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Egg & spoon race, Quex House garden
Patients on crutches, some with amuputated legs, are seen taking part in a race in Quex House garden. They are holding a spoon with an egg in their mouths

Patients race, Quex House garden
Four patients are seen taking part in a race in the garden of Quex House, two nurses and a lady civilian are in the background watching

Yarrow Military Hospital, rear view
Yarrow Military Hospial, Broadstairs, rear view. Sir Alfred Yarrow (1842-1932), shipbuilder and philanthropist, opened the home in c. 1895

Bedmaking race, Quex House garden
Three nurses are taking part in a bedmaking race, watched by Hannah Powell-Cotton (VAD Commandant) and a male civilian. The beds are positioned against the line of a tennis court marked out

Nurses, Yarrow Military Hospitsal
Group of fifteen female nursing staff, taken at the Yarrow Military Hospital, Broadstairs in December 1914. The women are, with one possible exception, the one standing 4th left

Imperial Patients, Quex Park VAD Hospital
Imperial Patients of Quex Park VAD Hospital in the garden of Quex House. Twenty patients are in the foreground of the photograph

Hospital Sports, Quex House garden
Patients in shirtsleeves are playing the game of trying to eating an apple hanging from a string tied to a horizontal line

Officers of the Birchington VAD
The Officers of the Birchington VAD Detachment (Kent/178) standing outside the front door of Quex House. They are (left to right) Alice Cobb, Quartermaster (married to Harold Cobb)

Five Imperial patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Five Imperial patients outside the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park. They are wearing hospital blues the uniform worn by patients who were in the Imperial forces

Hannah Powell-Cotton in donkey cart outside the front door of Quex House. The cart is being driven by an Imperial hospital patient. Standing alongside is a member of the Quex House domestic staff

Mrs Mary Holmes and a Belgian patient
Mrs Mary Holmes (Lady Superintendent) and an unknown Belgian patient standing outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Members of Birchington VAD. Seated (l-r) Mary Holmes (Lady Superintendent), Hannah Powell-Cotton (Commandant), Alice Cobb (Quartermaster). Standing (l-r) Elsie Alice Smith, Florence Perfect, ?, ?

Hannah Powell-Cotton and Pte CF Reynolds CEF 18684
Hannah Powell-Cotton and Private CF Reynolds, 18684, 42nd Royal Highlanders (Canadian Expeditionary Force) preparing to leave Quex Park VAD Hospital on 1st October 1915

Belgian Patients in the Mess Room, Quex Park. The Mess Room was situated in the Winter Garden, a large conservatory situated between Quex House and the Museum buildings

Belgian Patients & VAD Staff, Quex Park. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

Quex House with car
View of the front of Quex House. Possibly taken just before the Hospital opened in mid October 1914. A small car is parked at the front

Westgate-on-Sea Voluntary Aid Detachment, Kent / 64
Westgate-on-Sea Voluntary Aid Detachment, Kent/64 outside the front door of Quex Park, Birchington, Kent UK. This detachment worked at Quex Park VAD Hospital for a month after the first patients were

Quex Park VAD Hospital Belgian & British Patients
Quex Park VAD Hospital, Birchington, Kent, UK. Belgian & British Patients in front of the buildings. The VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Six men, including Belgian patients, Quex House. At least three are Belgian patients. One appears to be in Boy Scout uniform. Others may be Quex House staff, one may be a visiting entertainer

Quex Park VAD Hospital staff
Quex Park VAD Hospital, Birchington, Kent, UK. Staff, with Quex House domestic staff and Powell-Cotton children (Diana 1908-1986), Mary (1910-1998) and Antoinette (1913-1997)

Darenth Schools, Kent - Day room
Inmates sit around a dayroom at the Darenth Schools, near Dartford, Kent. The Schools were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for imbecile children

Darenth Schools, Kent - Upholstery
Older inmates at work in the upholstery department of the Darenth Schools, near Dartford, Kent. The Schools were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for

Darenth Schools, Kent - Tailoring
Inmates sit cross-legged in the tailoring department of the Darenth Schools, near Dartford, Kent. The Schools were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for

Darenth Schools, Kent - Boot-making
Boot-making workshop at the Darenth Schools, near Dartford, Kent. The Schools were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for imbecile children from London

Darenth Schools, Kent - Basket-making
Inmates making baskets at the Darenth Schools, near Dartford, Kent. The Schools were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for imbecile children from London

Apple Bobbing, Quex House garden
Seven patients are gathered around at least one chair and some buckets. Five amused nurses are watching. The men are apple bobbing - trying to grab, using only their mouths

Nurses & patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nurses and patients in the Winter Garden, Quex Park. This room was used as the Hospital Mess. Nurse Fanny Watson is standing, second left

Nurses & Doctor, Quex Park
Nurses of the Birchington VAD, together with Medical Officer, Dr Harry Worthington, outside Quex House in early 1915. Seated (left to right) are Alice Cobb, Quartermaster, Hannah Powell-Cotton

Seven VAD nurses at Quex Park
A group of seven VAD nurses standing at the front of the Winter Garden, Quex Park in February 1916. In the centre of the group is Nurse Fanny Watson; second from the right is `nurse Mildred Swinford

Quex House in the snow in February 1916. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919. The hospital was run by Kent/178, the Birchington Detachment

Quex VAD patients in fancy dress outside the front door of Quex House. There was a collection of dressing up clothes at Quex House and they were used occasionally by the patients to put on plays

Nurses & Patients, Winter Garden, Quex
A group of VAD nurses and patients outside the Winter Garden, Quex Park, dated February 1916. Standing beside her mother, Hannah Powell Commandant

Patients boxing
Quex Park VAD Hospital patients. Entertainments and diversions were a regular part of the life of the hospital. The Quex Park VAD Hospital opened on 15 October 1914 and closed on 31 January 1919

Entrance to the new Grafton Galleries, 1893
Entrance to the new Grafton Galleries, opened in February 1893 at 8, Grafton Street, Mayfair, London. The first exhibition, a mix of paintings and sculpture by British and European artists

Liverpool Seamens Orphanage - Opening Ceremony in Dining Ha
Liverpool Seamens Orphanage opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, popularly known as the Sailor Prince. Date: 1872

Liverpool Seamens Orphanage Opening Royal Party at Entrance
Liverpool Seamens Orphanage opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, popularly known as the Sailor Prince. The royal party arrive at the entrance. Date: 1872

Liverpool Seamens Orphanage Opening Royal Procession
Liverpool Seamens Orphanage opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, popularly known as the Sailor Prince. The royal party in procession. Date: 1872

Hope Place, Stepney
Local residents of Hope Place, Stepney, near where Thomas Barnardo opened his first childrens home

Hope Place Donkey Shed
The former donkey shed at Hope Place, Stepney, where Thomas Barnardo opened his first childrens home

Josiah Masons Orphanage, Erdington, Birmingham
Josiah Masons Orphanage opened in 1868 at Erdington, Birmingham. Date: circa 1905

Advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce
Back of an advertisement for Holbrooks Fruit Sauce, of two bottles side by side -- actually an opened out needle holder. The verse describes how a husband would not eat any meat until his wife bought

Empress Elizabeth Chapel on Schneeberg just a few years after it was opened in honour of the murdered monarch. Itremains there today, and is more or less unchanged. Date: circa 1908

CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Henry of Bourbon in the siege of Paris of 1594 during the Eighth War of Religion or War of the three Henrys (1585-1598)

EYCK, Hubert van (1370-1426). The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. 1425-1432. BELGIUM. Ghent. Saint Bavo Cathedral. Angel musicians. Upper left panel of the opened polyptych

Switzerland - The Upper Bridge, Basel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of Basels Upper Bridge or Wettsteinbrucke. It is the second oldest bridge across the Rhine

North Melbourne Town Hall
Slide showing a black and white photograph of the Town Hall in the city of Melbourne in Australia. The foundation stone of the Town Hall was laid on 29 November 1867 by the visiting Prince Alfred

The Public Library
Slide showing a black and white photograph of the public library in the city of Melbourne in Australia. The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, Australia

Melbourne University Buildings
Black and white photographic image of Melbourne University buildings. The universitys foundation stone was laid 3rd July 1854, the buildings were officially opened on 3rd October 1855

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