The Greenwich Millennium Embroideries

Home

The Story

Meet the embroiderers

Where to see the real thing

'Be in the Frame' 
campaign

Sponsors and donors

Contact or Donate

Sign our Guestbook

Links

Legal Info

Celts & Romans

Saxons & Vikings

Medieval

Tudor

Stuart

Georgian

Victorian

20th Century

Golden Jubilee

The Stuart Panel

The Central Panel

  1. View of the Fire of London from Greenwich
  2. Shipping on the Thames
  3. The Sovereign of the Seas with Samuel Pepys and the shipbuilder Peter Pett in front
  4. A rope maker in front of the rope yard at Woolwich
  5. Starting to build the Royal Hospital (the Royal Naval College)
  6. Trinity Hospital almshouses
  7. The Queen’s House
  8. Le Notre’s plan for Greenwich Park.  The seated figure is Inigo Jones.  The Portraits are of James I with Anne of Denmark and Charles I with Henrietta Maria
  9. The Royal Observatory with Flamestead, the first Astronomer Royal, and Sir Christopher Wren
  10. Plague victims at Combe Farm are being buried (mentioned in Samuel Pepys’ Diary)
  11. St Luke’s Church, Charlton
    Horn Fair at Charlton.  A ‘rude band’ leads the masked procession
  12. A Puritan family
  13. The Presbytery, Crooms Hill
  14. The Gazebo, Crooms Hill.  In front on the left is a plague doctor and on the right Sir William Hooker, Lord Mayor
    of London, saves a child from the plague
  15. The young prince plays golf on Blackheath
  16. Charlton House and
  17. mulberry tree.  Sir Henry Newton and his family parting because of civil war
  18. A Stuart family, boy with kite, girl with horn book and toddler in walking frame
  19. Eltham Lodge and garden in contemporary style of embroidery
  20. Horse and cart


 

To fully appreciate the detail, intricacy and colour:
View in full-screen mode (press F11)
And use the highest screen resolution (Start-->ControlPanel-->Display-->Settings)

This picture is compressed for faster page loading. For a more detailed close-up view follow the link at the bottom of the page

Click on the image for a key to the picture contents
It opens in a small window that you can move, and click to magnify. (Requires ActiveX)

The Border Panels

Left
Sir Adam Newton’s Coat of Arms

Tile from a house in Park Vista

Dark Lantern

The Tulip Staircase in the Queen’s House

Linenfold panelling*

Roundhead helmet

Clay pipe and tobacco pouch*

Woolwich penny


Right
Pepys’ Coat of Arms

Tile

Strapwork from a ceiling in Charlton House

Shoe from a portrait in Ranger’s House

Isaac Newton’s telescope

Deer from contemporary embroidery

Design on pottery used for the Borough Museum logo*

 

*These artefacts are in the Borough Museum


Click here to see the panel close-up