The photograph above shows the rear yard at Castles Wharf in Woolwich around 1910. The figureheads of HMS Cressy and HMS Glasgow can be seen in the far background. The former figurehead of HMS Cressy was subsequently displayed on the new Head [...]
The Orion figurehead appeared on the central gate at Baltic Wharf in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and presented an imposing figurehead, which would have been admired by the many passers by walking down Milbank towards the [...]
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On many furniture items there is often a circular plate attached thereto with the company name and address inscribed on it. The plate was made from celluloid, a cellular and camphor thermoplastic process, dating back to the 1860s. It was often [...]