Instruction Collection (page 8)

Woman motor driver teaching soldier to drive, WW1
A new driver in the Army Motor Transport section being taught to steer by a female instructor during the First World War. A school to teach women driving and car mechanics was established by the Hon

Cub Scouts of Episkopi pack tying knots, Cyprus
Three Cub Scouts of the 57th Cyprus (Episkopi) pack learning to tie knots, under the instruction of their leader. Date: 20th century

Suffragette Forcible Feeding insurance. Reference to forcible feeding on the subject of Health Insurance. Shows a Health Insurance stamp with instruction to Lick as proposed under the 1911 National

Making mittens from socks, WW1
Instructions on how to make mittens from old socks and stockings for soldiers at the front. The idea was devised by Dr George C

The Singing Colony of Madame Novello Davies
Madame Novello Davies, the well-known teacher of singing and voice production and mother of the composer and musician, Ivor Novello (who is pictured centre)

French soldiers - an old hand and new recruit by Georges Sco
Piou-Piou the veteran and Piou-Piou the recruit: Tips from the Lips of Experience. An old, experienced hand takes a new recruit under his wing in the French trenches. Date: 1915

Training boys for the navy, WW1
A page of photographs showing boys at the Watts Naval Training School at Elmham in Norfolk undergoing instruction in order to prepare them for the Navy

Cobbetts Advice to Young Men
Front cover of Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett, an instruction booklet for the eighteenth century youth. Date: 1887

British gunner with instruction board, Western Front, WW1
A British gunner under camouflage alongside a big gun, copying instructions from a board, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Training in taking telephone messages
Men of the London Fire Brigade being trained in taking telephone messages. Date: 1930

Auxiliary Fire Service gas mask training, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service undergoing gas mask training during the Second World War. Date: 1940

School for Chauffeurs, 1904
The only class of instruction for chauffeurs at Battersea Polytechnic, a class suggested by Colonel Mark Mayhew and patronised by Sir George Newnes, who presented a 20 h.p. Darracq car

Poincare Early
RAYMOND POINCARE French statesman, fairly early in his career, as ministre de l instruction publique. But one of these days he will be President... Date: 1860 - 1934

Comte Guernon-Ranville
MARTIAL COME ANNIBAL PERPETUE MAGLOIRE, comte de GUERNON- RANVILLE French statesman, minister of public instruction. Date: 1787 - 1866

RAFVR at Gatwick, instruction with the camera gun and Vickers gun. Each pupil fired a course of 180 rounds with the latter on a 25 yards silhouette target of aircraft

Jeremiah breaking the potters vessels
Jeremiah breaking the Potters vessels. circa 19th century

Receiving instructions on flying boats in a Short S8/8 Rangoon flying boat at The Air University, Hamble, Hants. Seaplane Instructor Flt Lt Pascoe (centre)

RAF Volunteer Reserve pilot undertaking instruction on a Link Trainer, Gatwick, circa 1940. By relating the position of the students aircraft to marks on a chart

Concepts of horticulture
Plate 51 from Le Regne Vegetal, Vol 14, Vegetaux. Atlas (1870). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London. Entitled Marcottes et Boutres

Woman with farm animals

Firefighters receiving knots instruction at Southwark HQ

Browns Fire Alarm: Break Glass, Pull Knob, Wait For Engine

Auxiliary London firemen at drill on a fireboat, WW2
Auxiliary London firemen (AFS) under instruction in the use of a rocket-line as part of their fireboat drills and training

AFS women undergoing catering instruction, WW2
London regular and AFS firefighters spent many hours, sometimes days, at incidents during the Blitz. Seen here are women of the AFS learning to prepare and cook meals for those on the Blitz front line

London firefighters training at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) under instruction on the wheeled escape ladder and hook ladder. The wheeled escape ladder is wound out of its carriage

London firefighters drilling at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) under instruction and drill in the drill yard of Brigade Headquarters at Lambeth (also a fire station)

Womens AFS (WAFS) at Brigade HQ, WW2
Womens Auxiliary Fire Service (WAFS) members receiving hose instruction from London Fire Brigade staff in the Headquarters drill yard at Lambeth, SE1

The WPA. Federal Music Project of New York City announces free music instruction - register now. Poster for Federal Music Project announcing free instruction in music at the West Side Vocational High

Free instruction in painting & drawing Art Teaching Division of the Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. Poster announcing free art classes in painting and drawing

WPA. Federal Music Project offers instruction in piano, voice, violin, cello, theory... Lectures and concerts for children and adults at Christodora House

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, lithography, sculpture, etching, metal craft, photography, costume illustration at Harlem Community Art Center

An illustration of how the game of Roulette is played

US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Instruction in pistol shooting. Date 1942 July

Sea cadet training, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A senior cadet in the sea cadet unit based at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, instructs four junior cadets on the correct way to present arms with rifles. circa 1960

Sea Scouts receiving sailing instruction from Eric Evans, Master of RSS Discovery. circa 1950

Sea Scouts signal lamp training
Sea Scouts undergoing signal lamp training. circa 1944

Sea Scouts receiving training on RSS Discovery
Senior Sea Scouts receiving training in rope splicing on RSS Discovery. circa 1950s

Sea Scouts receiving instruction in a field. circa 1920s

Sea Scouts undergoing training, Poole
Sea Scouts undergoing training on board the Margaret Leigh Guard Ship, Poole. October 1933

Prince Alfred and Pope Leo IV
Prince Alfred (later King Alfred the Great) of Wessex, visits Rome to meet Pope Leo IV for instruction. Date: 853

Child Learns to Write
Instruction is the first good deed - a mother (or is she a muse ?) instructs a child in the use of the alphabet. Date: circa 1820

Japanese Army Women
Japanese women army recruits receiving instruction in the use of rifles. Date: 1930s

Training Tram Drivers
A tram driver receiving instruction in the handling of (dummy) controls at the Clapham Depot of the London County Council School for Tram Drivers. Date: 1930s

Ploughing Lesson
A farmer gives ploughing instruction to a new farm hand. Date: 1960s

British detachment landing at Reval (Tallinn), WW1
A British detachment landing at Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) just after the end of the First World War, to instruct the Estonians in the use of the Madsen gun. Date: December 1918

British Scout leader with Polish Scout leaders, circa 1930s. circa 1930s

Granpops Lodge of Instruction
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing his orang-utan character, Granpop together with a monkey and a pig attending a Freemasons meeting at a makeshift Lodge! 1934

Cricket - Crystal Palace
Girls are taught how to play cricket at Crystal Palace. Date: 1950s

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