Housing Collection (page 8)

City of London Union Workhouse Infirmary, Bow Road
Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary later St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse. Date: 1905

Tenement buildings, East London
Tenement buildings in East London, with washing drying, and children playing. Date: circa 1950s

The former Whitechapel Union workhouse on Southern Grove (formerly South Grove), Mile End, was designed by Richard Robert Long and erected in 1870-71. Date: 2002

Ismidt (Izmit), Turkey
Izmit, Turkey - houses a harbour 87 km southeast of Istanbul. The Eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire between 286-324 AD

Hither Green Lane, Hither Green, London - absolutely classic late Victorian suburban housing. Date: circa 1910s

Rag n Bone man Stockport slum yard
A Rag n Bone man pushes his barrow though a slum cummunal yard in Stockport, Cheshire, England. He is watched by small children. The property was demolished shortly afterwards Date: circa 1970

Slum communal yard, Stockport
Small children and mongrel dogs beneath the washing lines in the communal back yard of slum property in Stockport, Cheshire, England. The property was demolished shortly afterwards Date: circa 1970

Coal mining terraced houses at Tredegar, South Wales
Rows of terraced, working class houses on a winter hillside in Tredegar, South Wales. First published in The Sunday Times in 1988. 1988

Hermeswiese Settlement, Vienna, Austria
The Hermeswiese Settlement (Siedlung Hermeswiese), designed as a garden city, was created in cooperation with the municipality of Vienna with the cooperative " Altmannsdorf-Hetzendorf"

View of Tokyo, Japan, 1870 s
Vintage 19th century photograph - Japan - from the studio of Baron Raimund von Stillfried. View of Tokyo

Advert, Nash Houses, Eastcote, Middlesex
Advert for Nash Houses at Nash Way, Eastcote, Middlesex, also at Rayners Lane and South Harrow. 1934

The Downs Sanatorium, Belmont, Sutton
A uniformed porter stands at the entrance to the Downs Sanatorium, at Belmont, near Sutton, Surrey. The former childrens institution was converted for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1912

Oliver Twist and Camera Crew
A production still shows a camera crew filming Robert Newton and John Howard Davies in the climactic rooftop scene of David Leans 1948 version of Oliver Twist. Date: 1948

Mariga Guinness with derelict Georgian house in Dublin
Mariga Guinness, wife of the president of the Irish Georgian Society, bought her house (freestanding in the background) for 550, and spent 4000 repairing it. Date: 1966

Gipton Housing Estate, Leeds, West Yorkshire. 1937

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

The Princess Mary Caravan. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

Children playing Ryecroft Estate, Walsall
Children play football in the street on the Ryecroft Estate, Walsall, West Midlands. A girl watches from the footpath. Winter backlight casts long shadows

Boy in slum housing yard
Rear view of small fair-haired boy walking alone past dustbins and washing lines in the communal back yard of slum housing in Brinksway, Stockport, Cheshire, England

Dingle and Castletownbere Workhouses, Ireland
Architect George Wilkinsons design for the new union workhouses at Dingle, County Kerry, and Castletownbere, County Cork, in the west of Ireland. Date: 1848

Slum housing, probably Manchester, early 1900s

A factory in the Midlands with workers houses, early 1900s

Terraced housing back alley, probably 1940s

Factory and workers houses

Terrace houses around a Victorian factory, Victorian period

Children on a London housing scheme - probably 1920s

Children in Council housing, London

Mother, Father and children pose in their kitchen garden
Mother, Father and four children posing proudly in the kitchen garden of their country home. Note the hand water pump on left. Date: circa 1909

Parker Street Municipal Lodging House, London, Victorian period

Chapel interior - Ormerod Children's Convalescent Home
The Chapel interior at the Ormerod Convalescent Home for Children, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire. Date: circa 1905

The Ormerod Convalescent Home, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancs
The Ormerod Convalescent Home for Children, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire. Date: circa 1905

Cute, miniature Houseboat and occupant. Date: 1924

International House, Chicago
International House, 141 East 59th Street, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA dedicated 1932. A residential center for foreign and American students. Donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr

Canary Islands - Barrio San Roque - Las Palmas Date: circa 1930s

Roehampton Housing Estate
A photograph of some buildings at the Roehampton Housing Estate, Huntingfield Road from Swinburne Road. The buildings were designed by architect George Topham Forrest. Date: circa 1924

Grice, Grice & Son Copper Pipes Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the British Copper Manufacturers, Grice, Grice and Son Limited, promoting copper pipes for housing. Date: circa 1920s

Crosbie & De Mowbray Electric Light Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Crosbie and De Mowbray Ltd. promoting electric light for housing. The top illustration shows some Roman temples

Modernist House, Haywards Heath
A photograph of a modernist houses forming part of a housing estate in Haywards Heath, Sussex, designed in 1936 by architect Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin and Tecton

Group Of Modernist Houses, Haywards Heath
A photograph of a group of modernist houses forming the nucleus of a housing estate in Haywards Heath, Sussex, designed in 1936 by architect Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin and Tecton. Date: circa 1937

Africa. The Congo. German station of Mukenge
History of Africa. 19th century. German station of Mukenge. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

History of Africa. Native Bondei people of Bonde
History of Africa. 19th century. Native Bondei people of Bonde. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Africa. The Congo. Village of Ndua
History of Africa. 19th century. Village of Ndua. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Almshouses, Stratford-On-Avon
This etching shows figures standing outside the Almshouses, a group of 15th century buildings in Church Street, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Beaufort Street
A painting of some people walking down a pavement of Beaufort Street in Chelsea, London. An area of housing sits behind the advertisement boards. Date: circa 1915

Zwierzyniec Hobby-Horse, c. 1881, by Hipolit Lipinski
Hipolit Lipinski (1846-1884). Polish painter. Zwierzyniec Hobby-Horse, c.1881. 19th Century Polish Art Gallery (Sukiennice Museum). National Museum of Krakow. Poland. Date: 2018

Sydney as Macquarie Left It
This panorama was taken from the Observatory Hill. To the left one is looking towards the Heads and to the right over the City

An illustrated checklist of home maintenance tasks for the summer months. Date: 1954

A modern house in Tunbridge Wells, designed by architect Brian Peake. Date: circa 1954

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