Restaurant and Confectioner's Receipt
A black, white and blue printed and handwritten receipt from Dr Davis to Powell Bros., Restaurateurs, Cooks and Confectioners, The Parade, Leamington Spa. The receipt gives details of groceries with their ...
Returning From A Bad Market. Butter Only One and Nine
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a farmer and his wife returning from market. There is a painted inscription along the bottom which reads 'Returning from a bad market, Butter only one and ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printers woodcuts, details. p.90v
The hand-press was well-known to Shakespeare.
In the 1580s when William Shakespeare came to London the Stationers' Company had been established for thirty years, since 1557, and it attempted to control ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Printing tradesmen, p.90v.
Printing books in Shakespeare's time.
By the time of William Shakespeare the printing trade had been established in England for a hundred years since William Caxton first set up a press in London in ...
Rochdale Halfpenny Token
Rochdale copper halfpenny, 1792 Diameter 29mm The obverse features a shield bearing a Coat of Arms, possibly those of Rochdale, with a sheep above. The inscription reads 'ROCHDALE HALFPENNY 1792'. The ...
Rosalind Iden
Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894-1973) Rosalind Iden, 1946 Oil on canvas 340mm x 240mm Portrait of a woman with blonde hair wearing a blue blouse, her eyes appear to be shut. She is the actress Rosalind Iden ...
Rugby. Arthur Law and his man Price
Arthur Law and his man Price. Mr Law was in business in Rugby as a painter and decorator from 1876 until 1904. 1890s
Rugby. Arthur Law and his workmen
Arthur Law (in check suit) and his workmen outside a house in Dale Street, Rugby. Mr Law was in business as a painter and decorator from 1876 until 1904. 1890s
Rugby. Arthur Law and his workmen
Mr Arthur Law and his workmen outside a house in Dale Street, Rugby. Arthur Law was in business as a painter and decorator from 1876 until 1904. 1890s
Rugby. C. J. Elkington
Mr C.J. Elkington, chemist of High Street, Rugby. 1900s
Rugby. C.J. Elkington
C.J. Elkington, in business as a chemist in Rugby from 1854 or earlier to 1909. 1890s
first at 3, Lawrence Sheriff Street, later at 13, High Street. 1890s.
Rugby. Church Street
Shops in Church Street, Rugby: Wringrose, saddler, Hannel, chemist and tobacconist. Savings bank box set into shop doorway. Thatch on one building. Two men and two boys by shop windows. 1874
Rugby. Church Street, old houses
Terraced housing and shops in Church Street, Rugby. Meat hanging outside butcher's shop. Two boys and two women in street. Thatch on two buildings. 1860
Rugby. Church Street, smithy
Lismers Smithy in Church Street, Rugby, 1860 - 1928. 1900
It has been suggest that the photo is of Pailton Hall (Coventry Road, Pailton) and not Lismers Smithy.
Rugby. Clifton Road
The Central Hotel, Clifton Road, Rugby. 1950s [Originally The Graziers Arms was in Church Street not Clifton Road. Location was the corner of Church Street and Railway Terrace.It was demolished in ...
Rugby. Ebenezer Collins
Ebenezer Collins was in business, as a hairdresser, in Sheep Street until 1866 and then at 40 High Street from 1867-1893, Rugby. 1870s
Rugby. Edmund Edmunds
Edmund Edmunds was an ironmonger at 7 Market Place, Rugby, from 1854 until 1873. From 1874-1899 the business was in the name of Edmunds and Welldon. 1870s
Rugby. Goode's Confectioners Shop
Mr William Bryan Leeson (on left) was in business as a furniture remover and brake proprietor in Chapel Street, Rugby from 1890 until 1917. After 1917 the confectioner's business was run by Mrs Leeson ...