Wormwood Collection

Aerial view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Aerial view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. It was opened as a convict prison in 1883 then used as a local prison from 1890

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, and wormwood, Artemisia absinthium.. Handcolored botanical copperplate engraving from Joshua Hamiltons Culpepers English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged

Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
A general view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. The prison was opened as a convict prison in 1883 then used as a local prison from 1890

Kings College students on buses
Kings College students in high spirits, on two buses which are about to leave the Strand campus for Wormwood Scrubs (an open space in west London, not the prison!) for a football match

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris
Mugwort or common wormwood, Artemisia vulgaris. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Ernest Willows and his mechanic, W Goodden
Ernest Willows and his mechanic, W. Goodden, starting at Wormwood Scrubs on the flight to Paris in the Willows No3 City of Cardiff airship on 4 November 1910

Grey dagger and dark dagger moths
Grey dagger, Acronicta psi 1-4, and dark dagger, Acronicta tridens 5-8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen

Wormwood moth, alder moth and Cucullia tanaceti
Wormwood moth, Cucullia absinthii 1-3, alder moth, Acronicta alni 4-6, and Cucullia tanaceti 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die

Railway cutting works at Wormwood Scrubs, West London. Date: circa 1840s

Wormwood Scrubs - Church Service
A church service in progress in the chapel at Wormwood Scrubs prison, London. Date: circa 1945

Wormwood Scrubs - Prison Cell
Interior of a cell at Wormwood Scrubs prison, London. Date: circa 1945

White wormwood, Artemisia herba-alba, and wild chamomile, Matricaria discoidea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt

Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, and santonica
Wormwood or absinthe, Artemisia absinthium, and santonica or Levant wormseed, Artemisia cina. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Absinthe wormwood, Artemisia absinthium. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Wormwood or absinthe, Artemisia absinthium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Curtis British Entomology Plate 595
Lepidoptera. Heliothis scutosa = Schinia scutosa (Marbled Wormwood Moth) [Plant: Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 229
Lepidoptera: Clisiocampa castrensis = Malacosoma castrensis (Ground Lackey) [Plant: Artemisia maritima (Drooping-flowered Sea Wormwood)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 161
Lepidoptera: Pterophorus spilodactylus (Wormwood Plume) [Plant: Artemisia absinthium (Common Wormwood)] Date: 1824-39

RNAS standard Rolls Royce armoured car, WW1
RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) standard Rolls Royce armoured car, at Wormwood Scrubs, used during the First World War. Date: 1915

Midday mealtime, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs prison, west London, return to their individual cells for their midday dinner. Uniformed prison warders watch as prisoners climb the metal staircases to the galleries

World War One Royal Navy Truck / Lorry, Wormwood Scrubs
World War One Royal Navy Truck/Lorry, Wormwood Scrubs, London, near Shepherds Bush, County of London, England. Date: 1910s

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - a pair of fat adults, ready for hibernation - one snacks with a shoot of a wormwood (Marmota bobak). in steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - July

Bakery, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
Scene in the bakery at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London. Prisoners are making bread under the supervision of the prison cook who wears a chefs overalls and hat

Chain room, Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
The chain room at Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. The walls are lined with chains and handcuffs. A prison inmate is at work

War Office at Wormwood Scrubs
A War Office filing clerk in his temporary office, a cell at the Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The prison was requisitioned by the War Office at the outbreak of war in 1939

New inmates arrive

Artemisia Absinthium
WORMWOOD

Artemisia Maritima
SEA WORMWOOD

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