Nursery Collection (#27)

Hot Cross Buns
Hot cross buns! Old woman runs! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! Date: 1913

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses, and all the kings men, Cannot set Humpty Dumpty up again Date: circa 1912

Mother Goose Rides Goose
Old Mother Goose actually riding a goose to the astonishment of the children

Jack Sprat / Mother Goose
Jack Sprat and his wife

Miss Muffet / Mother Goose
Litle Miss Muffet eating her curds and whey unaware that there is an enormous spider, with a hat, creeping up behind her

Jack and Jill / Rackham
JACK and JILL fall down the hill Date: 1913

Street trader mending chairs
If I had as much money as I could spend, I never would cry old chairs to mend; old chairs to mend, old chairs to mend; I never would cry old chairs to mend

A Frog He Would a-wooing Go, heigho, says rowley, whether his mother would let him or no. With a Rowley powley, gammon and spinach, heigho, says Anthony Rowley! Date: circa 1874

Old Mother Hubbard: Dame made a curtsy and dog mad a bow
She went to the tailors to buy him a coat, but when she came back he was riding a goat. The dame made a curtsy, the dog made a bow; the dame said, " your servant" the dog said

Old Mother Hubbard: Dancing, reading news, wearing clothes

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir; yes, sir, three bags full: one for the master, one for the dame, and one for the little boy that lives in our lane

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 4 of 8
and took them right away

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 6 of 8
and beat the Knave full score

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott
Front cover of The Queen of Hearts illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, showing the Queen of Hearts walking upon a carpet of playing cards and proudly displaying one of her famous jammy treats

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 8 of 8
and vowed he d steal no more

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 7 of 8
The Knave of Hearts brought back the tarts

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 3 of 8
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 2 of 8
all on a summers day

Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon

Two small children with teddy bears in a nursery
Two small children with their teddy bears in a nursery, standing in front of a barred window

Tea for Two by Muriel Dawson
Two young children sit at a trestle table and enjoy a snack, possibly elevenses or supper

Ride a rocking horse by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Two little boys ride a rocking horse rather energetically. The one at the back appears to be hanging on for dear life. Date: c.1925

Ring-a-Roses by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Three little girls have fun holding hands and dancing round in a circle in a game of ring-a-roses

Black. Three Blind Mice. Charles Folkard. c. 1923. jpg
Three forlorn blind mice looking rather down on their luck

Caravan interior / W H Robinson
Interior of the family caravan, including a library, a dining room and day nursery. Please note: Credit must appear as (c)

Tarabya - Turkey
A very interesting view of Tarabya (Therapia) showing the market garden known as L Etablissement Horticole de Therapia. The British Consulate is on the top of the hill

Wartime Nursery for refugee children, Earls Court, London
A nursery for the children of refugees set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court during the First World War

Childrens Carnival Mephistopheles and Bo-peep
Two children dressed as Mephistopheles and Little Bo-Peep make their way along a garden path to a party, using a lantern to light the way

Children at Alexandra Orphanage, Haverstock Hill, London
Nursery children playing ring-a-roses at the Alexandra Orphanage on Maitland Park Road, Haverstock Hill, North London

Ups-a Daisy
A sensible provision now made on some of the nursery slopes, whereby the plump skier may, with the minimum of effort, regain his or her feet after a fall

Olga of Russia with her nurse
Grand Princess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895-1918), eldest child of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, granddaughter of Princess Alice and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria

French Seed Catalogue
Cover of a French seed catalogue for Vilmorin- Andrieux et Cie, Paris

Prison babies in chairs and cots in the day nursery
Prison babies at play in the day nursery. Holloway Prison, a women only prison where babies who are either born there or being under three months when their mothers were jailed are cared for in

Babys cot by the side of its mothers bed
Prison babies at play in the day nursery in Holloway, a women only prison where babies who were either born there or were under three months old when their mothers were jailed were cared for in

Day nursery in Holloway prison
A day nursery in Holloway, a women only prison where babies who were either born there or were under three months when their mothers were jailed were cared for in prison

Canberra: tourist class playroom
Colour illustration depicting the tourist class playroom for young travellers on board P&Os superliner Canberra around the time of her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in 1961

Children / Nursery C1870
Three children play in the nursery while mother or nanny sits sewing by the window

Lady Queen Anne
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, she sits in the sun, as fair as a lily, as white as a swan; I send you three letters, so pray you read one

Children in Nursery 19C
Victorian children in their nursery

Girls & Dogs at Bedtime
Four little girls in the nursery at bedtime, playing with their two dogs - they re not going to get to sleep at this rate

Woman who Lived in Shoe
The old woman who lived in a shoe, had so many children she didn t know what to do. Luckily, the shoe was the size of a house

The [Prince s] Nursery or Nine Months after [marriage]

Sneeze on Monday
If you sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger; sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger; sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter; sneeze on a Thursday, something better

Banbury Cross 1950S
The Banbury Cross as described in the nursery rhyme Ride a Cock Horse. The original cross was destroyed by puritans in 1642. Date: 1950s

Old Woman Lived in Shoe
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children, she didn t know what to do

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 5 of 8
The King of Hearts called for those tarts

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 1 of 8
The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts... She swots up on some pre-cookery reading... The Art of Making Tarts and the History of Jams

MARY MARY
How does my ladys garden grow ? - with shells... Canterbury bells... and pretty maids all in a row

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