Care Collection (page 19)

Salvation Army Maternity Hospital, Ivy House, Hackney
A Salvation Army Maternity Hospital for single mothers was opened in around 1895 at Ivy House, 271 Mare Street, Hackney. Date: early 1900s

NCH Princess Alice Orphanage, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire
The Governor and a group of children at the National Childrens Home Princess Alice Orphanage, Sutton Coldfield

Little girl feeding a lamb
Little girl feeding milk to a lamb in a field. Date: 1960s

Artificial Breastfeeding
A mother breastfeeds her child artificially with the device of Dr Auvard : inset, the device of Dr Bailly Date: circa 1880

Hospital in Marengo (Hadjout), Tipaza Province, Algeria
Community hospital or clinic in Marengo (Hadjout), Tipaza Province, northern Algeria. circa 1920

Advert for Beethams Larola skin care 1904
Beethams Larola skin product for womens skin and complexion from the effects of sun, wind, frost and hard water, available from chemist stores. Date: 1904

Barnes Home, Heaton Mersey
An aerial view of the Barnes Home - an Industrial School for Boys on Didsbury Road, Heaton Mersey, Cheshire. Its construction was financed by Manchester cotton baron Robert Barnes. Date: 1930s

Hill Top, Ilkley
A large house known as Hill Top, in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. It was later used as a childrens home by the West Riding County Council. Date: circa 1915

Start-rite shoes advertisement, 1961
Advertisement for Start-rite shoes of Norwich, THE choice of classic shoe for children (the one bar style seen at the bottom of this advert is still being sold in various colours today)

Hollymount Orphanage Infirmary, Tottington, Lancashire
The infirmary block at the Hollymount (or Holly Mount) orphanage for Roman Catholic children at Tottington, near Bury, Lancashire. Date: circa 1912

Reformatory Ship Akbar, River Mersey, Birkenhead
The Reformatory Ship Akbar, a former naval hulk, was moored on the River Mersey off Rock Ferry, Birkenhead from 1856 to 1907. Date: 1856

St Johns Reformatory School for Boys, Tiffield, Northampton
A group of Boys Officials at the St Johns School at Tiffield, near Towcester, Northamptonshire Date: 1931

Marlesford Lodge Childrens Home, Hammersmith
Inmates and staff at Marlesford Lodge - the Kensington & Chelsea School Districts childrens home at Kings Street, Hammersmith. Date: circa 1906

Convalescent Home, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside
Childrens convalescent home at West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside. Children sit outdoors in wheelchairs on beds. A caged bird, a pet for the children, is also shown. Date: circa 1912

Force Feeding at Denbigh Lunatic Asylum
A patient is force fed through a tube at the Denbigh Lunatic Asylum, North Wales. Date: 1890s

London East End home brushmaking
The mother of a poor family in Londons East End engaged in brushmaking at home. She sits at a rickety table, surrounded by six children. The room has bare floorboards. Date: Late 1800s

Buckley Hall Orphanage, near Rochdale, Lancashire
A view of Buckley Hall Orphanage, near Rochdale. Boys are at play in a playground equipped with a single swing. Date: early 1900s

St Marys Industrial School, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Shoemaki
St Marys Industrial School for Roman Catholic Boys, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Boys at work in the shoemaking workshop. Date: early 1900s

Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook - Plan
Ground floor plan of the Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook, North London, designed by Mr G. Somers. Date: 1863

St Clares Convent Pantasaph, Holywell, Flintshire. For some years, St Clares also housed an orphanage and domestic training school

County Home, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA
A view of the County Home at Mercer, Pennsylvania - a publicly funded home for the elderly poor. Date: Date unknown

Glasgow Slum residents
Residents of an unidentified Glasgow slum. Date: 1896

Edens Orphanage, Astley Bridge, Bolton, founded by a legacy from local industrialist James Eden

Coltness House, near Wishaw, Lanarkshire, where a Barnardos home for physically disabled children was opened in 1953. Date: circa 1906

Ely Homes, Cardiff
Ely Homes run by the Cardiff Board of Guardians to house workhouse children

Road safety poster, Keep a Good Look-Out! Two children take care when trying to cross a country road

Guys Hospital - Henriette Raphael Nurses Home. Henriette Raphael gave her name to the first purpose-built nurses home at Guys Hospital which opened in 1902 & was funded by donations from her husband

An exhausted cab horse - The Strand, London
London Life - An exhausted cab horse tended to on the street - The Strand, London Date: circa 1901

NFS training / instructional photo, a hose becket, WW2
An instructional photo showing a hose becket in use, securing a line of charged hose to a fire brigade ladder just below the open drill tower window

Ministry of Health Poster - Evacuation
Shes in the Ranks too! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942

Laundry Staff at Whittingham Asylum, near Preston, Lancs
Laundry staff at Whittingham Asylum, Cumeragh Lane, Goosnargh, near Preston, Lancashire. The asylum, designed by Henry Littler of Manchester, opened in 1873 as the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum

Wording of the 1601 Poor Relief Act
The opening section of the 1601 parliamentary Act for Relief of the Poor which formed the basis of what became known as the Old Poor Law

New End Hospital, Hampstead, North London
The frontage of New End Hospital, Hampstead, North London, with a military ambulance outside. The building, designed by H.E. Kendall, was erected in 1849-50 as the Hampstead workhouse

Seafield House, Seaforth, Liverpool. In 1914, the West Derby Union converted and extended a former convent on Waterloo Road at Seaforth to provide accommodation for what were then referred to as

Nell Lane Hospital, Manchester
Aerial view of Nell Lane Hospital, Withington, Manchester, opened in 1855 as Chorlton Union workhouse. The cross shaped block (left of centre) was the main workhouse building

Nell Lane Hospital and Institution, Manchester
Aerial view of Nell Lane Hospital at Didsbury, near Withington, Manchester, opened in 1855 as Chorlton Union workhouse. The cross shaped block (above centre) was the main workhouse building

Heswall Sanatorium, Cheshire
Heswall Sanatorium or Childrens Hospital, located on the Wirral peninsula, then part of Cheshire. It was established in 1902 by Liverpool Parish, West Derby Union

Grove Park Hospital, Lewisham, London
Entrance to the Grove Park Hospital, Marvels Lane, Lewisham, south east London. The buildings, designed by T & J Norman Dinwiddy

Greenwich Union Workhouse, Vanbrugh Hill, Greenwich
Part of the infirmary at the Greenwich Union workhouse at Vanbrugh Hill, south east London. A sign on the front of the nearmost building reads Calvert Road

St Oswalds Hospital, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The building, designed by Henry Stevens, was originally the Ashbourne Union workhouse erected in 1848 on Dark Lane (later Union Street)

Wakefield Union workhouse, West Yorkshire
Aerial view of the Wakefield Union workhouse, designed by J.E. Oates and erected in 1851 on Park Lodge Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Pontsarn Sanatorium, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales
Pontsarn Sanatorium, in the parish of Vaynor, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. The sanatorium was established in 1913 by the Merthyr Tydfil Union for the treatment of tuberculosis patients

Durham County Lunatic Asylum, Sedgefield
The Durham County Asylum was opened in 1859 at Salters Lane, Sedgefield, County Durham. The Sedgefield Asylum later became Durham County Mental Hospital and then Winterton Hospital

Union Workhouse, Doncaster, South Yorkshire
The Doncaster Union workhouse opened in 1900 at Springwell Lane, Balby, replacing the previous premises at Hexthorpe Lane

Angleton Asylum, Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales
A view of the Angleton lunatic asylum at Penyfai, Bridgend, Glamorganshire, also known as the Glamorgan County Mental Hospital and later Glanrhyd Hospital

Wordsley Hospital, Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Main building and clock tower at Wordsley Hospital at Kingswinford, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, which was previously the Stourbridge Union workhouse

Bagthorpe Military Hospital, Nottingham
Soldiers and nurses pose in front of the Bagthorpe Military Hospital - the First World War guise of Nottinghams workhouse infirmary, now part of the City Hospital

Wayland Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk
Wayland Hospital, originally the Wayland Unions workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough, Norfolk, in 1912-13

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