Membership Collection

Masonic Certificate
Membership certificate of the UNITED GRAND LODGE of England

Trades union membership certificate
A trades union membership certificate for the United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland, with Defence and Defiance as their motto

London Trade Card - Francis Nobles Circulating Library, Otways Head, King Street, Covent Garden. 18th century

WW1 poster, Red Cross recruitment
Poster, Red Cross recruitment -- Join! The Greatest Mother. circa 1918

Jaguar car, registration WFJ 938. 1960s

Certificate, Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Manchester Unity Friendly Society. 19th century

Knight - Spanish Order of Charles III
Knight wearing the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III (formerly Royal and Much Distinguished Order of Charles III)

Membership Card, The Cavern Club, Liverpool Date: 1962

Knight of the Order of Montesa. Ceremonial costume
Knight of the Order of Saint Mary of Montesa and St. George of Alfama or Order of Montesa. Military order established by King Jaime II of Aragon in 1317 to take the place of the Order of the Temple

The Royal and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand
Knight in ceremonial dress and wearing the Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand, also known as the Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand

Knight - Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella
Knight with the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, a distinction created in 1815, during the reign of King Ferdinand VII, in honor of Queen Isabella I

Knight - Order of Charles III
Knight wearing the collar and insignia of the Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III (formerly Royal and Much Distinguished Order of Charles III)

Prince's Skating Club at Knightsbridge 1900
Prince's Skating Club at Knightsbridge, London, founded by Adminal Maxse, holding 800 members. Date: 1900

Polling Station, Referendum Day, 5 June 1975
Scene outside a Polling Station in the London Borough of Wandsworth, 5 June 1975. A Referendum was being held on the UK's membership of the EEC (now the EU), which it had joined in 1973

National Clarion Cycling Club
Members of the National Clarion Cycling Club London Union at their Autumn Meet in Dorking. Men and women and some children stand and sit in front of a wooded area for a large group photograph

James Callaghan, Labour politician
James "Jim" Callaghan (Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, 1912-2005), Labour politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964-1967, Home Secretary 1967-1970

Membership card for the Caterpillar Club belonging to Flight Officer Edwin Walker, who was a navigator on a Lancaster bomber

Membership card, Police Association, Chicago, USA
Membership card, A Century of Progress, Police Association, Chicago, USA, made out to Willard F Tafel, and signed on the back by T A Murray, President. Date: 1934

Membership certificate, Ancient Order of Druids, illustrated with a Druid playing a harp, with Stonehenge in the background

Membership certificate, Labour Party 50th Anniversary
Membership certificate, In commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Labour Party (1900-1950), for use during the Jubilee Year, with quotations from Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee. Date: 1950

Louis Racine - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment
Louis Racine (1692-1763) - French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment. Later an inspector-general of taxes at Marseille in Provence. A member of the Academie des Inscriptions. Date: circa 1749

De Dietrich, Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Darracq cars
Three cars and their chauffeurs outside a garage. From left to right: De Dietrich, Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, Darracq. Two of the cars have Kent registration numbers. circa 1910

WW1 - League of National Safety - set up to promote the value of rationing, the efforts to avoid wastage, to further the objects of the Food Economy Campaign

Order of Rechabites 1898
Membership certificate for the Independent Order of Rechabites, a society of abstainers from alcohol

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Membership Book Cover
Cover of a Girls Friendly Society Membership Book Cover. The Society was formed in 1875 to provide friendship and support for working-class girls. Date: 1921

Lady Members conditions for membership at Working Mens Clubs
Back of a Lady Members membership card, highlighting the conditions for Women to be Lady Members of Working Mens Clubs as decided by the Committee. Date: 1960s

Members Ticket, Froth Blowers & Beer Shifters
Members Ticket, Amalgamated Society of Froth Blowers & Beer Shifters. 1929

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Membership Card
A Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Membership Card issued in 1897. Date: 1896

Suffragette W. S. P. U Membership Card
Suffragette W.S.P.U Membership Card. Womens Social & Political Union membership card showing Objects & Methods with membership pledge. Date: circa 1907

The Hope Club for women, 1904
A convivial scene in the dining-room of the Hope Club for women members only. Situated in Devonshire Terrace, it catered to ladies in business and provided a writing-room

People posing with Austin car
Six people posing in and around an Austin car bearing an Automobile Assocation membership badge

Certificate of honorary membership of the Weccacoe Fire Company, Philadelphia. Print shows a certificate for honorary membership in the Weccacoe Fire Company of Philadelphia

Friendship, unity and true Christian charity--Ancient Order of Hibernians of America, Certificate of membership. Certificate of membership in Ancient Order of Hibernians of America. Date c1894

Freemasons membership certificate. Date c1861 May 25

I summon you to the comradeship - Woodrow Wilson Answer the Red Cross Christmas roll call for universal membership. Poster showing a portrait of Woodrow Wilson. Date 1918

Certificate of membership for the Ladies Loyal Union League. Date: 1863

Badge, Royal Life Saving Society
Badge of the Royal Life Saving Society, featuring a lifebelt design. Date: early 20th century

Cancellation of a Brothers Membership
A Brother is excluded after dishonouring the society through not paying his membership Date: 1890s

Chauffeur with motor car, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A uniformed chauffeur at the wheel of a motor car, registration EU 613, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The tyres are early inflatable ones, manufactured by Goodyear

Scenes at the Shanghai Country Club
The amenities of European life in China, showing various aspects of the Shanghai country club: the front entrance of the clubhouse; in the general conversation room; looking across the pond to

Carlton Club Banquet: Drinking Lord Beaconsfields health
The Carlton Club Banquet at the Riding-School, Knightsbridge, London showing a toast to Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), Lord Beaconsfield

Working Mens Assoc
Certificate of membership of the International Working Mens Association signed by officers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Poland as well as the United States

Foresters Certificate
Membership certificate of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, ornamented with idyllic scenes and pictures of people being kind. Date: early 20th century

Order of Foresters
Certificate of membership of James Stedman in the Ancient Order of Foresters

Dancing at the Kit-Kat
Dancers and diners at the Kit- Kat Club in the Haymarket, London : membership costs you seven guineas - equivalent to several hundred pounds today

Society of Rail Servants
A wonderfully illustrated commemorative certificate, conferring the rail workers of Market Rasen into membership of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants

Shipowners Society
Membership certificate of the Glasgow Shipowners and Shipbrokers Benevolent Association, founded in 1899. This is James Hamilton s, who joined in 1928

Liberal Certificate
For the People - For the Empire - certificate of membership of the Rugby Division of the Warwickshire Liberal Association, in the great days of liberalism

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