Wilson Collection

An infamous image of the Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster? A photograph taken by Mr R. K Wilson, a London surgeon, after noticing an object moving in Loch Ness

Labour Party election posters and television speakers
Labour Party election posters and speakers for Labours series of five short television programmes in the run-up to the General Election of 8th October 1959 (which the Conservatives won)

Loch Ness Monster
Photo by London gynecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson taken at 7.30 am on (probably) 19 April 1934; he never claimed it as the monster, simply a mysterious photo

Wartime Toby jugs, WW1
Advertisement for Soane & Smith of Oxford Street, promoting their range of Toby jugs based on wartime leaders, principally Sir David Beatty, Sir Douglas Haig, Lord Jellicoe, Marshal Joffre

Union Workhouse, Morpeth, Northumberland
People walk over stepping stones across the River Wansbeck at Morpeth, Northumberland, with the Morpeth Union workhouse towering above them (centre of picture)

The Yorkshire County Cricket Team, 1912
Photograph showing 13 members of the Yorkshire County Cricket team for the 1912 season. Yorkshire were winners of the County Championship that year. Top row, left to right: Sir A.W

Emigrant Ship Leaving Belfast (1852). Wilson, James Glen 1827-1863

The brave Titanic engineers, including 14 of whom were lost
The Titanic engineers; fourteen of whom were lost in the 1912 disaster. 1. W. D Mackie junior fifth. 2. F. A Parsons, senior fifth. 3. P. Sloan, senior electrician. 4. H. Jupe, assistant electrician

Front cover from the Bystander 1930
Front cover illustration by Wilson for The Bystander Christmas cover 1930 showing Spanish style dancers in the stage spotlight, against an art deco style rainbow backdrop

Archaeopteryx - bird-like dinosaur
Archaeopteryx - a genus of bird-like dinosaurs that is transitional between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. Date: Late Jurassic Period

Celtic Football Club 1905-1906
Group photo, Celtic Football Club 1905-1906: Davis (Trainer), Campbell, M Leod, Watson, Hamilton, M Nair, Wilson, Garry, M Court, Adams, Young, Hay, Bennett, M Menemy, Loney, Quinn, Somers, M Nair

Champion Six-horse team of Wilson & Co. Meat Packers
The Internationally acclaimed Six-horse Champion Clydesdale team of Wilson & Co. Meat Packers, Chicago

The FA Cup Final 1930
Photographs from the Football Association Challenge Cup Final of 1930 between Arsenal and Huddersfield

Some Grand National
A number of jockeys who were expected to ride in the 1938 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree " walking the plank" at the famous Bechers Brook

The Eton vs. Harrow Cricket Match, Lords, 1910
Photographs showing various views of the Eton vs. Harrow Cricket match, held at Lords Cricket Ground, London, 1910. The images show (clockwise from top left): R.S.L. Fowler and D.G

Lt. Shackleton, Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson, Antarctica, 19
Photograph showing Lt. Shackleton, Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson, ready for their dash towards the South Pole, during the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04

Rush hour at a London tube station, by A. W. Wilson
A busy London underground station contasting two platforms, one side has happy holiday makers and the other sober looking business men

George Wilson / Pedestrian
GEORGE WILSON The " Blackheath Pedestrian", born in Newcastle 24 June 1766. Long distance walker and walking match champion

Belfast Quay (1851). Wilson, James Glen 1827-1863. Date: 1851

Photos on piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey
Photos on the piano, Lloyd Georges farm at Churt, Surrey

Events / Exploration / Polar
Sledge party planting British flag. Shackleton, Scott and Wilson Discovery exploration of the Antarctic

Jenny Lind and John Grays engine
Jenny Lind and John Grays London and Brighton engine, plans Date: 1846

Jockey / Michael Beary
Michael Beary, jockey, in the colours of Captain AS Wilson

Events / Exploration / Polar
The Discovery frozen in during the Scott, Shackleton and Wilson exploration of the Antarctic

Prime Ministers of Great Britain
Winston Churchill, James Callaghan, John Major, Harold Macmillan, Tony Blair, Harold Wilson, Alec Douglas Hume, Gordon Brown, Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher - Prime Ministers of Great Britain

Town crier, St Marys, Scilly Isles
The local town crier, Wilfred Tonkin, on St Mary s, Scilly Isles. Seen here announcing the fact that the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has taken up residence in his holiday bungalow

Captain Scotts last Antarctic expedition
A group of some of the party, including Dr. E. A Wilson, the zoologist and artist (sitting first left); Lieut H. R Bowers (sitting second on left); Captain R

The spot where Captain Scott lies buried
A cross placed on top of a large cairn of snow marking the resting place of Captain Scott, Dr Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers

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

Wilson, NC, USA - Oettingers The Dependable Store
Wilson, North Carolina, USA - Oettingers - The Dependable Store. The leading store of the town with the slogan: " It pays to Deal at Oettinger s"

Harold Wilson, British Labour Prime Minister
Harold Wilson (1916-1995), British Labour Prime Minister from 1964-1970 and 1974-1976. Date: mid-1960s

Harold Wilson makes speech during the general election Date: 1964

Lady Sarah Wilson, WW1
Lady Sarah Wilson (1865 - 1929), formerly Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, youngest child of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

Nancy Lancaster and Clementine Churchill
Outside the new Churchill Hospital of the American Hospital in Britain, opened at Oxford: Mrs Ronald Tree (Nancy Lancaster, the influential interior decorator), Professor Phillip D Wilson

May Goelet Roxburghe
MARY WILSON MAY GOELET duchess of ROXBURGHE American heiress, wife of Henry, eighth duke. Date: ? - 1937

The Young Chap Dress d in Blue, by C Sloman and W Wilson
Promotional music sheet for The Young Chap Dressd In Blue music hall song by C. Sloman and W. Wilson, sung by Nat Ogden and A Hollingsworth

York City FC football team 1936. Back row: Fox, Pinder, Routledge (Captain), Wilson, Speed, Wass. Front row: Green, Banfield, Graham, Hathway, Spooner. Date: 1936

de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide VP-KCG of Wilson Airways
de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, VP-KCG, of Wilson Airways at Nairobi Airport in 1938. Date: 1938

People from Stepney, East London, hop picking in Kent. They were assisted by their local vicar, Reverend R Wilson (seen here in the centre) of St. Augustine s, Stepney. circa 1911

Locomotive passenger engine no 73, side elevation, built 1846-1847 to Stephensons patent Date: 1847

Constructed drawing of Jenny Lind, side elevation, from contemporary notes and tracings Date: 1897

Trials on the Midland Railway, May 1848, between Jenny Lind and Jenny Sharp Date: 1896

Forty Winks by C. E. Wilson
A dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt

The Doggy Bag by Bert Wilson
Colour illustration by Bert Wilson showing a 1920s flapper girl powdering her nose. Her compact has come from a small bag in the shape of her dog, which appears to have alarmed her pet cat

Olympics / 1932 / Decathlon
Decathlon: Wilson Charles (USA) placed 4th

Durham County Rugby Team: Parkinson, Stephenson, Swinburne, Marston, Wilson, Bell, Johnston, Humphreys, Todd, Troup, Thompson, Poole, Martin, Kassell, Swainston, Geenty, Hill, Oakes, Gibbon, Hall

TO THE RESCUE ! Lord Charles Beresford relieves Sir Charles Wilson on the Nile island of Meruat Date: 1885

Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche B 5Y-ACV, at Wilson Airfield, Nairobi, in Kenya. Date: circa 1970

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett, preparing to play Hamlet
Wilson Barrett (William Henry Barrett; 1846-1904), actor, theatre manager and playwright -- More Study

Passenger engine, side elevation Date: 1846

Two de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides, including VP-KCA, of Wilson Airways at Nairobi Airport

Cincinnati Federal Symphonic Orchestra, Works Progress Administration presents young peoples concert under the sponsorship of the Hamilton Mothersingers at the Wilson Auditorium

Lloyd George, General Wilson and General Foch
David Lloyd George (1863-1945), General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) and General Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), meeting around the end of the First World War

Locomotive engine Jenny Lind

Yuletide Sports Abroad- Society at St Moritz and Murren
A variety of snowy scenes at St Moritz and Murren in Switzerland, including skating and ice hockey

Bishop Thomas Wilson
Bishop THOMAS WILSON Bishop of Sodor and Man

Postcard, Woman with broken down car - Man wanted! Date: early 20th century

Postcard, Woman with two dogs sitting by a tree - No poaching here! Date: early 20th century

Postcard, Woman and dog - We are watching and waiting til the boys come home! Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Woman with dog hiding behind a tree - Beware! Concealed danger! Date: early 20th century

Postcard, Woman and dog - I know of two bright eyes watching for you. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Woman and dogs at the fireside - I'm thinking and dreaming of someone. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Woman and dog feeling lonely - The roses are dead, the sunshine has fled since we lost you. Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Woman gazing out to sea - The days are lonely without you! Date: 1914-1918

Postcard, Mother and daughter at home - We miss you most when the lights are low. Date: 1914-1918

Edward VII at Reigate Priory - Mrs Ronald Greville
King Edward VII visiting The Priory, Reigate, as guest of royal intimates, Captain and Mrs Ronald Greville

Golfing in Perthshire at Gleneagles. Date: 1934

All 46 US Presidents from 1789-2021
All 46 Presidents of the United States of America from George Washington (top left), who was inaugurated in 1789 to the current encumbent, Joe Biden (bottom right) in 2021

Vice President of Lympe Flying Club, Noel Coward, pictured there with, from left, Mr

Jefferson Davis's House at Beauvoir, Mississippi

Cessna 185D 5Y-ACJ (msn 185-0932), of the Kenya Police Air Wing, at Wilson Field, Nairobi on 9 January 1967. (destroyed 16 January 1974) Date: 1967

Cessna Citation I N553CC
Cessna 500 Citation I N553CC (msn 500-0053), at Nairobi-Wilson Airport on 26 March 1973 Date: 1973

Memorial to the poet John Gay in Westminster Abbey by sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. Inscription by Alexander Pope

Plutus, Cupid and Time. Father Time with scythe talking with the Roman god of love Cupid with bow and quiver, and Greek god of wealth Plutus with bag and padlock

The Bear in a Boat. An arrogant bear boards a sailboat and runs aground near a castle. A monkey, dog, cow, goose, mouse and other animals laugh from the shore

The Two Monkeys. An acrobat walking on a tightrope in a Southwark theatre is watched by two unimpressed monkeys in a box. A Black trumpeter blows a horn in the orchestra pit. After William Kent

The Father and Jupiter. A man prays to the Roman god Jove in a clearing near a classical building. Jove with his eagle looks down from the clouds

The Cur and the Mastiff. A gentleman sitting under a curtain with a mastiff beside him, pointing at a cur and sentencing it to be hanged. In a large room with fireplace, mantelpiece, windows

The Courtier and Proteus. A wily courtier meets the shape-shifting Greek god Proteus at the shore. Two sheep frolic in the sea

The Mother, the Nurse and the Fairy. A sprite stands on a baby's cradle in a bedroom. The nanny fears the baby has been swapped for a foolish changeling

The Rat-Catcher and Cats. A ratcatcher holding a cat and beating it with a stick for removing his traps. Another cat watches

The Painter who Pleased No Body and Every Body. A portrait painter showing a gentleman his flattering portrait. In an atelier decorated with classical busts and statues, oil paintings

The Elephant and the Bookseller. An Indian elephant reading a book in an elegant bookshop. The book dealer turns the pages in a book on a lectern

Comment on Americas position before entering WW1 with regard to financing the allies

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