Hammocks Collection

Advertisement for hammocks for workhouse vagrant wards
A 1900 advertisement from the Grantham company of Carlton * Co. for the supply of hammocks to workhouses for use in their casual wards which provided overnight accommodation for tramps and vagrants

Visit to Madeira - The Levada Tunnel
Black and white lantern slide of men being carried in hammocks out of the entrance of a tunnel built for a levada - an irrigation channel or aqueduct - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira

Rock a Bye Baby by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a charming sun hat, sits in a hammock and rocks her doll to sleep

WW2 - Life onboard a corvette escort at sea - the ILN special artist C E Turner accompanied the vessel around various UK ports accompanying a merchant fleet. 1941

Royal Naval Volunteers at the Crystal Palace, 1914
A use found for the Crystal Palace at last: rows of hammocks put up in Canadas building, the sleeping quarters of the Royal Naval Volunteers, at the Crystal Palace, October 1914. Date: October 1914

Hangar deck of HMS Illustrious
Copy photograph of the hangar deck of HMS Illustrious showing the hammocks of the three battalions en route to Egypt, 1951

Before Victory Day
Before the Victory Parade : Wrens and sailors sleep in hammocks in the Mall opposite the Saluting Base the night before the parade Date: 7 June 1946

Interior of police hut in County Mayo, Ireland
Interior of portable hut for Royal Irish Constabulary in County Mayo, Ireland, used for temporary lodging when the armed police are sent into a district where there has been unrest

Visit to Madeira - Rabacal - Hammock Ride Resumed
Black and white lantern slide of men being carried in hammocks beside a levada in Rabacal - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1890s

Visit to Madeira - Hammock men resting
Black and white lantern slide of Hammock men resting, with the poles of the hammocks they were carrying resting on the stone walls - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection

Visit to Madeira - Entrance to Bella Vista Hotel
Black and white lantern slide of a woman being carried down some outside steps in a canopied hammock attached to a pole being carried by two men

Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck
Various apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

Sailors in Hammocks
Disposition of the hammocks on the lower deck of a man-of- war - it looks very neat in the drawing, but we doubt if it is quite so orderly in practice... Date: circa 1825

Sea Cadets in hammocks on a barge, Walton, Essex
Four sea cadets in hammocks under the watchful eye of an officer who was also the owner of The British King, a barge moored at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1960

Hammocks in dormitory, Mettray Colony, France
View of a dormitory at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France, with a few boys asleep in their hammocks

Workhouse, Casual Ward
A workhouse casual ward which the poster on the right suggests is in the vicinity of Reading in Berkshire. The tramps and vagrants who occupied the room slept on hammocks slung between hooks attached

Whitechapel Workhouse, Casual Ward Dormitory
A dormitory of the Whitechapel Workhouse Casual Ward on Thomas Street, East London. There are rolled up hammocks attached along each wall. The floor is bare boards

Thirty-two pounders on the lower deck of H. M. S. Victory
The interior of the famous H.M.S. Victory after extensive redecoration and restoration shown for the first time in colour. This is the lower deck with canons called thirty-two pounders

Brazilian Natives
The indigenous people of Brazil, relaxing on hammocks with fresh fruit and fish to hand, as first encountered by Vespucci and his men

Mettray : a Dormitory
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS IN THEIR DORMITORY, WHERE THEY SLEEP IN HAMMOCKS

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