Renown Collection

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DECIMUS BURTON 1800-1881
DECIMUS BURTON Achieved early renown with his design for the Coliseum in Regents Park. Later laid out Hyde Park and designed the Palm House at Kew with Turner. Date: 1800 - 1881

HMS Renown, Duke & Duchess of York on visit to Antipodes
Fold out cross section of HMS Renown, the battle-cruiser on which the Duke and Duchess of York travelled to Australia and New Zealand for their tour in 1927. 1927

Reconstructed Warships back in Service. Date: 1939

Visit of Edward, Prince of Wales to Japan (3 / 3) Date: 1922
Visit of Edward, Prince of Wales to Japan (3/3) Date: 1922

G Mario Sammarco (1868-1930). Born in Palermo, Sicily. Operatic baritone of worldwide renown. Date: circa 1912

Hans Richter (1843-1916). Born in Raab, Hungary. Musical director and conductor of world renown. Date: circa 1912

Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931). Born near Melbourne, Australia. Operatic singer of worldwide renown. Date: circa 1912

Cleofonte Campanini (1860-1919). A native of Parma, Italy. Orchestal conductor of worldwide renown, trained as a violinist. Date: circa 1912

1886 Savage Steam Powered Fun Fair Carousel. A 38ft hree abreast 12 section steam gallopers powered by Savage No. 664 Lady Golightly steam Engine

Duke of York - Order of the Equatorial Shave
The Duke and Duchess of York left London on 6th January 1927 to head to Australia to open the new Parliament Buildings at Canberra They sailed on HMS Renown, a battle-cruiser

Fall - Bulldog - 1939
RENOWN Date: 1939

Royal Albert, 131 Flag of Vice-Admiral Lyons
Ships - Terrible, Valorous, Royal Albert, Renown, Orion, Hannibal, Caesar, Diadem, Brunswick, Euryalis, Arrogant, Racoon. Date: 1858

H. M.s Renown
H.M.S Renown by A.F.D. Bannister, 1937. Date: 1937

The Royal Cruise - Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
The Royal Cruise on HMS Renown (Renown-class battlecruiser) - (inset right) Prince Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI)

Prince of Wales in his cabin on HMS Renown
Our Popular Prince. The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor) pictured in his cabin on board HMS Renown in which he set sail on his tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1920

Battlecruiser HMS Renown, . Commemorative card Date: 1920s

Battlecruiser HMS Renown, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Date: 1929

HMS Renown, British battleship
HMS Renown, British pre-Dreadnought battleship. Date: circa 1906

Prince of Wales on tour, 1920
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, pictured enjoying a moment of relaxation while out tarpon fishing at Colon during his royal tour of 1920

HMS Renown
The Battlecruiser HMS Renown passing the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, entering the Grand Harbour in Malta in the 1930s Date: 1930s

HMS Argus (I49) in habour in 1918, painted in camouflage
HMS Argus (I49) in habour in 1918, painted in dazzle camouflage, with a Renown class battlecruiser in the distance. Date: 1918

HMS Repulse with torpedo boats and submarine, WW1
HMS Repulse, British Renown-class battlecruiser, launched 1916, served briefly during the First World War, served during the Second World War, sunk off Malaya 1941

Beauty Spots and Places of Historican Renown
Cover illustration for Beauty Spots and Places of Historican Renown in Great Britain and Ireland, a handbook for travellers, by Thomas Cook & Son

Bystander front cover: Prince of Wales
John Bull bidding farewell, to Edward, Prince of Wales, as he embarks H.M.S. Renown for his royal tour of India in 1921

Lapithes V Centaurs
A people of Thessaly, they won renown by overcoming the centaurs at the marriage feast of Briseis

Saint Vincent Ferrier
SAINT VINCENT FERRIER (or FERRER)Spanish Dominican who had a stormy career but won renown as a phenomenally successful preacher on the theme of penance

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