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Barnardos Home, The Marfords, BromboroughA view of the Marfords, a Barnardos Home at Bromborough, Cheshire. The building is decorated with bunting. Date: circa 1938
Steyning Union Workhouse, Shoreham, SussexAn architects aerial view of the Steyning Unions new workhouse opened in 1901 at Kingston-by-Sea, near Shoreham, Sussex. The buildings were designed by Charles E Clayton and Ernest Black of Brighton
Union Workhouse, Bedale, North YorkshireThe Bedale Union workhouse, erected in 1839 at South End, Bedale, North Yorkshire. Two ladies in large hats converse in the foreground
Glymiel Jelly - Nobody in OUR family suffers from chapped hands. Glymiel Jelly stops all that. Date: c.1924
Ground plan, Carmarthen County Lunatic Asylum, WalesArchitects ground-floor plan of the Carmarthen Lunatic Asylum erected near Carmarthen, South Wales, in 1865 and designed by David Brandon
Hereford Industrial School and Working Boys HomeThe Home for Working Boys, later Boys Industrial School, Hereford, opened in 1877 Date: circa 1910
St Bartholomews Hospital, London - The MuseumA view of the medical museum at St Bartholomews Hospital in the City of London. The room is packed with shelves and display cases containing medical specimens, most of them in glass jars
Lowdham Grange Borstal InstitutionExterior view of Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution, near Nottingham. Date: circa 1945
Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, RedhillA view of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, Redhill, Surrey, founded in 1847. It later became known as the Royal Earlswood Hospital. Date: circa 1854
Communist China - training barefoot doctorsCommunist China - a military doctor trains three young women as so-called barefoot doctors, usually village-based farm workers trained in primary health care and basic hygiene, including acupuncture
Shaftesbury Homes - Farm School for Boys, Bisley, SurreyThe Bisley Farm School for Boys, established by what became the Shaftesbury Homes charity. It later became known as the School House department of Shaftesbury School. Date: 1930s
Shaftesbury Homes Fortescue House, TwickenhamShaftesbury Homes School for Boys at Fortescue House, Hampton Road Twickenham, opened in 1937. It had previously been located in premises at London Road, Twickenham. Date: circa 1937
Christiana Hartley Maternity Home, Colne, LancashireThe Christiana Hartley Maternity Home, Colne, opened in 1927 in premises of former Jubilee Cottage Hospital
St Vincents Catholic Boys Home, PaddingtonA group of boys at St Vincents Home for Roman Catholic Boys, Harrow Road, Paddington, West London. Date: early 1900s
St Josephs Catholic Boys Home, Enfield, MiddlesexBoys and nuns at St Josephs Catholic Boys Home, Enfield, Middlesex. Date: circa 1900
St Edwards Orphanage, Liverpool - Boys bandSt Edwards Orphanage, Broad Green, Liverpool - the boys band pose with their instruments
Glasgow Municipal Tenement PlanLayout plan of a Glasgow Municipal Tenement. Date: 1896
Ravelrig Barnardos Home, Balerno, EdinburghA view of the Ravelrig Barnardos Home, Balerno, near Edinburgh
National Childrens Home (NCH), Alverstoke - Aerial viewNational Childrens Home (NCH), Alverstoke, Hampshire. Aerial view showing the boundary of the homes site. Date: July 1939
Evacuation as a National Service - PosterIt Might by You! Caring for Evacuees is a National Service circa 1942
Strand and Edmonton Union Workhouses, MiddlesexAn aerial view of the Strand Union workhouse (above centre) and Edmonton Union workhouse (below centre) at Edmonton, Middlesex
Aerial view of Redhill Hospital, Hendon, MiddlesexAn aerial view of Redhill Hospital, Hendon, Middlesex originally opened in 1927 as the Hendon Union infirmary. The older building (below centre) was originally the Hendon Union school, erected in 1859
Empire Hotel, Lowestoft, SuffolkThe Empire Hotel at Lowestoft, Suffolk, opened in 1900. In 1921 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Asylums Board and reopened the following year as a hospital for tuberculosis patients
Combination Hospital, Greenock, Renfrewshire, ScotlandThe Greenock Combination Hospital was erected in 1906-7 on Inverkip Road, Greenock, to serve the combined burghs of Greenock, Port Glasgow, and Gourock. It later became known as Gateside Hospital
Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, BristolBeaufort War Hospital at Blackberry Hill, Stapleton, Bristol - an area also known as Fishponds. The building was opened in 1861 as the Bristol Lunatic Asylum
Union Workhouse, Kings Norton, WorcestershireEntrance to the Union workhouse on what is now Raddlebarn Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, south west of Birmingham. The building, designed by Edward Holmes, was opened in 1870
Bermondsey Military Hospital, LondonBermondsey Military Hospital operated during the First World War on the premises of the St Olaves Union workhouse at Ladywell, near Lewisham, in south east London
Union Workhouse, Hambledon, SurreyThe Hambledon Union workhouse, a building originally erected in 1786 for the united parishes of Bramley, Chiddingfold, Dunfold and Hambledon
Balmoral Industrial School, BelfastA view of the Balmoral Industrial School for Protestant Boys, Belfast Date: 1899
Bisley Farm School No. 2 Ground-floor PlanGround-floor plan of the new building added to the Bisley Farm School, Surrey, in 1873, and later known as the Shaftesbury School block. Date: circa 1888
Woman police officer Annie Matthews, Hyde Park, LondonWoman police officer Annie Matthews (nickname Big Ben), on duty at the childrens lido in Hyde Park, London. Before joining the Met Police, Annie worked as a housemaid at Glamis Castle in Scotland
The Queens Ward, Middlesex Hospital, London. Date: circa 1905
National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden - Aerial viewNational Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. Aerial view
Two Babies by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a red dress has been bathing her doll. Date: 1930
WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurseWWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917
John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Blind and Crippled Girls making artificial flowers. John Grooms vision for orphaned and disabled girls
Berrington Hospital, Atcham, ShropshireBerrington Hospital at Cross Houses, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. The hospital was formerly the Atcham Union workhouse, and operated as a War Hospital during the First World War
St Mary Abbots Workhouse, Marloes Road, Kensington, LondonIn 1847-8 the parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, south west London, erected a workhouse at the east of Wrights Lane (now Marloes Road)
City of London Workhouse, Bow Road, East LondonSituated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road in East London, the City of London Union Workhouse opened in 1849. The palatial building, designed by Richard Tress
City of London Infirmary, Bow Road, East LondonSituated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clements Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse
Langho Colony, Ribblesdale, LancashireAerial view of the Langho Colony set up in 1906 by the Chorlton and Manchester Unions for the treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy
Union Workhouse, Ashton-under-Lyne, LancashireThe Union workhouse erected in 1849-50 at Chamber Hills, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, on what is now Fountain Street. The site is now Tameside Hospital
Camberwell Workhouse, East Dulwich, LondonThe administrative block of the Camberwell workhouse opened in 1895 on Constance Road, East Dulwich, south London. The building was designed by Thomas Aldwinckle
Maidstone Union Workhouse, Coxheath, KentEntrance to the Maidstone Union workhouse. Designed by John Whichcord, it was erected in 1836 on Heath Road in Coxheath. The site later became Linton Hospital
Union workhouse, Market Harborough, LeicestershireThe Market Harborough Union workhouse. The inscription on the pediment reads HARBOROUGH UNION WORKHOUSE 1836. At the doorway stands a man and a woman, presumably the master and matron
Three Counties Asylum, Arlesey, BedfordshireThe Three Counties asylum at Arlesey (misspelt on picture), near Stotfold, Bedfordshire, opened in 1859, serving Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire
Combination Poorhouse, Stonehaven, KincardineshireMain building of the Kincardineshire Combination Poorhouse, opened in 1868 on Woodcot Brae, Stonehaven, north east Scotland. It later became Woodcot Hospital
No. 2 (Battle) War Hospital, Reading, BerkshireStaff and patients in Ward A13 at the No. 2 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Battle School, Cranbury Road, Reading