Allen Gallery

Women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London

Group photo of women staff officers, Metropolitan Police, London: D Meeson Coates (Chief Inspector), Miss St John Partridge, M Damer Dawson (Chief Officer), M S Allen (Chief Superintendent), and B Goldingham (Principal of Clerical Department). Date: circa late 1910s

© Metropolitan Police Authority/Mary Evans

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Suffragette Annie Kenney Released Prisoners

Suffragette Annie Kenney Released Prisoners. Annie Kenney (1879-1953) at a reception in the Queen's Hotel Bristol to welcome two released prisoners in March 1909. Both had served 1 month setences in Holloway following the deputation arrests on 24th February. Ellen Pitman and Mary Allen (right holding flowers) took the train from London and were met by a procession and members of the W.S.P.U. Mary Allen (1878-1964) later moved to Hastings and then Edinburgh working as a W.S.P.U organizer. During WW1 she joined the Women Police Volunteers. Date: 1909

© The March of the Women Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

The National Dress, 1918

Mrs Allan Hawkey, inventor of the national standard dress, modelling its versatility exclusively for The Sketch magazine in 1918, and showing off a number of harnesses (combined collars and pockets) made by shell shocked soldiers at Lady Neville's work shops for the disabled. The national standard dress was an attempt to introduce a low-cost, economical and simple form of dress, easily sewn and adaptable. Date: 1918

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans