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Background imageRenamed Collection: Crusade of Rescue Offices, London

Crusade of Rescue Offices, London
The offices of the Crusade of Rescue (now renamed the Catholic Childrens Society), 48 Compton Street, London Date: circa 1910

Background imageRenamed Collection: South Ken Mus (V and A)

South Ken Mus (V and A)
An interior view of the South Kensington Museum, which will be renamed the Victoria and Albert in 1899 and rebuilt to reopen in 1909. Date: 1867

Background imageRenamed Collection: V and a Exterior Mono

V and a Exterior Mono
A boring photo of the recently rebuilt Victoria and Albert Museum, formerly the South Kensington Museum, renamed in 1899 as the V & A, and rebuilt to reopen in 1909. Date: 1914

Background imageRenamed Collection: Princess Louise visits Shaftesbury Homes Esher Place

Princess Louise visits Shaftesbury Homes Esher Place
After a merger with the National Society for the Protection of Young Girls (Princess Louise Home) in 1935, the Shaftesbury Homes Esher Place home was renamed Esher Place

Background imageRenamed Collection: Gloster F9-40 Rampage -Britains first jet fighter, sub

Gloster F9-40 Rampage -Britains first jet fighter, subsequently renamed Meteor

Background imageRenamed Collection: Womens College, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Womens College, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It was renamed Goucher College in 1910. Date: 1902

Background imageRenamed Collection: South Africa - West Street, Durban

South Africa - West Street, Durban
Black and white photo of West Street, Durban, South Africa. West Street was renamed Dr Pixley Kaseme Street in 2009.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 50

Background imageRenamed Collection: Melbourne Hospital, Lonsdale Street

Melbourne Hospital, Lonsdale Street
Black and white image of the exterior of the Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Australia. The hospital was rebuilt and renamed the Queen Victoria Hospital in 1911-1912

Background imageRenamed Collection: Palace Hotel, Caux, Vaud, Switzerland

Palace Hotel, Caux, Vaud, Switzerland. The building now operates as a hotel school, and, renamed Mountain House, is the conference centre for the international organisation, Initiatives of Change

Background imageRenamed Collection: Dulwich Home Girls at Southbourne, Dorset

Dulwich Home Girls at Southbourne, Dorset
A seaside trip to Southbourne for residents of the Home for Girls at 62 Overhill Road, East Dulwich. The original home, the first to be established by the Waifs and Strays Society

Background imageRenamed Collection: Meal-time at St Saviours Home for Girls, Harrow

Meal-time at St Saviours Home for Girls, Harrow
Girls in the dining-room at the Home for Girls in Harrow, Middlesex. The home, originally established by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1883

Background imageRenamed Collection: Boys Receiving Home, Stockwell

Boys Receiving Home, Stockwell
Boys, one sitting on a swing, and member of staff at the boys receiving home, 197 Clapham Road, Stockwell, London. The home, opened in 1914 by the Waifs and Strays Society

Background imageRenamed Collection: Havoc aircraft shoot down enemy bombers by G. H. Davis

Havoc aircraft shoot down enemy bombers by G. H. Davis
Night intruders during the Second World War: Havocs (the renamed Douglas Boston) strike at German bombers returning home. Date: 1942

Background imageRenamed Collection: Dr T. B. Stephenson, Found of the National Childrens Home

Dr T. B. Stephenson, Found of the National Childrens Home
Dr Thomas Burchell Stephenson who in 1869 founded the National Childrens Home. Its first premises were a disused stable in Lambeth. In 1994, the NCH was renamed Action For Children. Date: Circa 1905

Background imageRenamed Collection: German battleship SMS Goeben in Turkey, WW1

German battleship SMS Goeben in Turkey, WW1
Painting by Philip Connard (completed 1919) entitled The Surrender of the Goeben, showing the German battleship SMS Goeben flying a white flag in Constantinople harbour

Background imageRenamed Collection: The prototype Fairey Night Bomber

The prototype Fairey Night Bomber was later renamed Hendon, K1695, and three Fairey Gordon Is on the Great West aerodrome

Background imageRenamed Collection: Bristol Blenheim I K7072

Bristol Blenheim I K7072
Bristol Blenheim I, K7072, modified into the Bolingbroke I prototype with its original nose shape. The Bolingbroke I was later renamed Blenheim IV

Background imageRenamed Collection: V and a Exterior Photo

V and a Exterior Photo
Built in 1851 to replace the Museum of Manufactures at Marlborough House, the South Kensington Museum will be renamed in 1899 as the V&A, and rebuilt to reopen in 1909. Date: circa 1908

Background imageRenamed Collection: MFB Woolwich fire station, SE London

MFB Woolwich fire station, SE London
One of the last fire stations to be built by the MFB in 1887 prior to the creation of the London County Council and the changing of the name of the brigade to the London Fire Brigade

Background imageRenamed Collection: Burnt Column of Constantine, Constantinople, Turkey

Burnt Column of Constantine, Constantinople, Turkey
Greetings postcard from Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey, showing the Burnt Column of the Roman Emperor Constantine, built to commemorate the declaration of Byzantium (later renamed Constantinople)

Background imageRenamed Collection: Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1897

Petticoat Lane Market, London, 1897
Photograph showing a view of the Sunday morning market in Petticoat Lane, London, 1897. This street had been renamed Middlesex Street, but the market retained its old moniker. Date: 17 November 1897

Background imageRenamed Collection: After the day : Suggestions for the re-building of London

After the day : Suggestions for the re-building of London
If we lost the First World War: Maybe Londons famous buildings and monuments that we know of today would be completely different, German style with the Kaiser and eagles appearing on many of them

Background imageRenamed Collection: The King of Prussia

The King of Prussia

Background imageRenamed Collection: French submarine Turquoise renamed, Turkey, WW1

French submarine Turquoise renamed, Turkey, WW1
The French submarine Turquoise, captured by Ottoman forces, renamed Mustacip Onbasi and commissioned for operations in the Black Sea during the First World War. Date: late 1915

Background imageRenamed Collection: Russian battleship Tsarevich at Toulon, France

Russian battleship Tsarevich at Toulon, France
The Russian battleship HIRM Tsarevich (or Tsesarevich), named after the heir to the Russian throne. Built in France, launched 1900, commissioned 1901, seen here at Toulon

Background imageRenamed Collection: Great Barr Park Colony, Staffordshire

Great Barr Park Colony, Staffordshire

Background imageRenamed Collection: Nurses Home, Great Barr Park Colony, Staffordshire

Nurses Home, Great Barr Park Colony, Staffordshire
The Hailey Nurses Home at the Great Barr Park Colony, Staffordshire. The colony, for what were then termed mental defectives

Background imageRenamed Collection: Salvaged Luxury Liner Normandie, New York Harbour, Novembe

Salvaged Luxury Liner Normandie, New York Harbour, Novembe
Photograph of the Normandie in New York Harbour, November 1943. The Normandie had just been refloated and was being towed to dry dock for repairs

Background imageRenamed Collection: Queen Anne Statue

Queen Anne Statue
Queen Annes walk at Barnstaple, north Devon, an ancient colonnade walk, known until 1714 as " Merchants Walk". Renamed after it had been restored with the statue

Background imageRenamed Collection: ARK ROYAL (KING)

ARK ROYAL (KING)
Built by Raleigh, and named the Ark Raleigh, purchased by Elizabeth and renamed Ark Royal (and subsequently Anne Royal )

Background imageRenamed Collection: San Francisco, Calif

San Francisco, Calif
The former Spanish settlement of Yerba Buena was taken from the Mexicans in 1846 and renamed San Francisco : it expanded rapidly during the Gold Rush of 1849

Background imageRenamed Collection: Brunswick Fig / 1871

Brunswick Fig / 1871
A Brunswick variety renamed from Fat Lady when Caroline of Brunswick came to the throne as George IVs wife in 1820

Background imageRenamed Collection: ARK ROYAL CIG. CARD

ARK ROYAL CIG. CARD
Built by Raleigh, and named the Ark Raleigh, purchased by Elizabeth and renamed Ark Royal (and subsequently Anne Royal )

Background imageRenamed Collection: U. S. S. PLYMOUTH (PG 57)

U. S. S. PLYMOUTH (PG 57)
Built for Mrs Alva Vanderbilt in 1931 at the Krupp factory, Kiel, Germany, the Alva was given to the U.S. navy in 1941 and renamed U.S.S. Plymouth. Torpedoed by a U-boat in 1943



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