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Background imageThrift Collection: Wartime pig food poster

Wartime pig food poster
We Want Your Kitchen Waste - poster encouraging the saving of food scraps for use as pig food, to be collected by the council. It also feeds poultry

Background imageThrift Collection: Thrift, Armeria maritima

Thrift, Armeria maritima (Statice armeria)

Background imageThrift Collection: Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric

Instructions for creating decorative patches to repair holes in fabric, with ideas for motifs. Date: 1943

Background imageThrift Collection: Prickly thrift, Acantholimon glumaceum

Prickly thrift, Acantholimon glumaceum

Background imageThrift Collection: Sea lavender, Limonium sinuatum

Sea lavender, Limonium sinuatum (Purple-cup t statice or thrift, Statice sinuata)

Background imageThrift Collection: Egyptian thrift, Statice aegyptiaca

Egyptian thrift, Statice aegyptiaca. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823

Background imageThrift Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 297

Curtis British Entomology Plate 297
Hemiptera. Chorosoma arundinis (Sea-reed Cimex) = Chorosoma schillingii (the original generic description) [Plant: Armeria maritima (Common Thrift)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageThrift Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 47

Curtis British Entomology Plate 47
Coleoptera: Pogonus burrellii = Pogonus luridipennis (Burrellian Pogonus) [Plant: Statice limonium (Lavender Thrift)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageThrift Collection: Reducing the Gas Bill

Reducing the Gas Bill
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a Scottish man blowing into his gas supply in an attempt to reduce bills watched by his son in a tartan kilt

Background imageThrift Collection: Advertisement for Black & White Whisky

Advertisement for Black & White Whisky
Advertisement for Black & White Scotch Whisky

Background imageThrift Collection: Thrift flowered heath, Erica rubella

Thrift flowered heath, Erica rubella.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820, Samuel Curtis, Walworth, London

Background imageThrift Collection: Clincher tyres advertisement, WW1 - Reginald McKenna

Clincher tyres advertisement, WW1 - Reginald McKenna
Advertisement for Clincher Tyres during the First World War featuring a caricature of the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Background imageThrift Collection: He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamp

He is piling up his Thrift Stamps, are you? Buy Thrift Stamps. Poster showing a squirrel hiding nuts in a tree. Date 1918

Background imageThrift Collection: Thrift stamps. We licked them at the front, you lick them at

Thrift stamps. We licked them at the front, you lick them at the back. Poster showing a soldier pointing to German soldiers, on the left, and savings stamps, on the right. Date 1915

Background imageThrift Collection: Poster, Join the Thrift Column

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

Background imageThrift Collection: Armeria Plantaginea taproot

Armeria Plantaginea taproot
Taproot of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Background imageThrift Collection: Armeria Plantaginea root

Armeria Plantaginea root
Root of the Armeria Plantaginea (Thrift)

Background imageThrift Collection: Acantholimon Glumaceum (Prickly Thrift)

Acantholimon Glumaceum (Prickly Thrift), a perennial alpine plant of the Plumbaginaceae (plumbago or leadwort) family, with bright pink or purple flowers in the summer, best suited to rock gardens

Background imageThrift Collection: The Economy Campaign

The Economy Campaign
In the new climate of thrift during World War One, this family economises by eating pets, fashioning a pram out of a soapbox and drowning the family dog

Background imageThrift Collection: Coupon Allocation 1940S

Coupon Allocation 1940S
Household management : A housewife and her adult daughter have a cup of tea and a cigarette together as they work out their coupon allocation around the table

Background imageThrift Collection: Mother Skinflint / Thrift

Mother Skinflint / Thrift
MOTHER SKINFLINT, THE THRIFTY HOUSEWIFE You re a genius for saving! Yes, everyone knows. You would skin a flint and starve the crows!

Background imageThrift Collection: Plants / Armeria Maritima

Plants / Armeria Maritima
Thrift, Sea-Pink, Ladys Cushion


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