Basic Collection (page 3)

LCC-LFB-AFS training -- tying a knot
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was created in 1938 to supplement the regular London Fire Brigade. Some 21, 000 volunteer firefighters would be recruited

A young Farmers boy taking a pig to market
A young Farmers boy taking a pig (in a basket!) to market on a basic wheelbarrow - Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1904

Gypsy house - Romania
Gypsy house and occupants (extended family group) near Constanta, Romania. Date: 1905

MODERN KITCHEN
A modern (but now rather basic looking!) British kitchen, with a gas cooker in the corner. Date: early 1960s

Cabirols Diving Suit
Cabirols diving suit combines effective protection with considerable ease of movement, the two basic requirements for working underwater. Date: 1856

Salvation Army Food Depot interior, East London
Inside the Salvation Army Food Depot on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. The depot provided basic food and shelter for as little as a penny a night

Salvation Army Food Depot kitchen, East London
Staff prepare food in the kitchen of the Salvation Army Food Depot on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. The depot provided basic food and shelter for as little as a penny a night

Salvation Army Food Depot, Whitechapel Road, East London
A religious meeting at the Salvation Army Food Depot on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. The depot provided basic food and shelter for as little as a penny a night

John Pounds, provider of education to poor children
John Pounds (1766-1839), a Portsmouth shoemaker, teacher and philanthropist, who from 1818 provided free basic education for the poorest children in the town, by teaching them reading

Salvation Army elevator dormitory
A dormitory in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working there

Salvation Army Food Depot, London
Men queuing at one of the food depots set up in London by the Salvation Army in the 1890s. The depots provided low cost food and meals for down and outs

Framework of a Tongan House
The basic framework of a Tongan House, Tonga, Pacific

Food Shortage Queues
Food shortages are felt throughout Russia, thanks to the war and the revolution : there are long queues for basic foodstuffs

Gypsy Family & Caravan
A Gypsy Father and son stand next to their green caravan as a large pot cooks above a basic fire. Two children peer out from within the caravan at this Surrey encampment

Metallic Fire Engine
Metallic manual fire-engine, designed by Merryweathers for use on Fiji, for plantation work

Liebig Games - 2
Three boys construct a tower with wooden bricks, learning some of the basic principles of physics - gravity, balance and the distribution of loads

Liebig Games - 1
Children make a fountain and in doing so learn some basic principles of physics, such as gravity, pressure and the flow of liquids

Mud cabin at Kildare, Ireland
Two women in a mud cabin at Kildare, Ireland

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