Cotton Gallery

Suffragette W.S.P.U Sash Votes for Women

Women's Social & Political Union sash, in the colours of purple, white and green. White background with border edging of purple and green, dark green lettering. The sash is made in a heavy woven cotton material, has a hook fastening, and measures 55cm long (each side) and 10cm wide. A trifle faded. The sash was first seen at the Women's Sunday Demonstration, 21st June 1908. Date: circa 1908

© The March of the Women Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

City of London Asylum, Stone, Dartford, Kent

The City of London Asylum for pauper lunatics was established in 1862 on Cotton Lane at Stone near Dartford, Kent. The buildings, designed by James Bunstone Bunning, later became City of London Mental Hospital, then Stone House Hospital

© Mary Evans Picture Library 2015 - https://copyrighthub.org/s0/hub1/creation/maryevans/MaryEvansPictureID/10418781

1860s, 1862, 1906, Asylum, Building, Buildings, Bunning, Bunstone, Care, City, Cotton, Dartford, Drive, Drive Way, Edwardian, Garden, Gardens, Grass, Health, Historical, History, Hospital, House, Housing, James, Kent, Lane, Lunatics, Medical, Mental, Pauper, Poverty, Psychiatric, Stone, Victorian, Workhouse, Workhouses

Thistle species

Showy Mexican scarlet thistle, Erythrolaena conspicua, Arabian cotton thistle, Onopordum arabicum, and blue-flowered carthamus, Carthamus caeruleus. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans