Willie Collection

Old & Young Tom Morris
A golf match involving Willie Park, Old Tom Morris, and Young Tom Morris at Leith Links, Scotland

Whisky Drinking
Scottish Whisky drinkers : " Willie Brew d A Peck O Maut" - poem by Robert Burns

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, rapping at the window, crying through the lock, Are the children in their beds...?

La Poupee by Arthur Sturgess
Promotional postcard for La Poupee, a comic operetta by Arthur Sturgess from the French of Maurice Ordonneau (Theatre de la Gaiete, Paris, 21st October 1896); music Edmond Audran

A Meet of the New Forest Buck-Hounds at Fountain Court, Broo
Members of the New Forest Buck-hounds meet at Fountain Court, the hunters and dogs at the ready

Playing billiards
Mrs. Frances Hoppe & Her Son Willie. Mrs. Frances Hoppe playing billiards with her son Willie (William F. Hoppe) in a billiard room with seated spectators watching

The Wales rugby team, 1905
A team photograph celebrating the player of the Welsh rugby team, who beat the previously undefeated New Zealand by three points to nil in the cup final match on 16th December 1905. Date: 1905

Willie Thorne - Snooker Player Date: 1980s

Richard Green, (with hat), 5 year old newsie, Richmond, Va. Willie - -, who said he was 8. (Compare them.) Many of these little newsboys here. Location: Richmond, Virginia. Date 1911 June

Comic postcard, Little boy praying by his bed, with his mother listening Date: 20th century

Playtime on the Cote d'Azur
Page from The Tatler

Hanging the Kaiser at Brackley
After the signing of the Armistace on November 11th 1918 effiges of The German Kaiser

Fathers Kilt will soon fit Willie (but not quite yet, hence the universal merriment on the faces of Willies young friends!). Date: circa 1930s

Norman Tebbit and Willie Whitelaw, Conservative politicians
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit (b 1931), Conservative politician and government minister

Margaret Thatcher, British Conservative Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher (Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, nee Roberts, 1925-2013), who served as British Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990

Willie Whitelaw, Conservative politician and minister
Willie Whitelaw (William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, 1918-1999), Conservative politician and government minister. Date: circa 1980s

Wee Willie Winkie rhyme and picture by M. Sherborne (no title)

Place marker - Wee Willie Winkle
Place marker - Willie Winkles here to show ______________ the way to go. Date: circa 1937

Rev. W. Carlile found of the Church Army, lantern slide
William Carlile, founder of the Church Army, shown giving a lantern slide lecture

Thw Wimple Children
I say, whispered Willie, if I didn t know better, I should think we are walking across a large leaf. Artist: Hilda Cowham Date: circa 1908

English huntsman dragged in the middle of the hounds by his headstrong horse, 19th century. Martin Muffington unable to control his horse during a fox-hunt. Mr

Willie Renfrew, works gatekeeper. circa 1890

Willie wagtail, Rhipidura leucophrys (Whiskered fantail, Leucocirca laticauda)

Woodbine Willie - Rev. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (18831929), English Anglican priest and poet

Willie Smith - Snooker Referee Date: 1980s

Willie Carson - Flat race jockey Date: 1970s - 1980s

Willie Shoemaker - Flat race jockey Date: 1970s - 1980s

Wee Willie Winkie Date: 1932

The Girl from Kays by Owen Hall
Date: 1904

From the Western Front To Willie with compliments 1916
Sergeant seen lying down beside a large shell bearing the message To Willie with compliments on the side. During WWI gunners often sent massages etched in chalk on shells. Date: 1916

Willie Rose - cab driver
Willie Rose, a London taxi cab driver picture in 1965. Described in London Life magazine as the grand old man of the cab trade his son followed him into the business. Date: 1965

Wee Willie Winkie " Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown, rapping at the window, crying through the lock

British Mother or Big Willie tank being tested, WW1
British " Mother" or " Big Willie" tank being tested at Burton Park, Lincoln, during the First World War

Famous rugby players (Martin Johnson, JPR Williams, Brian Moore, Gareth Edwards, Willie John McBride, Gavin Hastings, Keith Wood, Bill Beaumont, Jonny Wilkinson, Will Carling) - Date: 1970-2000

Cartoon, Oscar Wilde and William Wilde
Cartoon, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet and playwright, comforted by his brother William Wilde (1852-1899) in the face of American criticism of his play, Vera

WW1 - 96th Batt. Canadian Highlanders - Terrified Germans
WW1 - Humorous patriotic postcard in support of the 96th Battalion (Canadian Highlanders), an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force

Illustration, Wee Willie Winkie. circa early 20th century

Richard Culley and Walter Tuckwell - businessmen
Richard Culley, New Zealand-born business men, working with Walter Tuckwell and Associates and Walter Tuckwell, New-Zealand-born business men and holder of Walter Tuckwell and Associates

The Sad Experiences of Big and Little Willie. - WWI
A bound copy with gold-leaf edges of The Sad Experiences of Big and Little Willie during the first 6 months of the Great War as portrayed by W. K. Haselden in the Daily Mirror

Scots Guards in trench on Western Front, WW1
Scots Guards of the 1st Battalion, B Company, in the " Big Willie" trench on the Western Front (probably in northern France) during the First World War. Date: October 1915

Edouin, Willie in The Girl from Kay s
Promotional flyer for The Girl from Kays Promotional postcard for The Girl from Kays by Owen Hall; music Ivan Caryll and Cecil Cook. First produced at the Apollo Theatre, London 15th November 1902

Amorelle by Barton White and Gaston Serpette
Amorelle by Barton White, with music by Gaston Serpette. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, London, January 1904

Willie Neilson, Scottish International Rugby player
William Willie Neilson (1873-1960), Scottish International Rugby player who also played for London Scottish RFC. He later became President of the Scottish Rugby Union. 1890s

Ettie, Lady Desborough in fancy dress costume
Ethel Anne Priscilla ( Ettie ) Grenfell (n饠 Fane), Lady Desborough (1867-1952), Wife of William Henry Grenfell, Baron DesboroughEttie, Lady Desborough

Little Folk Misfitz - Wee Willie Winkie. Date: circa 1910

Caricature of Wiliam Wilde, Irish journalist and poet
Caricature of Wiliam Willie Charles Kingsbury Wilde (1852-1899), Irish journalist, poet and drama critic, elder brother of Oscar. Seen here sitting in the theatre stalls. 1881

Willie James, Sportsman
WILLIE JAMES Sporting gentleman and fashionable racegoer. Date: 1909

Advertisement, W Clarkson Wig Manufacturer
Advertisement, W Clarkson, Theatrical, Court and Private Wig Manufacturer, Wellington Street, Strand, London. 1883

Willy Clarkson
William Berry " Willy" Clarkson (1861 - 12 October 1934), theatrical costume designer and wigmaker. Date: 1929

Illustration, Willie Brew d a Peck o Maut
Illustration to Willie Brew d a Peck o Maut, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Towser the dog looking happy and full of mischief. Date: circa 1933

Towser the dog shakes water off himself after an encounter with a fish. Date: circa 1933

Cover design, Willie Winkies Animal Book, showing a little white dog, Towser, eyeing a parrot on a perch. Date: circa 1933

Charles Willie Mathews
Sir Charles Willie Mathews, 1st Baronet (1850 1920), British lawyer. Date: 1892

Caricature of Crown Prince Willie festooned with jewels
A Thing of Booty. Caricature of Crown Prince Willie festooned with jewels and smoking a pipe. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Crown prince puppet toy, WW1
A British girl pictured with a puppet which depicts Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the Kaiser (known by the nickname of Little Willie in Britain) as a rather foolish clown. Date: 1915

Willie Pape
WILLIE PAPE American pianist, child prodigy from Mobile, visited England 1863. Date: 1850 - ?

Comment on Mixed bathing from two dirty London tramps
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a vagrant couple giving their opinion on bathing

Willie Applegarth - English Champion Sprinter
William Reuben " Willie" Applegarth (1890-1958) - won bronze medal at the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912. Date: 1912

Game cards

Willie and his make-up. Illustration shows William R. Hearst wearing the clothing of past presidents as he embarks on a campaign for the presidential election in 1908

Willie and Tad Lincoln, sons of President Abraham Lincoln, with their cousin Lockwood Todd. Photograph shows Willie Lincoln (left), who died Feb

Willie Lincoln, third son of President Lincoln. Died February 20, 1862, at the age of 12. Photo shows Willie Lincoln, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, holding hat in left hand

Smyth & Rice present Willie Collier in his new farce Mr. Smooth. Date c1899

Scout Patrol Leader Willie Chun signing autographs
Willie Chun, whos 12 years old and an American of Korean parentage, is a Patrol Leader of Boy Scout Troop 90 in Hollywood. Willie had a special showing of the new Robert L

Anon 6. Wee Willie Winkie

Ballad / Erlinton

William Whitelaw at Met Police cadets parade
William Whitelaw (1918-1999), Conservative politician, with police commissioners, inspecting Metropolitan Police cadets during a parade

How to disguise oneself as a boy
If only Willie Clarkson had helped Miss Le Neve

Willie Lotts House, Flatford, Essex, England, a picturesque 16th century cottage on a backwater of the River Stour, the subject of a famous (1810) painting by John Constable

Bathing / Torpedo C1910
A little girl is afraid to get into the bathtub: Willie said he saw a torpedo when he was in there!

Willie Edouin / Players 03
WILLIE EDOUIN (William Frederick Bryer) English comedian in La Poupee (The Doll)

Plants / Galium Aparine
Cleavers, or Goosegrass, or Sticky Willie

First Day at School 89
Home again : Willie and Mary tell papa and mama about their first day at school

First Day at School 2
The teachers assistant receives Mary and Willie at the school door

First Day at School 1
Willie and Mary are taken to school by their Nurse

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