Cleaners Collection

Upright Hoover
A mustard yellow Hoover upright vacuum cleaner

Electrolux Advert 1927
Two ladies having fun with their ELECTROLUX

Vacuuming a Wireless
Frequent cleaning of a wireless set (radio) can easily be done with use of the spare parts of a Hoover vacuum cleaner

1960S Lady & Vacuum
A British housewife poses with Hoover and rag in the centre of her sitting room

Advert for Daisy vacuum cleaner 1912
Daisy vacuum cleaner, manual vacuum cleaner using suction to remove dirt. 1912

Imperial Vacuum Cleaner advertisement, 1914
Advertisement for the Imperial Vacuum Cleaner from The Electric Appliances Company Ltd, claiming it would last a lifetime and offering the chance for a home demonstration of the machine in action

Dry cleaners
American Gas Appliance Co. Men Cleaning Overcoats

Clarinet accessories, Wurlitzer
Everything to keep a clarinet happy and tuneful including reeds, mouthpieces and cleaners

JUSTICE CLEANED UP
Cleaning up British Justice

Cleaners Delivery Van
Achille Serre is THE cleaner for LOndons fashionable crowd, and this is the van in which your gowns and dress suits will be brought to you

Vacuuming Ornaments
A French maidservant vacuums ornaments with LE PROGRESS

Vacuuming Picture
A French maidservant vacuums a picture with LE PROGRESS

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers
Tesco in its infancy: Tesco Stores Ltd, The Modern Grocers. Date: circa 1950s

Newcastle Upon Tyne Lady Window Cleaners early 1900s

Lorry-loads of vacuum cleaners
Two Gamman and Dicker lorry-loads of vacuum cleaners for delivery to the Royal Air Force. These JAP-engined vacuum cleaners were widely used in the RAF from the 1950s to the 1980s.. Date: circa 1960

Goblin Electric Cleaners Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for an Ideal Homes Exhibition stand promoting Goblin Electric Cleaners, the illustration portrays a company mascot using a vacuum cleaner

Hilliard & Chapman, free standing patent knife polishing and sharpening with six different sizes. Date: 1862

A group of women standing over a couple of barrels cleaning fish. Date: 1908

Street scene with decorating store, Brighter Homes
An early fifties Brighter Homes decorating store. Date: circa 1953

Cleaners at work in Central London
Two cleaners wash down the fascia of the Royal Dutch Airlines offices in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Countrymen on a stage coach, the Monument and Pie Corner. Four-horse stage coach in front of Saint Pauls Cathedral 1, the Monument to the Fire of London in Fish Street Hill 2

Advert for Frantz Premier Electric Vacuum Cleaner 1917
Advert, Frantz Premier Electric Vacuum Cleaner, from the Frantz Premier Co, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Date: 1917

Stationery, C A Brown (Bradford) Ltd, West Yorkshire, window cleaners - for a brighter outlook. 1967

Cartoon, two street cleaners. 19th century

Advert for The British Vacuum cleaner 1912
There is no room in the home for dust, microbes and irritating dust-laden air. The B.V.C makes everything clean, healthy and dustless. Date: 1912

Firefighters at scene of fire, Stockwell Road, Brixton
Firefighters in action at the scene of a fire in Stockwell Road, Brixton, SW London. Date: 2005

Advert for Gamages kitchen cabinets 1929
A place for everything and everything in its place. Three stand alone units for the kitchen, made from wood, available with easy payment terms. 1929

Advert for Magnet Electric cleaner 1929
Advertisement for a Magnet, vacuum clear, English made, guaranteed, well made and reliable. Date: 1929

CLEANERS DELIVERY VAN
Achille Serre is THE cleaner for LOndons fashionable crowd, and this is the van in which your gowns and dress suits will be brought to you. Date: 1912

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

Royal Wedding 1947 - presents for the royal bride
A page from The Ilustrated London News showing objects of beauty, interest and use given as gifts to Princess Elizabeth on her marriage to Lieutenant Philip Mountabatten on 20 November 1947

Advert for Goblin vacuum cleaner 1948
Goblin electric vacuum cleaner, for carpets, and polished floors. 1948

Hospital Ward Maids
A nurse wheels a patient forward in his metal bed so that the daily Ward Maids can clean and polish the floors at Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, England

Group of cleaners who won the football pools, with cleaning equipment. Date: circa 1980s

Women Work WW1 Window Cleaners
Women working as window cleaners in Nottingham during WW1. They have a wooden cart on which to carry the long wooden ladders. Captioned, The Lady Window Cleaners of Nottingham. Date: circa 1917

Window Cleaning Girls
A team of " Georginas", demonstrate the proper way to clean window panes from the inside of an office block while the male window cleaners are away in the army. Date: early 1940s

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, Maidenhead
Advertisement for Johnsons dry cleaners, High Street, Maidenhead, with some amazing temporary reductions to three shillings and sixpence, and a four-day turnaround. Date: 20th century

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

The Flying Scotsman cleaned
A wash and brush up for steam locomotive No. 2545, the Flying Scotsman

Woman war-time window-cleaner, WW1
A girl window cleaner dressed in khaki jacket and trousers during the First World War. Date: 1915

No Objection Taken - womens war work, 1916
A page of sketches of mans work the men want the women to want, a humorous (and slightly chauvinistic) comment on the traditionally male jobs taken by women during the First World War. 1916

Sweepers on Red Square, Moscow
Seven men keeping clean Moscows Red Square that separates the Kremlin (the former royal citadel) from the historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. Date: circa 1900

Bloomsbury Square
A gentleman walking his dog pauses to admire the statue of Charles James Fox, but street cleaners are indifferent... Date: 1831

Advert for GEC Electric cleaner 1950
GEC Electric cleaner. 1950

Korean Villagers - Street sellers?
Korean Villagers - Street sellers with brooms, brushes and mats for sale? Date: circa 1907

Itinerant Russian Broom seller, with his wide selection of brushes, brooms, pipe cleaners and sundry additional cleaning paraphernalia of all shapes and sizes! Date: circa 1902

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