Lending Collection

Lending Library Ticket
Ticket for G Hitchcock, Williams & Co Young Mens Library. Book: S58 has been borrowed for 7 days from a private lending library possibly at a booksellers

Corner Shop, Snack Bar, Foyles Library, Walton, Essex
The Corner Shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, which sold tobacco, confectionery and all things for an enjoyable day on the beach

London Trade Card - Francis Nobles Circulating Library, Otways Head, King Street, Covent Garden. 18th century

Greetings card design - Lending a hand. A little girl standing on a fold-out step to hang up the sprig of Christmas holly, whilst her pet black scottie dog stands attentively offering assistance

Comic postcard, Woman at a lending library Date: 20th century

Captioned Marquess of Queensbury, John Sholto Douglas
Vintage 19th century photograph: captioned on the back as Marquess of Queensbury. John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 - 31 January 1900), was a Scottish nobleman

Valentine postcard, Man borrows money from his girlfriend Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Seaside Lending Library. 1923

Russian Navy lends aid after the Messina Earthquake
Russian Navy lends aid after the terrible Messina Earthquake, Sicily, Italy. The devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 which measured 7.5 on the richter scale claimed 100

WW2 - London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Driver on the farm
WW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort

Building in Brook Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, with a helpful offer: Money Lent On Everything. Date: 1969

Scarborough Library
The public lending library at Scarborough. Date: 1813

Battersea Mobile Library
The interior of Battersea mobile library in the 1950s with various keen bookworms browsing the shelves and having their chosen books stamped by the librarian. Date: 1950s

Kent Mobile Library
A mobile library van making a stop in an unidentified Kentish village, late 1940s-early 1950s. Date: c.1950

Edward Hopkins
EDWARD HOPKINS member of a prominent money- lending family, held various positions including Master of the Revels in Ireland

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