Wood Collection (page 80)

Scene in a timber yard, Kashgar, western China
Scene in a timber yard in Kashgar, western China, with many logs stacked up. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Titanic carver chair
A Chippendale style wooden carver chair from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912

Gran pops nose is put out of joint by Lawson Wood
Now that King Kong has appeared in London, this might happen to Gran pop (the wily orang utan created by artist, Lawson Wood) at any moment

Two men sawing a log, Madhya Pradesh, India
Two native men sawing through a large log in Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Wheelwrights - Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
Wheelwrights at work near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India attach metal rims to large cart wheels. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Transporting wood - India
Wooden ox-pulled carts filled with wood pause at the roadside in the Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Ox cart and driver, Madhya Pradesh, India
A cart drawn by two oxen, and its young driver, in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Guari wood carrier, Northern Nigeria, Africa - she is standing on a Train Station platform

Hornsey Wood House, London
Hornsey Wood House, once the hunting lodge of Queen Elizabeth I

Wont Nobody Kiss Us Good-Night? By Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing two orangutans waiting to get a kiss before they go to bed

Who Said Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? By Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing two male cats fighting over a pretty female cat. Date: 20th August 1930

An advertisement for The Sketch Book and Winters Pie, by
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a bear photographing two little monkeys up on a tree branch. The picture originally appeared in Winters Pie, a charitable publication

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

as one lovely to another
Illustration by Lawson Wood showing a young orang-utan smiling at a newly-hatched Easter chick

George Frampton in his studio
Sir George James Frampton RA (1860 - 1928), sculptor and craftsman, pictured in his studio in St. Johns Wood, North London, surrounded by sculptures and pointing at a relief

Lawson Wood in Uniform
Photograph of Clarence Lawson Wood (1878-1957), successful illustrator and comic artist. Pictured in uniform during World War One when he was a balloonist with the RFC

Light through the trees with Badger border
The light from the rising sun bursts through a misty morning scene of an autumnal wood. A badger in inset into the square framing of the scene. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The New Zealand Amateur Athletic Team, 1890
Photograph showing the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Team which competed at the Australasian Championship Meeting in Sydney, May 1890. The men shown are (left to right): J.H. Hempton; F.C. White; H.M

London Corners, 1881
Engraving showing a variety of scenes around London in 1881. The images show (clockwise from top left): St. Dunstan s, Thames Street; St

Silber and Flemings Warehouses, London, 1884
Engraving showing the exterior of Silber and Flemings Wholesale Warehouses, Wood Street, London, 1884

Silber and Flemings Silver, Jewellery and Clock Departments
Engraving showing the interior of Silber and Flemings sterling silver plate, gold and silver jewellery and watch and clock departments in their Wood Street store, London, 1884

London Birdseye 13
Bird s-eye view of London at the end of the 19th century : Baker Street from Oxford Street to Regents Park and St Johns Wood

Daddys Regiment by Lawson Wood
A small boy, with his mothers protective hands on his shoulders, salutes gallantly as his fathers regiment marches off to France during World War I

Driving cattle for rent in Ireland
A mans livestock is being driven away in lieu of outstanding rent. The owner and his family can only stand by and watch. Two young women carrying wood and water stand sadly

Crashed Heinkel HE-111 Bomber; Second World War, 1940
Illustration showing a crashed German Heinkel HE-111 bomber burning in a wood in Essex, 18th June 1940. This bomber had taken part in one of the large air-raids on London

British and German soldiers illustrated fighting hand-to-han
An illustration depicting fighting at close quarters between British and German soldiers armed with bayonets in Delville Wood, France

The Glorious Stand of the Royal West Kents in Trones Wood
An illustration of a small group of the Royal West Kent regiment repelling German attacks in Trones Wood, France. The soldiers are reported to have been separated from their main force during a night

The destroyed wood of Thiepval, France
A view of Thiepval wood, the scene of heavy artillery bombardment by the British army during the First World War

South African soldiers capturing Delville Wood
An illustration of South African soldiers, assisted by some Highlanders seen in the foreground, marching through Delville Wood, France

The remains of Thipval wood
A photograph showing the remains of Thipval wood, destroyed by Allied artillery, on the Western front during the First World War"

Sir Kingsley Wood (1881-1943)
Photograph of Sir Kingsley Wood, the Conservative MP, seen in 1938 - the year that he held the posts of Minister of Health and Secretary of State for Air

Boats into Nymphs
Turnus burns the boats of Aeneas, but they are made from wood sacred to the mother- goddess Cybele, so she turns them into sea-nymphs

Riding Hood & Wolf / Dore
She meets the wolf in the wood

L Muggleton / Wood / Kennerl
LODOWICKE MUGGLETON English Puritan, founder of the Muggletonian Sect

Women / Laundry / Washing
Two washerwomen treading their laundry by a river flee coyly when a young man in uniform approaches from a statley home

Convalescence
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing a small monkey chewing an apple while looking after a convalescing Granpop the orang-utan

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

At the Club
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing a club waitress eavesdropping on the gossip of two cigar and pipe smoking club members (monkeys essentially)

Stern Reproof
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan working as a delivery driver and dispatching a group of naughty fruit thieves

Record Sales Foreseen
A wholesale distributors forecast record sales as their new glamorous sales woman leaves the warehouse with two little monkey assistants. Illustration by Lawson Wood

Gran pop a LA Carte
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop the orang utan about to have a rather dangerous accident while driving a go-kart

Business Keeps Going Up
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing Gran pop the orang utan having to saw a hole in the ceiling to accommodate his ever growing sales projection

Not Quite a Lady
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop the orang utan reprimanding a cheeky young monkey who is making a face from the safety of her swing

The all Scotch Spirit
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing a miserly Scottish driver filling up his cigarette lighter with petrol from the pump at a filling station

Cricketer, Wood
Henry Wood Cricketer - Surrey

Death & the Woodcutter
DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER A wretched woodman, worn down by lifes woes and the weight of his load of sticks, calls on Death to relieve him of his suffering

Period Dining Room
A period style dining room with a polished wood dining table

The Woods & the Woodman
THE WOODS AND THE WOODCUTTER The woodman asks the forest for wood to mend the handle of his broken axe; he promises to ply his trade elsewhere but reneges when his axe is fixed

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