'Astragalus caulescens...' mb-artistname Charles Wild The Eccles Company pioneered caravans

The Eccles Company pioneered caravans in Britain and did much to popularise this new form of leisure

South view of the Custom House

The amateurs of the Pic Nic Society dressing and rehearsing

This cartoon illustrates the views of the disgruntled and departed occupants of the Woolsack at a measure that was seen to lower Equity 'to a vulgar level'

'Astragalus caulescens...' mb-artistname Charles Wild The Eccles Company pioneered caravansBotanical study, flowers and leaves of Astragalus caulescens, inscribed in ink: 'ASTRAGALUS caulescens, spicis cylindricis subsilitus, calycitus leguminibus que lanatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. edit X.' Signed and dated lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit 1760'. Pencil inscription verso: '2769 4'. Original: watercolour on vellum. 1760