Housed Collection

Cutty Sark in 1923
The famous tea clipper Cutty Sark in Surrey Docks. The iconic craft now housed in dry dock at Greenwich was severely damaged by a fire whilst under restoration on 21st May 2007

Somerset House 1809
Rebuilt in the late 18th century, this set of buildings has at times housed the Royal Academy, the Royal Society, and several government depart- ments such as Public Records

Flying for the Summer Week-end by C. E. Turner
Illustration from 1928 by C.E. Turner reflecting the growing rise of civilian flying in the 1920s. The caption reads, ...only last month there was a house-party at which the ten guests

Evacuation - World War Two - Children Safer in the Country
Evacuation - World War Two - Children are Safer in the Country.... leave them there. Governement advice recommending children stay away from the big cities and targets of the bombers. circa 1942

Gutenbergs press, with books
Gutenbergs press, reconstructed from what was left of it, and housed in the Deutsche Buchgewerbehaus at Leipzig, Germany

St Vincents Industrial School, Dartford, Kent
The main building of St Vincents Industrial School, Dartford, Kent. The School, for Roman Catholic boys, was established in 1872

Prison Hulks
Captured French sailors were housed here during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

Manchester Union Schools, Swinton
The Manchester Union Industrial School at Swinton. The school, where 800 pauper children were housed and educated away from the workhouse, was established in 1843, one of the earliest of its type

Hackney Homes Band and Soldiers at Budworth Hall, Ongar, Ess
Soldiers at Budworth Hall military hospital on Chipping Ongar High Street are joined by the boys band from the nearby Hackney Union cottage homes

The Royal Hospital of Bethlehem; gallery for men
The hospital also known as Bethlem Royal Hospital or Bedlam was the oldest psychiatric hospital in the world. The building had been moved around many sites

The Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh, Scotland (interior, the entrance to the shrine) - housed in a re-developed barrack block in Crown Square, at the heart of Edinburgh castle

Liberton Industrial School, Edinburgh
A view of the Industrial School at Liberton, Edinburgh. Industrial Schools, often privately run, housed children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for a variety of reasons such as vagrancy

Queenwood College
Housed in the former Richard Owen Socialist community building Harmony Hall (built 1841) between 1847-1896. Burnt down in 1903. Former maths master: John Tyndall

Giraffe at Paris 1826
Zarafa, a giraffe presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt, and housed in the jardin d acclimatation, Paris

BULLOCKs MUSEUM 1811
Housed in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, William Bullocks miscellaneous collection is a popular attraction at a period when official museums hardly exist

Dassault-Breguet Mystere 20 1st prototype F-WLKB at the 1964 Paris Air Show, shown with the two 3, 300 lbf Pratt & Whitney JT12A-8 turbojet engines originally fitted

One Tun Ragged School, Westminster
Children outside the One Tun Ragged School, in Perkins Rents, Westminster, housed in a former pub. Date: circa 1860s

Hunterian Museum Royal College Surgeons Iln Import
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PETER, PAUL RETOMBED
The bodies of saints Peter and Paul are discovered, and re- housed in the Vatican in a more suitable tomb. Date: 15th or 16th century

St Olaves School
View of the Grammar School of St Olaves in 1810. At that time the school was housed in the old Vestry Hall of the church and its adjoining premises (on the west side of Churchyard Alley)

Chartwell, Westerham
A view of Chartwell, Westerham, the home of Sir Winston Churchill. In the 1760s, the property housed a branch of Londons Foundling Hospital. Date: Date unknown

United States Air Force - Northrop F-89H Scorpion 54-0298
United States Air Force - Northrop F-89H-1-NO Scorpion 54-0298. Visible are the retractable launchers for the AIM-4 Falcon Air to Air Missiles and the covered un-guided rocket launcher tubes

La Bibliotheque du Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers is housed in the former refectory of the Abbaye St Martin des Champs, Paris Date: circa 1860

The building that housed The Institute of Blood Transfusion (established by the USSR Labor and Defense Council in 1926) - the former mansion of the merchant Igumnov in the Yakimanka District

London Zoo
A crowd of holidaymakers at the Zoological Gardens in Regents Park, with a pair of elephants. London Zoo was the worlds first scientific zoo

BURMESE MUSICIANS 1861
An elaborately equipped sextet perform at a funeral at Rangoon : most of their instruments are percussion, two sets being housed in playpen-like rings. Date: 1861

United Services Museum
In its day the Royal United Services Museum was regarded as the biggest and most important in the country, apart from the British Museum

Dr Guthries Boys Industrial School, Liberton, Edinburgh
Thomas Guthries Boys Industrial School opened in 1888 on Lasswade Road, Liberton, Edinburgh. Industrial Schools, often privately run

7 Albemarle Street, London - RAeSs HQ from 1917 to 1939
7 Albemarle Street, London, circa 1960. The Royal Aeronautical Society?s headquarters were housed here from 1917 to 1939. Date: circa 1960

Bristol Maternity Hospital, Southwell Street Bristol. Staff and patients can be seen. The building previously housed the Carlton House Industrial School for Girls

St Clares Convent Pantasaph, Holywell, Flintshire. For some years, St Clares also housed an orphanage and domestic training school

A wing man-headed bull. Nimrod (British Museum)
Black and white lantern slide capturing image of the statue of Nimrod housed in the British Museum. Part of Box 35 that forms part of the large Boswell lantern slide collection Date: circa 1895

WWI - Robbins of Dudley Trench Fighting Punch Dagger
First World War Robbins of Dudley Trench Fighting Punch Dagger. A rare example, double edged blade with double central fuller leading into the cast alloy finger shaped grip with steel knuckle bow

Hollybrook House, Southampton
The Southampton Unions Hollybrook House childrens home - the superintendent stands at the front door. The home housed pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Lenin in Coffin
VLADIMIR LENIN lying in state in his coffin prior to being permanently housed in Red Square. Date: 1870 - 1924

LEMURIA
The Lost Continent of Lemuria, located in todays Pacific Ocean, may have housed a highly developed civilisation with advanced technology and a sophisticated culture

Patients in B Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
B Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital was sited in Gallery 1 of the two museum galleries then existing. This room had been built as a pavilion in the garden of Quex House in 1896

Southern Railway Servants Orphanage, Woking, Surrey
An aerial view of the Southern Railway Servants Orphanage at Woking which housed orphaned or fatherless children of the railway companys employees. Date: Date unknown

Boys Dining Room at Hollybrook House, Southampton
Boys on duty stand to attention in the dining room at the Southampton Unions Hollybrook House childrens home. The home housed pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Industrial School, Kirkdale, Liverpool
The driveway of the Industrial School at Kirkdale opened in 1845 by Liverpools poor law authority. The School housed and educated more than a thousand pauper children away from the workhouse

West Derby Union, Liverpool - Cottage Homes at Fazakerley
Childrens houses at the cottage homes site opened by Liverpools West Derby Union at Fazakerley in 1889. The homes housed 650 pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1925

Barnabys Library
The Georgian shop at 19 Rathbone Street (off Oxford Street), London, which housed Barnabys Picture Library (established 1931) from 1969 until it closed in 2001. Date: 1969 - 2001

Jubilee School, Manchester
A view of the Jubilee School, Bury Old Road, Manchester. The school housed orphan and poor girls from Manchester and district

Santa Casa, Loreto
THE SANTA CASA, LORETO 1291 : Marys house flies from Nazareth to Tersat, then 1294 first to Picenum then Loreto, where in 1534 it is housed within this basilica

Plaistow National School
An early school for working class children - Halls Ville National School, housed in a shed at Plaistow (pronounced PlaRstow !) New Town, east London Date: 1857

Baking Day at Farm 1855
Baking day in a French farm : the oven is housed in the barn Date: 1855

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, B Ward, Quex Park.This ward was situated in the first gallery of the Museum, built in 1896, The Gallery housed a diorama (right hand side of photograph)

Quex House with car
View of the front of Quex House. Possibly taken just before the Hospital opened in mid October 1914. A small car is parked at the front

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