Objects

Collections information on the items used in this website.

 

Watercolour – Civil Defence Column

Leaflet – How to Preserve Tomatoes

Gurkha hat badge

Photo – Folkestone from Dover Hill

Tin of dried eggs

Recipe book – Kitchen Front Recipes

Ration books – Robert and Cecile Russell

Leaflet – Cookery Service Notes

Leaflet – Puddings without Eggs

Leaflet – Making the most of Sugar

Leaflet – Making the most of the Fat Ration

Knitting pattern – New Woollies for our Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen

Dig for Victory leaflet

Baby’s gas mask

Civilian gas mask

Air Raid Warden Post sign

Folkestone bomb map

Army documents and photos – Charles Willis Theobald

Stereoscopic photos, Gurkha soldiers in WW1

Folkestone Schools attendance medal

Exam paper – English and Arithmetic

Book of school dinners menus

Blackout curtain

Blackout bicycle light

Postcard – blackout cartoon

The Land Girl magazine

Land girl breeches

Evacuation Scheme letter

Parachute mine shrapnel

Flying bomb map

Learn Mandarin Chinese game

Lapel badge of RMS Laurentic

WW1 penny flags

Memorial plaque – Tontine Street bombing

Magazine cutting – Gotha bomber

Newspaper cutting – Tontine Street inquest

Map of the Western Front

Folkestone Harbour Canteen Books

Oil painting – Landing of the Belgium Refugees

Poster – Queen Cinema, Tontine Street

Postcard of RMS Laurentic

Certificate of Wounds and Hurts – Leonard Drew

Middlesex Regiment cap badge

Shell case from Piave

Victory mug

Death Penny – Thomas Allen

Certificate of Honour – Thomas Allen.

Death scroll – George Winter

WW1 death penny – George Winter

Embroidery – Flags of the allied nations

Group photo on the Leas, 1916

Victorian paperweight

Ladies swimsuit, 1950s

Handbill for excursion to Holland

Photo of charabanc trip

Watercolour – Panorama of Folkestone

Postcard – Just dreaming about it At Folkestone

Photo album – Folkestone and Sandgate

Folkestone Chronicle newspaper

Oil painting – Leas Shelter

Teapot souvenir

Oil painting – Bayle Steps

Palaeolithic hand axes

Bronze Age beaker

Iron Age cremation urn

Iron Age bone toggle

Iron Age brooch

Terra Rubra beaker

Quern stone for grinding grain

Iron Age Belgic coins

Neolithic flint arrowhead

Roman amphora fragment

Roman oil lamp – eagle design

Roman oil lamp – robed figure design

Print – the Roman amphitheatre at Nimes

Roman Samian ware fragment – gladiator design.

Knuckle bones

Roman gaming counters

Roman Samian ware sherds with hunting scene

Roman Samian ware bowl with graffiti

Roman mortaria fragment

Roman spindle whorl

Photograph – the Dutton family, 1914

Victorian plate camera

Oil painting – Victoria Pier

Postcard – crowded train

Oil painting – Foord Viaduct

Print – Folkestone Regatta panorama

Oil painting – Folkestone 1845

Watercolour – Beach at Folkestone, 1838

Poster – Fashionable Folkestone, 1927

Roman painted plaster fragment

Roman mosaic fragment

Roman iron key

Roman iron key

Rhino tooth

Ox horn core

Red deer antler

Hippo femur

Straight-tusked elephant tooth

Watercolour – Temple of Venus, Pompeii

Roman roof tile – dog paw print

Roman gold and silver medals and coins

Roman coin – Emperor Constantius

Gem stone from a Roman ring

Silver brooch of a running hare

Roman strigil

Roman water pipe

Roman box flue tile

Roman floor tile – Classis Britannica stamp

Roman floor tile – human footprint

Icthyosaur jaw and teeth

Iguanodon dinosaur thigh bone

Drawing – Temple of Vesta

Print – Pescatori

Etching – After Rembrandt

Folkestone fossil pudding

Fossil fish Pachyrhizodus salmoneus

Ammonite bitten by a fish

Fossil poo

Fossil shark tooth

Fossil shark vertebrae

Dinosaur footprint

Mammoth tooth

Drawing – French postilion and his boots

Newspaper cutting – Earthquake at Ischia

Gouache painting – Earthquake at Ischia

Gouache painting – Aquasus volcano

Gouache painting – The Crater 1883

Gouache painting – Funiculare railway

Gouache painting – Road up Vesuvius

Drawing – The Fortune Teller

Watercolour of The Harbour, Naples

Drawing of shrimp fishing

Drawing of Boulogne fisherwomen

Drawing of a fishing lugger

Drawing of fishermen unloading their catch

Drawing of a beached hulk on the Thames

Drawing of a hulk at Portsmouth

Print of a bullfight

Print – Panorama of Rome

Print – Madonna and Child

Gouache painting – Vesuvius eruption 1872

Gouache painting – Vesuvius eruption 1868

Gouache painting – On the road to Posilipo

Gouache painting -Vesuvius eruption

Drawing – Study of a Youth

Drawing – Christ and the Fishermen

Drawing – Illustrations for Tristram Shandy

Drawing – Illustrations for The Pilgrims Progress

Print – Coal porter drinking beer

Print – Bird’s eye view of Venice

Print – The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Pill or medicine packet from Vienna

Pill or medicine packet from Vienna

Print – Glacier in the Alps

Print – Ascension au Mont Blanc

Print – Mont Blanc massif

Adverting card – Hotel de Cheval Blanc

Scrapbook cover – Journey Views

Print of Venice

Print – The Doge’s Palace from the sea, Venice

Ticket to a bullfight

Print – Valetta, Malta

Print – Valetta, Malta

Gouache painting – Several new craters formed

Gouache painting – Naples from the Sea

Print of Naples and Vesuvius

Print of pizza seller

Map of Southern Italy and Sicily

Print of a gondola, Venice

Drawing of a Roman ox cart

Drawing of The so-called Temple of Vesta, Rome

Passport – Thomas Man Bridge, Miss Bridge, Miss Bisset. 1843

Passport – Thomas Man Bridge, Miss Bridge, Miss Bisset, 1839

Passport -Thomas Man Bridge, 1836

Print – In Greenland seas is caught the monstrous whale

Vertebra of North Atlantic Right Whale

Cat o’ nine tails whip

Marine sextant

Drawing of the Trajanic frieze on the Arch of Constantine, Rome

Drawing of Roman reliefs on the Arch of Constantine

Drawing – Studies of men reading

Drawing – A man drawing another asleep

Engraving – Melancholia

Engraving – The Holy Family with a dragonfly

Drawing – Studies of deer with a city beyond

Drawing – Studies of a swan

Drawing of Hercules slaying the Hydra

Drawing of St George and the dragon

Drawing of detail from the Expulsion of Heliodurus

Watercolour – Old Town, Folkestone

Oil painting – Landing the Catch

Lithograph – Folkestone Harbour

Watercolour – Folkestone Harbour

Illustrated London News – Benvenue shipwreck

Oil painting – Sinkking of the Benvenue

Ship model of Benvenue

Needlework sampler – Elizabeth Brazier

Watercolour – On board theQueen

Oil painting of smugglers

Tobacco twist wrapped in rope

Oil painting – Dogfish Season

Ship’s compass

Water colour – Pelter Brig

Oil painting – Pelter Brig in the Warren

Life-saving rocket instructions

Life-line throwing stick

Life-saving coastguard rocket

Seal of Folkestone

Folkestone Town Council banner

Red Kite bird specimen

Silver coins from Ancient Greece

Watercolour of a bee orchid

Photograph – playground at Cheriton

Oil painting – St Eanswythe’s playground

Miniature books for a doll’s house

Satsuma-ware Japanese sugar pot

Tudor rustic-ware Palissy dish

Mosaic pieces – Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem

Porcelain chocolate cup

Scarab beetle amulets – Ancient Egypt

Biddenden cakes – Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst

Bombardo game

Table croquet game

Advert for Santa Claus’ Toy Club

Watercolour – Folkestone Town Crier

William Harvey’s pestle and mortar

Watercolour of Bouverie Shield

Bouverie Shield – Folkestone’s old Town Hall

Butter churn

Iron sword

Daub fragment

Socketed spearhead

Shield boss

Disc brooch with garnets

Bead necklace

Bead necklace

Bead necklace

Bronze buckle with garnet

Silver sceatta coin

Gold stud

Oil painting – Sandgate from the Downs

Butterfly collection

Butterfly collection

Emu egg ornament

Anglo-Saxon skeleton

Ostrich egg ornament

Seal of St Eanswythe

Wild boar tusk and jawbone

Emu egg ornament