Layton Collection

04/03/2025

The best Pancake recipe, from "The English House-wife" by Gervase Markham (1683).



http://thomaslayton.org.uk/2017/05/10/the-english-house-wife/

23/12/2024

in 1872, despite Christmas being a very busy time for a coal merchant, Thomas Layton married Alice Symonds. She became a district visitor for the St George’s Church Provident and Clothing Club, helping those in need in Old Brentford. Both are buried in South Ealing Cemetery.

11/12/2024

Layton was a churchwarden here in his youth and his bequest enabled a bell tower to be added in 1913. A memorial plaque to Thomas Layton F.S.A. can still be found on the side of the converted church.

Photograph c.1880 of the first St George's Church, Brentford. Designed by John Joshua Kirby, erected in 1766 as an unconsecrated chapel for 57 prominent Brentford residents. It was replaced by the larger church designed by Arthur Blomfield in 1886/7. The tower was added in 1913.

05/11/2024

From the Layton Collection, a print of the famous image of 'Guido Fawkes and His Associates'. Based on the 1605 engraving by Crispijn de Passe the Elder, reprinted by G Smeeton in 1819.

https://thomaslayton.org.uk/2012/10/19/guido-fawkes/

31/10/2024

The mangel wurzel was introduced into England in the C18th. In Somerset on the last Thursday in October children would carry around decorated lanterns made from mangel wurzels & sing the “Punkie Song”. In Norfolk & Wales they were carved for .

https://thomaslayton.org.uk/2019/02/15/3002/

21/10/2024

Many reports that appeared in the British periodical "The Naval Chronicle" (1799-1818) were by naval officers, including Lord Horatio Nelson. Layton’s copy of vol 2 includes a bookseller’s note stating that it once belonged to Lady Nelson.

https://thomaslayton.org.uk/2018/08/20/the-naval-chronicle-vols-1-40/