Trained Collection

Red Cross Dog Waiting
A Malinois (Belgian Shepherd Dog) trained for work as a French Red Cross dog. Duc II, stands ready for action

Training Ship Mercury and boys racing crew, River Hamble
The racing crew of the training ship Mercury with the ship itself in the background. The Mercury, established in 1885 by Charles Hoare, was originally based at Binstead, Isle of Wight

LCC-LFB Recruit fireman training at Brigade HQ, SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. Here a fireman is undertaking a hook ladder drill on the stations nine-storey drill tower

LCC-LFB Recruit firefighters training at Brigade HQ SE1
During the 1950s recruit firefighters were trained at the Brigade Headquarters in Lambeth. Here they are undertaking hook ladder drills on the stations nine-storey drill tower

A young Police Dog
A Police Dog puppy sitting in an upturned MET Police Officers cap

Buddy, Seeing Eye
Buddy, guide dog of Morris Frank of Tennessee, the first dog trained in Switzerland by Mrs Dorothy Eustis, founder with Morris Frank, in 1927, of The Seeing Eye organisation

Duchess of York at Training Hostel, Market Harborough
Duchess of York at a Training Hostel, Market Harborough, Leicestershire - part os a scheme fostered jointly by the Imperial

Communist China - training barefoot doctors
Communist China - a military doctor trains three young women as so-called barefoot doctors, usually village-based farm workers trained in primary health care and basic hygiene, including acupuncture

Dog up a Ladder
One of Mrs. L. Goodwins (of All Saints Avenue, Kent, England) clever German Shepherd (Alsatian) dogs, up a ladder! Date: early 1930s

Greyhound Training
Dogs at the Greyhound Training School, Queensdown Estate, Westgate-on-sea, are trained to get out of the traps as quickly as possible

Rock Ferry St Margarets Home
St Margarets Home for Roman Catholic girls at Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, was run by the Sisters of Charity. It trained young women to help prevent them falling into immoral situations

Major Richardson and his ambulance dogs
Major Edwin Hautenville Richardson, renowned dog trainer and founder of the British War Dog School during the First World War

A set of 8 lithographs - WWI era
A set of 8 lithographs in a folio. 1) Inscribed Private B. Miller, Queens Westminsters, out since 1914, 2) Inscribed Of the Labour Battalion, 3) A soldier reading a newspaper

WW1 recruitment poster with silhouette
World War One recruitment poster with silhouette -- Loyal Talk Won t Beat Kaiser, Krupp, Kultur, Trained Men Will! Enlist Now! Showing a determined soldier with a bayoneted rifle. 1914-1918

Florence Nightingales carriage at the seat of war
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florences social standing to become

Women Window Cleaners
A group of newly trained Georginas set off for their first job, carrying their ladders and buckets. Date: 1940s

Dogs Love Chocolate
Punch has been trained by his owner to carry messages and pick up litter. Here he tries to use the chocolate dispenser

Herr Graiss looping monkey, Diavolino
Diavolino, a little monkey trained by Herr Grais, who performed the loop the loop on a tricycle at the London Hippodrome. Date: 1903

Monkeys gathering leaves from tea bushes high on a mountain and delivering them to their master. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Nurse in British Red Cross uniform
The British Red Cross regulation uniform for trained nurses. Date: 1914

Volley firing by Scott Method by G. H. Davis
The gunnery experiment of which all the naval world is talking: the six-to-one superiority of volley firing by the Scott Method

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Training dogs in the trenches, WW1
Training war dogs. Dogs at the British War Dog School being acclimatised to trenches (part of the ground) before being sent to the Front where they were used in various roles such as messengers

Samuel Cody assorted memorabilia
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely important Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate No.9, 1910, issued to S. F

Officer Training Corps had begun in 1902, in the wake of the Second Boer War. Photograph showing a parade of training officers. Date: 1917

Evelyn Dove by Kay Vaughan. Evelyn Dove (1902-1987) London-born singer & actress. Mixed race daughter of a Sierra Leone barrister & his English wife

Moroccan Nationalist Troops on parade, Burgos; Spanish Civil
Photograph showing some of the Moroccan troops on parade in Burgos, during the Spanish Civil War, 1936. These troops, from General Franco's Army of Africa, were well-trained and well-equipped

Machine Gun on a Mule, near San Martial; Spanish Civil War
Photograph showing a mule column of the Spanish Foreign Legion carrying supplies and a machine gun up a mountain path near San Martial, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Lea Hurst, home of Florence Nightingale
Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father. Although it was not deemed suitable for ladies of Florence's social standing to become

Florence Nightingale's carriage
The nursing carriage that accompanied Miss Florence Nightingale through the Crimean War. Born in Italy in 1820, she moved to England with her wealthy family and was educated at home by her father

Princess Mary (1897 - 1965), third child and only daughter of George V and Queen Mary at the age of thirteen. Born at Sandringham

HMS Worcester, training Ship for the Thames Marine Officers, moored at the lower estuary of the River Thames, off Greenhithe. Date: 1895

The former Village School and Village Inn of West Tofts
Once the Village School and Village Inn ( The Horse Shoes ) of West Tofts, Lynford, Norfolk - the village became deserted when it was taken over by the British Army during the Second World War as

Falconer
A painting of a medaeval falconer. A falconer is a hunter of wild animals in their natural state and habitat by means of a trained bird of prey

Captain Woodward, 1st Australian Tunneling Company
Captain Oliver Woodward was one of the heroes of the underground war at Hill 60. He had trained as a mining engineer and during his military career won the MC and two bars

Seeths lions in swing boats at the London Hippodrome
Herr Julius Seeth, renowned lion tamer, seem in the arena at the London Hippodrome with some of his boys obediently enjoying a swing boat ride. Date: 1903

Captain Woodwards seals at the London Hippodrome
Two of Captain Woodwards performing seals at the London Hippodrome demonstrating their balancing skills. Date: 1903

Captain Woodward & his seals at the London Hippodrome
Captain Woodward (called Dr. Woodward here), with his troupe of trained seals, seen shaking hands/flippers with one of them at the time they were delighting audiences at the London Hippodrome

M Edmund Warnery (b.1876). A tenor, the son of Swiss parents, trained at the Paris Conservatoire. Date: circa 1912

Cleofonte Campanini (1860-1919). A native of Parma, Italy. Orchestal conductor of worldwide renown, trained as a violinist. Date: circa 1912

Medieval trained horses
Two horses trained to strike a tabor with their hooves, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London

Medieval trained animals: bear doing a headstand, hare with tabor (top), juggler and tumbling monkey, monkey jockey on a muzzled bear (middle)

Dancer and trained bear, 10th century
Woman dancing in front of a bear chained to its master but scourged to attack, 10th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Performers and trained bears, 14th century
Juggler and trained bear, and performer with tabor drum and chained bear, 14th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Gleemen and trained bear, 10th century
Anglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and pipes performing with a trained bear, 10th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England

Medieval trained bears: Anglo-Saxon gleemen with sticks and horns peforming over a trained bear, 10th century (top), juggler with bear and drummer with chained bear, 14th century (middle)

Evelyn Dove by Macari (Italy). Evelyn Dove (1902-1987) London-born singer & actress. Mixed race daughter of a Sierra Leone barrister & his English wife

Evelyn Dove (1902-1987) London-born singer & actress. Mixed race daughter of a Sierra Leone barrister & his English wife. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music (1917-1919)

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