Homes Collection (#22)

Low rent - Woodhill Homes, 2567 Woodhill Road. Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority promoting low income housing, showing a construction worker waving with houses in the background

Dedication ceremonies - Ida B. Wells Homes... parade along South Parkway... Chicago Housing Authority. Poster showing a trowel and a wreath. Date 1940

Wanted! 10, 000 guest homes, 1000 furnished houses for Worlds Fair visitors by March 15. Poster calling for guest homes to be available during the New York Worlds Fair. Date 1939

Ewarts Califont Hot Water Supply, 1927
Advertisement for Ewarts Califont Hot Water Supply, advising you to just turn the tap to enjoy hot, running water. Beyond a bathroom, a maid does the washing in a large butlers sink. Date: 1927

The Y has more than 2000 such homes for our boys - United War Work Campaign, November 11-18. Poster showing a group of soldiers approaching a warmly lit YMCA facility, through the snow, at night

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota. Date c1890 August 16

Suburban homes, a book containing exterior views and floor plans, drawn to a scale, of all these cottages. Date c1878 May 16

House at sunset
Bold, graphic style illustration of a small house of cottage pictured in silhouette, surrounded by trees and set against a vivid orange sky. Date: c.1930s

Dr Barnardos Homes Carnival Programme cover
Front cover of a souvenir handbook and Programme of Music accompanying a Carnival and Fancy Fair held at Bingley Hall, Birmingham from the 7th to 16th June 1923 in aid of Dr Barnardos Homes

Home Ownership Co-operative Insurance Company booklet
Front cover of a booklet advising potential home owners on a house purchase plan, with a picture of a perfect looking 1920s house. Date: 1954

Welcome - defense workers! Homes registration office : Defense rental listing bureau. Poster alerting defense workers to the availability of houses, apartments, and rooms

Liverpool Cottage Homes - Infants
A group of infants at the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes, Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1908

Liverpool Cottage Homes - Girls drill
Girls perform a playground drill with sticks at the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes, Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1906

Erdington Cottage Homes Girls Netball Team
Girls 1926-27 netball team at Erdington Homes, Birmingham. The homes were opened in 1899 by the Aston Union to house pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site

Merthyr Tydfil Union Cottage Homes, Llwydcoed, Glamorgan
Merthyr Tydfil Union cottage homes at Llwydcoed, near Aberdare, Glamorgan. The homes, which house pauper children away from the workhouse, were erected in around 1912. Date: Date unknown

Liverpool Cottage Homes, Wavertree
A general view of the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes at Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Liverpool Cottage Homes - Seniors in Fancy Dress
A group of older children in fancy dress at the Liverpool Vestrys Cottage Homes at Olive Mount, Wavertree. The homes were erected in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1908

NCH London Presenting Bibles to Canadian Emigrants
A ceremony in the chapel of the London Branch of the National Childrens Homes (NCH) at Bonner Road, Bethnal Green. Children about to emigrate to new lives in Canada are being presented with bibles

Lady Mayoress and Lord Mayor of London
The Lady Mayoress watched by the Lord Mayor of London handing a Way Bill to one of the carmen who took hampers arranged by Sir William Treloar to the homes of disabled children

Erdington Cottage Homes Girls Hockey Team
Girls 1926-27 hockey team at Erdington Homes, Birmingham. The homes were opened in 1899 by the Aston Union to house pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site

Erdington Cottage Homes Holiday - Boys Band at Rhyl, North

John Wycliffe Wilson

Erdington Cottage Homes Holiday at Rhyl, North Wales
A party of children from the Aston Union workhouse cottage homes on holiday in Rhyl. They are seated in a charabanc (an open-top coach)

Erdington Cottage Homes Girls Swimming Team
Girls swimming team at Erdington Homes, Birmingham. The homes were opened in 1899 by the Aston Union to house pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site

Liverpool Cottage Homes - snow clearing

Erdington Cottage Homes Boys Swimming Team
Boys swimming team at Erdington Homes, Birmingham. The homes were opened in 1899 by the Aston Union to house pauper children away from the main workhouse which occupied an adjacent site

Lake-dwellers attacked
Lake-dwelling Britons near Glastonbury are attacked by rival land-dwellers

Grace and favour home of Princess Margaret and Earl Snowdon
The grace and favour house at Kensington Palace which was the first home of Princess Margaret following her marriage to Anthony Armstrong Jones in May 1960. Date: 1960

Silkeborg, Denmark - Youth Hostel (consisting of a row of thatched tent-like strictures). Perhaps the forerunner of modern eco-living?! Date: 1935

Kings House, Sandwich
The doorway to the splendid Kings House, with the Arms of King Henry VIII carved above it, Sandwich, Kent, England. Date: 16th century

Agnes Weston
AGNES E WESTON philanthropist, known as The Mother of the Navy because the principal beneficiaries of her efforts were seamen for whom she provided homes. Date: 1840 - 1918

Sissons sinks advertisement, 1950s
Advertisement for Sissons stainless steel sinks, bringing gleaming glamour to your kitchen. c.1950

Atalaya - Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. Date: 1905

Japanese Feast of Dolls
Every year, on the third day of the third month, the Hina Matsuri - Feast of Dolls - is celebrated in Japanese homes, girls receiving new additions to their collections. Date: 1899

Annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes
Scene from the annual celebrations of Dr. Barnardos Homes in The Royal Albert Hall. Here young girls perform physical exercise in the Indian Club Drill display. An exhibition of the good work of Dr

Kensington Palace Garden
The beautiful sunken garden at Kensington Palace, London. Date: 1950s

Iron Age Houses
Well-preserved examples of Iron Age houses, at broch of Dun Carloway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Date: 1st Century BC

Peabody Statue
GEORGE PEABODY Statue of the American philanthropist whose benefactions created homes for the homeless outcasts of London. Date: 1870

Stray Dogs in Pound
A Foundling: Lost, stray or unwanted dogs have been caught and put into the pound to await their fates. Hopefully the owners or new ones will take them home soon. Date: 1870s

Marlborough House, Pall Mall, Westminster, London, was built for Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, by both father and son Christopher Wren and was completed in 1711. Date: completed 1711

World War Two Bomb Damage
A couple survey the damage caused by a bomb dropped on the UK during World War Two. Date: circa 1942

National Childrens Home & Orphanage Birmingham Branch - Gir
The Birmingham branch of the home and orphanage run by the National Childrens Home (NCH). Here, boys and girls from the home stand in front of the girls homes. Date: Date unknown

National Childrens Home London Branch - Printers Room
The London branch of the home and orphanage run by the National Childrens Home (NCH). Here, boys are shown in the homes printers room surrounded by printing machinery. Date: Date unknown

1930s housing
A typical example of 1930s housing, showing a pair of semi-detatched houses with rounded bays and the typical landscape windows of the period. c.1935

Isle of Skye - The Island of Rhum viewed from Elgol Date: circa 1920s

Isle of Skye - Township amongst the Mountains
Isle of Skye - A Township amongst the Mountains Date: circa 1920s

Stepcote Hill, Exeter, Devon
Stepcote Hill - the ancient West Entrance to the City of Exeter, Devon. Date: circa 1930s

Dr Barnardos children migrating to Canada
A group of boys from one of Dr Barnardos homes onboard ship as they emigrate from Britain to Canada. Such emigration schemes aimed to give orphaned or abandoned children new lives in Canada

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