Homes Collection (page 19)

Quarriers Homes, Bridge of Weir - Training Ship
The Central Hall at Quarriers Homes, Bridge of Weir. The James Arthur training ship stands alongside. Date: circa 1904

Thomas Barnardo with some physically disabled boys (then invariably referred to as cripples ) at one of his homes. Date: circa 1900

Barnardos Tree of Life 1866-1906
Barnardos Tree of Life charting the development of Barnardos Homes from 1866 to 1906. Date: 1906

Princess Mary Homes, Addlestone, Surrey - Making stockings
Princess Mary Homes, Addlestone, Surrey. Girls gathered around a machine for making stockings. Date: circa 1906

Cottage Homes on Bridge Street, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England Date: 1900s

WW1 - Belgian Refugees on road to Brussels from Tirlemont
WW1 - Belgian Refugees on the road to Brussels from Tirlemont Date: 1914

Vanderbilt home, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
The home of F W Vanderbilt in Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Date: circa 1910

Winslow house, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
The house of General John Winslow in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, built in 1730. Date: circa 1905

Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, as it was in 1622, with a few basic buildings. From left to right: a store house, the homes of P Brown, J Goodman, W Brewster, J Billington, I Allerton, F Cooke

Belgian Refugees - WW1
Belgian refugees fleeing their homes following the German Army advance into Belgium rest by the roadside. Date: 1914

WW1 damage at Dormans - Saint-Hippolyte Church
Two young boys pose amid the damage at Dormans, Marne, France showing the ruined Saint-Hippolyte Church following heavy fighting in the village during WW1

Advert for Min Cream, polish for furniture 1936
Its a matter of moments with Min. Use it on your piano or dining table and see what a beautiful, lustrous sheen it gives to polished wood. Date: 1936

European Bison - a shelter and feeding place inside a corral (Bison bonasus L.). Bialowieza Nature Park - Belorussia

Egypt - Crater-shaped entrance of a termites termitarium, typical in an uninhabited oasis on a salt water spring in Arabian desert. approx. 50 km from Hurghada town

Termite Mounds
TERMITE MOUNDS. Australia

Advert for Mansion polish 1937
The bright way to lovely floors. Floor retain there loveliness far longer when polished with Masion Polish. A single application will keep a floor looking bright and fresh for days. 1937

Advert for Drages bedroom furniture 1937
Drages fine funiture. Payable in a small deposit and then pay 50 months installments. Available department stores in Oxford Street, London, Manchester and Birmingham. Date: 1937

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - burrows for shelter in the soil - for the night (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise - emerges from an overnight shelter under bushes (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Selkup minority of the Siberian North, a Russian hunter (centre) is next to a family in front of their traditional tepee. spring; forest near river Taz, North Tumen region, Siberia

Selkup Man (North Siberia minority) shows his wooden hand-made skies (covered with moose-skin to prevent sliding back). early spring, taiga-forest; North Tumen region, Russia

Sphere cover - German retreat from Lille, 1918
Front cover of The Sphere featuring an illustration by Fortunino Matania showing a scene in Lille when the British finally recaptured the town from the retreating Germans in October 1918

Service cards in a window in Arundel, WW1
Four cards representing the fact that four members of a household in Maltravers Street in Arundel had enlisted 1914. The Earl of Arundel had converted his ancestral castle into recruiting offices

Street celebration with flags, VE Day
Standing amid the rubble of bombed homes, people celebrate with flags in Battersea, South London, to celebrate the end of the Second World War on VE Day. Date: 1945

Suffragette Votes for Women W. S. P. U
Suffragette Votes for Women W.S.P.U. Advertising Public At Homes, organised by the National Womens Social & Political Union at two London venues. Date: circa 1909

54 Mount Street home of Prince & Princess Arthur Connaught
No. 54 Mount Street, Park Lane, London, take by Prince Arthur of Connaught to be his London home after his marriage to his cousin, Princess Alexandra of Fife on 15 October 1913

Bomb damage and crater, Petherton Road, London, WW2
Panoramic view of extensive bomb damage and a crater in Petherton Road, North London, 2 July 1944. A salvage operation took place, pumping out flooded basements. Date: 1944

NFS personnel in salvage operation, WW2
NFS overseas personnel in a salvage operation, helping to remove furniture from damaged houses, 27 June 1944. Date: 1944

Stockwell Orphanage
Stockwell orphanage, Clapham Road, London, founded by Charles Spurgeon, opened in 1869 off Stockwell Park Road, on a site which is now part of the Stockwell Park Estate

Salvaging furniture from damaged homes, London, WW2
Firefighters helping residents to salvage furniture from their damaged homes, London, 2 July 1944, Second World War. Date: 1944

Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, WW1
Wingfield House Red Cross Hospital, the seat of Sir Vincent and Lady Caillard, which had operated as a military hospital since October 1914 commencing with seventeen beds

Ideal homes near the Aisne, WW1
Some very rustic but well made huts constructed by artillery men from Landes, near the Aisne. The buildings were in the style of those from their own locality in South West France. Date: 1915

WWI Fund Raising badge - Brick Day and Soldiers Homes
First World War Fund Raising badge - Brick Day and Soldiers Homes. Commemorative Ware

The Bill for Billeting Soldiers, WW1
Billeting terms for householders taking in soldiers during the early weeks of the First World War. with an extremely young soldier demonstrating how a young Tommy fits in - sleeping on the floor

Leicester Children at Poor Childrens Summer Homes, Mabletho
Children from Leicester in the dining room of the Poor Childrens Summer Homes, Mablethorpe. Date: 1914

Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover - Band and Pipers
Band and pipers of the Gordon Boys Orphanage, Dover. The boys, in uniform and holding instruments, are accompanied by the homes staff. Date: Date unknown

St Edwards Home for Boys, Coleshill, Warwickshire
St Edwards Home for Boys at Coleshill, part of a complex that became known as Father Hudsons Homes. Date: circa 1910

Chester Workhouse Childrens Outing
A group of children from Chester Unions cottage homes on an outing to the seaside, accompanied by adult helpers. The homes housed pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1925

Barnardo Boys in Training for the Navy
A gun carriage display by uniformed boys from Dr Barnardos Homes in training for the navy. Date: Date unknown

Greece - Horses - Dwellings. From: Travels in Sicily, Greece & Albania. Date: 1820

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

Shelled house in Northern France, WW1
The effects of shelling on a dwelling in North France with the house cut in half by bombardment but with stairs and some furniture still left intact, enabling it to be occupied by French troops

Merchants houses, Marqual Canal, Srinagar, India
Merchants houses on the Marqual Canal, Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1890s

What to do in the case of air or sea raids, WW1
What to do in the case of further air or sea raids during the First World War. Showing cross sections of buildings, and photographs of air raid damage to buildings in Kings Lynn

The cottage problem: the need for sociability. How to erect eight houses with their garden plots. Two designs, ensuring adequate light and space, and a pleasant external appearance. 1914

Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Homes, Portsmouth Hampshire
A view of the Royal Seamen and Marines Orphan Homes at Portsmouth. Date: Date unknown

Ardale Schools, Stifford, Essex
Entrance to the Ardale Schools at Stifford, formerly the Stepney Unions cottage homes for workhouse children. Date: Date unknown

Government Inspectors Visit to Canadian Emigrant
A Canadian Government Inspector visits a young emigrant from Britain to Canada, placed there by the Waifs and Strays Society

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