, outside. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Cartoon, Growing vegetables, WW1
Cartoon, Growing vegetables. Two fashionable young women inspect a vegetable garden, and discuss the use of nitrate as a fertilizer -- the same stuff they use to make beauty spots! Date: 1917

Caricature, Lord Salisbury and W E Gladstone, rival political leaders -- Lord Salisbury eats the leek (representing a parliamentary amendment). 1881

The Village, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire
The Village, Leek Wootton, Warwick, near Guys Cliffe, Warwickshire, England. Showing the Anchor Public House Date: 1910s

Masbadges - 2. The Welsh Guards-Goat
Masbadges! Regimental mascots and badges in one. II - The Welsh Guards-Goat. Date: 1918

British coins, two Elizabeth II sixpences for 1966 and 1967, with a design on the reverse representing England (rose), Scotland (thistle), Wales (leek) and Ireland (shamrock). Date: 1966-1967

Allium ampeloprasum, broadleaf wild leek
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

(1) tarragon (2) salad burnet (3) garden leek (4) sorrel (5)
Plate 9 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 12, Hort. Atlas, 1870. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Plantes potageres de divers usages

Small girl with prize winning celery
A little girl grins with delight as she is dwarfed by some gigantic celery she is holding, along with a first prize certificate, presumably for said celerys impressive proportions. c.1947

Railway Sleeper - Cardiff Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Welsh rugby fan at Cardiff Station, delighted that Wales beat France 23-11! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Welshman & Goat
Portrait of a Welshman wearing a hat with a cocked brim trimmed with a leek. He sits with his pipe and port and his goat

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