Floor Collection (page 8)

Holloway and Suffragette
Holloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910

THE NATIONAL GALLERY
An atmospheric photograph of the National Gallery, London: Three men walking into the portico on a sunny day. Note St. Martin-in-the-Fields church, in the background. Date: 1950s

MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL
The schoolroom at Merchant Taylors School. Date: 1816

SOCIAL / NIGHTLIFE 1929
Three fashionable women in evening dress stand talking in the hallway of an elegant house. Date: 1929

SOCIAL / WORKING CHILDREN
Two little girls: while one holds the baby, the other scrubs the floor Date: 1881

DANCE FLOOR FASHIONS
Dance floor fashions include winklepickers, suits and liberal amounts of brilliantine, bouffants, stilettos, chain belts & abstract print frocks. Date: 1962

ADVERT / WARING & GILLOW ADVERT / WARING & GILLOW
Waring & Gillow - carpeting for lounge hall and staircase Date: 1917

VERSAILLES SALLE DE BAL
BOSQUETS DE LA SALLE DE BAL an outdoor dancing-floor, with provision for spectators so doubtless stage performances took place here on fine summer evenings Date: 1688

GREAT WOOL FLOOR / LONDON
The great wool floor at the London docks. Date: 1850

Persian coffee house 1856
Men and women smoking vapor Hookah flavored tobacco. Date: 1856

WALLFLOWER GIRL 1850
The Wallflower Girl. Date: circa 1850

HOUSEHOLD / CLEANING
A maidservant on her hands and knees polishes a floor with beeswax and turpentine Date: 1893

Girl with dogs, cats and dolls
A little girl with her arms full of dolls: her two puppies fight over a doll which has fallen to the floor, while her cat drinks milk from a bowl. Date: circa 1890

Royal Air Force Vickers Warwick GR Mk. V PN698
Royal Air Force Vickers Warwick GR Mk.V PN698, the second Warwick GR Mk.V, showing the Leigh light installation that replaced the mid-upper turret and was lowered through the floor when in action

Passing of the Third Floor Back, Opera House, Tunbridge Well
Passing of the Third Floor Back, a play by Jerome K Jerome, at the Opera House, Tunbridge Wells. circa 1910s

Marcilhac-sur-Cele - The Kings House - France
Marcilhac-sur-Cele - a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. It has many historic buildings, including the Maison de Roi (Kings House)

A British Waitress in a restaurant or teahouse
A British Waitress working in a restaurant or teahouse - delivering a tray of hot drinks. Perhaps her slightly downcast expression is in part due to the fact that gratuities to serving staff were

Ground Floor Bedsit - Oxford - Victorian
Ground Floor Bedsit - 20 Marlborough Road, Oxford - Extremely cluttered Victorian interior including brass bed, piano and multiple clocks! Date: 1897

Five women in an indoor domestic scene by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century

NYC Stock Exchange forced to closed due to gas bomb fumes
The trading floor New York Stock Exchange is forced to close due to tear gas bomb fumes - noon on 4th August 1933. The bombs had apparently been tossed into the ventilating apparatus

View of a drawing room, pencil, ink and watercolour on paper, by an unknown artist, c.1835-40, in a gilt frame. Date: 1835-40

Caretaker?s flat on the fourth floor at No. 4 Hamilton Place
Probably the new caretaker?s flat on the fourth floor at No.4 Hamilton Place c.June 1960. Date: 1960

Tech Department - fifth floor (front) No. 4 Hamilton Place
What was to become the Tech Department on the fifth floor (front side) at No.4 Hamilton Place in 1960. Date: 1960

Room in B F Keiths Theatre, Syracuse, New York State, USA
First Floor, Gentlemens Lounging Room in B F Keiths Theatre, South Salina Street, Syracuse, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1920

Group photo, Masonic Lodge, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Group photo, Rock of Gwalior Masonic Lodge, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1930s

Chez Vous, Venice Lido by Fortunino Matania
An impression of Chez Vous, the night club of the Excelsior Hotel at the Venice Lido, favoured resort for smart society, showing the multi-coloured fountains providing a magical backdrop to the dance

Three women in burlesque costume on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Roman mosaic with a cube pattern giving a three dimensional effect. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Dionysus fighting with the Indians. Mosaic. Palazzo Massimo
Pavement mosaic depicting Dionysus fighting with the Indians. 4th century. From Villa Rufinella. Roman National Museum. Palazzo Massimo. Rome. Italy

Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Woman police officer in self-defence training exercise
Woman police officer taking part in a self-defence training exercise. Date: circa 1950s

Trade catalogue for lamp stands and shades 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of Edwardian telescopic floor lamp stands and shades. Date: 1911

Many kittens and a Santa cat on a Christmas card by Louis Wain. Have they behaved well enough to receive their presents? Date: circa 1900s

Old man sitting alone, Stretford Arndale Shopping Centre
An old man sits alone in the Stretford Arndale Shopping Centre, Manchester, now called The Stretford Mall

Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook - Plan
Ground floor plan of the Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook, North London, designed by Mr G. Somers. Date: 1863

Interior, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

Eastern Telegraph Company, Malta -- a spacious room with equipment and staff. Date: circa 1898

Blitz in London -- bombed out pub, WW2
Blitz in London -- a bombed out pub, The White Hart in Windmill Street, near Tottenham Court Road, on 30 March 1941. View of the front of the building, with a sheet across the ground floor. Date: 1941

Syria - Punishment of a servant (1 / 3)
A domestic situation unfolds in Syria - the Mistress of the house punishes her serving maid. Date: circa 1910s

Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
The Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA Date: 1941

LFCDA-LFB Aerial ladder platform (ALP)
The Bronto-Skylift ALP being demonstrated at the Brigade headquarters, Lambeth SE1. This combination of a hydraulic platform

Wandsworth & Clapham Workhouse, Garratt Lane, London
Part of the new Wandsworth & Clapham Union Workhouse, at Swaffield Road, off Garratt Lane in south west London. It opened in 1886 and was designed by TW Aldwinckle

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

80S DISCO
Young people strutting their stuff on the dance floor, wearing various fashions of the day, including shoestring ties and fishnet gloves

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