Cigarette card
Player's Cigarettes
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
67 x 35 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 742586.2
Summary
One of a set of mismatched cigarette cards wrapped in a piece of newspaper. Cigarette card, Full colour image of a red car coming through a central arch with people and shops on either side. Above in the sky is printed 'Payer's Cigarettes' and at the bottom on the road edge 'Stonebow Lincoln'. On the back printed in blue on a white card; '46 CELEBRATED GATEWAYS. A SERIES OF 50. Stonebow, Lincoln. The South City Gate, or Stonebow, Lincoln, is a fine example of a 15th cen- tury city gate, and con- sisted originally of one arch over the roadway, the side arches having been cut in modern times. Over the central arch, which is flanked with turrets, are the royal arms; and under canopies are statues of the Virin Mary and the Angel Gabriel. The chambers above from the Guildhall, where the Corporation Councils are held. ISSUED BY JOHN PLAYER&SONS. BRANCH OF THE IMPERIAL TOBACCO CO> (OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND), LTD. NOTTINGHAM.'. The Guildhall and Stonebow, Lincoln has been the meeting place of the Lincoln City Council from Medieval times to the present. The term ‘‘Stonebow’’ indicates a stone archway that visitors entering the city from the south, along the High Street, would have passed through. The present building was completed around 1520, but has been subject to alterations in about 1840 and in 1885-90. The Stonebow is built from the local limestone. The exterior has crenellated parapets on both sides. South front has a roll moulded segmental central arch flanked by single round buttresses with canopied niches containing figures. Above, a tablet with pilaster surround with the arms of James I, and above again, two 2-light mullioned windows. Over them, there is a stepped gable containing a clock. On either side of the main arch there are two walkway arches, those to the right original, with hoodmoulds. The North side has a plainer central arch, flanked by a single walkway arch to left and 2 to the right. Over the inner archways, small 2-light windows. Above, three 2-light pointed arched windows and parapet gable with clock. Sometime about 1840 the Lincoln architect W A Nicholson made extensive alterations to the east end of the Stonebow, when the building that housed the old City prison was pulled down. Nicholson observed that the Roman wall of the Lower Colonia in Lincoln was to the North of the Stonebow and was still standing to the height of about 15 feet. This suggests that the Stonebow was a Barbican, that had been built forward of the Roman southern gateway. Nicholson appears to have been the architect responsible for the present building to the east of the Stonebow completed about 1844 which now contains the Mayor's Parlour and the display of Civic regalia. Further alterations took place 1885-90 by the architect J. L.Pearson, who was responsible for alterations on the west side of the Stonebow. Pearson created an additional passageway arch and the shop units under the arch.
Makers and roles
Player's Cigarettes , manufacturer