House Collection (page 11)

The House that Jack Built
Promotional postcard for The House that Jack Built, Howard and Wyndhams Royal Pantomime, at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, 14th December 1911

Bill at Harrow School
Bill or call-over is a compulsory roll call, held in each House at Harrow School three times a day. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for French couture house of Boue Soeurs in New York
Advert for the French couture house of Boue Soeurs in New York, 1926. Based in 9 Rue de la Paix, Paris and with branches in San Francisco and Palm Beach

Crossman House Hotel, Alexandria Bay, New York State, USA
Crossman House Hotel, Alexandria Bay (Thousand Islands), New York State, USA. With a steamer on the left. circa 1925

Gallaghers Steak House, New York City, USA
View of the Bar in Gallaghers Steak House, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA. Famous for steaks broiled over hickory logs, private dining room available for beefsteak parties. Date: circa 1930s

Barman standing by well-stocked bar
Barman standing by a well-stocked bar. The cash register displays an advertisement for Bass & Co Barley Wine. Packets of Capstan cigarettes are on display below. Date: circa 1910

Home for Motherless Children, Eric House, Mattock Lane, Ealing

Castle Milk, Lockerbie
Castle Milk, near Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire. The house was one of several in the area used by Barnardos as an evacuation home during the Second World War

Street Scene, Thorpe Bay, Essex
Street Scene, Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea, near Shoeburyness, Essex, England. Showing The Half-way House Date: 1925

Semi-Detached House - 49 Erlanger Road, Lewisham, Surrey
Semi-Detached House - 49 Erlanger Road, Lewisham, near New Cross, Surrey, England. Date: 1909

Goodwood House, Goodwood, Sussex
Goodwood House, Goodwood, Chichester, Sussex, England. Date: 1900s

The Old Bridge House, Ambleside, Cumbria
The Old Bridge House, Ambleside, near Lake Windermere, Cumbria, England. Date: 1950s

Murdoch Bath House, Galveston, Texas, USA
The Murdoch Bath House, by the Sea Wall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, USA. 1911

Father Christmas in snowy, starry village
Father Christmas parks his sleigh in the road of a night-time snowy, starry village and delivers presents to a house. Date: 1960s

Rounton Grange, East Rounton, Yorkshire
Rounton Grange was designed in 1870 for Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell and his wife by the leading Arts&Crafts architect Philip Webb. Sadly demolished in 1953

Paris, France - La Sainte Chapelle. Date: 19th century

Fire in Danbury Street, Islington, N1, with people trapped, on 25 May 1958. Showing the side of the building, with a shop at ground level

Blitz in London -- pulling debris clear, WW2
Blitz in London -- firefighters pulling debris clear following an air raid. Date: 1940s

Charles, Maitre d of Claridges
" Charles, " the maitre d hotel at Claridges, known to everyone, who had ever had a meal in the hotels dining room

New German incendiary bomb by G. H. Davis
Details of the new German explosive incendiary bomb produced during the Second World War. Explanatory drawings showing how the bomb is constructed, and the proper methods of tackling it. Date: 1942

Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan - Shaft No. 2
Quincy No.2 mine shaft (with the old hoist house at right) at the Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan. This amazing structure was eventually replaced with the steel structure at the site today

Bridge connecting buildings at Hertford College, Oxford
A new feature at Oxford: the bridge which will connect the old and new buildings of Hertford College, New College Lane, Oxford. The design for the bridge was by the architect Sir T. G. Jackson RA

Brochure cover, chocolate box designs
Brochure cover in blue, black and gold, chocolate box designs, Statue Series of box tops, Geo. H. Harrison & Sons, Statue Printing Works, Leeds, and Sentinel House, Southampton Row, London. Date: 1930

Inveralmond House, Perth, Scotland
View of Inveralmond House, Perth, Scotland

Jane Austen Memorial
Bust and tablet to English author JANE AUSTEN at Lyme Regis, Dorset, marking the former location of a house called Wings, where she lodged in 1804. Date: 1775 - 1817

The King and Queen at Chatsworth
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra as part of a shooting party at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. The King is seated at the front, second from left with Queen Alexandra behind him

Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly, London
Berkeley Hotel, on the corner of Piccadilly and Berkeley Street, London, with the entrance gates to Devonshire House in the foreground

Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye
A quite wonderful German postcard illustrating the Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye! Date: circa 1910s

Virginia, USA - Mount Vernon - George Washingtons Mansion Date: 1920

Haddon Hall - Interior
Haddon Hall - a stunning English Tudor country house on the River Wye at Bakewell, Derbyshire, one of the seats of the Duke of Rutland. The Banqueting Hall. Date: circa 1906

Aleppo, Syria - Rue Nafyeh
Aleppo, Syria - Interesting old houses on the Nafyeh Road. Date: circa 1910s

Major General Claud Martins House, by Thomas Daniell
Major General Claud Martins House, the Farhad Baksh, in Lucknow on the River Gumti, by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840). Date: 1789

Household shrine. ITALY. Pompeii. House of the Vettii. Roman art. Republican period. Fresco

St Olave Union Workhouse, Ladywell, South London - Dining Ha
The festively decorated dining-hall at the St Olave Union Workhouse, Ladywell, South London - presumably a special occasion such as Christmas or a royal celebration

Clerkenwell Prison explosion
Effects of the explosion at the house of detention, Clerkenwell, seen from within the prison yard: police officers and firemen searching the ruins

Library, Hartwell House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Watercolour painting of the Library at Hartwell House, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

Southwold Lighthouse, Suffolk, England, was erected by Trinity House in 1889. It is 30.8 metres high and its 1500 watt light can be seen for 18 nautical miles. Date: 1889

Trafalgar Tavern
The exterior of the Trafalgar Tavern, a popular pub beside the River Thames at Greenwich, London. Date: 1973

Venus Kebab House
Dining outside the Venus Kebab House on the corner of Percy Street, central London, with the Post Office Tower behind. Date: 1969

Dodie Smith at home in Essex
Dorothy Gladys (Dodie) Smith (1896 - 1990), English novelist and playwright whose works include the play Autumn Crocus and the childrens novel

Ideal Home Exhibition - Heath Robinson Home
William Heath Robinsons Ideal Home - " The Gadgets". Displayed at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition at London Olympia. Date: 1934

Customs House, Brisbane
Customs House, Petrie Bight, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Coffee House, East End of London
A coffee house near Jubilee Street in the East End of London. Its window contains both English and Hebrew text. There are advertisements for R. Whites Lemonade and Kaola

Boys Band at Hollybrook Cottage Homes, Southampton
The boys band at Hollybrook cottage homes at Shirley Warren, Southampton. The homes were opened in 1911 by the Southampton Union to accommodate pauper children away from the workhouse

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Jajce
Family group taking tea - a charming scene from Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the younger daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry. Shown here a couple of months before her coming-out dance on 8th July at Londonderry House

Oldmill Military Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland
The entrance to Oldmill Poorhouse on Skene Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, during its First World War redeployment as a Military Hospital

The Viceroys House at New Delhi, India
A worthy setting for the King-Emperors representative in India, the centre of the coming inaugural festivities - the viceroys house at New Delhi designed by Edwin Lutyens

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