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Lodgers Collection

Background imageLodgers Collection: Life in a Boarding House by Eric Ravilious

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. The paintings at the college were the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen

Background imageLodgers Collection: Rowton House, Kings Cross - Footbaths

Rowton House, Kings Cross - Footbaths
Lodgers Footbaths at the Rowton House, Kings Cross, London Date: circa 1902

Background imageLodgers Collection: Comic postcard, Lodgers and landlady - carving the poultry Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Lodgers and landlady - carving the poultry Date: 20th century

Background imageLodgers Collection: In Hammersmith Road, West London situated the fourth of the series of Rowton Houses

In Hammersmith Road, West London situated the fourth of the series of Rowton Houses, a poor mens hotel, for sixpences per night. Photograph showing the courtyard where the lodgers can relax

Background imageLodgers Collection: Lodgings for travellers 1856

Lodgings for travellers 1856
London travellers could afford to rent lodgings in the poor districts in the out-of-the-way suburbs of London, neglected purlieus in dirty and diseased neighbourhoods. Date: 1856

Background imageLodgers Collection: Homeless women in an East End doss house

Homeless women in an East End doss house
This is the basement of a doss house for women in Duval Street, in the East End. A bed costs sixpence a night and lodgers provide their own meals

Background imageLodgers Collection: Social / USA / Cheap Lodging

Social / USA / Cheap Lodging
Lodgers in a crowded Bayard Street tenement in New York: the cost is " five cents a spot" Date: 1889

Background imageLodgers Collection: Rowton House, Kings Cross Lodgers Scullery

Rowton House, Kings Cross Lodgers Scullery
Lodgers Scullery at the Rowton House, Kings Cross, London Date: circa 1902

Background imageLodgers Collection: Hostel Lodgers 1930S

Hostel Lodgers 1930S
Smart but homeless : some of the young men who ended up at a hostel for down-and-outs, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageLodgers Collection: Lodgings at the Seaside

Lodgings at the Seaside
Mrs Evans must be on good terms with her neighbour, for she looks on with a beaming smile as Mrs Entwhistle poses for a photo of her lodgers at an unidentified resort

Background imageLodgers Collection: Marylebone Workhouse

Marylebone Workhouse
London : the Casual Ward for overnight lodgers, at Marylebone Workhouse


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