Mattress Collection

Princess and the Pea
I have scarcely closed my eyes all night, complains the princess, proving that she is a REAL princess, so sensitive that single a pea beneath her mattress keeps her awake

Comic postcard, Protection for rollerskating Date: early 20th century

Sunbathers at Eden Roc
Sunbathers at the famous Eden Roc, Antibes on the French Riviera, an exclusive resort catering to sun worshippers who lay out on the famous orange mattresses. Date: 1930

Advert for Maple & Co furnishing 1897
Page selection of household furnishings. Date: 1897

Bed type air raid shelter, WW2
A bed type air raid shelter used during the Second World War, by Robert Morris Ltd of Farnworth, near Bolton. Date: 1940s

Madagascar - Tamatave (Tuamasina) - Furniture Store
Madagascar - Tuamasina (Tamatave) - Furniture Store with proud owner, his Madagascan wife, a rather superb tiger rug and various, chairs, folding tables and other essential furnishings for the home

Paris Floods - Relocation - Quai de Billy - January, 1910 (note the Hotel is called the Navy Hotel !!). Date: 1910

Etruscan sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa. 150-140 BC
Etruscan sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa. Polychromed terracotta. 150-140 BC. Is depicted reclined and resting on a pillow

Book of Trades, Title Page. 1841

Book of Trades, The Matrass Maker
Book of Trades, The Matrass (Mattress) Maker. 1841

Deathbedroom of Beranger
The French poet Beranger died in this room, and probably on that bed with its sagging mattress and overhanging canopy. In other respects the room is more like a study. Date: 1857

Advert for Geo. Gale & Sons, hospital bed 1889
Dominion, patent wire spring mattress and Lawson Tait hospital bed, wire carefully coppered and lacquared to prevent rust. Date: 1889

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1937
Why theres so much extra comfort in Vi-Spring overlay mattress! 1937

Manchester Slum
Manchester : interior of a slum dwelling at no 18, Back Queen Street, Deansgate - a mattress, a mantelpiece, nothing else... Date: 1862

Henshaws Blind Asylum, Manchester
Inmates work in the mattress making department at Henshaws Blind Asylum, Manchester Date: Date unknown

Children play on mattresses in Patricroft, Eccles
Children playing on a pile of abandoned mattresses in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1978

Flat feet remedy, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A new method of curing flat feet and restoring the natural arch to the pedal extremities, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Boys playing with junk, Balham, SW London
Three boys playing with junk in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Kyrgyz sultana seated on a carpet in a gher with woman and child.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Children on a mattress, Balham, SW London
Children sitting on a mattress on top of a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a mattress, Balham, SW London
Four boys lying on a mattress on top of a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys on a pile of rubbish, Balham, SW London
Boys on a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Perhaps it has been stacked up ready for bonfire night! Date: circa 1961

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1934
How wonderfully soft ! The Vi-Spring overlay mattress is made by hand throughout. Unlike the cheap mattress the Vi-Spring will last and last

Traditional Japanese display at international scout camp
Before or after a traditional Japanese judo display at an international scout camp. Scouts are standing to attention and saluting

Blitz in London -- Mansfield Road sub-station, WW2
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters salvage their bedding from the bombed-out Mansfield Road fire sub-station after it was seriously damaged in a bombing raid on 16 November 1940. Date: 1940

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1939
Get up wide awake ! How you feel in the morning depends largely upon how you sleep during the night. Take no chances with your nights rest, sleep on a Vi-Spring

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1935
30 years supremacy in sleeping comfort. The Vi-Spring overlay mattress. Never in its years of unparalleled success has the wonderful Vi-Spring mattress occupied so higgh a position in the favour of

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1930
Its luxuriously comfortable ! Only thoses who slept upon a Vi-Spring can really appreciate the luxurious comfort of this fine overlay mattress

French Mattressmaker
A French matelassiere (mattress-maker) stuffs a mattress. Date: circa 1845

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San goes to sleep - Goodnight! Date: circa 1905

Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke before bed
Japanese Woman O-Koto-San has a smoke and thinks of her soldier Lo, whilst her miad prepares her bed. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1938
Its the inside that matters most! If you are buying mattress you will, of course, buy one of the spring-interior type to-day demanded by everybody with modern ideas of comfort

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1933
Unequalled for comfort, The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination. The Worlds most luxurious bed equipment. The Vi-Spring - Vibase combination is unquestionably the finest bed equipment ever made to ensure

Blitz in London -- Mansfield Road sub-station, WW2
Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters salvage their bedding from the bombed-out Mansfield Road fire sub-station after it was seriously damaged in a bombing raid on 16 November 1940

Captain Scotts cabin, RSS Discovery
Captain Scotts cabin on RSS Discovery, showing a bunk bed and drawers underneath. The ships first mission was the British National Antarctic Expedition

Advert for Vi-Spring Mattress 1931
Built to give better rest. Inmaking of a Vi-Spring overlay mattress spring follows spring until beneath every square inch of its surface there lies a small spring to give an exquisite softness

Austrio-Hungarian troops in Galicia, Eastern Front, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops bringing forward wire mattresses and trestles in Galicia, on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Making Mattresses - Blind Workers, London
The Mattressmakers Song - Postcard produced by the Greater London Fund for the Blind. The charity was formed in 1921 by Sir Arthur Pearson to co-ordinate the raising of funds to improve the lives of

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1928
1056 springs make the Vi-Spring mattress the most luxurious mattress obtainable Date: 1928

Cell contents, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The interior and meagre contents of a cell at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. The inmate sleeps on a plank bed covered by a thin mattress

Mattress Making, Darenth Training Colony, Kent
Mattress making at the Darenth Training Colony near Dartford in Kent. The colony, for adult mental defectives, was set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 as an addition to the existing

Arab Mattress-makers - Tangiers, Morocco
Stuffing Mattresses with straw - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1910s

Patent Euraka Mattress and Bedstead
Advertisement for the patent Eureka mattress and bed, available from all house furnishers

Trapeze Man / Music Sheet
The legendary man on the flying trapeze: except for the fact that hes safely on the ground in this picture

More in Prison Alone
SIR THOMAS MORE English statesman in prison due to his disapproval of Henry VIIIs behaviour

Maple Brass Bedstead
A brass bedstead from Maple s, Londons best-known furniture store : cost, 38 shillings to 52s 6d according to width : you tighten the mattress with a handle

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