Wakefield Collection (page 2)

The ever-blowing Rose, Beauty always new. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations

Great flowered Heath, Bright red Heath, Porcelain Heath, Solitude. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora

The beautiful Cactus, Horror. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations

The noble Ladys Slipper, Resemblance
The noble Ladys Slipper, Cypripedium reginae, Resemblance. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora

Calligraphic title page with vignette
Calligraphic title page with botanical vignette. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after Eliza Eve Gleadall from her self-published The Beauties of Flora

Illustration, The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. 18th century

Scene from The Vicar of Wakefield at the Standard Theatre, London. 1870

PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD - Writer & philanthropist. Date: 1751 - 1832

WAKEFIELD FRUIT WOMAN
The Wakefield fruit woman and her blind daughter sell a variety of fruit and vegetables from their stall; unusually the daughter has short hair Date: 19th century

VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
The Primrose family join their father when he is thrown into a debtors prison by the evil Squire Thornhill. Date: First published: 1766

1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of the worlds highest peak

Padded cell, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
A padded cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, used to hold mentally disturbed or violent prisoners. Some kind of calendar is scratched on the door. The inmate sits, head in hands

Wakefield Union workhouse, West Yorkshire
Aerial view of the Wakefield Union workhouse, designed by J.E. Oates and erected in 1851 on Park Lodge Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Wakefield, Canal Barge, Horbury Bridge

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills, London
Portrait photo of Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer. She joined the force in January 1919, and is seen here wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Brunel at G. E. Launch
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL at the attempt to launch the Great Eastern, with Scott Russell and Henry Wakefield on his right, Lord Derby on his left Date: November 1857

The Village, Wragby, Nostel, England
The Village, Wragby, Nostel, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1911

Public House, Flockton, Yorkshire
Public House, Flockton, Wakefield, near Grange Moor, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Rugger Personalities - Rugby 1920
Rugger personalities by H. Crowther Smith. Includes G. Rowland Hill, Lieut-Colones S. S. D. Craven, B. S. Cumberlege, C. J. B. Marriott, C. N. Lowe, F. C

Chaplains visit, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The prison chaplain, jocularly referred to as the sky pilot, visits a cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The prison was originally built as a House of Correction in 1594

Castrol Motor Oil Sign
An enamel sign advertising Castrol Motor Oil from Wakefield. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Hugh Wakefield by Giuseppe Amisani
Portrait of English actor Hugh Wakefield (1888-1971), possessing, according to The Sketch in which this painting was reproduced, a genius for the portrayal of inoffensive inebriates

Osbert G Mackie, Rugby player and Anglican priest
Osbert Gadesden Mackie (1869-1927), English Rugby union player and Anglican priest. He played rugby for Wakefield Trinity, Cambridge University, Yorkshire, Barbarians, British Isles XV and England

Two women police officers and a policeman, London
Two early women police officers and a policeman, London. They are (left) Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), (right) Alice Foscoe (nee Wills) both wearing the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills on duty, London
Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer, seen here on duty in a London street. She joined the force in January 1919, and is wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Dr Johnson / Goldsmith
DR SAMUEL JOHNSON English writer reads Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield and admires it - much to the delight of Goldsmiths landlady Date: 1709 - 1784

Goldsmith & Johnson
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Irish writer, rescued by Dr Johnson, when unable to pay the rent, who reads The Vicar of Wakefield and admires it Date: 1730 - 1774

A portrait of Isabel Jeans
A portrait of Isobel Jeans (wife of the dramatist Gilbert Wakefield) just finished work on the film Easy Virtue Date: 1927

National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden - Chapel Window
National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. The west window of the Homes chapel, designed by Frank O. Salisbury and gifted by Sir Charles C. Wakefield

Wakefield Road, Scissett, Huddersfield, England
Wakefield Road, Scissett, Huddersfield, near Skelmanthorpe/Clayton West, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1905

Brass Band, Flockton, Yorkshire
Brass Band, Flockton, Wakefield, near Grange Moor, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Cinema & Post Office, Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire
Cinema & Post Office, Fitzwilliam, Wakefield, near Kinsley, Yorkshire, England. Showing Howcroft Chemists & W Harrison Tobacconist Date: 1910s

Church Street, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire
Church Street, Heckmondwike, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

River Calder, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1900s

Cricketer David Lucky Denton, . Born 1874 - Thornes, Wakefield, Yorkshire - Played for Yorkshire & England Date: 1900s

The Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1910s

Silhouette portrait, Bishop of Birmingham -- either Ernest Barnes (bishop from 1924 to 1953) or Henry Wakefield (bishop from 1911 to 1924). Date: 20th century

Closing Jewel House at Tower of London during 1937 Coronatio
A Yeoman warder pinning up the Lord Chamberlains notice on the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London, announcing that owing to the removal of the Regalia the place will be closed until May 17

Sir John C. Dalrymple-Hay, Vanity Fair, Ape
SIR JOHN CHARLES DALRYMPLE-HAY, 3rd Baronet (1821-1912) British Admiral and politician, Member of Parliament for Wakefield from 1862 to 1865, Stamford, Lincolnshire from 1866 to 1880

Advertisment for Castrol oil
Advertisement for Castrol oil, boasting 250mph as achieved by Captain Malcolm Campbell in his Castrol lubricated Napier engine of his Bluebird

Gilbert Wakefield - 3
GILBERT WAKEFIELD classical scholar and writer Date: 1756 - 1801

Gilbert Wakefield - 2
GILBERT WAKEFIELD classical scholar and writer Date: 1756 - 1801

Gilbert Wakefield
GILBERT WAKEFIELD classical scholar and writer at age 36 Date: 1756 - 1801

Daniel Wakefield
DANIEL WAKEFIELD Lawyer of Lincolns Inn and political economist Date: 1776 - 1846

Mabel St Oswald
MABEL SUSAN (nee Forbes) baroness ST OSWALD of Nostell wife of the second baron. a popular hostess at Nostell Priory, Wakefield. Date: ? - 1919

Laying the Cloth - Illustration for Goldsmiths The Vicar of
Laying the Cloth (1899) (Illustration for Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of Wakefield, 1890). Thomson, Hugh 1860 - 1920. Date: 1899

The Royal Regalia held in the Tower of London
The Royal Regalia held in the Wakefield Tower at the Tower of London Date: circa 1912

C W A Scott, centre, and Sir Harry Brittain, centre
C.W.A. Scott, centre, and Sir Harry Brittain, centre, at a model aircraft exhibition in Selfridges inspect the model aeroplane of Mr A.A

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