Padlock and key
This is one of two padlocks given to the museum in 1889 with the provenance “Two ancient padlocks with keys found in the demolishing of Larkbeare House, Exeter”. Larkbeare House...
This is one of two padlocks given to the museum in 1889 with the provenance “Two ancient padlocks with keys found in the demolishing of Larkbeare House, Exeter”. Larkbeare House...
This is one of two padlocks given to the museum in 1889 with the provenance “Two ancient padlocks with keys found in the demolishing of Larkbeare House, Exeter”. Larkbeare House...
This photographic slide is part of series showing the process of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This image shows the the crowded and rather...
This photographic slide is part of series showing the process of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This image shows the very deep hole created...
This photographic slide is part of series showing the process of diamond mining in Kimberley, South Africa and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This image shows the mine in the background...
This slide by William Weaver Baker shows Monnow Bridge in Monmouth, Wales, which Weaver Baker wrongly named ‘Monmow’ Bridge. The gatehouse on the bridge originally formed part of the town...
This image records the Chapter House of Exeter Cathedral in the 1880s. At that time the Cathedral’s Library was located in the Chapter House, before it moved to the new...
This photographic magic lantern slide was created by Alfred Rowden, an amateur photographer from Exeter. During the First World War he continued his hobbies of photography and nature study and...
This slide is part of a set depicting Rotifera, a microscopic water-borne organisms. They had belonged to John Stephens FRMS, a keen amateur biologist. After he died his wife donated...