Living Collection

Life in a Boarding House by Eric Ravilious
A modern boarding house in cross section, a mural painted by Eric Ravilious at Morley College for Working Men and Women

T class Submarine
Inside a British submarine: complex details of the craft in which our underwater crews live and fight

Letchworth Brochure
WHERE SHALL I LIVE ? In Letchworth, of course ! will be your answer when you have visited this exhibition (from 1907) promoting the joys of living in Letchworth Garden City

Living Room, Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London
Living Room of 221B Baker Street, part of a Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London, reconstructed by Michael Weight. Details included are Holmess pipe and his violin. Date: 1951

Welwyn Garden City, an example of town planning
An advertisement for new houses and industrial sites at the new town of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, an example of town planning, designed to take people away from polluted cities

The Arkansas Traveller
Scene in the Back Woods of Arkansas. The Arkansas Traveller visiting a family in a hut with a whisky sign Date: 1870

Marianne Foyster
MARIANNE FOYSTER, wife of the rev L A Foyster, living at Borley 1930 to 1935

Front Room, Islington High Street, oil on canvas, in a plain gold painted frame, by Frank Stanton, signed and dated 1968. Date: 1968

Building of a prefabricated houses in 3 hours 1945
During the Second World War many houses were destroyed, due to this, prefabricated houses (prefabs) were built, quickly and cheaply providing quality housing with all the amenities, central heating

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

Living Room, Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London
Living Room of 221B Baker Street, part of a Sherlock Holmes Exhibition, London, reconstructed by Michael Weight. A dummy version of the man himself can be seen in the far window. Date: 1951

Truganini, last surviving female Tasmanian Aboiginal
Truganini (Truganina, Trugernanner or Lalla Rooke, c1812-1876), the last surviving Tasmanian Aboiginal or Palawa woman. 1866

Galanthus Cluster
a cluster of living SNOWDROPS (one of many species)

Mary Jane Clarke W. S. P. U
Mary Jane Clarke W.S.P.U. Mary Jane Clarke, (1863-1910) Younger sister of Emmeline Pankhurst

Worlds Largest Living Christmas Tree - Wilmington
Worlds Largest Living Christmas Tree - Hilton Park, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. A three hundred year old Live Oak tree lighted with 4000 bulbs - a popular toursit attraction in Wilmington

A 1950s Family Living Room
A classic nuclear family in their living room, the children playing with a train set

If Unhealthy, be healthy: If Healthy by Healthier
An energetic man starts the day in his dressing gown by diving off the mantelpiece of his living room

Remington Family
SIR THOMAS REMINGTON of Lund, Yorkshire, with his wife and their fifteen living children; five deceased infants lie on the floor in their shrouds, poor wee mites

LAMBTON WORM
The Lambton heir kills the loathsome worm, but is cursed because he fails to kill the first living thing he then meets - his own father!

Industrial School, Ashford, Kent
The Kent County Industrial School (also knows as the Stanhope Industrial School) at Kingsnorth near Ashford in Kent opened in 1875 for 150 boys. After 1933 it became an Approved School

Industrial School, Buxton, near Norwich, Norfolk
Boys and dog stand on the football pitch of the Buxton Industrial School near Norwich, Norfolk, established in 1855 to hold 100 boys. From 1933 it became Red House Farm Approved School

Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden Market
Mrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips

1950s living room
An up-to-date interior from a home in the 1950s, where all the items of furniture harmonise with each other (according to the writer of the accompanying article)

Mariner, Watersnakes
The Mariner, the dead albatross slung round his neck, watches the sea snakes and blesses them as living things in his desolate world

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Soul Leaving Body
The soul - the astral body - leaves the physical body of a girl at the moment of death, unseen by the living

Reprisal! by H M Bateman - humorous illustration of what can happen if a woman decides to wear trousers

Dr Barnardos Home, Barkingside - aerial view
An aerial view of Dr Barnardos Village Home for Girls at Barkingside in Essex

Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, were modelled on the Karl Marx Hof flats in Vienna, Austria. The steel frame and concrete clad buildings were demolished 1978 Date: built late 1930s

Willows / Rat & Beer
Rat & Mole: " He presently reappeared somewhat dusty, with a bottle of beer in each paw & another under each arm." Date: First published: 1908

Ufos / Constable
ATMOSPHERIC UFO Amoeba no 1 - infra-red photograph of a living UFO taken over the California desert Date: 25 August 1957

Gout Man Fishes at Home
Unable to go fishing due to his painful gout, a sufferer casts his rod into a barrel of fish, in the comfort of his living room

City of Living Dead
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and F Pratt) Virtual reality foreseen : these sleepers choose to live adventures transmitted to them by sensory control

Hyde Park Corner (Boys)
A lively depiction of Hyde Park Corner in early Victorian days - when Wellington was living at Apsley House, left, when traffic was lighter but road works prevalent as ever

Religion / Egypt / Menqet 2
The provider of food for the living and the dead - she holds two pots to prove it

The Day After Christmas by Mark Symons
Cosy front room festooned with decorations and filled with Christmas toys. Date: 1931

Industrial School for Girls, Dundee, Scotland
The Industrial School for Girls, at Balgay Park, Dundee, Scotland, was established in 1861

Curius Dentatus refusing bribes from Samnites
Manius Curius Dentatus, Roman consul and plebeian hero, though living on turnips, refuses bribes from the Samnites. He is noted for ending the Samnite War

Modernist House At Chilwell, Nottingham
A pair of photographs, one shows the exterior view of a modernist house located at Hallams Lane, Chilwell, Nottingham, designed in 1937 by architect Raymond Myerscough Walker

The accommodation of the Chelsea pensioners designed by Sir Christopher Wren

Livng Room by Betty Joel
A light living room with wooden floor and matching wooden furniture. Date: 1933

Sportsmans Costume
What to wear while shooting birds ? Sportsperson Walter Winans sets a good example in this belted jacket and plus- fours outfit, with puttees and a jaunty tyrolean hat... Date: 1909

Striking Beauty Workers
Four women workers from The Beauty Shop, on strike for decent living wages and decent working hours. Date: early 1930s

Inside a tent on Mitcham Common, the home to two men, their wives, and fourteen children of various ages. Mr

Laundry at Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey
Inmates ironing clothes and linen in the laundry at the Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey, established in 1904 by the St Olave Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Northumberland Village Homes for Girls, Whitley Bay
The Northumberland Village Homes for Girls, Whitley Bay (or Whitley-on-Sea), was an industrial school established in 1879 for 140 girls. It became an Approved School in 1933

Industrial School for Girls, Maryhill, Glasgow
The Glasgow Industrial School for Girls at Maryhill was established in 1855

Industrial School, Harborne, Birmingham
A man with umbrella at the gates of Harborne Industrial School, Balden Road, Birmingham, opened in 1902 to hold 150 boys. It later became Ansell School then after 1933 was the Tennal Approved School

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
A portrait of Greta Garbo on her yacht off Catalina Island

Crystal Palace 1851
The south transept, with a fountain in the foreground and showing how the exhibition was built around living trees

Lapps in Lapland during daily life with reindeer living and working in 1650

Pitmen encamped - evicted coal miner and his dwelling
A miner on strike sits despondently outside his makeshift home, his crutch and dog at his side

The Key of England celebrates its pageant, 1908
The Key of England (Dover Castle) celebrates its pageant: Dovers history in living pictures, 1908

Life on a barge, Henley-on-Thames - early 1900s Date: early 1900s

The Turn of the Tune
Traveller Playing the Arkansas Traveller. The Turn of the Tune. Date: 1870

Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex, opened in 1902 to house children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for reasons such as vagrancy, begging, disrupting schools

T Roosevelt / Living Ruler
THEODORE ROOSEVELT 26th American President in 1902

Fox Hill, Bournville

Woodlands Estate, Bournville

The Bournville Village Trust booklet cover
Front cover of The Bournville Village Trust booklet with a view of Bournville, the progressive estate built by George Cadbury in 1895 to provide housing and amenities for his factory workers

Comic postcard, Man eating meal in coal cellar - I'm practising living in a dug-out! A Derby Scheme armband on his jacket shows that he is signed up and ready for active service. Date: circa 1915

Design for a modern health centre comprising clinics, hospital, gymnasium and playgrounds. Illustration by W. B

A five-year plan to replace the slums with improved housing for the working-class residents. Drawing by Steven Spurrier of an example of an overcrowded slum in Southwark, London. Date: 1933

Maimie and Celia Paget, twin daughters of the late Eric Morton Paget, featured in the Sketch in their Chelsea house consisting of a studio and a twin suite of bedrooms. Date: 1938

Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). Siege of Plevna (20 July to 10 December 1877). Combats that took place between the joint army of Russia and the Kingdom of Romania against that of the Ottoman Empire

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Romantic scene. Formally dressed couple standing by a living room window while the lady arranges a vase of flowers. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Romantic scene. Formally dressed young couple in their living room. The gentleman reads a book (poetry?), whilst his lady sews. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Romantic scene. Formally dressed young couple taking tea in their living room. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Romantic scene. Formally dressed young couple dancing together in their living room. Date: 1920s

Silhouette - Postcard Design
Seated in her living room, a young lady in her petticoat reading whilst taking tea. Date: 1920s

Kate Greenaway
The April Baby's Book of Tunes by Elizabeth von Arnim. Facing page 7. Three sisters named April, May and June in the living room jostling one another

World War I
Quite safe thank you'. A reassuring message for those at home living through World War i Date: circa 1915

The Kalmyks. Mongol subgroup in Russia. Inside yurt
The Kalmyks. Mongol subgroup in Russia. Inside view of a Kalmyk yurt, called gher

Presentation of the newborn, the Infanta Dona Maria Teresa
Spain. Reign of Alfonso XII, from 1874 to 1885

Honeymoon. Engraving after a painting by Knut Ekwall (1843-1912). La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Mexican Priest Cut the Heart Out of Human Sacrifice
AZTECS OF MEXICO A priest cuts the heart out of a living victim Date: circa 16th century

Henry Ainley in Reparation, St Jamess Theatre, London
Henry Ainley, Shakespearean actor, in Reparation (in the role of Feyda), at the St Jamess Theatre, King Street, London. A translation by Mr & Mrs Aylmer Maude of Tolstoys The Live Corpse. circa 1919

Mlle. Anita, the Doll Lady, and her brother
Mlle. Anita, measuring about twenty-six inches in height, and known as The Doll Lady or the Living Doll, pictured with her ordinary-sized brother, Herr Ignatz Zachowly during a visit to England

Prince Andrew of Greece at Cannes
Prince Andrew of Greece, father of the current Duke of Edinburgh, pictured at Cannes in the company of Margot Hambling, David Townsend and Gilbert Beale, whose yacht was in Cannes Harbour

Elisabeth Welch theatre programme for her one-woman show Time to Start Living at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York

Christmas 1952 by Harold White
A 1950s family sit around the fire at Christmas time listening to a wireless broadcast Streamers and paper chains hang from the ceiling and a rather mean looking Christmas tree stands in the corner

Bill-posters 1900
Two men putting up large bill-posters on the London streets. Date: circa 1900

Imaginary life forms on the planet Jupiter -- living with gravity more than twice that of Earth, with atmospheric conditions to match, imposes severe restrictions on them. Date: 1940

Start of the riot in Cheapside
Artistic impression of Evil May Day, the name of a riot which took place in 1517 as a protest against foreigners living in London. Apprentices attacked foreign residents

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