Jul 25, 2016
London Just Inherited This Amazing Dick Whittington Collection:
Once Upon a Time — as in really quite recently — the Guildhall Library was "astonished" to find it had been bequeathed one of the the world's biggest collections of Dick Whittington memorabilia.
The cache of over 300 books, toys, puzzles, theatre programmes and lantern slides — themed around the man who was Lord Mayor of London four times — was betrothed to the Guildhall by Ellery Yale Wood, the prolific children's book collector.
Wood had been collecting the items for decades, storing them in her home in Wisbech, Lincolnshire, which had a warehouse attached to house her staggering collection of children's books.
No doubt, an exhibition is forthcoming, so stay tuned.
