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Four black nurses stand by the hospital wall in Nottingham
Womans Hospital Peel Street, Nottingham. Four black student nurses, stand to have their pictures taken outside in the hospital ground, by the opened window at the back. Date: 1960s

Free Industrial School, Gem Street, Birmingham
The Free Industrial School at Gem Street, Birmingham, was opened in 1850 to provide education, training and meals for poor children in the area. Date: Date unknown

Bisley Farm School No. 1
The original main building at Bisley Farm School, Surrey, opened in 1868. Date: circa 1888

Gracie Fields Home and Orphanage, Peacehaven, East Sussex
Orphanage and childrens home at Peacehaven, East Sussex, opened in 1933 by singing star Gracie Fields to care for the children of parents in the theatrical profession

A beautifully decorated and decorative fan, with pink cherry blossom and gilded detaiing. Date: circa 1905

Powell-Cotton daughters and friend
The three daughters of Major & Mrs Powell-Cotton and a friend play in the garden of Quex Park in September 1916. The children are (left to right) Elizabeth Worthington (daughter of Dr Worthington)

Shaftesbury Homes Fortescue House, London Road Twickenham
Shaftesbury Homes School for Boys at Fortescue House, London Road Twickenham, opened in 1878. The School later moved to new premises on Hampton Road, Twickenham. Date: circa 1920s

Seamens Orphanage, Spring Bank, Hull
The Hull Seamens Asylum and Schools was opened in 1866 by the Hull Seamens General Orphan Society. The building was designed by T.H. Wyatt of London. Date: circa 1910

Stepping Hill Infirmary, Stockport
An aerial view of the Stepping Hill Infirmary, opened in 1901 as a hospital facility for the Stockport workhouse. Date: circa 1927

Thomas Barnardos Edinburgh Castle Mission Hall and Coffee
The Edinburgh Castle on Rhodeswell Road, Limehouse, East London, was a former gin palace and music hall, re-opened by Barnardo as a British Workmans Coffee Palace with a Mission Hall at its rear

Foresters Orphanage and Convalescent Home, Bridlington. The home was opened in 1899 by the Foresters, a Friendly Society. Date: circa 1930s

Japan - the Foreign settlement of Kobe
Lantern slide of the Foreign settlement of Kob鮠 When Kobe port was opened in 1868 after two centuries of isolation policy by the country

Hammond House Girls Home, Reddish, Stockport
A view of Hammond House, Reddish, a girls home opened in 1881 by the Wesleyan Mission. Date: Date unknown

Union Cottage Homes, Lanchester, County Durham
A view of the Union cottage homes at Lanchester opened in 1905 to house pauper children away from the workhouse. Some of the inmates can be seen in the grounds. Date: circa 1910

Thanet Union workhouse, Minster, Kent
A distant view of the Thanet Union workhouse opened in 1836 at Minster on the Isle of Thant. It was designed by Sir Francis Head. Date: Date unknown

Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton
The Strand Unions new workhouse opened at Edmonton, North London, in 1870. Date: Date unknown

West London District School, Ashford
Opened in 1872, the West London District School provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from the Fulham, Hammersmith, Paddington, and St George Hanover Square unions

Central London District School, Hanwell
Distant view of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. The schools were opened in 1856 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Victoria Childrens Home, Formby, Lancashire
Boys, perhaps in cub scouts uniform, at the Victoria Home opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1897 at Andrews Lane, Formby, near Liverpool. Date: 1920s

Wick House Nursery, Brislington, Bristol
The Wick House Nursery, Brislington, Bristol. The home was opened in 1925 by the Waifs and Strays Society in a house donated by Mr and Mrs Walter James. Date: 1920s

Boys at All Saints Home, Ashdon, Essex
A group of boys gathered around a swing at All Saints House, Rectory Lane, Ashdon, Saffron Walden, Essex. The home was opened in 1890 by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: 1920s

Boys at Bradstock Lockett Hospital Home, Southport
Some of the young patients in their beds at the Bradstock Lockett Hospital Home And School Of Recovery. The Waifs and Strays Society opened the establishment in 1902 at St Annes Road, Marshside

Royal Masonic Institute For Girls, Wandsworth, London
The Royal Masonic Institute For Girls opened in 1853 at St Johns Hill, Battersea Rise, Wandsworth. The school educated the daughters of Freemasons. Date: Date unknown

John Groom Tribute Sculpture
Illustration of a sculpture dedicated to John A Groom, founder of the Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission on Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell, later moving to Edgware Way, Hendon

Wiltshire County Asylum, Devizes
Entrance to the main buildings of the Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. The asylum, designed by T.H. Wyatt, opened in 1851, later becoming Wiltshire County Mental Hospital then Roundway Hospital

Pinocchio -- snail at a window
Pinocchio -- A window in the lower storey opened, and the same snail appeared at it. Date: 1911

The Desideratum shotgun by Cogswell & Harrisons new hammerless gun Date: 1882

Industrial School, Kirkdale, Liverpool
The driveway of the Industrial School at Kirkdale opened in 1845 by Liverpools poor law authority. The School housed and educated more than a thousand pauper children away from the workhouse

West Derby Union, Liverpool - Cottage Homes at Fazakerley
Childrens houses at the cottage homes site opened by Liverpools West Derby Union at Fazakerley in 1889. The homes housed 650 pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1925

Abingdon Union Workhouse, Berkshire
A bird s-eye view of the Abingdon Union workhouse at Abingdon, Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire). The building, opened in 1835

Bexley Asylum, Kent
Bexley Asylum was opened in 1898 on Old Bexley Lane, Bexley. It was also known as Heath Asylum and later as Bexley Hospital. Date: circa 1915

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham

Greenwich Childrens Home, Sidcup
Entrance to The Hollies - the Greenwich & Deptford Unions cottage homes site at Lamorbey, near Sidcup, Kent. A group of children stand inside the gate

Western Hospital, Seagrave Road, Fulham - Doctors Residence
Uniformed nurses stand next to the doctors residence at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham. Opened in 1877

Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Chief Scout
Sir Robert Baden-Powell KCB, KCVO, LLD. FRGS, Chief Scout, on the day he opened the South London Scout Exhibition. 13 December 1911

Chepstow Bridge, the fine iron bridge over the River Wye, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. It connects England with South Wales

Norwood Grove House, Streatham, London, was built in 1760 - 61 for John Ambler, a hop merchant. It was extended in the 1830s and opened to the public in 1926. Date: built 1760 - 1761

Fairfield General Hospital, Bury
An aerial view of Fairfield General Hospital at Jericho near Bury, Lancashire. The building was originally opened in 1857 as the Bury Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown

St Georges Infirmary, Fulham Road, London
St Georges Infirmary on Fulham Road. Passers-by include a cyclist and a horse-drawn omnibus. The building, designed by Henry Saxon Snell

Rome / Tarpeian Rock 1891
Traditionally, traitors against the Roman state were thrown from this rock to their deaths : it was named after Tarteia who opened the gates Date: 1891

Main entrance, Union workhouse, Tendring, Essex
The main entrance and front driveway of the Tendring Union workhouse at Tendring Heath, Essex. A man, perhaps the workhouse porter, can just be seen

Bermondsey Union Infirmary, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, London
The entrance to the Bermondsey Union Infirmary, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, south east London. The infirmary, originally opened in 1876 as the St Olaves Union Infirmary, later became St Olaves Hospital

Aerial view of The Limes, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
Aerial view of the former Biggleswade Union workhouse opened in 1836 on London Road, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. In 1935 the site became known as The Limes

Bleasdale Reformatory, Garstang, Lancashire
A view of the North Lancashire Reformatory for Boys at Bleasdale, near Garstang, Lancashire which opened in 1857. Reformatories could house convicted juvenile offenders aged under 16 for a period of

Group of boys at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of boys at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical uniform

Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales
The Llwynypia Homes, Rhondda, South Wales, were opened in 1903 as a subsidiary workhouse for the Pontypridd Poor Law Union

Rosa Betty Uprichard, a variety of large-flowered rose of the Rosaceae family with salmon pink flowers. Seen here in close-up are three partially opened flowers

China / Shanghai Port 1850
Shanghai: one of five ports opened for British trade

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