Post Collection (#32)

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

New Paddington Fire Station, West London. Date: circa 1960s

Fire at GPO Stores, Tabernacle Street, London
Fire at GPO Stores, Tabernacle Street, City of London, 28 March 1955. Showing a firefighter in action with a hosepipe at the top of a turntable ladder. Date: 1955

The German use of church towers as observation posts in WW1. This report in the Illustrated War News, dated 1917, claims that the Germans attacked Rheims Cathedral on the premise that it was being

Departure of mail to British Soldiers
The regular despatch of soldierss letters and parcels throughout World War One. Several million letters and cards are sent weekly to different fronts

The Threatened Slump in Husbands: post WW1 polgamy imagined
The Bystander takes a humourous look in 1915 at the marriage problems that may arise after the war is over. C.E Peto imagines the social consequences of polgamy becoming permissable in the wake of

Three Brunei scouts securing ropes, Borneo, south-east Asia

Scout of the 1st Lucknow Troop, India
A scout of the 1st Lucknow (La Martiniere) Troop, India, sitting on top of a wall

A Woman At War - WWI
A Woman At War - Being experiences of an Army Signaller in France in 1917-1919 - 807, Unit 3, W.A.A.C. L Signals, A.P.O. 3, France. Published in Liverpool by Daily Post Printers, Wood Street. Book

Decca Gramophone advertisement, post war
Advertisement for the Decca gramophone, showing a jolly party with some men in khaki uniform and some in evening dress dancing with girls

Demobilisation - pivotal and slip men in Whitehall
Demobilised men at the Demobilisation Office in Whitehall waiting to get their papers. The group here are captioned as pivotal (the job creators)

Post-WWI photograph of a group of Canadian soldiers
Post First World War photograph of a group of Canadian soldiers. A possible reunion of men who served with Lord Strathconas Horse (Royal Canadians).. Photograph

Post Office telegraph from OMHS Buckingham Palace
A Post Office telegraph from O.M.H.S. Buckingham Palace, dated 15th August 14. To E. D. Towse, Esq. Swanley Village, Kent

Tent for picket post, White Horse Hill, Chislehurst, Kent. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing
Sunset somewhere in. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health. I wrote you a few days ago and expect you will have received some ere this. Love. Yours always. B

Some war this with no post. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

7th NF Aid Post Rossignol, nr Kemel
7th NF Aid Post. Rossignol, nr. Kemel. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

The best Field Ambulance in the 2nd Army
1NFA, RAMC. Swank - a feather in our Caps. The best Field Ambulance in the 2nd Army (ex Headquarter orders). Somewhere in France. On verso - This is a French post card for Prisoners. B

A dream of the past - A large glass of beer
A dream of the past. A large glass of beer. Dear C, Going gradually to a great spot. Somewhere in France. Verso - Field Post Office TN, dated 11th May 15. Censor stamp 1560 and signed E. B. Kitching

A roaring lion and Union Jack with nervous looking Kaiser
Roused. A roaring lion and Union Jack with a rather nervous looking Kaiser. On a card stamped Fiield Post Office, T50, 12th June 1915. Censor stamp No. 1569 and signed E. P. Kitching

A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, Kent
The Chalk Pit Guard Room. A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, near the village of Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, dated 29.12.15. 21017 Private P. J

Sanctuary Wood Top of Aid Post dug out
Sanctuary Wood. Top of Aid Post dug out. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

German Field Newspaper (Garde-Feld-Post), dated Berlin, 6th January 1917. Commemorative Art

Wagon Post, Vaux, WW1
Wagon Post, Vaux. by Lieutenant W (Will) H Dyson (1880-1938), Australian Imperial Force. Dyson joined the Army and despite being wounded twice he produced a large number of drawings of Australian

SSA19 - The Poste at Paratonnerre, WW1
SSA19 - The Poste at Paratonnerre, by Ernest Procter, ARA NEAC IS (1886-1935), ambulance driver and official artist with the Friends Ambulance Unit, 1916-1917

Last Post Memorial Service, St Pauls Cathedral, London
The Last Post Memorial Service at St. Pauls Cathedral, London, for the Royal Regiment of Artillery, St. Georges Day, 23 April 1919. By Captain Gilbert Holiday (1879-1937), Royal Field Artillery

Ypres - German bunker with observation post on top, by William Lionel Wyllie, RA RI RE (1851-1931)

The Sinn Fein rising as it affected property
The devastating affects of the Easter Rebellion in Ireland in 1916. The main picture shows the burnt-out imperial hotel and post-office on Sackville Street in Dublin

Givenchy, adopted by Liverpool post-First World War
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool at Givenchy, an adopted French village : a ceremony at the 55th West Lancashire Division Memorial

Gift of Old Etonians to French village of Eton Woeuvre
The gift of Old Etonians to Etons adopted French village devastated in the First World War : the opening of the school and mairie at Eton Woeuvre near Verdun

Liverpools gift - new memorial hall at Givenchy
Liverpools gift to its adopted French town : the new memorial hall at Givenchy after the opening ceremony performed by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool

Little boy standing on a wooden post at the seaside, with his arms raised. circa 1960s

Maori Ornamental Wooden Carvings - New Zealand. They are an image of Rangihaeata carved by himself, the stern-post of a large canoe, carved boxes for tail feathers, the head of a carved wooden spear

Post runner, Japan

Post Office savings bank girls in Womens Reserve Ambulance
Girls of the Post Office Savings Bank in Blythe Road, West Kensington as part of the Womens Reserve Ambulance, with one of their number, Lieutenant Yates

A Post Office for Canadian troops, WW1
A covered wagon converted into a temporary post office for Canadian troops on the Western Front in 1916. Date: 1916

Soldiers sorting military post, WW1
Men of the Royal Engineers sorting out letters at the G.P.O in 1915. The ever-increasing volume of letters and parcels to troops in various parts of the world necessitated experienced men who

Civilian internment camp at Ruhleben
Incidents in the life at the civilian internment camp at Ruhleben, showing an engravers kiosk and the office for distributing the eagerly-awaited parcels from England

Tommys Letter Bag, Arrival of Post at the Front, WW1
The arrival of mail at a British outpost station in France during the First World War. Date: 1915

A Facer by Wilmot Lunt
An ex-WRAF (Womens Royal Air Force) worker asks her pretty friend who is still in uniform and acting as a driver, I wonder why they demobbed me before you? Don t you, Maude. Date: 1919

Gamages peace celebrations items advertisement
Gamages advertisement highlighting their Exhibition of Peace Celebration items, offering flags, bunting and flares to those celebrating peace at the end of World War One. Date: 1919

Amusement by the Meuse by H. L. Oakley
Some scenes showing troops billeted in the valley of the Meuse after the signing of the Armistice spending their leisure time on round of golf, sledging

Women with spinning wheel, Scotland
Two women and a girl sitting outside the Post Office with a spinning wheel and other equipment, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Post Office, Yokohama, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

The Bystander in Occupation illustrated by H. L. Oakley
A page showing The Bystander magazines regular column in 1919 - The Bystander in Occupation - reporting on news from occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War One

Weekly food ration for one person 1946
Weekly rationed food post Second World War in Britain. Bread and vegetables where unrationed, tins where obtained by points. Date: 1946

German lookout post, Mametz Wood, Western Front, WW1
A German lookout post in Mametz Wood, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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