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Wayland Collection

Background imageWayland Collection: Wayland Smiths Cave

Wayland Smiths Cave, Berkshire, England. Formerly an underground chamber of some prehistoric king or priest. Wayland was a mythical smithy who made invincible swords. Date: BC

Background imageWayland Collection: Wayland Military Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk

Wayland Military Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk. The hospital operated during the First World War in the Wayland Unions new workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough in 1912-13

Background imageWayland Collection: Lady Young (formerly Lady Scott), Peter Scott, Wayland Young

Lady Young (formerly Lady Scott), Peter Scott, Wayland Young
The sculptor, Lady Young, formerly Kathleen Bruce, then Lady Scott, wife of the polar explorer, Robert Falcon Scott. Pictured with her son by her first husband Peter Scott

Background imageWayland Collection: Wayland Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk

Wayland Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk
Wayland Hospital, originally the Wayland Unions workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough, Norfolk, in 1912-13

Background imageWayland Collection: Bradfield Union workhouse, Berkshire

Bradfield Union workhouse, Berkshire
The union workhouse at Bradfield in Berkshire. The building, designed by Sampson Kempthorne, later became Wayland Hospital. Date: Date unknown

Background imageWayland Collection: Wayland Union Workhouse, Rockland All Saints, Norfolk

Wayland Union Workhouse, Rockland All Saints, Norfolk
The Wayland Union workhouse at Rockland All Saints, Norfolk. The building, erected in 1836-7, is believed to have been designed by William Thorold or William J Donthorn

Background imageWayland Collection: Kenilworth - Wayland

Kenilworth - Wayland
Wayland, touch him not, or you will come by the worse! So thou hast betrayed me, Flibbertigibbet? A boy comes between the smith Wayland and Tressilian

Background imageWayland Collection: Wayland the Smith

Wayland the Smith
At a cromlech in Ashbury, called Wayland Smiths Cave, a traveller could get his horse magically re-shod. It is said that Wayland learned his craft from the dwarfs of Iceland


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