Letter to Mrs A. Helps p.1
Eliot thanks Alice for the present of a pocket.
Transcript:
The Priory,
21, North Bank
Regents Park.
June 7. 75
The Pocket is perfect my sweet providence & will be a comfort to me in my ...
Lighthorne. Group of women in doorway of a cottage
Group of four women standing at the doorway of a cottage in Lighthorne. 1900s
[The "Hunt" family in front of No. 2 Church Cottages]
Long Bead Necklace
A necklace of amber, glass and paste beads. Some of the paste beads are decorated with a stylised eye pattern.
6th Century A.D.
450mm drop
1922/23 excavations (Grave 35)
Mantilla
This black lace mantilla - worn over the head and round the shoulders - belonged to the local author George Eliot. She can be seen wearing it in a chalk portrait drawn in 1865 by Sir Frederick Burton ...
Miniature bucket pendant
An individual miniature bucket pendant. Each one was made of three pieces of bronze.
AD 410 - AD 600
Monks Kirby. Teachers Association gathering
The Atherstone, Hinckley and Nuneaton teachers association at Monks Kirby on July 8th 1904.
Napton on the Hill. Carnival float
Carnival float at a fair in Napton on the Hill.. Man standing in foreground is Reg Griffin, butcher. 1940s
Necklace - Amber, Limestone and Glass Beads
A twenty-two bead string necklace composed of pieces of amber, tubular and spherical blue, glass beads, a worn coin and a central chalk pendant.This was found in the same grave as the bone netting needle.
6th ...
Necklace - Blue Glass Beads
A necklace of forty six blue glass beads, found in conjunction with a cruciform (cross-shaped) bronze brooch in a female burial.
6th Century A.D.
95mm drop
1922/23 excavations (Grave 124)
Nuneaton. Fire Officer J. Knox
Portrait of J. Knox, D.S.O. Fire Officer, Nuneaton. Circa 1914
Nuneaton. Reg Bull on his motorcycle
Mr Reg Bull sitting astride his new Triumph 200cc Tiger Cub motorcycle which he purchased on January 2nd 1958 from Brandish's of Coventry.
Nuneaton. V.E. parade
Crowd of uniformed people assembling for V.E. parade in Nuneaton. May 13th 1945
Pailton. The Pailton Miser
Joseph Underwood, alias "the Pailton miser" who died in 1891. For many years he occupied a pigsty , about five foot square and earned a living by acting as a drover. No one ventured near to his abode ...
Pins
Two perforated bronze pins (front) and two iron pins (back).
6th Century A.D.
Largest 113mm long
1922/23 excavations
Prize Bull and Prize Cabbage
This is an oil painting on panel depicting a prize bull and prize cabbage, as well as a house, dog and a woman. It is signed and dated in the bottom left corner, 'Williams 1802' and it is likely this ...
Radford Semele. Village street
A street scene in Radford Semele. 1905
Ration Book
A clothing ration book issued to Thomas Lamsdale, 1947 - 1948.
Round Pierced Pendant
A bronze gilt ornament showing twenty open-mouthed snakes with intertwined bodies. This was found in a woman’s grave positioned just under her chin. This and the other gilt ornament bearing snake motifs, ...