Parquet Collection

Childrens nursery, Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal
View inside a childrens nursery at the cottage homes in Styal, Cheshire, with a large group of girls and boys posing for their photograph

Trinity College of Music, Mandeville Place, London -- Entrance Hall, showing main staircase leading upwards. circa 1922

The Womens League of Health & Beauty exercise classes, 1938
Health and beauty-a morning exercise class at Harrington Road, London, as conducted by Helen Stack(cousin of Prunella Stack)for the Womens League of Health and Beauty

Billiard Room, Union Jack Club, Lambeth, London
View of the Billiard Room at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo Road, Lambeth, London. The club opened in 1907 to cater for members and ex-members of the armed forces. Date: circa 1910s

No. 2 (Battle) War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
Staff and patients in Ward A13 at the No. 2 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Battle School, Cranbury Road, Reading

The Long Gallery, Kilconquhar House, Kilconquhar, Fife, Scotland Date: 1930s

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CHOCOLATE OR LOVE LETTER
A French lady takes her bath (partly clothed) while her maid bringing in a tray offers her the choice of the drink of chocolate or the love letter. Date: circa 1770

Interior of Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam
Holland. Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum. Interior

Women police officers at work, WEC, London. They are Sergeant Patricia May Atkinson (seated left, joined August 1946), and Constables Ada Sandy (joined July 1928)

Bed type air raid shelter, WW2
A bed type air raid shelter used during the Second World War, by Robert Morris Ltd of Farnworth, near Bolton. Date: 1940s

Tango tea, London, 1913
A Parisian fashion come to London: the tango tea at Princes restaurant, 1913. Date: 1913

French furnishing -- corner seating. circa 1850s

Gemaldegalerie. Interior. Berlin. Germany

Alte Pinakothek. Interior. Munich. Germany
Germany. Munich. Alte Pinakothek. Interior

Lectern. 18th century. Spain
Lectern. 18th century. Wood and copper. Cathedral Chapter of Ciudad Rodrigo. Castile and Leon. Spain

National Gallery of Arts. Interior. Tirana
Albania. Tirana. National Gallery of Arts. Interior

Rugs. 20th century. Csik, Romania
Woven rugs. 20th century. From Csik, Romania. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Rugs. 19th century. Hungary
Rugs in a room dedicated to working women and the beginning of the industry. Interior. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

A Victorious Danish Soldier, 1850-1851 by H. W. Bissen (1798
H.W. Bissen (1798-1868). Danish artist. A Victorious Danish Soldier, 1850-1851. Statue. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

Wernher Reading Room, Bedford College for Women, London
Wernher Reading Room, Bedford College for Women, Regents Park, London. Date: circa 1910s

Variety of brooms and carpet sweepers 1929
A page from a 1929 catalogue showing a variety of brooms and lightweight carpet sweepers. Date: 1929

Castle interior, Gaesbeeck (Gsbeek), Lennik, Belgium
Castle interior with wooden staircase, Gaesbeeck (Gsbeek), Lennik, Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Sitting room by Jack Killick, with the decor built around a flower painting by Paul Methuen. Walls and ceiling are corn yellow, and the furniture blue and green. The room leads to a garden. Date: 1933

Main hall at Baden Powell House, London
The main hall at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Kambawza Palace - Rangoon -.. the view from the tower is worth the climb up the steps, from parquet floor to parquet floor. Date: 1951

Tango teas, Paris 1913
Paris, little interested in ragtime dancing, makes the tango fashionable: a new dancing craze in 1913. 1913

Interior, Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland
View of the spacious sitting room of the Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland. Date: 1950s

WW2 policeman dressed for the Blitz
A Metropolitan Police officer dressed for the London Blitz during World War II, with a tin helmet and a canvas bag containing his gas mask

Chocolate or Love Letter
A French lady takes her bath (partly clothed) while her maid bringing in a tray offers her the choice of the drink of chocolate or the love letter

Futuristic floor polishing machine
A maid operates a futuristic automated electric floor polishing machine -- housework made easy

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