Stokes Collection

The wassail bowl
Locals gather round to drink hot mulled cider out of the wassail bowl. Artists: Alan Wright & Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Smoking the Bees / Stokes
Smoking the bees

Juan Fernandez firecrown, Sephanoides fernandensis (female). Critically endangered. (Stokes hummingbird, Trochilus stokesii)

Blackheath Rugby Team: Latter, Carpmael, Stokes, Lohden, Spurling, Tarbutt, Dixon, Rigby, Finlinson, De Winton, Fegan, Maud, Thomson, Harris, Maturin, Cope, Cattell, Wilson. 1890s

Last of the Charlies -- watchman at Brixton Hill, London
The last of the Charlies (the traditional nickname for watchmen). Seen here is Mr R Stokes at his watchmans box, 160 Brixton Hill, South London, well equipped with a truncheon

Beagles
The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound and was developed primarily for hunting hare. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Stag Hounds
The Staghound was a pack hound used to hunt red deer. It is now extinct. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Pointer
The Pointer is a medium-sized breed of pointing dog developed in England. It is used to find game for hunters. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Otter Hounds
The Otterhound is a rough-coated hound with an imposing head, originally bred for hunting. It has great strength and a strong body with long striding steps

Fox Hounds
The foxhound is a type of large hunting hound bred for strong hunting instincts, a keen sense of smell, and their bark, energy, drive, and speed. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Borzoi
The Borzoi or Russian Hunting Sighthound is a Russian breed of hunting dog of sighthound type, formerly used for wolf hunting. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Basset Hounds
The Basset is a scent hound that was originally bred for the purpose of hunting hare. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Basset Hound
The Basset is a scent hound that was originally bred for the purpose of hunting hare. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Advert, A Stokes & Co, Birmingham Advert, A Stokes & Co, Birmingham
Advert, A. Stokes & Co, Birmingham and London, wood and metal screws. 1904

Bake-house in a Cornish Village by Adrian Stokes
A bake-house in a Cornish village. Loaves are carefully weighed before the baker shovels them into the oven. Date: 1888

Newtown Football Team, Wales: Lloyd, Harper, Goodwin, Townsend, Worthington, Stokes, Morgan, Pryce-Jones, Pryce-Jones, Mytton, Parry, Chapman, Tucker. 1890s

Sir WIlfred Stokes
Sir Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927) - Between 1915 and 1918 Stokes worked for the inventions branch of the Ministry of Munitions

Debutante dress show 1939
Society girls as amateur mannequins at Dorothy Laws dress show in March 1939. From left to right, the group shows Miss Anne Nettlefold, Miss Joan O Malley, Miss Muriel Cunningham, Miss Pamela Stokes

An extended African-American family round the fire Date: circa 1890s

HRH George, The Prince of Wales - The Volunteer Stoker
HRH George, The Prince of Wales (1865-1936) - as a Volunteer Stoker! The photograph was taken in 1909 on board the HMS Indomitable with the Officers and Members of his suite

Robert Morley and Michael North on a train
Robert Morley (1908-1992), British actor, and Michael North (Charles Edward Fletcher Stokes, 1902-1960), BBC producer and light music composer

Stoking the fire before heading to bed on Christmas Eve
A young boy in nightshirt and nightcap stokes the fire with his Mother before heading to bed on Christmas Eve, to dream of the joy, fun and raft of surprises the morrow may bring... Date: 1912

Zeebrugge, landing on the mole, 1918
" The men were magnificent" : landing on the mole from HMS Vindictive. The story of the landing on Zeebrugge Mole was vividly told in the account issued by the Admiralty

Royal Academy Selection Committee, 1929
The Royal Academy Selection Committee choosing the pictures for the summer exhibition in 1929. Photograph taken at Burlington House during the work of selection

Preparing for Santa
Excited boys the night before Xmas, getting ready for Santas visit. Artists: Alan Wright & Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Choosing the Christmas turkey
Farmer and his butcher selecting a nice fat turkey for Xmas dinner. Artists: Alan Wright & Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

G Stokes, Shropshire Light Infantry and Royal Engineers
G. Stokes, Shropshire Light Infantry and Royal Engineers, 1914-1918, sitting on a rather large cart horse. Photograph

George Gabriel Stokes
Sir GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES Irish mathematical physicist at Cambridge Date: 1819 - 1903

Sir John Stokes
SIR JOHN STOKES military engineer Date: 1825 - 1902

The Fireman of a Gentlemans Club
Character portrait of the Fireman of a Gentlemans Club - whos role was to stoke and feed all of the open fires throughout the establishment. Date: 1892

Tomb of Ebbels and Stokes, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Four British Stokes Mortars, used during WW1
Four British Stokes Mortars, used during the First World War. From left to right, they measure 3, 4, 3 and 6 inches respectively

Mortar pile 1916
Members of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps take time out from fusing the Stokes Trench Mortars on which they are sitting to play cards, using a copy of the Daily Mail as a playing surface Date: 1916

Stoking the Retorts
A man with a long, heavy steel pole, stokes the retorts at a gasworks

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