Edwardian Collection (page 12)

Advertisement, George Kent Athletic Clothing
Advertisement, George Kent Shirt Maker, Hosier, Glover & Outfitter, Athletic Clothing Manufacturer, Fenchurch Street, London. 1900

Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906
Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with

View of Harley Street, London W1 (looking north). Date: circa 1900s

View of 18 Mortimer Street, London, with the offices of E Dubois & Co on the first floor, and Nickolls & Baker, Corn Merchant, below. A bus to Liverpool Street is passing by. Date: 1904

Roman Catholic church, Farm Street, Mayfair, London, with an inset of Father Bernard Vaughan (1847-1922). Date: circa 1905

Our Miss Gibbs by Adrian Ross
Promotional postcard for Our Miss Gibbs by Adrian Ross; music Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. First produced at the Gaiety Theatre, 23rd January 1909

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lighthouse
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

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

HMS Magnificent, British battleship
HMS Magnificent, British Majestic class battleship. Date: circa 1908

Feather Flapper headband 1912
Woman wearing a flapper style headpiece, with feathers and beaded detail at side. 1912

Flapper headpiece 1912
Woman wearing a flapper style headpiece with cabochon stone and plumes in the centre. 1912

Advert for William Whiteley, womens underwear 1906
Elegant corset cut very low at the bust and rounded at the hips. 1906

Oil fuelled Merryweather pump

LCC-LFB Knightsbridge fire station, SW London
Opened in 1907, Knightsbridge fire station was a London Fire Brigade station (the name had changed from the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1904)

LCC-LFB Northcote fire station, Battersea, SW London
Built by the London County Council, Northcote fire station was located at 59-61 Chatham Road, SW8. The widespread adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of

Barnet Voluntary Fire Brigade with manual horse pump
The officers and firemen of the Barnet voluntary fire brigade with the manual horse drawn pump fire engine

LCC- MFB motorised senior officers car
At the turn of the century motorised transport was making its presence felt in Londons fire brigade, Seen here is Superintendent Cs Egerton

Cover design, Blackpool Aviation Week
Cover design, souvenir programme for Blackpool Aviation Week, 18-24 October 1909. Showing a gold aircraft on a white and black background. October 1909

Cover design, Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition
Cover design, catalogue of Aero and Motor Boat Exhibition, 19 to 27 March 1909, at Olympia, west London. Showing three Edwardian people looking up at one of the latest aircraft designs. March 1909

The Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The Naze Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. An historic landmark, it was built on the cliffs in 1721 by Trinity House as a navigation mark to guide shipping

Tudor Cottage vegetable garden, Walton, Essex
Standing in the vegetable garden of Tudor Cottage, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, a bowler hatted and bearded gentleman proudly displays one of his marrows, while a woman stands on the path. circa 1900

Bunny Roger
Neil Munro (" Bunny" ) Roger (June 9, 1911 in London - April 27, 1997 in London) English couturier, war hero, and dandy

The Princess of Wales, later Queen Mary
Queen Mary (Princess Mary of Teck) (1867-1953), wife of the future King George V, when she was Princess of Wales. Date: early 20th century

Front cover, Apprenticeship Indenture
Front cover of an Apprenticeship Indenture, between John Henry Watson and Messrs John Davis & Son (Derby) Limited. (1 of 2) Date: 3 January 1902

THE LITTLE DRIVER PUB
The Little Driver public house, Bow Road, east London. Date: early 1900s

Princess Daisy of Pless with her son
Daisy, Princess Henry of Pless (1873 - 1943), formerly Mary Theresa Olivia Cornwallis-West. A great Edwardian society beauty, she married one of Imperial Germanys wealthiest princes in 1891

Cooling Room, Nevills Turkish Baths, London
View inside a Cooling Room at Nevills Turkish Baths, Northumberland Avenue, London. Date: circa 1908

Royal Wedding 1904 -- Princess Mary as bridesmaid
Princess Mary of Wales (later Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, 1897-1965), seen here in her bridesmaids dress for the wedding of Princess Alice of Albany and Prince Alexander of Teck

Interior of ticket office at London Bridge railway station
The interior of the ticket booking office at London Bridge railway station. The clerks serve customers through windows at the right

Union Workhouse, Newent, Gloucestershire
The entrance to the union workhouse at Newent, Gloucestershire

Gordon Highlanders making kilts in the open air
A group of soldiers from the Gordon Highlanders, some smoking pipes, sit outdoors making kilts. One of them is using a sewing machine

Main building, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
General view of the main building of the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The school opened in 1870 to house workhouse children from the two unions

Reginald Malby working in his garden
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, working in his garden

Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society, London
View from the balcony of the Lawrence Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society, Central London, with an exhibition taking place

Group outside Three Salmons Inn, Crickhowell, Mid Wales
The Three Salmons Inn in the town of Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with two men and a girl with a doll posing for their photograph -- perhaps three generations of a family

Dancing bears in the High Street, Crickhowell, Mid Wales
Two dancing bears and their owners, and several interested spectators, in the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales

Three Salmons Inn with staff, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
The Three Salmons Inn in the town of Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with three members of staff, including the landlord, John Herbert (left) and his wife (right)

GWR workings on a railway line in South Wales
Navvies working on a Great Western Railway line embankment, somewhere in South Wales. The navvy hut can be seen in the distance on the left

Boating party, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A boating party off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They have gone out to view an old wreck (visible just behind them), and are having a break for refreshments

Winding man, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
The winding man at the coal face in Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Laundry at Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey
Inmates ironing clothes and linen in the laundry at the Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey, established in 1904 by the St Olave Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
A general view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. The prison was opened as a convict prison in 1883 then used as a local prison from 1890

Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Tours to the Riviera, Italy, etc, using the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway to Newhaven and Dieppe, programme free from any office of Thomas Cook & Son

Salvation Army elevator
Men at work sorting waste paper in a Salvation Army Elevator. Elevators, which aimed to help the unskilled or unemployed, combined a factory space together with hostel accommodation for those working

Union Workhouse, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Bakewell Union workhouse. The porter and two other men stand at the entrance, while another stands at the left near a wheelbarrow

Wallingford Union Childrens Cottage Homes, Berkshire
The Wallingford Unions cottage homes on Wantage Road, Wallingford, Berkshire. Cottage homes were established by some poor law authorities to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton, North London
The Strand Unions workhouse at Edmonton, North London, opened in 1870. The Strand Union was located in Central London

Poplar Union Schools, Brentwood, Essex
In 1906, the Poplar Union (East London) established a Schools site located between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex

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