Woolley Collection

Napper, Stinton, Woolley - Evening dress, skirt - Shelley
Client: Napper, Stinton and Woolley - Evening dress and printed skirt - model Shelley - Shoot: March 3, 1947 Date: 1947

Ziggurat Shrine, Iraq where the ancient Assyrians worshiped. Flat toped Ziggurat can be seen in with its shrine in the centre standing within a sacred enclosure, at Ur of the Chaldees in Mesopotamia

Caricatures of players from the English cricket team, by Kerwin Maegraith. Including Tate, Bryan, Whysall, Hendren, Hobbs, Woolley, Sutcliffe, Kilner, Tyldesley, Freeman, Sandham, Chapman, Strudwick

Page from Britannia & Eve by Katharine Woolley reporting on the great excavations carried by her and her husband Leonard at Ur in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). Date: 1929

Miss Margaret Whigham and Lord Selby
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

ILN cover - Golden head-dress of Queen Shub-ad
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing a photograph of a reconstruction of a 5000 year-old head dress found at Ur, Iraq, in the royal Graves at Ur excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. 1928

The Showman, by Chas Linda and J Woolley
Promotional music sheet for The Showman music hall song of 1873 by Chas. Linda and J. Woolley, sung with the greatest success by Hyram Travers

Margaret Whigham and Lord Selby
Miss Margaret Whigham, later Mrs Charles Sweeny and then Duchess of Argyll, pictured with Lord Selby at Mrs. Woolley-Harts house-warming party in June 1931. Date: 1931

FALL / LABRADOR / 1966
CHAMPION FOLLEY TOWER SILSDALE OLD CHELSEA Owner: Woolley Date: 1966

Puabis Diadem and Headdress from the Royla Graves at Ur, Iraq - excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley. Date: 1928

French women knitting for soldiers, WW1
Front cover of L Illustration showing three generations of French women knitting comforts for troops in the early months of the First World War. Date: 1914

Very poignant letter to his daughter - WWI
Very poignant letter to the daughter of the unknown letter writer - Miss Muriel Nibbs, 5 Woolley Terrace, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Envelope is dated 23rd December 1916

Samuel Brothers, Xmas Gifts in the trenches, WW1
Advertisement for Samuel Brothers Ltd of Ludgate Hill, London, suggesting number of practical comforts to be sent as gifts to soldiers in the trenches

Knitting postcard, WW1
Humorous postcard from the First World War drawing on the theme of knitting. A soldier on leave is used to help a young girl wind her wool (no doubt used to knit comforts for troops)

William Woolley
WILLIAM WOOLLEY churchman, chaplain of the Marshalsea prison, London. Date: CIRCA 1790

Piccadilly Shops
The premises of N J Woolley, Chemist & Druggiest, at 35 Piccadilly, opposite St James church

Lieut Woolley VC recipient 5 / Stamp
GEOFFREY HAROLD WOOLLEY VC OBE MC (1892 - 1968) The first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest

Woolley Earns Vc / Hill 60
2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley of the Queen Victorias Rifles, a territorial regiment, earns the Victoria Cross on Hill 60 by continually throwing bombs

Bystander masthead by Harry Woolley, 1930
A bathing belle wearing a swimsuit and bathing cap lounges on a rock in the middle of the sea and enjoys a casual chat with Neptune

Portrait of Mr C Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, director of the British Museum Expedition in Mesopotamia. Born in London, 1880, he carried out excavations in Alubaid and Tell el-Armarna

Frank Woolley Bowling, 1920
Illustration of Frank Woolley (1887-1978), the Kent and England all-round cricketer, pictured during the 1920 season. During a first-class career from 1906 to 1938 Woolley scored nearly 60

London Sinks 1866
En route to Melbourne, this steamer founders in the Bay of Biscay : 220 lives are lost including the actor C V Brooke and Dr Woolley, principal of Sydney University

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