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The Melton Breakfast by Sir Francis GrantA rare mezzotint of High Leicestershire Lights of the past enjoying breakfast before a hunt. From left to right are Massey Stanley, the Earl of Wilton, Count Matuszevic, Lord Gardner
Pork Pie Shop 1960SYe Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, renowned for its Melton Mowbray pork pies, named after the town of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England
Railway Sleeper - Melton Mowbray StationThe Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Hunstman taking a nap with his foxhound at Melton Mowbray Station! Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Cluniac MonkCluniac monk of Melton Mowbray, England, with his cowl
Margery Crandon 7Spirit photo of controversial American medium Margery, with alleged spirit faces. Few today would attempt a defence of Margery - writes investigator J Gordon Melton
Pe Class / Melton MobrayPhysical Exercise - Fitness class in progress at Sarson School for Girls, Melton Mowbray
English Cluniac MonkA CLUNIAC MONK of Melton Mowbray, England, depicted without his cowl
Melton Mowbray Thorpe End early 1900s
Thorpe End, Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray Cheapside probably 1940s
Cheapside, Melton Mowbray 1930's
The Melton HuntReproduction of a painting by Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878) of the Melton Hunt. Grant went on to be a celebrated portraitist. Date: circa 1830s
Arrest of one of the Illustrated London Newss special artists, Melton Prior, at Ragusa (Dubrovnik) by Austrian police where he was detained a short time. Date: 1875
Melton Mowbray Hunt Ball, 1920View of the Melton Mowbray Hunt Ball, in the Corn Exchange, Melton Mowbray, 1920. Date: 1920
Funeral of William Ewart Gladstone, four times British Prime Minister. Placing the body in the train at Broughton Hall Station. Date: 1898
In search of Dacoits. Pencil sketch by Melton Prior, 1885 (c). Interview between Capt Woodward and a native chief. Associated with the 3rd Burma War. Date: circa 1855
Boer War ReportingBOER WAR : War correspondent Melton Prior making sketches of the fighting at Nicholsons Nek, 30th October 1899. Date: 30th October 1899
Advert for Ch. Lalanne womens hairstyles 1909Elegant hairstyles for the evening wear, with accessories placed on one side and at back. 1909
Illustration, The Corinthians at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, starting to join the Hunt. Date: 1832
Bridge over the River Wreak, Frisby on the Wreake, Melton Mowbray, near Asfordby, Leicestershire, England. Date: 1905
Royal wedding: Princess Victoria Melita & Prince Ernst LudwigThe royal wedding of Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Prince Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse. Queen Victoria embraces the bride after the wedding ceremony. Date: 1894
Melton Mowbray, LeicestershireThe Club House at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, famed for its meat pies -- there was a famous hunt here in the days when foxhunters hunted foxes
Special artists working for The Illustrated London NewsPortraits of Melton Prior and H.C. Seppings appear in the Illustrated London News with their sketches in the background; the title reads, Our Special Artists in Africa
Melton PriorThe English artist and war correspondent for the Illustrated London News from the early 1870s until 1904. He was noted for his ability to sketch scenes quickly
Death of the Prince ImperialSketch of spot where the Princes body was found. By special artist Melton Prior. Panoramic view of the plain where the Princes body was found
The Battle of Ulundi. Inside the squareScene of battle from the British position, inside the square repulsing the Zulus. British casualities were light, but the Zulus were decimated by the use of Gatling guns and the Martini-Henry
Illustrations of the Zulu war. Natives in a farmhouse makingFrom a sketch by ILN special artist, Melton Prior. Zulu natives kneading dough with European children and a woman looking on. One female African is holding a chubby European baby
Sketch by ILN special artist, Melton Prior. British troops in tropical helmets survey the destruction by fire of the house of Cetshwayo, King of the Zulus, at the end of the Zulu wars
Melton FrontispieceTitle-page of Astrologaster, or the Figure-Caster showing a client visiting an astrologer in order to learn his prospects, including Deaths and Nativities