Midlands Collection (page 9)

Orton Gorse, Atherstone Hunt area, Warwickshire
View of Orton Gorse, in the Atherstone Hunt area, Warwickshire. Date: 1936

Copson Gorse, Atherstone Hunt area
View near the Copson Gorse covert, looking towards Three Pots, in the Atherstone Hunt area (Warwickshire and Leicestershire). Date: 1936

Oxhill, in the Warwickshire Hunt area
View from Oxhill, in the Warwickshire Hunt area, with a fox in the foreground and the hunt in pursuit. Date: 1936

Shuckburgh, in the Warwickshire Hunt area
View from Shuckburgh, showing a popular covert in the Warwickshire Hunt area. Date: 1936

Watergall, in the Warwickshire Hunt area
View from Watergall, showing a popular covert in the Warwickshire Hunt area, with a hunt in progress. Date: 1936

Countryside in the Grafton Hunt area, Northamptonshire
Countryside in the Grafton Hunt area of Northamptonshire -- a view over a fence. Date: 1936

Cottesmore Hunt area near Ranksborough, near Oakham
View of the Cottesmore Hunt area looking from Ranksborough, near Oakham, Leicestershire. Date: 1936

Hounds of the Grafton Hunt in action
Hounds of the Grafton Hunt (operating in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire) in action. Date: 1936

Clawson Thorns and Belvoir Hunt, Leicestershire
Clawson Thorns, a covert popular with the Belvoir Hunt, Leicestershire Date: 1936

Kilrue, horse belonging to Lord Lonsdale
Kilrue, a horse belonging to Lord Lonsdale, kept at Barleythorpe Hall near Oakham, his hunting lodge when he was MFH of the Cottesmore Hunt, Rutland (Leicestershire). Date: 1936

Miss Painter, horse belonging to Frank Freeman
Miss Painter, a horse belonging to the the huntsman Frank Freeman, member of the Pytchley Hunt, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Badby, part of Pytchley Hunt area, Northamptonshire
Badby, viewed from Kewnham, part of the Pytchley Hunt area, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Near Crick, part of Pytchley Hunt area, Northamptonshire
Scenery near Crick, part of the Pytchley Hunt area, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Pytchley Hunt from Harrington, Northamptonshire
Pytchley Hunt in action, viewed from Harrington, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Berrydale, covert of the Pytchley Hunt, Northamptonshire
Berrydale, a good covert used by the Pytchley Hunt, Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Illustration, The Corinthians at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, starting to join the Hunt. Date: 1832

Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5a at a Midlands airfield

WW2 Christmas card, Balloon Barrage, Coventry
WW2 Christmas card, The Balloon Barrage, Coventry. Date: 1940

W H Smith delivery van and driver, West Midlands
W H Smith & Son, Newsagents and Stationers, delivery van and driver, covering Walsall, Wolverhampton and Birmingham (West Midlands), Head Office in Strand, London. Date: circa 1910

Suffragette Votes for Women Crested Figurine
A two-sided head and shoulders figurine of a suffragette with Votes for Women on her bonnet. One side has the crest of Tettenhall (now in the West Midlands)

Suffrage March Stratford on Avon 1911. A womens suffrage procession in Stratford-upon-Avon with banners of the N.U.W.S.S from the West Midlands - Solihull, Olton, Shropshire and Birmingham

Neil Kenney Suffragette. Sarah Ellen (Nell) Kenney (1876-1953) portrait. Nell Kenney was elder sister of Annie, Jessie, Caroline and Jane

Group photo, Coventry G Scout Troop. Date: 1909

Soldier of the Leicestershire Regiment, All Hallows Eve, WW1
Soldier of the Leicestershire Regiment, All Hallows Eve, 31st October 1918. By A Cook. Date: 1918

Britain poster, Warwick Castle, by Walter Scott for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1948

Britain poster, Birmingham, Britains Second City, by Val Doone for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1940s

Britain poster, Droitwich Spa, Brine Baths
Britain poster, Droitwich Spa, St Andrews Brine Baths, by Val Doone for The Travel Association. Date: 1938

Britain poster, Leamington Spa, The Parade, by Zenas Carter for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1948

Britain poster, Leicester, 14th century Guildhall
Britain poster, Leicester, the 14th century Guildhall, by J Dixon-Scott for The Travel Association. Date: 1948

Cottages at Bridgend, Warwickshire. 1960s

Workmens dwellings damaged by the mass German airship raid
On the night of the 31st January 1916, Zeppelins of the German Navy attacked the Midlands causing extensive damage. Air raid sirens were used for the first time to warn the civilian population of

Philip Albert Muntz
Sir PHILIP ALBERT MUNTZ, first baronet Midlands manufacturer and statesman, MP for Warwickshire presumably the son of Philip Henry Muntz ? Date: 1839 - 1908

The Astorians - Birmingham dance band circa 1908

Calymene blumenbachii, locust trilobite
Specimens of locust tribolites (Calymene blumenbachii) from Silurian, Wenlock Limestone, Dudley, West Midlands

UNITED KINGDOM. ENGLAND. Stratford-Upon-Avon. Anne Hathaways farmhouse (wife of Shakespeare), called Hewland Farm in Shottery. Room

Worcester Cathedral. 1084-1375. UNITED KINGDOM. Worcester. Cathedral. Gothic art. Glass window

Balloon event, Charles Green, Leicester
Charles Green ballooning poster, advertising his 411th ascent in his Royal Victoria Balloon, from the Cricket Ground, Leicester. With special trains laid on from nearby cities. 27 June 1849

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Mashing Room
A corner of the Mashing Room at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The malt is drawn from the store-bins by a wonderful system of Archimedian screws...thence to

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Bowling Green
The Bowling Green at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The site had a number of sporting and leisure facilities for the brewery workers

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Kiln
A malt-drying kiln at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Henry Mitchell (1837 - 1914)
Henry Mitchell, Chairman of the Brewers, Mitchells and Butlers, based at the Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery
A view of the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, at Smethwick, West Midlands. The brewery closed in September 2002 Date: 1909

Small Heath Park in Birmingham, on the occasion of the Queens visit. Date: 1887

Leicester Great Fire, church destroyed
The most disastrous fire ever known in Leicester broke out on a Thursday evening in Queen Street, and a series of warehouses and large factories were destroyed

Sea Scouts on St Georges Day parade
Sea Scouts in Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire, taking part in a St Georges Day parade. circa 1960s

Halfords, Birmingham
The strikingly ugly modern Halfords Building, facing Brick Kiln Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Date: 1960s

British troops boarding a train, Western Front, WW1
British troops of a Midland Regiment boarding a train on the Western Front during the First World War, after a spell in the trenches of Flanders. Date: 1914-1918

Swimming medal, Water Polo Championship
Medal of the Midland Counties Amateur Swimming Association, awarded to the runners up in the Water Polo Championship. Featuring an outdoor swimming scene with a lifebelt design below. Date: 1909

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