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Metropolitan Police coshA Metropolitan Police cosh with a leather looped handle
Childrens Ward, Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting, SurreyChildren in cots and nurses in a ward of the Fountain Hospital at Tooting in Surrey (now South London). The hospital was opened in 1893 as a fever hospital by the Metropolitan Asylums Board
Highlands Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Enfield, MiddlesexThe entrance to the Highlands Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. The site began life as the Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital (or Northern Hospital)
Belmont Hospital, Sutton, SurreyBelmont Hospital, Brighton Road, Sutton. It began life in 1853 as the South Metropolitan District School, housing pauper children away from the workhouse
Anti Fireworks PosterMetropolitan Police sign warning against the use of fireworks in the street and selling them to children
Air Raid Shelter PosterMetropolitan Police poster with information on air raid shelters in Brentford, London, during World War I
Police MotorcyclesMetropolitan Police motorcyclists esccorting an ambulance past Buckingham Palace in London
Tower Bridge / Carts 1930STwo horse-drawn carts, one from the Metropolitan Cartage Co. wait while Londons Tower Bridge opens
Woman police officer Kathleen Saville, London, WW2Woman police officer Kathleen Saville (joined January 1940), on duty in London during the Second World War, seen here at a railway station helping a group of child evacuees find their train
Millicent Duncan, early woman police officerMillicent Duncan, an early woman police officer. Date: 1910s
Edith Smith, first woman police officer in UKEdith Smith, first woman police officer in the UK, working in the Grantham area. Date: circa 1915
Firefighters with motor fire engine, Whitefriars MFBFirefighters with a motor fire engine, Whitefriars MFB (Metropolitan Fire Brigade)
LCC-LFB engines and crews, Shoreditch fire stationLocated at 140 Tabernacle Street, City of London EC2, Shoreditch fire station was built in 1896 for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade
Princess Diana and Prince Charles visiting the Met PolicePrincess Diana and Prince Charles on a visit to the Metropolitan Polices burglary squad. Date: circa 1980s
Closeup of a policemans helmetCloseup of a Metropolitan Police policemans helmet, with the E II R badge on it
First Metropolitan Police-DogsFront cover photograph showing two London policemen with the first Metropolitan police-dogs in 1938, thirty years after the first dogs were used by the North Eastern Railway Police to patrol Hull
Caterham Asylum. Surrey - Disabled Childrens WardA disabled childrens ward at Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental conditions
Caterham Asylum, Surrey - Childrens Training CentreThe childrens training centre at Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental
Caterham Asylum, Surrey - Carpentry ClassA carpentry class for inmates of Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental
Nelson Pillar, Dublin, Ireland. circa 1905
Two women police officers and woman with suitcaseTwo women police officers (Jean Grasy and Margaret Findlay or Knight), one of them a sergeant, talking to a young woman with a suitcase on a London street. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1960s
Police sergeant with women in military uniform, WW1Police sergeant standing in front of a car (or ambulance) with a group of women in military uniform, WW1. Date: 1914-1918
Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with
LCC- MFB motorised senior officers carAt the turn of the century motorised transport was making its presence felt in Londons fire brigade, Seen here is Superintendent Cs Egerton
LCC-MFB horse drawn steamer at GreenwichA horse drawn steamer and crew at Greenwich fire station, Bisset Street, SE London, during the latter years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (it was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904)
MFB and LCC-LFB Mile End fire station, East LondonBuilt by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1866, this station was passed to the LCC-London Fire Brigade in 1889 when the LCC was created
Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, FulhamEntrance to the ambulance station at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham. Opened in 1877, it was the fourth such hospital to be erected by the Metropolitan Asylums Board which in 1869
Queen Victorias procession in SmithfieldThe Royal procession of Queen Victoria in Smithfield, passing the Metropolitan Meat Market. The Queens visit to the City of London was for the purpose of opening the new bridge over the Thames at
Sister and patient, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, HoveA nursing sister and her patient in the surgery of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex
Metropolitan police officer with dog at back of vanA Metropolitan police officer standing at the back of his open van, where his Alsatian dog stands ready for action. Date: circa 1960s
Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, south west LondonAdministration block of the Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, south west London (originally in Surrey), one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment
Policeman and policewoman with gas masksA policeman and a policewoman wearing civilian gas masks outside Harrow Road Police Station (X Division) before the outbreak of World War Two. The respirator is contained in the canvas bag
Police group on Coronation Day, 1911A group of policemen pose for their photograph outside Hammersmith Police Station, west London, to commemorate the Coronation of King George V
Met Police stopwatch -- inside faceA Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed
Sir Walter Macarthur Allen (1870-1943), Commander in Chief of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC). Portrait photograph by Hay Wrightson
Four patients at the Medical Centre, HendonScene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing four patients in dressing gowns and pyjamas chatting in a hospital ward
Policemans helmet with Christmas lightsA closeup view of a policemans helmet with a night time street behind it, decorated with Christmas lights
Traffic Accident GroupA Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker
Grove Military Hospital, Tooting Grove, SurreyChildren stand at the gates of the Grove Hospital at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) during its First World War service as a military hospital
Fountain Hospital, Tooting, SurreyThe Fountain Hospital at Tooting in Surrey (now South London) was opened in 1893 as a fever hospital by the Metropolitan Asylums Board
Grove Fever Hospital, Tooting Grove, SurreyBirds eye view of the Grove Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London), one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious
Gloucester Road, London, with Gloucester Road tube Station (right) and Baileys Hotel (now the home to an excellent Indian Restaurant!)
Police on Walkie TalkiePolice officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police
Policeman riding a Triumph motorcyleA police rider turning a corner on his Triumph motorcycle, fitted with white legshields and a front numberplate (denoting this picture is pre-1975)
London / Embankment / 1867A section of the Thames Embankment, showing the Subway, the Pneumatic Railway, the Metropolitan and District Railway and the Low-Level Sewer
First Underground TrainThe first public train on Londons underground Metropolitan Railway takes passengers from Paddington to Farringdon Street
Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd 1909Metropolitan Electric Tramways Ltd, operating in North London, adopting the German trackless idea of running electric trolley cars on the ordinary road. Date: 1909
Two early women police officers -- one of them is Millicent Duncan (right). Date: 1910s