Commissioners Collection (page 2)

Suffragette selling copies of The Suffragette
London Life - A Rotary Postcard photograph showing a suffragette selling copies of The Suffragette paper - October, 1912. The woman in the image is wearing a Holloway brooch

A Dudley Mann
A DUDLEY MANN American statesman, one of the three commissioners of the Confederate States of America to Europe, photographed while visiting England. Date: 1801 - 1889

IMechE - First Commissioners room
IMechE/ Section A-A looking east (fireplace): First Commissioners room, HM Office of Works, Storeys Gate, 2 October 1997. by Basil Slade

Commissioner Ronald James Dobson giving a speech at the opening of the new London Fire Brigade Headquarters at 169 Union Street, London SE1 by Queen Elizabeth II

Our Peace Commissioners for 1865: Sheridan, Grant, Sherman, Porter, Lincoln, Farragut, and Thomas. Date between 1860 and 1870

Birmingham Botanic garden, 1851
Birmingham and the Great Exhibition-a fete champetre at the Botanic Garden in 1851. Royal commissioners and other officers of the Great Exhibition visited Birmingham to see its " manufacturing

Rural Workhouse Model Plan
Ground floor plan of a model rural workhouse for five hundred persons issued by the Poor Law Commissioners in 1835. Designed by Sir Francis Head

Hollesley Bay Labour Colony Farm, Suffolk
Part of the Hollesley Bay Labour Colony Farm, Suffolk, set up in 1906 for the unemployed of London. Each worker was given a house and a piece of land upon which to become self-sufficient

Babington House Hospital, Belper, Derbyshire
Aerial view of Babington House Hospital, Belper, Derbyshire. The building, designed as a workhouse by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt, was erected in 1839-40

Hexagonal workhouse, second floor plan
The second floor layout of the model hexagon (or Y-plan) workhouse design by Sampson Kempthorne, issued by the Poor Law Commissioners

Union Workhouse, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
The Tetbury Union workhouse, Gloucestershire. Loitering outside are a number of people - some small children, several labourers, and an older man with a stick

Square workhouse, second floor plan
The second floor layout of the model square workhouse for 300 inmates, design by Sampson Kempthorne, issued by the Poor Law Commissioners

Square workhouse, first floor plan
The first floor layout of the model square workhouse for 300 inmates, design by Sampson Kempthorne, issued by the Poor Law Commissioners

Square workhouse, perspective view
Perspective view of the model square workhouse for 300 inmates, design by Sampson Kempthorne, issued by the Poor Law Commissioners

Oracle Workhouse, Reading, Berkshire
The ornate entrance and gates of Readings Oracle workhouse, established in 1628. A shopping centre of the same name now stands on the site

Union Workhouse, New Forest, Hampshire
The New Forest Union workhouse, designed by Sampson Kempthorne, was erected at Ashurst in 1836. This view shows the main frontage of the workhouse with its chapel just visible at the left

William Whitelaw at Met Police cadets parade
William Whitelaw (1918-1999), Conservative politician, with police commissioners, inspecting Metropolitan Police cadets during a parade

Duchess of Gloucester at Met Police cadets parade
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (b 1946) with police commissioners at a parade of Metropolitan Police cadets

The Corps of Commissioners, London, 1880
Engraving showing a number of scenes relevant to the Corps of Commissioners, London, 1880. The images show (clockwise from top left): Mrs

Commissioners are sent into the departments to revise the judgments of the mixed commissions (whatever that means)

An Emigrant Ship leaving Great Britain, 1844
Engraving showing a three masted sailing ship being towed out of the harbour at the start of its journey to Australia, 1844

Liverpool and Birkenhead Ferry-steamer Cheshire, October 1
Engraving of the Liverpool and Birkenhead Ferry-Steamer, Cheshire, 31st October 1863. This paddle-steamer ferry was built for the Woodside Ferry Commissioners to a design that allowed up to 2000

Interrogatories or an examination before the commissioners

Japan : Elgin Mission 3
Lord Elgins diplomatic mission to Japan : exchange of powers with the Japanese commissioners

Charles I at Newcastle
CHARLES I OF ENGLAND Charles delivered to the Commissioners of the English Parliament in Newcastle, on 30 January 1647

Steam Fire-Boat / 1874
A fire-boat designed and constructed by Merryweathers for the River Wear Commissioners. The pumps could throw any type of water, however muddy or salty

Hotel Du Louvre Banquet
At the Hotel du Louvre, a banquet is offered to the commissioners of the Paris Exposition

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