Convalescent Collection (page 2)

Unformed full length image of the Maharajah of Gwalior
The Maharajah supported the war effort by providing a hospital ship and a convalescent home. His rewards were doctorates at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh. WW1 Date: circa 1914

New Rest House, Negombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Front view of New Rest House, Negombo, Western Province, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1940

St Leonards-on-Sea Convalescent Home for Poor Children - Gir
Girls playroom at St Leonards-on-Sea Convalescent Home for Poor Children. Some girls play with the two large dolls houses, while others read

Nottingham Poor Boys Convalescent Home, Skegness
A seaside convalescent home at Skegness, Lincolnshire, for Poor Boys from Nottingham

Foresters Orphanage and Convalescent Home, Bridlington. The home was opened in 1899 by the Foresters, a Friendly Society. Date: circa 1930s

Railway Mens Convalescent Home, Herne Bay, Kent
Railway Mens Convalescent Home, Herne Bay, near Whitstable, Kent, England. Date: 1930s

Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road, London
Convalescent children outdoors at Londons Belgrave Hospital. A nurse holds a baby. Amongst their playthings are a toy pram and stuffed animals. Date: Date unknown

Thomas Turner Convalescent Home, Broadstairs, Kent
Children and staff at the Thomas Turner Convalescent Home, Stone Road, Broadstairs. The home, originally known as the St Davids Home, was established in 1911 by the Waifs and Strays Society

Childrens Heart Home, Lancing, Sussex
the Bluebell ward of the Childrens Heart Home at Lancing. The home was founded in 1926 as a childrens convalescent home. Date: Circa 1927

West Derby Union, Liverpool - Deysbrook House
Deysbrook House - a childrens convalescent home operated by Liverpools West Derby Union. Date: 1925

Children at Eastcliff House, Margate, Kent
Residents outside Eastcliff House, Alexandra Road, Margate, Kent. It was established as a childrens seaside convalescent home by the St Pancras Union in 1896

Enfield Isolation Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
The Isolation Hospital at Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. The hospital, opened in 1900 by Enfield Urban District Council, later became known as South Lodge Hospital

For the Fashionable Convalescent - Harrods advertisement
Advertisement for a charming reception outfit for when one is feeling a little wan, can t get out of bed, but wants to look ones best. Date: 1929

United Club, Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
United Club (club house and pavilion), Nuwara Eliya, Central Province, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), a hill country retreat for British colonialists and tea barons. Date: circa 1908

Lowestoft bombardment - damaged buildings, 1916
Damaged buildings in the bombardment of Lowestoft, including a shop and a convalescent home. A German naval squadron attacked the east coast of England early on Tuesday, 25th April 1916

Barnardos Convalescent Home, Felixstowe, Suffolk
Inmates and staff at the Barnardos Convalescent Home, Felixstowe, Suffolk Date: circa 1907

Constructing bandas, Schaedels Farm, East Africa, WW1
Constructing bandas at Schaedels Farm, a place of relaxation for exhausted soldiers near Lindi, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Schaedels Farm, near Lindi, East Africa, WW1
Schaedels Farm, near Lindi, East Africa, a place of relaxation for exhausted soldiers, August 1917, during WW1. 1917

British officers on convalescent leave in Nairobi, WW1
British officers on convalescent leave in Nairobi, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

Officers en route to convalescent home, East Africa, WW1
Officers en route to the Lady Colvile Convalescent Home in Nairobi, East Africa, during WW1. 1917

North Devon Convalescent Childrens Home, Lynton
Staff and inmates of the North Devon Convalescent Childrens Home, Lynton

Patient and Mother / 1879
The Convalescent : the sick daughter and her weary watcher Date: 1879

Barnardos Convalescent Home, Felixstowe
Staff an inmates line up outside Barnardos Convalescent Home, Felixstowe. Date: Date unknown

Thanet VAD Motor Transport Group and stretcher bearers outside The Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children (date - journal). Sir Alfred Yarrow opened this home in 1894

Ormerod Home, St Annes on Sea - Dining Hall exterior
Exterior view of the dining-hall at the Ormerod Childrens Convalescent Home, St Annes on Sea, Lancashire. Date: early 1900s

Ormerod Home, St Annes on Sea - girls in chapel
Chapel interior at Ormerod Childrens Convalescent Home, St Annes on Sea, Lancashire. A group of girls stand in front of the altar. Date: early 1900s

Nurses, Yarrow Military Hospitsal
Group of fifteen female nursing staff, taken at the Yarrow Military Hospital, Broadstairs in December 1914. The women are, with one possible exception, the one standing 4th left

St Johns Home, Kemp Town, Brighton, was a seaside home for convalescent and crippled children. Date: circa 1907

Mens Convalescent Home, Rhyll, Wales
Mens Convalescent Home, Rhyll, near Prestatyn/Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales. Date: 1924

Railway Convalescent Home, Herne Bay, Kent
Railway Convalescent Home, Herne Bay, near Whitstable, Kent, England. Showing the writing room Date: 1930s

Convalescent Home, Clent, Warwickshire
Convalescent Home, Clent, Stourbridge, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1912

Convalescent Home, Tankerton, Kent
Convalescent Home, Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent, England. Date: 1910s

Convalescent Home, Sheringham, Norfolk
Convalescent Home, Sheringham, near Cromer, Norfolk, England. Date: 1950s

Cartoon, Convalescent leave, WW1
Cartoon, Convalescent leave, showing two girls chatting to a little boy dressed as a soldier who has a bandage on his knee

The Sphere, convalescent 1914
A convalescent British soldier at home with his family depicted on the cover of the The Sphere Christmas number, 1914. Date: 1914

Convalescent Home, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
A party of children and staff at Weston-Super-Mare Convalescent Home. They are off to the sands, some walking, some in open perambulators, some by horse and cart. Date: circa 1908

Visitors for wounded soldiers by Miss Watson Williams
A set of four pictures - the pair on the left entitled, As Tommy Does Not Like It, showing some rather tiresome visitors - an aristocratic lady and a maiden aunt

River trip for wounded soldiers, WW1
An up river trip on the River Thames from Kingston to Walton and back for wounded soldiers convalescing at the Victoria Hospital Chelsea arranged by the print-machine managers at the Illustrated

Lord Londesboroughs hospital at Scopwick
Some of the wounded soldiers convalescing at the hospital at Scopwick House near Blankney, Lincolnshire, home of Lord Londesborough

Wounded soldiers at Cheshire Hunt puppy show, WW1
A scene from the Cheshire Hunt Puppy Show organised by Colonel Hall Walker, the Master of the Cheshire Foxhounds who invited wounded soldiers from local hospitals and entertained them to lunch

Bombardment of Lowestoft, WW1
German bombardment of the East Coast during the First World War. A police officer investigates in a room in a convalescent home in which the matron, who escaped unhurt

Women working at convalescent remount depot, WW1
Scenes at a convalescent army remount, where forty to fifty hunting women were employed. The depot was under the District Remount Officer for Berkshire

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Meltham, West Yorkshire - Convalescent Home. Built by local Industrialists and Philanthropists the Brook Family Date: 1903

Malta - One of the Convalescent Camps - WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Malta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp - WWI
Malta - St Patricks Convalescent Camp. The caption (written by a soldier recoving at the camp) detais various tents as the Y.M.C.A, the Cookhouse and the Surgical Ward

Malta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital - WWI
Malta - Ghain Tuffieha Camp Hospital (St Peters Camp). Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Nurse and patient in a Red Cross convalescent home
A nurse and a patient in a Red Cross convalescent home in Little Missenden, Bucks

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