Afternoon dress ca. 1878

Original vintage print advertisement for William Clemson & Co. Velvet Dyers & Printers located at Hargreaves Street in Manchester UK 1896

Victorian Dogs

http://thedustyvictorian.blogspot.com/2011/04/victorian-dogs.html

The Apprentice House

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRapprentice.htm

Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet

One of the great Victorians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Kay-Shuttleworth,_1st_Baronet

http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/jpkayo.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PHkay.htm

Buying icecream 1884

Buying icecream 1884

With a rusty old saw like this, a Victorian surgeon could amputate your leg in 30 seconds flat. One snag - they hadn't invented anaesthetic

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1045755/With-rusty-old-saw-like-Victorian-surgeon-amputate-leg-30-seconds-flat-One-snag--hadnt-invented-anaesthetic.html

With a rusty old saw like this, a Victorian surgeon could amputate your leg in 30 seconds flat. One snag - they hadn't invented anaesthetic

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1045755/With-rusty-old-saw-like-Victorian-surgeon-amputate-leg-30-seconds-flat-One-snag--hadnt-invented-anaesthetic.html

Say it with flowers: A new book revives the Victorian trend for bestowing meanings on our blooms

We may take our blooms as we see – or smell – them, but the Victorians devoted whole dictionaries to revealing their secret meanings.



http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/say-it-with-flowers-a-new-book-revives-the-victorian-trend-for-bestowing-meanings-on-our-blooms-2336164.html

Say it with flowers: A new book revives the Victorian trend for bestowing meanings on our blooms

We may take our blooms as we see – or smell – them, but the Victorians devoted whole dictionaries to revealing their secret meanings.



http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/say-it-with-flowers-a-new-book-revives-the-victorian-trend-for-bestowing-meanings-on-our-blooms-2336164.html

How our cuppa wouldn't exist if an amazing Victorian hadn't stolen the secret from China's warlords

Now, in the likely event that you are at this very moment drinking tea - likely because, as a nation, we pour 150 million cupfuls down our throats every day - you might care to give a nod to the memory of a tall and lean Scotsman by the name of Robert Fortune, a forgotten hero for the millions of us who swear by the amber nectar, the 'liquid jade', the cuppa, a brew, char.



Fortune was a seeker of the exotic, an explorer and a student of plants, just like his Victorian contemporary and fellow botanist, Charles Darwin, who is much discussed at present on the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On The Origin Of Species.



But where Darwin discovered the key to life, it was the little-known Fortune we can thank for making it infinitely more pleasurable and relaxing.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159458/The-great-tea-robbery-How-cuppa-wouldnt-exist-amazing-Victorian-hadnt-stolen-secret-Chinas-warlords.html#ixzz1URZeYyZy

How our cuppa wouldn't exist if an amazing Victorian hadn't stolen the secret from China's warlords

Now, in the likely event that you are at this very moment drinking tea - likely because, as a nation, we pour 150 million cupfuls down our throats every day - you might care to give a nod to the memory of a tall and lean Scotsman by the name of Robert Fortune, a forgotten hero for the millions of us who swear by the amber nectar, the 'liquid jade', the cuppa, a brew, char.



Fortune was a seeker of the exotic, an explorer and a student of plants, just like his Victorian contemporary and fellow botanist, Charles Darwin, who is much discussed at present on the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work On The Origin Of Species.



But where Darwin discovered the key to life, it was the little-known Fortune we can thank for making it infinitely more pleasurable and relaxing.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159458/The-great-tea-robbery-How-cuppa-wouldnt-exist-amazing-Victorian-hadnt-stolen-secret-Chinas-warlords.html#ixzz1URZeYyZy

Found in wallpapers, dresses and even libido pills: Arsenic, the Victorian Viagra that poisoned Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html

Found in wallpapers, dresses and even libido pills: Arsenic, the Victorian Viagra that poisoned Britain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html

Everyone over the age of 24: Think yourself lucky... burial records reveal short lives of starving Britons in 1809

Swine flu? Credit crunch? Pub prices going up and up? If you think you've got it bad, cheer up - at least you weren't around in 1809.

Records published online for the first time today reveal that in parts of Briton you could expect to be dead before you were 24.

The data from parish files shows how London was among the most dangerous and unhealthy places on the planet only 200 years ago.

Ancestry.co.uk said the capital's records will cover a period from 1539 to 1980, including information on many of the 100,000 Londoners who died of Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1666.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213871/Over-24-Think-lucky--burial-records-reveal-short-lives-starving-Britons-1809.html#ixzz1SwCIAPwh

Everyone over the age of 24: Think yourself lucky... burial records reveal short lives of starving Britons in 1809

Swine flu? Credit crunch? Pub prices going up and up? If you think you've got it bad, cheer up - at least you weren't around in 1809.

Records published online for the first time today reveal that in parts of Briton you could expect to be dead before you were 24.

The data from parish files shows how London was among the most dangerous and unhealthy places on the planet only 200 years ago.

Ancestry.co.uk said the capital's records will cover a period from 1539 to 1980, including information on many of the 100,000 Londoners who died of Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1666.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1213871/Over-24-Think-lucky--burial-records-reveal-short-lives-starving-Britons-1809.html#ixzz1SwCIAPwh

Baptism 1860

Baptism 1860

Cockington village