Kit Collection (page 5)

Mabel Poulton in The Constant Nymph (1928) directed by Basil Dean & Adrian Brunel Date: 1928

A scene from The Constant Nymph (1928) with Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton directed by Basil Dean & Adrian Brunel Date: 1928

Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphanage, Cheadle Hulme. The girls hockey team pose in their kit. Date: circa 1923

Prince of Wales visits mines
A cover of The Illustrated London News shows the Prince of Wales visiting mines during a tour of the west of Britain. In the top and lower left pictures he is seen visiting mines in Cornwall

Boy scouts boarding a railway train
Boy scouts and others boarding a railway train. Date: circa 1930s

WW1 poster, His Majestys Army Special Reserve
WW1 recruitment poster, His Majestys Army Special Reserve. Date: 1914-1918

Four soldiers playing darts in an army hut. Date: circa 1940s

Violin, sordine, violoncello, violino piccola and viola de gamba.. Violin and bow (1, 2), sordine or mute (3), violoncello (4), violino piccola or kit (5), Viola de Gamba of the 16th century (6)

Programme for Hotel de Paris group featuring advert for the Hotel de Paris at Bray, January 1929 Date: 1929

Football team, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, USA
Group photo of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange football team, Louisiana, USA. At the time they were playing charity games to raise money for poor children of the city. circa 1910

Solid Wooden Cart Wheel
Wagon with solid wooden wheels from the Kit Carson house in Taos, New Mexico

Cart at Kit Carson House
Wagon with solid wooden wheels from the Kit Carson house in Taos, New Mexico

Jack Hylton at the Kit-Cat Restaurant
Advertisement for the Kit-Cat restaurant in London for the Christmas period of 1929, featuring the famous Jack Hylton and his band as entertainment as well as the intriguing sounding 3 Whirlwinds

Ernest of the Kit-Cat restaurant in Haymarket
Ernest, the well-known manager of the popular Kit-Cat restaurant in the Haymarket, London, pictured in 1929. Date: 1929

A Countess Gave me a cup of tea, WW1 soldier & canteen
A First World War soldier received a cup of tea from an aristocratic lady in a nurses uniform. Canteening was one of the favourite voluntary occupations of well-born women during the Great War

Boy scouts at camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, May 1935. An inspection of camp and kit is taking place. Date: 1935

Derby recruits, 1916
Derby recruits of the 1st London Regiment pictured with their kit bags ready for inspection in their new uniform. Date: 1916

British troops with their latest equipment, WW1
Men of the Worcestershire Regiment resting before an attack on the Western Front in July 1916. Date: 1916

A soldier asks for directions, London, WW1
A British Tommy, returned on leave from the trenches, asks a police officer for directions in London. Another soldier, on crutches, stands nearby. Date: 1914

New LFB recruit being measured for uniform
A new LFB recruit being measured for his uniform

New LFB recruit being kitted out with uniform
A new LFB recruit being kitted out with his uniform

Soldier and family at Victoria train station, WW1
Illustration showing soldiers either returning home from the front or returning to France at Victoria Station accompanied by anxious wives and families. Date: 1915

The Dumbells - 3rd Canadian Division Concert Party
Programme for The Dumbells - Third Canadian Division Concert Party - entitled Battle of Somme-Area (concerning the journey from Poperinghe to the Somme) and Kit Inspection with commentary

A Made in England Officers toilet kit - WWI
A Made in England Officers toilet kit. It comprises a leather case containing a glass bottle - possibly for hair tonic - with a metal screw top, and a tin box - possibly for shaving equipment

Another room in Cromwell Gardens of Artist PJ Hill
Another room in Cromwell Gardens showing man at a work table, bed, kit hanging from the walls, socks hanging up to dry. 21017 Private P. J

A billet in Cromwell Gardens of Artist PJ Hill
A billet in Cromwell Gardens showing a corner of a room with a decorated ceiling. Kit hanging on the wall above the bed.Inscribed verso - 112 stairs up. 21017 Private P. J

Two children dressed as WWI soldiers
First World War cartoon depicting two children dressed as First World War soldiers. One is astride a large carthorse and holding a mock lance

Folio of 97 etchings and drypoints of the Western Front, WW1
Page from a German folio of 97 drypoint etchings of the Western Front, 1914-1918, by W Schimmelpflug, 16th Dragoon Regiment. Two German soldiers walking along a country road. Date: 1916

Bronze Statuette - Sgt Grenadier Guards in Marching Order
Bronze Statuette - Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, in Marching Order, by George Edward Wade (1853-1933). Wade sculpted a Peace Memorial with Bronze Figure of Christ at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Bronze Statuette - Sgt Grenadier Guards in Battle Order
Bronze Statuette - Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, in Battle Order, by George Edward Wade (1853-1933). Wade sculpted a Peace Memorial with Bronze Figure of Christ at Quarry Bank, Staffordshire

Cartoon, The Wife of a Soldier, WW1
Cartoon, The Wife of a Soldier - And you, who never wanted to carry anything! Possibly drawn for the French magazine La Vie Parisienne

The Hand of Friendship - British Tommy & Tirailleur Algerien
The Hand of Friendship - British Tommy and Tirailleur Algerien, c.1914. By Richard Caton Woodville, RI (1856-1927). Date: circa 1914

Cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, WW1
WW1 cartoon, A Busmans Holiday, by Lawson Wood (1878-1957). He served In France for nearly three years as an officer in the Kite Balloon Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, and at GHQ. Date: 1914-1918

A blanket converted into an overcoat for British soldiers
The blanket as overcoat. With the shortage of military overcoats, a suggestion for converting a blanket into a warm and practical coat

Hazel Collapsible Military Kit Bag, WW1
First World War advertisement for the Hazel Collapsible Military Kit Bag. Date: 1918

Advertisement for Wurlitzer musical instuments. Available for home trial, easy payment on credit available. Date: 1923

Burberry R. A. F. kit advertisement, World War One
Advertisement for an R.A.F. kit from Burberrys of Haymarket, First World War. Date: 1918

Gordon Highlander cleaning his kit, Western Front, WW1
A soldier of the Gordon Highlanders cleaning his kit on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Increasing supplies for lifeboats by G. H. Davis
Increasing the water and food supplies for ships lifeboats during the Second World War. New measures for saving the lives of crews of ships sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. Date: 1941

Nurses on board boat for Belgium, WW1
A group of nurses on board a boat destined for the British Field Hospital in Belgium during the First World War. Those wearing riding kit are ambulance wagon drivers. Date: 1914

Grenadier Guards in London 1914
The 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards march through London in their campaign kit. They are headed by Major Edward Henry Trotter (1872-1916), who had lost an arm during the Second Boer War

Round the clock with a bomber squadron. The bomber pilot and captain starts his day with a wash; he sets out with his crew on the back of a vehicle; the crew climb a ladder to board the aircraft

Tea on the lawn at Ranelagh
A typical scene at tea-time at Ranelagh on a polo Saturday, showing smart society seated at outdoor tables. Formerly the old Kit-Kat Club, Ranelagh

Miniature Golf at the Kit-Cat
An attractive addition to the pleasures of dining at the Kit-Cat Restaurant in Haymarket, central London; an entertaining nine-hole golf course in miniature, laid out in the Bray Room

Boy standing in garden with rugby ball, Eltham, London
A boy standing in a garden wearing sports kit, with a rugby ball under his arm, at Eltham, south-east London. Date: 1933

New LFB recruit marking his gear
A new LFB recruit, having been kitted out with his uniform, is marking his gear with his name

Japan - Three Geisha Girls playing traditional instruments - two on drums and one playing the Shamisen. Date: circa 1904

Newfoundland, Canada - Catch of Salmon & fishermans tackle
Newfoundland, Canada - A Catch of Salmon and associated angling tackle. Date: 1902

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