Crickets Gallery

Plan of The Crown and Glove Public house and other land and property at Stannington, for sale

Lot 1 the old established Public House known by the sign of the Crown and Glove at Stannington, with barn, cohouse, vacant ground, outbuildings and appurtenances, etc;Lot 2 a cottage with small garden in Upper Gate, Stannington;Lot 3 a close of land in upper Gate;Lot 4 another close of land known as the Cricket Field, opposite Stannington Church.Pawson and Brailsford, Engravers and Printers, Sheffield.Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: Sale Plans 22 June 1864

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Insects, hand-colored lithograph, published in 1880

1) Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria), 2) European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa), 3) European mantis (Mantis religiosa), 4) Oriental cockroach (Blatta orientalis), 5) Forest bug (Pentatoma rufipes), 6) Backswimmer (Notonecta glauca), 7) Water scorpion (Nepa cinerea), 8) Cicada orni (Cicadidae), 9) Eoropean scorpion (Euscorpius alpha), 10) Tarantula (Lycosa tarantula), 11) European garden spider (Araneus diadematus). Hand-colored lithograph from my archive, published in 1880

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Pupils from Fretherne House School, c.1902

Pupils of Fretherne House School, a preparatory school in Welwyn Garden City up to the Second World War. On the far left is Cuthbert Gasemann who owned the album from which this photograph is taken. He is holding a cricket bat and all boys are wearing blazers and clutching straw boaters. Date: c.1902

© Mary Evans Picture Library