Brompton Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum, London - Aston Webb Front - the final modified design - opened in 1909. Date: 1903

Harrods Exterior
An exterior view of Harrods, London Date: circa 1900

Map of London Underground railway, Hampstead Tube
Map of London Underground railway extension, highlighting the recently opened Hampstead Tube (Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway), branching out to Golders Green and Highgate. Date: 1907

Lots Road Power Station, Chelsea, London
The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR) Power House (Lots Road Power Station), Chelsea, London. Built to power the newly created Piccadilly underground line

Brompton Oratory, London. Date: circa 1905

Brompton in 1822 by George Scharf
View of Brompton in West London in 1822 with what looks like a market garden on the left, backed by country houses and poplars. On the right appears a sign bearing the words, Bishops Palace

Aux Elegantes Poster
Poster advertising Aux Elegantes in Londons Old Brompton Road

Harrods, Knightsbridge - tweed suit and fancy hat
Shoot for Harrods - circa 1965 - model wearing a tweed suit and fancy hat - with a backdrop of the iconic British luxury department store - located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London

Sir Jock Delves Broughton and Lady Broughton attending the wedding o f Lord and Lady Lovat at Brompton Oratory in October 1938

Map of London Underground railway, for Harrods
Map of the London Underground railway, How to Reach Harrods by Tube. Date: circa 1909

Brompton Fire Station, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, London (renamed Chelsea Square in the 1930s to avoid confusion with the new Trafalgar Square!). Date: 1913

Knightsbridge Antiques, 39/41 Brompton Road, London. The company traded at this address between 1948 and 1950. Date: circa 1948

Dubarry et Cie Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Dubarry et Cie, London based perfumers. The image is a promotion of Dubarry's tablets of compressed bath salts, in a variety of scents. Date: circa 1917

Dubarry The Heart Of A Rose Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dubarry et Cie, London based perfumers. The image promotes an exquisite new perfume, The Heart of a Rose, accompanied by a pink rose surrounded by butterflies

Dubarry Arcadie Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dubarry Et Cie, promoting the perfume, Arcadie, which boasts a soft, lingering fragrance

Dubarry Creme Shalimar Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dubarry et Cie, London based perfumers. The image promotes Creme Shalimar, a product for beautifying the hands and softening the skin

Dubarry Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Dubarry et Cie, perfumers, promoting a range of potential Christmas gifts of scents in attractive boxes. Date: circa 1916

Goochs Jurna Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Goochs Vogue & Value, promoting Jurna corsets, which gives women graceful lines and poise

Advert for Harrods department store, London Date: 1902

Manning Requiem Mass Death Funerals 1892 Funeral
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Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway - Car interior. Date: circa 1906

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway - Interior of the Signal cabin. Now the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground network. Date: circa 1906

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway Motor Car. (running on what is the modern Piccadilly Line as part of the London Undergrond network). Date: circa 1906

Brompton Cemetary
View of the entrance to Brompton Cemetary, one of seven large London cemetaries founded in the mid-19th century. Date: 1875

Extension of London Underground railway, 1906
Extension of the London Underground railway in 1906, showing the Booking Office at Piccadilly Station, the line running from Hammersmith in the west to Finsbury Park in the north

Map of London Underground railway, 1906
Map of the London Underground railway in 1906, showing its expansion in all directions. Date: 1906

Harrods advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody
Harrods Stores advert, Hairdressing, Manicure and Chiropody Departments, Brompton Road, London SW. 1897

Stock or Matthiola species
Brompton stock, Matthiola incana, great sea stock, Matthiola sinuata, and double garden varieties, Cheiranthus cheiri. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by

Advert, Dubarry Nuglandin Skin Cream
Advert for Dubarry Nuglandin Skin Cream. 1936

Royal Engineers Memorial Arch, Chatham, Kent
Royal Engineers, South African Memorial Arch, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent, commemorating those who served in the Boer War. Date: 1905

Children at Brompton Hospital
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the increase in parents being allowed to spend as much time as possible with their children in hospital

The Wild West Show at West Brompton
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show at Brompton. The company forming a line. Date: 1887

BROMPTON ROAD / DAYTIME
Brompton Road: daytime scene Date: 1890s

Roller skating in Brompton 1874
Men, women and children roller-skating at Princes Cricket Ground, Brompton. Date: 1874

FOG, BROMPTON ROAD
The Brompton Road, London, on a foggy afternoon Date: 1896

Hurdle race in Brompton
A hurdle race in Brompton, London. Date: 1871

Smart London Gent - Cabinet Photograph. Date: circa 1890

London Underground - District Line - Single Ticket #3042 from 1897 - Victoria to Gloucester Road (Brompton) - 4d - Third Class. Date: 1897

Harrods centenary celebrations - Tiny Grocery Shop
As part of Harrods centenary celebrations, this replica of the shop as it was in 1849 was constructed. The world-famous Brompton, Knightsbridge department store began life in Cable Street

LCC-LFB Bromptons Dennis pump at Lambeth HQ
Station A8 was Brompton fire station. Here its dual-purpose petrol Dennis pump is seen standing at Lambeth headquarters

Wedding of Margaret Whigham and Charles Sweeny
The society wedding of the year in 1933; that of society beauty and media darling, Miss Margaret Whigham, later Duchess of Argyll, to Mr Charles Sweeny

Wedding of Lord Lovat and Hon Laura Lister
The wedding of Lord Lovat (Brigadier-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, 1871-1933) and the Hon Laura Lister (daughter of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale) at the Brompton Oratory

Sphere cover - wedding of Charles Sweeny & Margaret Whigham
Front cover of The Sphere magazine featuring society wedding of the year in 1933; that of society beauty and media darling, Miss Margaret Whigham, later Duchess of Argyll, to Mr Charles Sweeny

Suffragette Chess Set
A painted figural chess set, entitled Topical Chessmen (Suffragettes v The Law). It comprises King and Queen, bishops as judges, rooks as burning buildings, prison cells

Mr & Mrs Charles Sweeny at sons christening
Mr and Mrs Charles Sweeny at the christening of their younger child, Brian at Brompton Oratory on 7 May 1940 with their daughter, Frances (later Duchess of Rutland)

LCC-LFB Brompton fire station, Kensington
Located at 18 South Parade, station A3 (later A6) Brompton was built in 1892. The escape ladder, covered in canvas, is on the station forecourt

Stephen Smith, England International footballer
Stephen Smith (1874-1935), footballer who played for Hednesford Town, Aston Villa, Portsmouth, New Brompton (Gillingham) and England. He was later Manager of New Brompton. 1890s

Roller skating rink at Princes Ground, Brompton, 1875. Date: 1875

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