Accommodation Collection (page 7)

Llantwit-Vardre Cottage Homes, Glamorgan, Wales
The Pontypridd Union cottage homes at Church Village, Llantwit Vardre, Glamorgan, Wales. The homes, opened in 1892, housed pauper children away from the workhouse

Refugees making Munitions Cases, Earls Court, London
First World War refugees making munitions cases at the camp set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court, West London

Wartime Beds at Earls Court, West London
A First World War refugee camp for Belgian refugees at Earls Court. Around one thousand beds in the Queens Palace were provided by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1914

Holborn Schools Band, Mitcham, Surrey
Boys band at Holborn Schools, High Street, Mitcham - originally established in 1856 in the grounds of Eagle House. The Schools provided accommodation

Wartime Schoolroom for Refugee Children, Earls Court
A schoolroom for the children of refugees set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court, West London, during the First World War

Wartime Nursery for refugee children, Earls Court, London
A nursery for the children of refugees set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board at Earls Court during the First World War

Holborn Schools, Mitcham, Surrey
Holborn Schools, High Street, Mitcham, Surrey - originally established in 1856 in the grounds of Eagle House. The Schools provided accommodation

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

Union Workhouse Infirmary, East Preston, Sussex
The infirmary at the East Preston Union workhouse, Sussex. The workhouse was rebuilt in 1872-3 with the new infirmary and nurses home added in 1906

Union Workhouse, Coventry, Warwickshire
The Union Quadrangle, part of the Coventry Union workhouse, Warwickshire. The workhouse was first established in around 1801 on the site of the former Whitefriars monastery

White Star Line 1st and 2nd Class booklet
Title page of the First and Second Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises

White Star Line Third Class booklet
Front cover of the Third Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises

Broadmoor - view of the terrace where male prisoners were ab
Broadmoor opened as an asylum in 1863 to female patients and to male patients the following year. The building was designed by military engineer, Major General Joshua Jebb

A motor ambulance supplied by Carters, New Cavendish Street
A motor ambulance presented for service with the Russian cavalry, a Carters type 20 H.P. The ambulance could carry four stretchers and had accommodation for a nurse attendant

Crystal Palace / Lodgings
Satire on the lack of lodging facilities during the Great Exhibition; " This is all I have ma m - I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a Foreign Nobleman"

STEAMSHIP CARONIA
Cunarder sailing between Liverpool and the United States : with her sister-ship Carmania she had a reputation for fine lines and luxurious accommodation

Irish Monks Working
Irish monks clearing the ground for an extension to their accommodation

Greenland Bedroom
Sleeping accommodation in a Greenland home - each compartment has its own heating in the form of a small fire. I don t know what those sticks or poles are for

French Avant-Courier
When a French nobleman travels, he sends an avant- courier ahead of him, to arrange food or accommodation at a convenient inn

Tent on Saint Helena
While Longwood is being repaired after the fire, a tent is erected for Napoleons accommodation : he supervises its installation

Lodging House / Slum / 1853
A lodging house in the Borough, London - the proprietor shows inspectors the accommodation

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