Beds Collection (page 7)

Bunk beds at New Cross LFB sub-station, London, WW2
Firemen and bunk beds put up in the basement from salvaged materials, at New Cross sub-station, Monson Road, SE London. The men were getting what sleep was possible during the hectic days

Plaistow Fever Hospital
Washbourn II Ward at Plaistow Fever Hospital, 1905 Date: 1905

Bedroom interior 1908
Interior, bedroom, 1908 Date: 1908

Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1917 January 25. Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts

British Western Front in France - Red Cross Hospital ward

A boy lying on a bed with a book and a toy horse, the head board is decorated with bird fruit and sun motifs. The caption to the picture reads I d buy rusks, bananas, and apples

Eight-sleeper bunk in Stalag XXI D
Sketch showing life of British prisoners of war in a German camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland

Wounded British troops, Salonika, WW1
Wounded British troops in a field hospital marquee at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Salt beds - Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA Date: circa 1908

Advert for Vi-Spring Mattress 1931
Built to give better rest. Inmaking of a Vi-Spring overlay mattress spring follows spring until beneath every square inch of its surface there lies a small spring to give an exquisite softness

Land Girls Awake
Happy Land Girls stretching their arms out in their beds as they awake! Date: early 1940s

English Country Cottages
Beautiful flower beds in front of traditional English tiled cottages. Date: 1960s

Pearly Kings Charity
London Pearly Kings and Queens visiting young women in their hospital beds. Date: 1930s

Early Breton Bunk beds
Ornate Early Breton Bunk beds, Brittany, France - will there be room for three?? Date: circa 1910

Australian sergeant at Dannes-Camiers Hospital, WW1
An Australian sergeant standing in a ward at 22 General Hospital, Dannes-Camiers, near Boulogne, north west France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

French Nurses 1930S
A matron and a nurse attending to bedridden patients in one of the wards of the Marie Curie Hospital, Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

Furniture / Beds / Medieval
Various examples of bedroom furniture Date: 12th Century

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1928
1056 springs make the Vi-Spring mattress the most luxurious mattress obtainable Date: 1928

Children Sleeping / C20Th
"...the children were nestled all snug in their beds..." Date: First published: 1823

Simple Beds
Simple brass and iron bedsteads for working people, servants and others Date: 1889

s / Speare: Hermia & Helen
s/Speare: Hermia & Helen

Bedrooms. Bedroom with two twin beds visible

Nurses inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross
Scene inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross. Along with two other river ambulances it was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

Ward at Carshalton Childrens Infirmary, Surrey
Interior view of ward D8 at Carshalton Childrens Infirmary, Surrey. The hospital was opened in 1908 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board and became a general hospital for up to 1000 children

Prisoner of war camp, Catterick, Yorkshire
A group of six inmates pose amongst flower beds at a World War One prisoner of war camp at Catterick, North Yorkshire

Infirmary ward, Inebriates Reformatory, Guiltcross, Norfolk
Infirmary ward at the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory, Norfolk. Housed in the former Guiltcross Union workhouse

Dormitory, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
View of a dormitory at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Gardening, Inebriates Reformatory, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Inmates tending flower beds in the garden of the Midland Counties Inebriates Reformatory at Whittington near Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Consumption cases, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Consumption (tuberculosis) cases lying out on a balcony at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Working mens lodgings, Commercial Street, East London
The No. 1 Victoria Home for Working Men at 39-41 Commercial Street in the East End of London. Beds were on offer at 4d per night, or 5d for single bedded cabins

Salvation Army dormitory, Westminster, London
A dormitory at a Salvation Army night shelter, perhaps The Harbour on Stanhope Street, Drury Lane, Central London, which opened in 1891. The men sleep in coffin beds

Salvation Army Womens Night Shelter, East London
The dormitory of the Salvation Army night shelter for women, opened in 1889 at 194 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel in the East End of London

Dormitory of a Common Lodging House
The dormitory of a common lodging house where a clean bed for the night and washing facilities could be had for (in 1930) between sixpence and a shilling

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

Wave Lodging House, Canning Town, East London
The Wave Lodging House for working men at 235 Victoria Dock Road, Canning Town, East London. Beds and baths are on offer for 4d (four pence) or 6d (six pence) a night

Ward at Holborn Union Infirmary, Highgate, London
Interior of a ward at the Holborn Union Infirmary, Archway Road, Highate, North London, designed by Henry Saxon Snell and opened in 1879

Workhouse interior, Oliver Twist film, 1948
A workhouse interior from the 1948 film of Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean. A female inmate carries a baby. Behind her are workhouse " coffin beds"

Union Workhouse, Tonbridge, Kent, Womens Ward
Interior of a womens ward in the Tonbridge Union workhouse, Kent. The three inmates are wearing the typical uniform of long skirt, blouse, shawl, and bonnet

Kensington & Chelsea District School, infirmary
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

Woman and patients at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a woman in overalls discussing a game of chess with three patients in a hospital ward

WWII recycling: Torpedo foot warmer / W H Robinson
A resourceful couple in bed make use of an old torpedo as a foot warmer. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Preparing for refugees arrival WWII
The Cheyne Hospital in London prepares to receive refugees. Camp beds are set up in the wards and the beds fixed with a number to identify the occupant

German underground dug-out
Interior of a German underground dugout at Fricourt during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Note the immaculately made brass bed and other comforts

Garden in the spring at Abbotswood, Gloucestershire
View of the formal garden in the spring, at Abbotswood, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, with grass and trees in the background. The gardens were created by Sir Edwin Lutyens

Leavesden Asylum, Hertfordshire
Male attendants in a ward at the Asylum for Imbeciles opened in 1870 at Leavesden near Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire. The Asylum, with its twin at Caterham

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

Dr Barnardos Homes Hospital, Stepney Causeway, London
Patients and nurses in the hospital at the Dr Barnardos home for boys opened in 1870 at 18-26 Stepney Causeway, East London

Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire
A group of physically disabled children have an outdoor lesson at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire. Some hold crutches while other lie on wooden beds or in a pram

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