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Surrey Iron Railway

1804

Early stag horn implement

6000 BCE

Daily Herald Photograph: Wandsworth Nursery

1937-09-08

Daily Herald Photograph: Ernest Bevin campaigning for election

1945

High pressure Piston of an 1835 Beam Engine

Mural panels illustrating Medieval Agriculture

1951

Daily Herald Photograph: Unloading a colliery ship

1947-01-06

Daily Herald Photograph: Wandsworth Nursery

1937-09-08

Cyclecar

1921

Cyclorama, architectural feature, scene entitled: 1807 – after a cartoon by Rowlandson captioned ‘A Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall-Mall’, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1807 – after a cartoon by Rowlandson captioned ‘A Peep at the Gas Lights in Pall-Mall’

1950-1951

Sculpture. Mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, [1951]. Iron, forged using a unique process; [sight] 8x40 ft. First of a cyclorama frieze of three silhouette scenes of agricultural practice, commissioned for the Science Museum Agriculture Gallery; based on tomb drawings. Parts include digging sticks; man-drawn and ox-drawn ploughs; broadcast of seed

Mural panels illustrating Egyptian Agriculture

1951

Mild steel rod, straight, approximately 0.5-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Mild steel rod

1950-1951

Part of a mild steel rod support frame, very similar to 1993-1602/10, approximately 1.8-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Part of a mild steel rod support frame, approximately 1.8-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene

1950-1951

Mild steel rod, part of a support frame, very similar to 1993-1602/6, approximately 2.6-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Mild steel rod

1950-1951

Glass components, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Glass Components

1950-1951

Glass component, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Glass Component

1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1830 – A Ball at the Mansion House. After Gustave Dore, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1830 – A Ball at the Mansion House. After Gustave Dore

1950-1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a section of spike-toothed harrow. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Section of Spike-Toothed Harrow

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting Medieval man standing with a whip folded in the hand. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of Medieval Man Standing with a Whip Folded

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting an Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Egyptian Agriculture, Egyptian man holding a whip while supporting ox-driven plough and a boy holding a whip

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting three Medieval men harvesting with sickles, two cropping and one leaning onto side. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of three Medieval men harvesting with sickles, two cropping and one leaning onto side

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a Medieval man with a whip. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Medieval man with a whip

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a Medieval man broadcasting seeds and a dog. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Medieval Man Broadcasting Seeds and a Dog

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two ox and an Egyptian man holding a bucket and broadcasting seeds. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, two ox and an Egyptian man holding a bucket and broadcasting seeds

1951

'Dimensions &c.' [Engine dimension book of Messrs. Wentworth & Sons, Iron works, The Plain, Wandsworth. Seemingly covers years 1847-1886; the engines supplied to each customer are described in great detail.]

Dimensions &c.

1847-1886

Sculpture. Mural panel illustrating modern agriculture, by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, [1951]. Iron, forged using a unique process; [sight] 8x14 ft. Third of a cyclorama frieze of three silhouette scenes of agricultural practice, commissioned for the Science Museum Agriculture Gallery; includes tractor and crop spraying by helicopter.

Mural panels ilistrating Modern Agriculture

1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: Today – The Use of Gas for the Heating of an Industrial Furnace, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: Today – The Use of Gas for the Heating of an Industrial Furnace

1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1890 – The Advent of the Incandescent mantle for Street Lighting, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1890 – The Advent of the Incandescent mantle for Street Lighting

1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1860 – The Lighting of a Victorian Drawing Room by Gas, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Cyclorama, architectural feature scene entitled: 1860 – The Lighting of a Victorian Drawing Room by Gas

1950-1951

Mild steel rod, straight, approximately 1.8-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Mild steel rod

1950-1951

Mild steel rod, straight, approximately 1.6-Metres in width, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Mild steel rod

1950-1951

Glass component, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Glass Component

1950-1951

Glass component, from unidentified section and unidentified Cyclorama, architectural feature scene, designed by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, England - as commissioned by the Science Museum, London, for the Museum’s Gas Gallery - and cast by J. Starkie Gardner Ltd., London, England, 1950-1951

Glass Component

1950-1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a Mediaval man standing with a flail. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Mediaval man standing with a flail

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a bird flying. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a bird flying

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a horse, with a harness for pulling the harrow. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a horse, with a harness for pulling the harrow

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, three Egyptian men, one supporting and two pulling the plough

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two Egyptian men supporting a man-driven plough while one also carrying a bucket. Created by Ralph Stephenson, 1951.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, Two Egyptian Men Supporting a Man-Driven Plough

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two Egyptian men leaning and holding digging sticks. Created by Ralph Stephenson.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, Two Men Holding Digging Sticks

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a Medieval man thrashing with a flail. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a Medieval man thrashing with a flail

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a bird flying. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a bird flying

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Medieval agriculture, depicting a bird flying with two small component representing the sky. Created by Ralph Stephenson Lavers, 1951.

Mural of a bird flying

1951

Sculpture, mural panel illustrating Egyptian agriculture, depicting two Egyptian men leaning and holding digging sticks. Created by Ralph Stephenson.

Mural of Egyptian Agriculture, two men holding digging sticks

1951