Feb16 Collection (page 8)

Saint Marys Hospital Chapel - Chichester, W H Barrett Postcard. St Marys is a remarkable survival of a 13th Century hospital

The Museum of the City of Brussels - La Maison du Roi
The Museum of the City of Brussels is situated on the Grand Place opposite the Brussels Town Hall, in a building known as the Maison du Roi (" Kings House")

A New Tooth - hoisting new gun into a destroyer, WWI
A new gun being hoisted by crane into a destroyer under refit during the First World War. 1918

Women helping to catch rabbits on a farm, WWI
Women helping to catch rabbits on a farm in Cheshire during the First World War. 1918

LCC Ambulance Girls, WWI
London County Council ambulance girls pictured with their ambulance wearing new shrapnel helmets. 1918

Unbeaten team of lady footballers, WWI
The undefeated team of Humber girls, made up of munitions girls from the Humber factory. The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News comments that they play, serious football

Hut made of petrol tins, American Red Cross nurses, Serbia
A hut made of petrol tins for American Red Cross nurses in Serbia during the First World War. 1918

Communal Kitchens, WWI by Will Owen
Cartoon by Will Owen, a humorous comment on the rise of the communal kitchen, introduced during the First World War as a way of providing war workers and the poor with nourishing meals

Wartime Hunting - a day with the suburban hounds (rationing)
Humorous drawing by H. H. Harris commenting on rationing in Britain in 1918 using the metaphor of hunting. Lord Rhondda, who served as Food Controller, is Master of the Hounds

Rat catching on the home front during WWI
The Emancipation of Women - another sphere of industry. A member of a family of a resident in Camberwell who is the official rat-catcher to the London County Council

WWI aviation - a scout circus looking for trouble
Impression of aeroplanes painted with bright colours in order to give them a more terrifying appearance. The device was first employed by the Germans who had one squadron, under Baron von Richthofen

Oxo advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Oxo, an inestimable boon to the fighting forces at this time of the year. Advert is illustrated by two scenes showing British soldiers manning a machine gun on the front line

Florence Parbury, traveller and war worker
Florence Parbury, described by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as one of our most versatile and accomplished women, and a great traveller

Blaw, Man! An incident in a billet in France, Arthur Garrat
A Scottish solider from a Highland regiment, wearing a kilt, tries to teach a small French boy how to play the bagpipes. Date: 1918

Pigeons and their motor lorry home at the front, WWI
H.M. " Air" Service - Petrol and Pigeons at the Front. A motor lorry behind the lines, converted into a home for carrier pigeons, used to carry message at the front

Wartime Football - Association at the Front, WWI
Series of humorous vignettes drawn by H. H. Harris showing the experience of playing football at the front during the First World War

The Tank Bank - Trafalgar Square War Bond Shop, WWI
An Army tank in Trafalgar Square where the public could buy war bonds. It was part of a wider exhibition of war trophies in the square at the time and attracted much attention and media interest

Food Economy Campaign, WWI - Canning Apples
Women canning apples on the home front during the First World War. In 1917, prior to rationing, a food economy campaign urged the public to save food and cook frugally. 1917

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