Named Collection (page 12)

Montagu Pyke
MONTAGU PYKE - theatre manager and early cinematograph impre- -sario, who offered matinee patrons free cups of tea. A pub in Londons Charing X Road is named for him. Date: 1874 - ?

Saint Bernard of Menthon
SAINT BERNARD OF MENTHON or Montjoux, or the Alps, or Aosta - Italian monk and founder of hospices - the St Bernard Dog was named after him Date: 923 - 1008

Jane Shore Repents
Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV, performs public penance in the streets of London after being convicted of practising witchcraft 1483

First British motor car 1880
Henry J Lawsons patented design for a petroleum-powered motor car : if it was ever built, it was the first British motor car Date: patented 1880

Praise-God Barbon, also known as Barebones
PRAISE-GOD BARBON (1596 - 1679) (also known as BAREBONES) Leather-seller, religious enthusiast and MP, after whom the Barebones Parliament of 1653 was named Date: circa 1750

Gigue Anglaise Croisee
GIGUE ANGLAISE CROISEE (also known as the Sir Roger de Coverley ) performed by four ladies and their military friends Date: circa 1880

Merry Widow hat, Elizabeth Firth
Actress Elizabeth Firth (as Natalie, wife of Popoff) in Lehars operetta " The Merry Widow" wearing a plume laden hat - a style later named after the opera. 1907

DIVERS AND LUSITANIA
American scientist/diver J D Craig descends to a depth of 80 metres to photograph the wreck of the Lusitania, torpedoed during World War One Date: 1922

La Belle Sophie Date: circa 1900

Observator Broadsheet
Front cover of The Observator, a political broadsheet newspaper. Date: 1682

A Tango tea dance in Paris Date: 1914

Two aristocratic ladies getting into a brougham
Two aristocratic ladies about to enter a brougham, named after the statesman of that name -- it could have either two or four wheels, but usually two. Date: 1871

RENAULT 1955
FREGATE - encore plus brillantes ! Date: 1955

Lady on a bus
Although the last not least. Fat lady boarding a bus. Artist: Hylton Cock. (Cock was also an antique dealer who occupied the premises before World War 1 which is now The Taste of Raj on The Parade in)

Cadillac 1932
Advertisement for a green cadillac - a couple in evening dress and a chauffeur. Date: 1932

Cadillac 1935
Advertisement for the new green La Salle model from Cadillac Date: 1935

SPRAY AT MELBOURNE
Joshua Slocum rows the Spray out of Melbourne harbour, in the course of his solo circumnavigation Date: 1896

General Fremont and tree, Santa Cruz, California, USA
General Fremont, wife and daughter, posing in front of the tree named after him, in Big Tree Grove, Santa Cruz, California, USA. Date: late 1880s

Mother and two daughters having lunch near their beach hut
Mother and her two daughters having their lunch near their beach hut on a shingle beach. The neighbouring beach hut bears the rather lovely name Joyette. Date: circa 1920s

Powell-Cotton family with donkey
Hannah Powell-Cotton in her uniform as Commandant of the Birchington VAD, Major PHG Powell-Cotton and the familys Nanny Mrs Cook with three of the children (left to right)

National Childrens Home, Edgworth, Lancashire
National Childrens Home (NCH), Edgworth, Lancashire. The Barlow Memorial House, named after the homes benefactor. Date: circa 1900

Frenchay Girls Friendly Society Motor-Caravan the Princess Mary, Frenchay, Bristol, near Fishponds, Bristol County, England. Seen here at Guiseley

Four in pyjamas with cigarettes named in caption Date: 1928

Edwardian couple in field
Identified by the photographer as being taken at Alport in the Peak District of Derbyshire, the woman is named as E. Bramwell, believed to be Ellen Bramwell

Lady outside Hotel
Entitled E. Bramwell at Boarding House Hotel, this lady is believed to be Ellen Bramwell, daughter of a local postmistress near Bakewell

Entrance to Peveril Hotel, Dovedale
Named after a legendary local figure, the Peveril of the Peak Hotel is still in business today, little changed over 100 years after this photograph was taken Date: 1909

Edwardian man with fishing rod at Ellesmere, Shropshire is named as Sam Griffiths by the photographer. Date: 1907

Edwardian era house named as Oaklea, Davenport Park, Stockport, home of William Norfolk Battersby, hat manufacturer Date: 1906

Liqueur Galliano. Italian herbal liqueur created in 1896. Named after Giuseppe Galliano, hero of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Advertising Poster of 1902. Contemporary Art. Engraving

Paris Universal Exhibition (Exposition Universelle) of 1900. View of the viaducts with the Trottoir Roulant (Moving walkway) named Rue de l Avenir and the Decauville Electric Railway

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Kloof near Palapye
Black and white lantern Slide of Kloof near Palapye - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 13 Kloof near Palaype - The word Kloof (cf)

Jamaica - Orange Street, and Jubilee Market, Kingston
Slide showing a photograph Orange Street with people gathering at the market in the background named after Queen Victorias Jubilee

Switzerland - Lucerne and Pilatus
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Lucerne, Switzerland with Mount Pilatus in the background. Mount Pilatus was named after a local legend that Pontius Pilate was buried there

Spain - Madrid Espagne Porte Du Solcil
Colour slide showing a painting of a large castle gate, possibly a gate located in Madrid now the site of the square named Puerta del Sol or Gate of the Sun

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

Sydney, Australia - Hyde Park
Slide showing a photograph of Hyde Park in Sydney. The park was named after the original Hyde Park in London.. Boswell Collection. Slide number 26

Sydney, Australia - Macquarie Place
Slide showing a photograph of Macquarie Place, situated on the north side of Bridge Street and was originally part of the first Government House named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie

Sydney, Australia - Hunter Street
Slide showing a photograph Hunter Street in Sydney. Hunter Street is a cross street in the Central Business District of Sydney, named after Governor Hunter, the second Governor of New South Wales

Visit to Madeira - The bay of Biscay - Evening
Black and white lantern slide of the bay of Biscay in the evening - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection

Suffragette Wild Women at Greyfriars Magnet Library. Suffragettes wreak havoc at Greyfriars School in a screamingly funny complete school story of Harry Wharton & Co

W H Goss coffee cup and saucer
W. H. Goss coffee cup and saucer. Transfers show flags of all the Allies, all named, c. 1915. Very good condition. Commemorative Ware

Portrait of a French sailor wearing French naval cap with named cap band Le Vengeance. He is smoking a pipe. Julien T Felt (1874-1933)

WWI album of Lieutenant-Colonel P Syrcold
A First World War album containing 41 photographs dated between 1914 and 1916, belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel P. SYRCOLD of the 1st/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, 48th Division

Pickering Girls Home, Hull, Yorkshire
The Pickering Girls Home at Hull, opened in 1915 by the Waifs and Strays Society. The home was named after its benefactor Christopher Pickering. Date: Circa 1921

Thames at Charing X
The Thames, looking eastward from the Strand Bridge (which will be re-named Waterloo Bridge any day now) Date: 1816

Israel Tel Aviv
Rothschild Avenue, named in honour of the banking family who did much to further the establishing of a Jewish state in Palestine. Date: 1925

France Mont Blanc
Distant view of the aptly named mountain, seen from above Sallanche. Date: 1835

Bastille Demolition Plan
Five years before the Revolution, it is proposed to demolish the Bastille prison and replace it with a public square named for Louis XVI. It could have changed history ! Date: 1784

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