Metropolitan Collection (page 37)

Police Fingerprinting
Police officer fingerprinting a man. Metropolitan Police

Criminal Record Office
Examining fingerprints at the Criminal Record Office looking through a microscope at New Scotland Yard. Metropolitan Police

Dusting for Fingerprints
Dusting a box for fingerprints at New Scotland Yard. Metropolitan Police

Police Officer & Helmet
Police officer with a Coxcomb helmet, which replaced the Top Hat in 1863 and was in use until 1870 Metropolitan Police

Police Safety Officers
Police safety officers on duty in a stadium at a football match Metropolitan Police

Metropolitan Gallery in Telegraph Street
Women at work in the Metropolitan Gallery in Telegraph Street receiving telegraphs for the London area

Police Officer & Soldier
Metropolitan police officer giving directions to an American soldier in London in a waterproof cape

Police Officer and Child
Police officer talking to little boy by lake. Metropolitan Police

Police and Soldiers
Metropolitan police officer talking to two American servicemen, G.I. soldiers in London

Police Officer / Children
Police officer holding hands with children helping them cross the road showing traffic safety. Metropolitan Police

Police Officer in School
Police officer with group of schoolchildren in a school playground. Metropolitan Police

Police in Gas Masks
Two Metropolitan police officers from H district, London, fully kitted out for action during World War Two

Police Officer and Boy
Police officer telling off little boy for fishing in Trafalgar Square fountain making him upset and sad. Metropolitan police London

Police Officer in London
Police officer walking the beat on Praed Street in front of Paddington Station, London. Metropolitan Police

Police at 10 Downing St
Police officer wearing a flak jacket outside 10 Downing Street, London. Metropolitan Police

Police Officer on Duty
Black police officer talking to man. Metropolitan Police

Police on the Beat
Two Metropolitan Police officers in a market walking the beat in London

Police Football Duty
Police Officer on duty at a football match doing crowd control amongst the football supporters Metropolitan Police

Police and Homeless Man
Police officer talking to a homeless man at night Metropolitan Police

Police Careers Team
The Metropolitan Police Careers Team opposite the Houses on Parliament with their mobile office van preparing for their tour of N.E. Scotland

Possible Bomb Threat
Police officer on Westminster Bridge by Big Ben on the walkie talkie radio checking out a suspect package in a briefcase - suspect bag Metropolitan Police, London

Police Officer at No. 10
Police officer outside 10 Downing Street, London Metropolitan Police

Two Police Officers
Two Metropolitan Police officers walking the beat

Line of Police Officers
Line of Metropolitan police officers standing in the street in London

New York / Broadway 1891
New York: Broadway at night

Metropolitan railway works at Westminster
The Metropolitan District Railway works at Westminster. The extension of the worlds first underground railway, joining up Westminster and South Kensington to Paddington

Plan of the Metropolitan Railway
The initial plan for the Metropolitan Railway. The railway begins opposite the Great Western Railway Hotel at Paddington, passing through Kings Cross on to Farringdon

Crossness Opened
J W Bazalgette opens the Southern Pumping Establishment at Crossness, a key item in his Main Drainage system for Metropolitan London

James Monro
JAMES MONRO Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police 1888-1890: he was considered to know more about the Jack the Ripper case than anyone

X-Ray Tube / Vickers / 1936
Million volt X-ray tube; developed by Metropolitan Vickers; installed in St. Bartholomews Hospital

Baker Street Station
A train arrives at Baker Street station, on the Metropolitan Line : the high roof is needed because the first trains are pulled by steam locomotives

Trial Trip, Underground
A successful trial trip on the Metropolitan Railway : the train - drawn by a steam locomotive - is about to enter Portland Road station, near Euston

Workmens Train Baker St
The scene at Baker Street underground station, seven years after the opening of the Metropolitan Line; the Workmens special train carried men to work at special low fares

Baker Street Station Cross-section
A cross section of the proposed Baker Street station, on the new Metropolitan underground railway, London

USA / Met Opera / Curtain
NEW YORK Wagnerian opera singers take a curtain call, assisted by a footman

Gas / Drawing Retorts / 1903
South Metropolitan Gas Company. An interior of a factory showing retorts being drawn by hand

Royal Exchange Fireman
A fireman of the Royal Exchange Association, before the formation of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1865

Silsbys Fire Engine / NY
Typical American fire-engine of the late 19th century. This model was made by Silsby for the Metropolitan Fire Department of New York

Lewisham 1808
Now a busy Metropolitan Borough, Lewisham was once a quiet rural village in the county of Kent

Chocolate Machine 1930S
Another passenger watches as a man tries to work out how to use an automatic slot machine vending Caleys famous Marching Chocolate, inside a metropolitan railway carriage

Police Make Arrest / 1873
Two Metropolitan policemen carrying torches arrest a man who is cowering in a doorway. The torches were known as nab lights

DRAINAGE
London Metropolitan Main Drainage : the southern outfall works at Crossness - opened by Edward, Prince of Wales

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