Bunks Collection

Wagons-Lit company poster
Poster extolling the comforts of travelling by rail when you have luxurious sleeper bunks to relax in

RMS Queen Mary, Third Class Cabin Date: 1930s

French Railway News - more Couchettes put into service. 1951

Horse box, by Robert Walker, WW1
Horse box, watercolour by Robert Walker, First World War. Walker was an internee at Ruhleben Civilian Internment Camp, near Berlin. 1915

Anne Bonny, female pirate
Anne Bonny, also known as Bonney (c.1700-1782), famous female buccaneer, pictured in a ships cabin pointing her pistol at two unsuspecting sailors in their bunks below deck. Date: c.1725

Chislehurst caves during WWII
Chislehurst caves, Kent, during WWII. Mothers in bunks and babies in cots deep underground in their cave shelter. 1944

WW1 - A ward car of an Ambulance Train built by the Caledonian Railway Company, on the order of the War Office, for conveyance of Wounded British soldiers in France from the Front to the Channel

AFS women resting in bunks, Southwark Fire Station, WW2
AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) women resting in bunks at Southwark Fire Station (Station 60), Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, during the Second World War

Homeward Bound - the Rush from the Riviera
Travellers returning from the French Riviera on a crowded train in the Spring of 1910. Such was the exodus from the Cote d Azur

Third Class Cabin on the Orient Line to Australia
Rather basic conditions in a 3rd Class Cabin on the Orient Line of Royal Mail Steamers, operating on the route to Australia. Date: 1915

Canadian Pacific to Canada and USA -- a Third Class Two-Berth Cabin. Date: circa 1930s

Canadian Pacific Third Class Four-Berth Cabin. Date: circa 1930s

The Great World of London by G Lander and W Melville
Promotional postcard for The Great World of London by George Lander and Walter Melville. First produced at the Standard Theatre, 31st October 1898. The Salvation Army shelter

AFS women, Southwark Fire Station, WW2
AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) women in their bunk room at Southwark Fire Station (Station 60), Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940

Women as war-time firemen in their bunks
Members of the Womens Volunteer Reserve in bunks at the Holborn Union Workhouse for aged women, due to being in attendance day and night for duty. Date: 1916

British soldiers asleep in dugout bunks, WW1
British soldiers asleep in dugout bunks on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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

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

Torpedo Room of a U-boat, pre-Second World War
Photograph showing the crew of a German submarine (U-boat) relaxing in their bunks in the bow torpedo chamber, c.1938. This photograph shows the cramped conditions typically of the submarines that

Rough Hospitality in Siberia. A Post-House on the Way to the
Special Artist Julius Price sent sketches of his journey to the Orsk gold mines in Siberia back to the Illustrated London News Office and the sketches were then drawn up by R. Caton Woodville

Passengers going to bed on an Emigrant Ship, 1884
Engraving showing a man trying to get his children into their bunks at bed time on board an emigrant ship heading for America, 1884

America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Opium smokers
An opium den, showing Chinese people under the influence of the drug, lying in bunks or on the floor, smoking long pipes. Date: 1880

The Interior of the Amundsen Antarctic Expeditions Winter Q
Photograph showing the living quarters of the hut used by Roald Amundsens Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12. Sleeping bunks, with curtains, line the edges of the hut, with the dining table in the centre

Eskimos - Aleutians
People of Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands (part of Alaska) - in their home, entered from above to conserve warmth. Bunks are arranged round the walls

Discipline at Newgate
General indiscipline amongst male inmates (young and old) in a dormitory cell at Newgate

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