Metropolitan Collection (page 7)

Bard of Avon, Australian race horse, owned by J and J F Leitch, trainer E J Riley. Won the AJC Metropolitan as a four-year-old. Date: circa late 1920s

Captain Wells, Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade
Captain Wells, Chief Officer of London Metropolitan Fire Brigade. 1902

Electricity Generating Station, Poplar, East London
Electricity Generating Station, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, East London, fitted with Kinnear metal rolling shutters. Date: circa 1930s

Metropolitan Hotel, New York City, USA. 1857

Caterham Asylum, Surrey - Male Training
A male training workshop 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

Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, Greece
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, Greece, with the much smaller Church of St Eleutherius on the right. Date: circa 1910s

Metropolitan L over Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Metropolitan L (elevated railroad) over Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA. circa 1915

U. S. Troops in Mexico City
General Scotts grand entrance into Mexico City. Soldiers on horseback and on foot fill up the Plaza de la Constituticion, with the Metropolitan Cathedral in the background. The U.S

Kings Cross underground station 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864
Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864

Entrance to the Clerkenwell tunnel from Farringdon Street, London, on the Metropolitan line, Great Northern Railway. 1860s

Trial-trip on the Underground Railway 1862
Dignitaries taking a ride on the first underground train on the Metropolitan Railway line, waving their hats in the air as they ride on a wooden steam locomotive between Paddington and Farrinton

The new tunnel under the Seine
Plans for the extension to the Paris Metro beneath the River Seine 1905

Gala Performance at the Met, New York - Josef Hofmann
Golden Jubilee Gala Performance at the Met, New York by Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) - Polish American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor

Metropolitan railway and Fleet Ditch 1862
Engraving from the foot of Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, at its junction with Bagnigge Wells Road. of a portion of the works in progress for this vast undertaking. 1862

General Strike - volunteer driving electric tube train
The General Strike - a volunteer driving an electric tube train on the Metropolitan underground railway. 1926

Leslie Thornton in the dock at a trial in Moscow, USSR
Leslie Thornton in the dock, at a trial in Moscow of employees of the Metropolitan Vickers Company, April 1933. They were charged with sabotage, espionage

Certificate to schoolchildren from Mayor of Woolwich, WW2
Certificate presented to the schoolchildren of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich by the Mayor, Edwin Thomas Lamerton, on the occasion of the Cease Fire in Europe (8 May 1945)

Truncheon with comic verse on a Christmas card
Policemans truncheon with comic verse on a Christmas card -- probably a reference to the Trafalgar Square Riots of November 1887, also known as Bloody Sunday. Date: circa 1887

London policemen in daytime uniform. 19th century

Map, Metropolitan Underground Railway, serving Aldgate, City, Kew Gardens, Richmond and other London locations. 1880

A nurse carrying out Balneotherapy - Millfield Home
A nurse carrying out Balneotherapy - spraying with sea water - at the the Millfield Home for children with tuberculosis at Rustington, near Littlehampton, Sussex

Chicago Tribune Building, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1907

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

Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 2 -- dismay on the faces of the market stall sellers as a horse and cart trample all over the baskets of veg. 1883

Charles Tyson Yerkes, Metropolitan District Railway
Charles Tyson Yerkes, owner of the Metropolitan District Railway. circa 1900s

LCC-LFB engines and crews, Shoreditch fire station
Located at 140 Tabernacle Street, City of London EC2, Shoreditch fire station was built in 1896 for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade

MFB firemen practising rescue techniques, with a man about to jump from an upper window. Date: circa 1890s

Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now London Fire Brigade) and its predecessor, the London Fire Engine Establishment, from 1861 to 1891

Portrait of a late Victorian MFB fireman with engine
Portrait of a late Victorian MFB fireman, number 134, with engine. Date: circa 1890s

Captain Lionel de Latour Wells, MFB Chief Officer
Captain Lionel de Latour Wells RN, Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade from 1896 to 1903. Date: circa 1900

LFB Fulham Fire Station firemen, SW London
Group photo, LFB Fulham Fire Station firemen, SW London. Date: circa 1900s

Kings Cross underground station, London 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Severe low-lying fog crisis over the capital of London, which afflicted London between the 1870s and the mid-1890s. Date: 1882

Poll Tax demonstrators in the roadway, Central London
Poll Tax demonstrators in the roadway in Central London. One man stands in fighting pose, with his fists clenched. Another man holds a placard with the words: Bog Off Thatcher

Poll Tax demonstrator and Met Police van, Central London
A Poll Tax demonstrator aims a metal barrier at the back of a Police van, during a violent demonstration in Central London. Date: 31 March 1990

Metropolitan Police officers, training on horseback
A group of Metropolitan Police officers on horseback, taking part in a training exercise with rioters. Date: circa 1990s

Policeman on horseback with an unruly crowd
A policeman on horseback, trying to control an unruly crowd. Date: 20th century

POLICE RIOT TRAINING
Four area TSG Metropolitan Police Officers shield training at the Hounslow public order training course, in full riot gear

MOUNTED POLICE OFFICER
Mounted police officer watching children at a street party celebrating the end of world war two on victory day Metropolitan police 1945

Metropolitan drinking Fountain and cattle trough association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

Local businesses were on protest against the increase charges of the Metropolitan Water Board on their registered meter. Photograph showing London City workers drawing water from the free Aldgate

Student nurses in a classroom
Classroom with a doctor teaching anatomy to a group of student nurses accompanied by their ward sister, location unknown. The Metropolitan Asylums Board (London)

Northern railway at Kings Cross junction 1861
Junction of the Great Northern railway at Kings Cross with the Metropolitan railway. Date: 1861

Proposed Metropolitan subway under London streets 1853
Proposed Metropolitan subway for sewage, gas and water supply. Date: 1853

Cartoon, Metropolitan Prize Puzzles No. 1 -- traffic at Marble Arch, Central London, before the introduction of the Congestion Charge. Date: 1883

Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness 1865
Exterior of the Southern Outfall Works of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness. This pumping station was built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, as part of Londons drainage scheme. Date: 1865

Engine House at the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works 1865
Visit of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) to open the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness. Number of visitors in the engine room of the works

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