Scheme Collection (#5)

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Inmates of the Bosmere & Claydon Workhouse, Norfolk
Uniformed inmates of the Bosmere and Claydon Workhouse, Barham, Norfolk. The smartly dressed woman, centre rear, is probably a local organiser for the Brabazon scheme where workhouse inmates made

Burton workhouse 1886. tif
Bird s-eye view of the proposed new workhouse building erected in 1886 on Belvedere Road, Burton-on-Trent. The scheme - a pavilion block layout - was designed by J.H. Morton. Date: 1886

Brabazon Sale, Belper Workhouse, Derbyshire
1907 card advertising sale of work produced by inmates of the Belper workhouse under the Brabazon scheme. Date: 1907

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - section
A sectional view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - elevation
The elevation view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - ground plan

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - bed designs
Bed designs in Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Wandsworth Union Old Peoples Cottages, Tooting
Cottages for the elderly poor erected in 1902 at Church Lane, Tooting, by the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. The scheme was designed by C.A. Sharp. Date: 1902

John Law (Card)
JOHN LAW Scottish financier in France, where he promoted the Mississippi scheme. His initial funding came from success at the gaming table. Date: 1671 - 1729

Leapfrog Girls 1940S
Two Australian girls playing leapfrog. Under an Australian National Health scheme, children from deprived areas were taught how to enjoy exercise and stay healthy. Date: 1940s

YOUNG PLAN
Germany fettered by the Young Plan - an American scheme to enable Germany to make war reparations payments. 1929

Diesel engines for the Gezira irrigation scheme, 1924 Date: 1924

Cover of The Signal, June 1943
Cover of The Signal magazine from June 1943. The Signal was the station magazine of 47 Air Navigation School, based in Queenstown, South Africa, where RAF personnnel were trained during World War Two

Cover of The Signal, August 1943, the station magazine of 47 Air Navigation School in Queenstown, South Africa, where many RAF airmen from Bomber Command trained prior to operational tours

Menu for 48 Air School dinner
The cover of a menu card for a Royal Air Force dinner held at Deals Hotel in East London, South Africa for 48 Air School on Saturday 1st May 1943

Cover of B. O. N. April 1943
Cover of B.O.N. (The Bomb-Aimers, Observers and Navigators Union) for April 1943, the official magazine of 48 Air School based in Woodbrook, East London, South Africa

Flight Dinner menu card for 47 Air School
Cover of a menu card for a Flight Dinner held at the Windsor Hotel on Thursday 19th August 1943 for air navigators at 47 Air School, Queenstown, South Africa

Cover of B. O. N. March 1943
Cover of B.O.N. (The Bomb-Aimers, Observers and Navigators Union) for March 1943, the official magazine of 48 Air School based in Woodbrook, East London, South Africa

Agnes Jones, workhouse nursing pioneer
Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-1868) was trained at Florence Nightingales nursing school at St Thomas Hospital in London. In 1865 she was appointed to superintend an experimental nursing scheme at

Gas Mask fitting
Mothers leave an Ilford school with their children after a gas mask fitting. All the schools in Ilford, Essex (London) were opened to enable residents to be fitted with gas masks under the Air Raid

Civil engineering project
An unidentified civil engineering project, with water gushing out of two large pipes

Sign Now
Risks and liabilities new golf insurance scheme for golfers. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

River Thames Flood Prevention Scheme, 1926
Illustration showing a flood prevention scheme for the River Thames, from Oxford to Teddington, proposed by the Thames Conservancy c.1926

Proposed Scheme for Westminster Embankment, 1909
Illustration showing a scheme, proposed in 1909, for the expansion of Westminster Embankment, London

The Great Army of Armleteers
A procession of men all wearing armbands to denote that they have attested to enlist as part of the Derby scheme to boost recruitment during World War One

Womans bedroom
Womans bedroon. A colour scheme of green, with dark furniture in Macassar ebony, showing a bookcase commode with secret jewel safe. The new British furniture, a complete home in the modern manner

Scenes from the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1882
Engraving showing a number of views of the then new Eddystone lighthouse, designed by Sir James Douglass, May 1882. The old, Smeaton designed, lighthouse can also be seen

Earl of Derby
Photograph of The Earl of Derby, director of recruiting for Great Britain in 1915 and Minister of War from 1916-1918. Derby introduced a voluntary recruitment policy called the Derby Scheme

A Mine used as a Buoy, 1916
Photograph showing a German mine, which had been laid on the River Tigris, then recovered and used as a buoy for shipping

William Ewart Gladstone in the House of Commons, 1886
Engraving showing W.E. Gladstone (1809-1898) explaining to the House of Commons his scheme for the Government of Ireland, 8th April 1886

A Derby night
Illustration by S. Begg showing a long queue of men lining up to enlist. Lord Derby, Director General of Recruiting in 1916 introduced the Derby scheme which encouraged men from the same offices or

Grey Scheme Drawing Room
A drawing room done in a grey scheme

A White Drawing Room
A white scheme drawing room furnished with floral covered chairs, a piano and chinese style cabinet

Illuminated gardens at the Inventions Exhibiton
The gardens, fountains and buildings of South Kensington, illuminated with electric light at the Inventions Exhibition of 1885. The extravagant lighting scheme was the work of Sir Francis Bolton

Mississippi Scheme
Allegorical representation of the Mississippi scheme which, like the South Sea Bubble in England, is a scandalous plan whereby investors are enticed into a get-rich-quick fraud

National Insurance
The beginning of the Welfare State : a booklet issued by the Ministry of National Insurance, explaining the benefits of the scheme which gives us all sickness benefits

Henry III & Barons
Henry III is forced by his barons to implement the Provisions of Oxford, a scheme of governmental reform that appointed a committee of 24 nobles

Railway Scheme - 2
An alternative scheme is seriously proposed : that a railway be constructed capable of carrying ships across the isthmus. But the idea never gets off the ground

Airship Mail Project
AIR MAIL : a scheme to pick up mail by airship from a moving train is tested in Illinois, but does not seem to have proved practicable

John Law (Schenk)
JOHN LAW Scottish financier in France, promoter of the Mississippi Scheme

Gas Masks Fitted 1938
Two wardens for the Air Raid Precaution Scheme fitting children with gas masks during a house to house visit in Beckenham, Kent

Drawing Room 1916
An elegant colour scheme designed by Waring and Gillow, suitable for any upper class home

William Duke Devonshire
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, second duke of DEVONSHIRE soldier and statesman, noted for opposing the South Sea scheme which he looked upon as a nefarious trick

In a Walled Garden
Edwardian children scheme in the quiet tranquility of the walled garden of a big red brick country house. A doctor with his gladstone bag is seen leaving through the archway

Gifts for the Troops
Card acknowledging a gift of two shillings by Arthur Bray, as part of a scheme whereby schoolchildren send Christmas Gifts to Our brave Soldiers and Sailors

John Law Grave
JOHN LAW Scottish financier in France, promoter of the Mississippi Scheme

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