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A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troopsHorse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground
Telegram mobilising VAD 1914This telegram, sent to Birchington late in the day on 14 October 1914, was the call to mobilise the local Voluntary Aid Detachments to set up their hospitals
Advert for Geo. Gale & Sons, hospital bed 1889Dominion, patent wire spring mattress and Lawson Tait hospital bed, wire carefully coppered and lacquared to prevent rust. Date: 1889
Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1937Why theres so much extra comfort in Vi-Spring overlay mattress! 1937
Children play on mattresses in Patricroft, EcclesChildren playing on a pile of abandoned mattresses in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1978
Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1934How wonderfully soft ! The Vi-Spring overlay mattress is made by hand throughout. Unlike the cheap mattress the Vi-Spring will last and last
The aftermath of fire at Sir Johns Frenchs home, Aldershot. Date: 1903
Apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreckVarious apparatus for saving life in case of shipwreck. A Dennetts rocket line is shown both in action and arranged for firing, as well as and the landing of a crew using the breeches buoy
Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1939Get 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 193530 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 1930Its luxuriously comfortable ! Only thoses who slept upon a Vi-Spring can really appreciate the luxurious comfort of this fine overlay mattress
Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1929Too tired to dance, a good partner - a fine band - a jolly evening wasted, because they are too tied to enjoy themselves. What a joy it is to get up each moring felling thoroughly rested
French MattressmakerA French matelassiere (mattress-maker) stuffs a mattress. Date: circa 1845
Advert for Vi-spring Mattress 1938Its 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 1933Unequalled 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
Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1917 January 25. Boys linking bed-springs. 14 and 15 years old. Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Advert for Vi-Spring Mattress 1931Built 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, WW1Austro-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, LondonThe 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 SchoolHousewife 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 19281056 springs make the Vi-Spring mattress the most luxurious mattress obtainable Date: 1928
Arab Mattress-makers - Tangiers, MoroccoStuffing Mattresses with straw - Tangiers, Morocco Date: circa 1910s
