Blackboard Collection

LCC-LFB Interior of Brigade Control Unit
The inside of the control unit and the preparation of the fire ground map, showing the layout of the affected building. It is used for planning the disposition of crews and lines of attack on the fire

Deaf and Dumb School, Palayamkottai, India
C. E. Z. (Church of England Zenana Missionary Society) Deaf and Dumb School, Palamcottah (now Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu), India. Deaf and Dumb children learning to talk

Bookmaker and punters at racecourse
Charlie Redrup, bookmaker with punters at racecourse. Date: circa 1930s

RAF recruit checking the kit list, WW2
RAF recruit checking the kit list Date: circa 1941

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Acland County Council School, Kentish Town 1906
Conventional way of teaching where all the pupils are facing the front of the classroom while the teacher is writing on the chalkboard. Date: 1906

People campaigning on behalf of London teachers
A group of people campaigning on behalf of London teachers. The placards read: "Where have London teachers gone? Gone to the provinces every one

Comic postcard, Little boys and teachers in classroom Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man visits fortune teller Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boys and teacher - the first man Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and teacher - grammar lesson Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two little girls and teacher. Now what is it that elephants have that no other animal has? - Please Miss - Baby Elephants!! Date: 20th century

Victorian Greeting Card - The Cat School
A teacher cat writing on a blackboard whilst students look on. Date: circa 1890

Arithmatic
Children at a blackboard, learning to count. From Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Rhymes, published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: May Bowley Date: 1912

Blackboard tree, Alstonia scholaris
Blackboard tree, Indian devil tree, chatium or satium, Alstonia scholaris. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Cat and kittens in a schoolroom on a Christmas postcard
Cat teacher and three kitten pupils in a schoolroom on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement for Cherry Blossom boot polish
A cutout advertisement for Cherry Blossom boot polish, which is waterproof and preserves the leather. Date: late 19th century

DARTS IN THE PUB / 1930S
A young couple play a game of 301-down in the pub. Date: 1930s

DARTS IN THE HOME / C1940
Two dapper couples enjoying a few legs of darts at home. Can she follow that treble twenty with two more? Date: circa 1940

Hittite art. Stele of King Bar-Rakib (744-727 BC) sitting o
Hittite art. Orthostat or stele of King Bar-Rakib (Barrakit 744-727 BC) sitting on the throne.750 BC. Zone of Sma al /Zincirli (Turkey) to South of Turkey. Detail. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island

Daphne Rye of Daphnes restaurant
Daphne Rye (1916 10 November 1992), director, actress and casting director as well as proprietor of Daphnes restaurant in Draycott Avenue

Little girl teaching elephants in a field
A little girl standing in front of a blackboard on an easel, apparently teaching elephants maths. They are in a field with a circus van and tent. Date: circa 1960s

Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB) School - Alberta, Congo
Examination day at an Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB) School at Alberta, Democratic Republic of Congo. HCB (now Feronia) is a large-scale commercial farmland

Peasant boy at the Door of the School
Heart-rending painting entitled The Door of the School by Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Bielski, depicting a young peasant boy looking in at an education he will never have the luxury of obtaining

NFS firefighters at a training camp, WW2
NFS firefighters at a training camp in Northwood, Middlesex

Blackboard with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cupids at school with hearts and flowers on a Valentine card. Date: circa 1890s

Sky diver practising in a field. Date: circa 1963

The Babes in the Wood, Theatre Royal, Bournemouth. The Funniest Daintiest Pantomime in the South of England, from Boxing Day for two and a half weeks

Soho, London - Keith Prowse ticket agency, offering tickets for Neil Young, Elton John, David Cassidy, Sweet, Roxy Music, and many more. 1973

The Ultimatum
Japan: If you go on saying I m naughty, I shall leave the class. Cartoon showing the League Of Nations as a teacher with Lytton Report on the blackboard, and Japan as an insubordinate student

Jackie Coogan (1914 1984), American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films, as Tom Sawyer

Fire at Chinacraft store, Oxford Street, London
LFB firefighters in attendance at the Chinacraft store, 499 Oxford Street, London, on 28 July 1958. A fire had occurred in the basement area. A policeman keeps pedestrians and traffic moving past

The Sixtus Affair, fighting over Alsace-Lorraine
Cartoon in Punch magazine entitled Discipline. The blackboard reads France ought to have Alsace-Lorraine Carl referring to the German suspicions that in March 1917 a secret message was sent

Mr Whitestone, teacher, Ealing, West London
Mr Whitestone, teacher at Durston House School, Ealing, West London, seen here at his desk in a classroom. Date: circa 1900s

Little girl teaching maths to circus elephants
Unusual Friends - little girl teaching maths to circus elephants. 1950s

Scene in a local pub, the Star Inn, somewhere in Cornwall, just before opening time. Date: circa 1980s

County of London Rifle Shooting Championship - The Competitors and Results. Date: circa 1930

Inaudi, the lightning calculator, performing at the Hippodrome, able to do mentally any sum given by the audience up to twelve figures in addition, subtraction and multiplication. Date: 1903

Upper Vth Form, Sidcot School, Winscombe, Somerset
Upper Vth Form with a class in progress, Sidcot School, Winscombe, North Somerset, an independent Quaker school. Date: circa 1920s

D-Day Briefing, WW2
D-Day Briefing, June 1944. 1944

British Countryside - The Village School at Church Knowle near Corfe Castle in Devon - the children being taught outside. Date: 1938

Calendar design, Hes Coming -- four schoolboys sit on a bench as their teacher enters the room. 1898

Happy Families - Mr Teacher. circa 1940s

Caricature of John Ruskin, English art critic
Caricature of John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic -- a comment on his criticism of Henry Irving, seen here in a drawing on a blackboard in the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

Police officers in training session, London
Police officers, male and female, taking part in a training session under the instruction of a sergeant. Date: circa 1950s

Three boys in schoolroom on a Christmas card
Three boys in sailor suits in a schoolroom on a Christmas card -- one of them is drawing their teachers face on the blackboard. Date: circa 1890s

German Monastic School
A monastic school in medieval Germany. Date: circa 15th century

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