Stanley Collection

The Melton Breakfast by Sir Francis Grant
A rare mezzotint of High Leicestershire Lights of the past enjoying breakfast before a hunt. From left to right are Massey Stanley, the Earl of Wilton, Count Matuszevic, Lord Gardner

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of the explorers Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron

HMS Minerva at Stanley harbour
HMS Minerva (F45), a Leander-class Frigate of the Royal Navy, at Stanley harbour in 1984, at anchor for crew R&R in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

Map of Africa illustrating travels of explorers
A map of Africa which illustrates the travels of Livingstone, Stanley and Cameron. Date: 19th Century

Stephen Wards sketches of celebrities, 1960
Through a doctors eyes: a page of celebrities drawn by osteopath and gifted amateur artist Doctor Stephen Ward(1912-1963), as featured in The Illustrated London News in 1960

Walton Heath Golf Club, 1932
Members of Walton Heath Golf Club, Surrey, 1932. Date: 1932

Accrington Stanley FC football team 1936. Back row: Kerr, Robinson, Wilson, Gill, Ivill, Treanor, Hacking (Manager), Brennand (Trainer)

Sir Stanley Spencer, c. 1926
Photograph of Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), the English painter, standing in front of his painting The Resurrection, c.1926

First English Civil War: Siege of Lathom House, 1644
Royalist stronghold Lathom House in Lancashire defies Parlimentarian pressure and raises the royal standard. The ensuing siege lasted three months, but was eventually lifted

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (1867-1947)
Portrait of Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; the Conservative politician and Prime Minister

A Selection of Bicycles, 1888
Engraving of a selection of bicycles on display at the Stanley Show of 1888. In the centre is The Coventry Machinists Companys Coolie Cycle Cab built for the Sultan of Morocco and at bottom left

Westminster Bridge and Parliament on a Christmas card
Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben, inside a Christmas card from Stanley Baldwin (at that time British Prime Minister). (2 of 2) Date: 1928

Another Derby Derby?
Caricatures of well known personalities of the turf caricatured by Mel before the Epsom Derby of 1928. Clockwise from top left - Sir Abe Bailey, owner of Advocate, Lord Dewar, owner of Sunny Trace

The Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

The Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club
Sketch showing members of the Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club, including Sir Stanley Jackson, their captain. Date: 1933

A Bristol Boxkite under test at Filton. Stanley White stands with his back to the camera wearing a flat cap and long overcoat. The site is now covered by the Filton Works Lab and Odeon

Hm Stanley / Cdv Photo
HENRY MORTON STANLEY British journalist and explorer, in the clothes he wore to meet Livingstone in 1871

James Gordon Bennett Jr
JAMES GORDON BENNETT (JUNIOR) American editor : established New York Evening Telegram, sent Stanley to find Livingstone and financed various other expeditions

Captain E N Frankland Bell, VC
Captain E.N. Frankland Bell, V.C. 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - Thiepval, 1st July 1916. Date: 1916

Woman police officer Annie Matthews, Hyde Park, London
Woman police officer Annie Matthews (nickname Big Ben), on duty at the childrens lido in Hyde Park, London. Before joining the Met Police, Annie worked as a housemaid at Glamis Castle in Scotland

Stanley Morrison
STANLEY MORRISON Typographer and type designer Date: 1889 - 1967

Bowes Bridge Railway Engine Shed, Tanfield Railway, Stanley, Durham, England. Date: 1920s

The Queen presents the F. A. Cup to Newcastle
The Queen hands the F.A. Cup to the Newcastle captain, Jimmy Scoular, watched by the Secretary of the Football Association, Sir Stanley Rous. B

RMS Titanic sFirst Class passenger Stanley May letter
RMS TITANIC: First Class passenger Stanley May onboard letter written April 11th 1912 at 11am. The letter talks of the New York incident and calls the ship a floating palace, written on two sides

1953 FA Cup Final
At Wembley Stadium, the Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh and FA Secretary Sir Stanley Rous either side of her, presents a Cup-winners medal to Stanley Matthews of Blackpool

Pilot Stanley Hausner saying goodbye to his wife
Stanley Hausner, pilot who went missing during his flight between New Jersey and Warsaw. Picked up by British steamer, the Circe Shell

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Barbara Ann Scott
A waxwork at Madame Tussauds of the Canadian Ice Skater Barbara Ann Scott is dressed for display, seated before a model of England Football legend Sir Stanley Matthews

Cambridge Uni Girton Lib
Cambridge: Girton College Stanley Library Date: 1913

Hercules at Sunset ? RAF Stanley
A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hercules C.1P taking-off into the sunset at RAF Stanley in the Falkland Islands October 1984 Date: 1984

Music cover, Puss! Puss! Puss! Comedy song waltz, words by Robert Hargreaves and Stanley J Damerell, music by Tolchard Evans. 1932

Cricketer The Honourable Frank Stanley Jackson, *, . Born 1870 - Allerton Hall, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire - Played for Cambridge University, Yorkshire and England Date: 1897

The Rescue of Zaidi; H. M. Stanleys Anglo-American Expeditio
Engraving showing the rescue of Zaidi from the top of a waterfall during Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Anglo-American expedition of 1874-1877

The Earl of Derbys Cabinet, 1867
Engraving showing the Cabinet of then Prime Minister, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)

Liv. & Stanley Meet
Dr Livingstone is found by H M Stanley at Ujiji - Dr Livingstone, I presume ?

Stanelys Relief Party
H.M.STANLEY & EMIN PASHA with Stanleys staff, including Dr Parke, Vizitelli, Pere Girard & Cassati

Edward Viii / P Journal 36
AMOUR OU COURONNE ? EDWARD VIII makes his choice, with a little help from Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister

Gunfight over Dinner Date: 1954

DAN-AIR de Havilland Comet 4C G-APDN at Gatwick Airport. DAN-AIR started life as Davies and Newman Airlines after the two founders

Harrier at RAF Stanley
Paul Salisbury standing near British Aerospace Harrier GR.3 (Phase 6) L on the 1453 Flight pan, RAF Stanley in the latter half of 1984 in the Falkland Islands Date: 1984

Poster advertising Nicholas Nickleby film, Ealing Studios, produced by Michael Balcon, directed by Cavalcanti, screenplay by John Dighton, starring Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway

Andy Newman and Coastel 2, which was located between RAF Stanley and Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

Lady Maureen Helen Stanley (1900-1942, nee Vane-Tempest-Stewart), daughter of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, married Oliver Stanley, Conservative politician, in 1920. Date: circa 1920

RAF Vulcan B Mk. 2 - RAF Waddington (Black Buck 1)
Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan B Mk.2 XM607 from the Waddington Bomb Wing at RAF Finningley. XM607 carried out the Black Buck 1 air-raid on Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands on 30 April - 1 May

Black Buck bomb crater
One of the Operation Black Buck1 1, 000 lber bomb craters, in the bondu surrounding Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands. Date: 1984

Coastel 2 ? RAF Stanley
The widely detested Coastel 2 near RAF Stanley, with the much more favourably looked on NaFI bar to the right.(At one stage)

The Man from Mexico, Grand Theatre, Oldham
The Man from Mexico, a comedy at the Grand Theatre, Oldham, previously at the Strand Theatre, London. 1911

Victorian advertisment for a bicycle retailer in Burnley

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