Bootle Collection

Miss M. G. Mills - The Bootle May Queen, Merseyside. Date: 1926

Superb four horse fire engine with firemen
This magnificent highly polished fire engine with six helmeted firemen standing to attention on top, is outside its Fire Station. The card was posted in Bootle so the Station is probably there

The Town Hall, Museum and Police Court - Bootle, Lancashire Date: 1909

White Star Line, RMS Teutonic - future Marconi operator on RMS Titanic, Jack Phillips, who died in the 1912 disaster. Handwritten postcard, signed love Jack'

Emma Countess of Derby
EMMA CAROLINE, countess of DERBY (nee Bootle-Wilbraham) wife of Edward Stanley, 14th earl, with her son Edward, later the 15th earl. Date: 1805 - 1876

Ist Earl of Lathom
Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, first earl of LATHOM in 1890 Date: 1837 - 1898

Advert for Clarkes babies food warmer 1892
Clarkes " pyramid" nursery lamp food warmer and improved pannikin. 1892

Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom (1837 1898), known as The Lord Skelmersdale between 1853 and 1880, was a British Conservative politician. Date: 1871

Advert for Clarkes babies food warmer 1913
Bootle-fed babies are fed by night with a minimum of trouble where a Clarkes Food warmer is used. It heats liquid foods and keeps them warm throughout the night

1st Earl of Lathom
EDWARD BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, first earl of LATHOM Statesman and noted freemason, deputy grand-master of the nited Lodge of England. Date: 1837 - 1898

Aerial view of Gladstone Dock, Bootle

Bootle Day Industrial School
The Day Industrial School on Marsh Lane, Bootle, Lancashire. The school opened in 1895 to provide non-residential training facilities for youths sent there by the courts. Date: circa 1905

Workhouse bowl and mug
An inmates soup or gruel bowl and spoon from the Hackney workhouse and a mug from the Bootle workhouse, all marked with their unions monogram. Each held up to two pints of liquid. Date: Date unknown

Letter to Thomas Henry Ismay
A letter to Thomas Henry Ismay from twenty of his colleagues and employees on White Star Works headed paper, dated Bootle, 6 February 1899

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