Metropolitan Collection (#11)

Woman police officer talking in a school classroom
Woman police officer (Helen Parnell) talking to a group of children in a school classroom. Date: circa 1980s

A French cornemuse and an Indian sarangi
Page from the Illustrated London News, 9th March 1963, showing two instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: a French cornemuse

Women police officers in new Hartnell uniform, London
Two women police officers (WPS Josie Seed and WPS Marjorie McIntyre) in the newly designed Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968 to try to encourage recruitment. Date: late 1960s

Woman police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London, surrounded by pedestrians on a busy day. She is wearing the new style Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968. Date: circa late 1960s

Woman police officer outside police station, London
Woman police officer (Peggy Spalton) standing outside a London police station. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer in portrait photo
Woman police officer (Winnie Gould) in a portrait photo, in the Bather style uniform which was worn from 1946 to 1968 -- four-buttoned jacket with matching material belt, white shirt and tie

Two women police officers walking along London street
Two women police officers (Sergeant Neale, left, and Constable Cooper, right) walking along a London street. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer and woman with handbag, London
Woman police officer talking to a young woman with a handbag outside a shop on a London street, and making notes in a notebook. Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer standing by mounted policeman, London
Woman police officer standing by a mounted policeman just off Hammersmith Bridge, West London. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police officer and woman with handbag
Woman police officer, Sergeant Greta Drinkwater (nee Saban), talking to a woman with a handbag in a London street. Drinkwater would rise to the rank of Chief Superintendent

Two women police officers in a London street
Two women police officers (Valerie Fenner, left, and Sarah Phillips, right) walking along a London street with a wrought iron gate in the background. Date: circa 1950s

Five police officers outside Peel House, London
A group of five police officers (four women and one man) outside Peel House, a Met Police training centre in London, with a police public call box immediately behind them

Woman police officer in air raid helmet, London, WW2
Portrait photo of a woman police officer wearing an air raid helmet in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Group of six women police officers in London, WW2
Group of six women police officers, one of them a sergeant, wearing air raid helmets and carrying canvas bags in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Two women police officers in London, WW2
Two women police officers on duty wearing air raid helmets on a London street during the Second World War. They are WPCs Ivy Baxter and Beatrice Gargrave (both joined June 1937). Date: 1940s

Woman police officer W Gould in uniform, London
Woman police officer Winifred Gould (joined August 1931) in a studio photo with painted backdrop. She is wearing the recently updated Stanley uniform -- a white shirt and tie were introduced

Women police officers at work, WEC, London. They are Sergeant Patricia May Atkinson (seated left, joined August 1946), and Constables Ada Sandy (joined July 1928)

Woman police officer, Charlotte Grace Dixon, London
An early woman police officer, Inspector Charlotte Grace Dixon, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1920. Date: early 1920s

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills, London
Portrait photo of Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer. She joined the force in January 1919, and is seen here wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

Two early women police officers with dog, WW1
Two early women police officers (on the left is Lilian Maud Newell, who joined the force at the start of the First World War), standing on a lawn with a small dog. Date: 1910s

Sir Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), architect and renowned creator of the government buildings at Delhi and the Cenotaph among other notable structures

The Workmans Train. Interior of a third class carriage running workers from the suburbs of London into the city centre. The illustration related to a feature in the same issue of The Illustrated

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

150th Anniversary of the Bow Street Runners
PC Carol Price chats to PC Dave Edwards with his horse, and PC Stephen Cass. Carol Price was the last policewoman ever to wear this uniform on the streets of London

Goldie Leigh Childrens Cottage Homes, Bostall Woods, Plumst
Entrance to the Woolwich Unions Goldie Leigh cottage homes at Bostall Heath, Plumstead, erected in 1899 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

LCC-LFB Change from brass to cork fire helmets
A significant landmark when on 14 July 1934 the LFB started to replace its traditional brass helmet with a new compressed cork design. It would be four years before the changeover was completed

LCC-MFB Royal visit to Brigade Headquarters
A rare picture of the Chief Officer, Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, as he waits to greet the Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII)

MFB Deptford fire station, SE London
Built for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1872, Deptford fire station was located on the site of the present Deptford fire station at 186 Evelyn Street, SE8

Fire brigade horse drawn manual fire pump
A horse drawn manual fire pump typical of those used by the London Fire Engine Establishment (1833) and in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade before the widespread introduction of horse drawn steam engines

LCC- MFB Notting Hill fire station, West London
Notting Hill fire station (A10) was built in 1868 by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB), located at 83 Ladbroke Road. The previous year

MFB fire float and tug with river firemen
A Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire float and tug with river firemen. These composite craft were introduced in 1877 by Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, Chief Fire Officer of the MFB

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham

The Asylum, Peckham
Peckham House on the High Street, Peckham - a Metropolitan Licensed Mad House Date: Date unknown

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham - Doctors Residence
Uniformed nurses stand next to the doctors residence at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham. Opened in 1877

DI Jill McTeague, Arts & Antiques Squad, with necklace
DI Jill McTeague of the Arts & Antiques Squad of the Metropolitan Police, holding a stolen necklace which has been recovered

Metropolitan Police officers in the station canteen
A group of Metropolitan Police officers relaxing in the canteen at West End Central police station during a tea break. Included in the photograph are PCs Ian Fletcher, John Foxley, Arthur Webb

Met Police Commissioner, Operation Bumblebee
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Condon (now Baron Condon, b 1947), giving a talk about Operation Bumblebee, a campaign for burglary prevention launched in 1993. Date: circa 1993

Hospital ships Atlas, Endymion, Castalia, at Long Reach
View of the Metropolitan Asylums Boards hospital ships Atlas (left), Endymion (centre) and Castalia (right) on the River Thames at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent

Metropolitan Police photographer at work
A Metropolitan Police photographer at work, focusing his attention on a car engine

Metropolitan Police Duty Hints instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Duty Hints for Constables and Section Sergeants

Metropolitan Police headphones and radio

Metropolitan Police Helicopters
A pair of Metropolitan Police Helicopters. In the foreground is one of the first three Metropolitan Police Bell 222 air support helicopters (G-METC)

White Oak School, Swanley, Kent
General view of the White Oak School, Swanley, Kent. The school was established in 1903 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the treatment of ophthalmia, a highly infectious condition of the eyes

Children at Eastcliff House, Margate, Kent
Residents outside Eastcliff House, Alexandra Road, Margate, Kent. It was established as a childrens seaside convalescent home by the St Pancras Union in 1896

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio. There are neon advertisements for Coca Cola, Cinzano, Skol, Volkswagen

Met Police cadets on parade
A group of Metropolitan Police cadets on parade, with a brass band playing in the background

Patients playing bar billiards, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing three patients, two in dressing gown and pyjamas, one in shirt and trousers, playing bar billiards in a rest room

Traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford
A night time traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford, Essex. The bollard in the middle of the road says Keep Left, but this car kept a little too far to the left

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