Pensions Collection

Metropolitan Police recruitment poster
A Metropolitan Police recruitment poster, asking for ex-servicemen to apply. There are several hundred vacancies to fill

Postcard for the Budget League chaired by Winston Churchill to promote the Peoples Budget introduced by David Lloyd George. Tax the Loafer - not the loaf!

Pensions Introduced
The scene at an English Post Office, when old age pensioners call in for the first time to receive their government pension

David Lloyd George leaving Downing Street
Lloyd George pictured leaving Downing Street after his resignation with his wife and daughter Megan. His resignation announcement featured in the Court circular of 19th October

Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Orpington, Kent. Date: circa 1919

Miners widows protest
The widows of British coal miners protest, seeking greater compensation for the death of their husbands. Date: 1970s

Peter Hain, Labour politician, campaigning outside a bank
Peter Gerald Hain (b 1950), British Labour politician, has served in various ministerial posts, including Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales

Greenwich Pensioners
Group of Greenwich Pensioners, the Naval equivalent of a Chelsea Pensioner. Although the initial concept of a Greenwich pensioner was that of someone living in the Royal Hospital Greenwich

Chelsea Hospital
King Charles II founded the Royal Hospital in 1682 as a retreat for veterans. The provision of a hostel rather than the payment of pensions was inspired by Les Invalides in Paris. Date: 1875

Postman and pensions agent, Oklahoma, USA
Postman and pensions agent, Carnegie, Oklahoma, USA, with hat badge RFD (Rural Free Delivery). Date: circa early 1910s

Typing pool, Ministry of Pensions, Westminster House
Typing pool at the Ministry of Pensions, Westminster House, London

WWI Poster, More Men are wanted for His Majestys Army
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, More Men are wanted for His Majestys Army... Enlist Now. Including details of pay and pensions. Date: 1915

Bertrand Russell, philosopher and author
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and author. Outline of his policies in an election leaflet as suffragist candidate in the Wimbledon By-Election, 1907. Date: 1907

Joseph Chamberlain leading John Bull deeper
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) leading John Bull (representing the British populace as a whole) inward into the deeper waters of his new Fiscal Policy

Joseph Chamberlain - Coat of Many Colours
In a picture postcard, Radical politicial Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) is pictured wearing a coat of many colours. Each segment reflects the different stages in his political career: socialist

Collecting the first pension cheque at the post office
Collecting the first weekly pension instalment at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908 with the first pensions available on the 1st of January 1909

Collecting and applying for pensions at the post office
The introduction of pensions for the elderly. Images of men and women filling out applications in post offices after old age pensions were introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908

Missing Seamen 1941
Letter to a mother whose son was drowned when his ship was sunk by the enemy. It gives information about his pension arrangements

Old Age Pensions 1909
Old age pensions are introduced for the first time in Britain

Ex-Soldiers Demo
Demonstration outside the Foreign Office, Munich, by war invalids and ex-soldiers who demand work and pensions

March / Pension Increase
30 old age pensioners marched from St Pauls to the House of Commons to demand an increase from 10 shillings to 1 a week. Here they gather for a chat before the march

Lloyd George Pensions
Lloyd George, depicted as a highway robber, plans to force the country to adopt his Old Age Pension bill

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