Raleigh Collection

Cut-away Diagram of the Tower of London, 1913
Cut-away illustration showing a number of the rooms of the Tower of London, including the Chapel of St. John, the Armouries and the cells of Guy Fawkes, Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh

Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s

Edmund Spenser reading to Raleigh
Edmund Spenser reading the first part of his epic poem The Faerie Queen to Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

Ark Royal - Elizabethan Naval ship
Built by Raleigh, and named the Ark Raleigh, purchased by Elizabeth and renamed Ark Royal (and subsequently Anne Royal Date: 1587

Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet
Sir Walter Raleigh lays his cloak at Queen Elizabeth Is feet to prevent her from getting muddy feet. The fanciful, romantic tale of the cloak

Poster, Humber, the Aristocrat of all Bicycles. A product of Raleigh Industries, Nottingham. Showing a couple watching sailing boats. Date: circa 1950

Poster, Rudge, Britains best bicycle, a product of Raleigh Industries, Nottingham. Date: circa 1950

Poster, Robin Hood Cycles. The greatest value in cycling -- a product of Raleigh Industries, Nottingham. Date: circa 1950

Victorian Scrap, Queen Elizabeth I and Raleigh
Victorian Scrap, Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. circa 1880s

Poster, Rudge Cycles, made by Raleigh Industries of Nottingham. With a bowing Sir Walter Raleigh, Elizabethan courtier

Raleigh Three-Wheeler car Camping on Dartmoor
Raleigh 3-wheeler car, the Raleigh Safety Seven (introduced in 1933) taken on a camping jaunt onto Dartmoor. Raleigh shut down their Motor Department in 1935 Date: circa 1934

Hotel Sir Walter Raleigh - North Carolina, USA Date: circa 1930s

Sir Walter Raleigh
SIR WALTER RALEIGH adventurer and historian Date: 1554 - 1618

Raleigh Smoking
Sir Walter Raleigh, credited with bringing the tobacco habit to Britain, enjoys his pipe

Raleighs Pipes
His pipes and tobacco pouch

Sir Walter Raleigh laying his cape over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich. She wears a bonnet, huge lace ruff collar, puff sleeves and hoop dress

Merthyr Tydfil boys playing
Two boys play on a bench above the steel works (now closed) at Merthyr Tydfil. Vintage black and white image. First published The Sunday Times c1989 1989

Walter Raleigh - Explorer

3 HP Raleigh motorcycle, early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

A Bookcase in a Raleigh Furniture catalogue, number 1022. Date: circa 1948

Argosy Productions film, Ringing the Changes, featuring Henry Edwards and Margot Landa, based on the novel Jix by R Raleigh King, directed by Leslie Hiscott Date: 1929

Poster, Raleigh bicycles - for ease in running ride an all steel Raleigh Date: circa 1900

Poster, Ride a Raleigh, the all-steel bicycle - Effortless. Date: circa 1925

Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin making
Trades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8

King Henry VIII in Victorian hunting outfit on horseback
King Henry VIII in Victorian hunting outfit with a shepherds crook on horseback chasing a Catholic monk fleeing with the church gold. Parody of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, circa 1540

Letter from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne
Letter, 7 Dec 1883 from William Prime Marshall to Walter Raleigh Browne accompanying an explanation of James Watts Sculpture copying machinery (eidograph) - see BAW/14/001-2. Date: circa 1809

Hayes Barton, East Budleigh, Devon -- childhood home of Sir Walter Raleigh. Date: circa 1908

Sir Walter Raleigh in Tower of London
Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 - 1618), English gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. Raleigh imprisoned in the Tower of London

Poster, Rudge, Britains Best Bicycle, a product of Raleigh Industries Ltd, Nottingham. circa 1950

State Capitol and Grounds, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Date: circa 1930s

RALEIGH IN VIRGINIA
Walter Raleigh depicted landing in Virginia (although in fact he did not) Date: 1584

RALEIGH LAYS CLOAK
SIR WALTER RALEIGH sacrifices his new cloak so that his queens feet will not get muddied. Date: 1554 - 1618

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1554 - 1618) - spreads his cloak before Elizabeth I

The Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh, Hayes Barton, Devon. Date: 1905

Janet Lyle wearing a silk culotte suit from Annacat
Janet Lyle, who with her business partner, Maggie Keswick, ran Annacat, the South Kensington boutique favoured by some of the smartest young women of London including Lady Herbert

Colmans Mustard throughout English history
History and the Mustard Pot - promotional booket for Colmans Mustard, looking at the role of Colmans throughout English history

Lady on a 1930 Raleigh motorcycle
Lady poses for photograph on a 1930 Raleigh 500cc Twin Port motorcycle

BRY, Theodor de (1528-1598). Ritual friendship dance in the indian Village Secota or Secoton. Illustration in fida tamen narratio Admiranda of commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae

HMS Raleigh, British heavy cruiser, crew members
HMS Raleigh, British Hawkins class heavy cruiser -- three crew members on deck at Plymouth. circa 1920s

Raleigh / Boy / Storyteller
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator as a young boy, listening to a sailors exciting tales of the sea

Sir Walter Raleigh, English writer and explorer
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh (c1554-1618), English gentleman, writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. circa 1930

Cheer, Boys! Cheer by Augustus Harris, Raleigh and Hamilton
Cheer, Boys! Cheer by Sir Augustus Harris (18 March 1852 22 June 1896), Cecil Raleigh (27 January 1856 10 November 1914) and Henry Hamilton (c. 1853 4 September 1918)

The Best of Luck, by Hamilton, Raleigh and Collins
The Best of Luck by Henry Hamilton, Cecil Raleigh and Arthur Collins. First produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, September 1916

George earl of Totnes
George Carew, earl of Totnes (1555 - 1629) courtier, statesman, soldier, diplomat, administrator : took a strong line in Ireland; a friend of Raleigh

Raleigh (Van Hove)
sir WALTER RALEIGH Date: 1554 - 1618

Raleigh (Anon)
sir WALTER RALEIGH Date: 1554 - 1618

Raleigh and Cloak
Sir WALTER RALEIGH depicted in the act of laying his cloak over a puddle so that his friend Queen Elizabeth shall not get her royal footwear muddied Date: 1554 - 1618

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