Metropolitan Collection (#29)

Group photo, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
A group photograph of police officers, male and female, at the Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Portland Road, Hove, East Sussex. WPC Kay Parrott is in the second row, on the right. Date: May 1954

Wartime bomb damage, Lambeth, south east London
A bomb site in Lambeth, south east London, with a Humber Saloon car used for top-priority Cabinet business partially hidden by debris at the centre

Two Metropolitan police officers with van and dogs
Two Metropolitan police officers with their van and two Alsatian dogs, arriving at a building for an investigation. Date: circa 1960s

Wartime bomb damage, Met Police vehicles, London
Bomb damaged vehicles belonging to the Metropolitan Police, waiting to be repaired or scrapped. Date: September 1940

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Met Police stranger danger education for children
PC Doug Curwen of the Metropolitan Police supervising stranger danger education for children. A strange man brandishes a sweeping brush at two children, who don t seem to be at all frightened of him

Metropolitan Police officers fitted with uniforms
Some newly recruited Metropolitan Police officers being fitted with their uniforms and helmets at a police clothing store in Lambeth Road, south east London

Postwar reconstruction, Lambeth, south east London
Postwar reconstruction taking place on the corner of Norfolk Row in Lambeth, south east London. Date: circa 1950s

Metropolitan Police officer and Guards Band, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on horseback, with a band of Guards playing and marching behind him, with Buckingham Palace in the background. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officers on horseback
A group of eleven Metropolitan Police officers on horseback, undergoing training in a large indoor space. Date: 20th century

Metropolitan Police officer in school playground
A Metropolitan Police officer chats with girls and boys in a school playground. Date: circa 1980s

Metropolitan Police telephone operator
A Metropolitan Police telephone operator at the controls, which link him with Police Boxes in the London area. He is wearing a combination microphone and headphones. Date: circa 1930s

Metropolitan Police officer with young son
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC James Newman, with two medals on his jacket, posing for his photograph with his son Charles (b 1898), in an outdoor setting. Date: circa 1903

Metropolitan Police K Division orchestral band

Metropolitan Police officer and his Alsatian dog
A Metropolitan Police officer walking along a street with his Alsatian dog. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police breathalyser equipment
Two Metropolitan Police officers with a piece of equipment called an Intoximeter 3000 at New Scotland Yard, London. One officer is blowing into a tube

Metropolitan Police officer and crying child
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Newell, holding a crying child who is temporarily lost. Date: February 1939

Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove, East Sussex
A close-up of the sign outside the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex. The building opened in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1988. Date: late 1960s

Metropolitan Police Alsatian dog in back of van
A Metropolitan Police Alsatian dog sitting in the back of a van. A police officer sits on the other side of the grille. Date: circa 1960s

Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral - the largest and oldest cathedral in the Americas and seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. Date: circa 1910s

Police officers outside a barbers shop
A group of perfectly turned-out police officers line up outside a barbers shop in London. Date: late 19th century

Two police officers patrol Shepherds Market, London
An atmospheric scene showing two police officers standing at a street corner on Shepherds Market in London. Date: 1950s

Police officer giving directions
A friendly police officer directs two of his colleagues in the right direction as they travel along in their open-top car

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (3 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people. The Metropolitan Police Department burning at Maranouchi near Hibiya Park. Date: 1923

New Scotland Yard 1950S
The Derby Street entrance to New Scotland Yard, Parliament Street, London, the Headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. Date: early 1950s

Police Crowd Control
Metropolitan police officers on crowd control duty in London Date: 1911

Redring advertisement, c. 1955
Advertisement for Redring Metrovick Boiling Plates manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company of Old Trafford, Manchester, showing a jubilant housewife delighted with her new cooker

Chile - Santiago - The Metropolitan Cathedral
Chile - Santiago. The Metropolitan Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana). Date: circa 1910s

Thomas Hedderwick
Thomas Charles Hunter Hedderwick (1850 - 1918), Liberal party politician, MP for Wick Burghs in Scotland from 1896 to 1900. Appointed London Metropolitan Police Magistrate in 1910. Date: 1910

Queuing place for the 1931 Colonal Exposition, Paris
A place to queue for transportation to and from the French Colonial Exposition of 1931 - Montparnasse, Paris, France. Date: 1931

TS Exmouth - Captain W. S. Bourchier and family
The Training Ship Exmouth - Captain W.S. Bourchier seated on a chaise longue with his family. The Exmouth, moored of Grays in Essex

TS Exmouth - Musical drill
Music drill on the Training Ship Exmouth - band members (centre) are flanked by other boys doing physical drill. The Exmouth, moored of Grays in Essex

Smithfield Market 1875
Metropolitan Poultry Market, SMITHFIELD Date: 1875

High Level Sewer Built
The Metropolitan High-Level Sewer : work commences near Victoria Park in northeast London. Date: 1859

Election / Womans Rights
Elections at the London Metropolitan - a woman campaigns for Womens Rights Date: 1874

Hospital shelters at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, London
View of hospital shelters at South Wharf, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, south east London, where smallpox patients waited before being transported down the Thames to hospital ships moored at Long

Main entrance, Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham
View of the main entrance of Pinewood Sanatorium at Bagshot Sands, near Wokingham, Berkshire, originally opened in 1898 as the London Open Air Sanatorium by the National Association for

Nurses inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross
Scene inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross. Along with two other river ambulances it was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

Ward at Carshalton Childrens Infirmary, Surrey
Interior view of ward D8 at Carshalton Childrens Infirmary, Surrey. The hospital was opened in 1908 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board and became a general hospital for up to 1000 children

River ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross, Maltese Cross
View of the river ambulances Albert Victor, Geneva Cross and Maltese Cross. They were operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to

Policewoman with evacuee children
A policewoman helping evacuee children find their train out of London during the Second World War

Policemen in wartime tin helmets
Two policemen in tin helmets worn during the Second World War

Policeman investigating a river barge
A policeman investigating a barge on the River Thames in London

Metropolitan Police scientific investigator
A Metropolitan Police scientific investigator examining evidence from a crime scene

Queen Elizabeth II signing the visitors book at a Metropolitan Police archive

Metropolitan Police boat on the River Thames
A Metropolitan Police boat on the River Thames

Policemen on horseback
Two policemen on horseback, with a crowd of people in London

Policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup
A policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup of three cars

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