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World War One Celebrations, Wallsend, Northumberland
World War One Celebrations, Wallsend, North Shields, near Newcastle, Northumberland, England. The end of World War One - on the setts is chalked LANDLORD NO RENT MONDAY Date: 1910s

Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions
Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called hookers to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland

Landlord Rent / Slums / C19
The Rent - or out you go! Landlord demands dues from woman and children for slum accomodation

Ramon Novarro - Mexican Actor
Ramon Novarro (1899-1968) - Mexican Actor, murdered by asphyxiation by two hired rent boys who believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarros house. Date: circa 1930s

Bernadette Soubirous
BERNADETTE SOUBIROUS Her home at Lourdes, with rooms advertised for rent Date: 1894

Comic postcard, Man dreaming on the beach Date: 20th century

Market Reports - Rentes (sic) are Up - a glamorous woman dispatches her date's top hat with a can-can high kick! Date: circa 1910s

The Rent Day Date: early 19th century

Rent Services to the Crown, Corporation of London
Officials of the Corporation of London performing rent services to the Crown in the old court of the Exchequer

How Housing Shortage is Being Met 1920
At the end of First World War One almost 80% of Britains rented homes from private landlords

Protest, National campaign against rent increases
Adults and children taking part in a protest by the National Campaign against rent increases in Walsall, West Midlands, 29 March 1982. Date: 1982

People Before Profit demonstration, London
A People Before Profit demonstration in Upper Street, Islington, North London, against rent increases and property development. Date: 1974

A new law gave the tenant a right to a third of his freehold, seven years rent; twenty-one years rent being the average value of a freehold in Ireland

Charles Parnell at a Anti Rent Meeting 1879
Charles Parnell an Irish nationalist, addressing an anti-rent meeting at Limerick, Ireland. Date: August 1879

TEMPLE VEIL RENT INTWAIN
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake... the death of Jesus is accompanied by awesome signs

Comic postcard, Rent collector and tenant Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Rent collector hit by sailor Date: early 20th century

Man forced to wear his hosts ill-fitting clothes at a dinner party after arriving drenched from the rain. Miseries of Travelling

Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax
Advert, Johnsons Polishing Wax. 1926

Early struggles 1858
Interior scene of a city dwellings, in the harsh winter months with snow on the rooftops outside and few coal on the grate, a family have got behind in their rent and a broker has come round

Advert for Telephone Development Association 1929
Less than a crown a week, to rent a telephone, Paying nothing to be installed and pay nothing for calls or to receive. Date: 1929

Peabody Square, Westminster 1869
Peabody Square, Westminster, for the dwellings of the poor. Date: 1869

Advert for Chancery Lane Safe Deposit 1887
Chancery Lane safe deposit is to provide for the use of the public an absolutely secure but inexpensive depositoryfor titile deeds, jewellery

George Peabody (1795 - 1869), American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy

Peabody Square, Islington 1867
Dwellings for the working-classes, Peabody Square, Shadwell, London

ENGLISH BEADLE / KITCHENER
William Kitchener, Beadle of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden & Ely Rent. A Beadle was a minor parish official employed to usher and keep order during services. Date: circa 1780

Landlord Demands Rent
The Rent - or out you go! Landlord demands dues from woman and children for slum accommodation Date: circa 1880

Queen Elizabeth II - presentation at Dunoon
Queen Elizabeth II accepts the red rose from Major Michael Campbell, Captain of Dunstaffnage, during her tour of Clyde coast resorts

Quit Rents ceremony, Royal Courts of Justice, London
The ancient ceremony of Quit Rents taking place in the Royal Courts of Justice, London

Aynho / Apricot Village
Cottagers in this Northants village grow apricots on the walls of their cottages. When the fruit is ripe, the fruit is harvested, sold and the money used to pay the rent

Advert for Chancery Lane safe deposit 1888
Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, interior showing entrance, cash box room, vestibule, strong room and safes and telephone room for the use of renters. Date: 1888

Cartoon, Alfred Reed, performer
Cartoon, Alfred German Reed (1846-1895), actor and theatre manager, as Wisdom Pinfold in A Moss Rose Rent. 1884

Cartoon, Corney Grain, performer
Cartoon, Richard Corney Grain (1844-1895), entertainer and songwriter, seen here in the role of Sir Plumley Partridge in A Moss Rose Rent. 1884

Advert for Chancery Lane safe deposit 1886
Fire-proof safes for all valuables; cash boxes, jewellery and title deeds. 1886

Caricature of Squire Bancroft and Edgar Bruce
Caricature of Sir Squire Bancroft (1841-1926) and Edgar Bruce (1845?-1901), both actor-managers

Social / Working Lancs Man
A Lancashire working man, who now lives " rent free", in his " own home" - an idealised family scene Date: 1861

Goldsmith & Johnson
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Irish writer, rescued by Dr Johnson, when unable to pay the rent, who reads The Vicar of Wakefield and admires it Date: 1730 - 1774

Cartoon, No need to worry, WW1
Cartoon, No need to worry, showing various complacent people, soldiers and civilians, thinking that war isn t such a bad thing, as they themselves are doing all right. Date: 1916

Where to Live by Bairnsfather
Where to Live - (Advt) A mock advertisement by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather offering a dug-out in a trench for let. Date: 1915

Sale of cattle in Ireland by Sheriff
Land League agitation in Ireland. A sheriff sells cattle to raise the rent that the previous owner of the cattle was unable to pay

Peace Palace at The Hague, To Let, WW1
The Peace Palace at The Hague, Netherlands, with a To Let, apply Hohenzollern & Co sign outside it (superimposed on the photograph)

Couple on a two-seater cycle, Belgium
A couple on a four-wheeled two-seater cycle (also known as a velo double) outside the Taverne Emile in a town in Belgium. Date: 1936

Rent-Payer Murdered
Tenant farmer James Brennan, who has paid his rent contrary to Land League instructions, is shot by moonlighters through a window while sitting with his brother. Date: 14 December 1880

Israel Jerusalem
Sanctuary constructed in a rent in the rock under Mount Calvary, supposed to have been caused when Jesus was crucified, occasioning an earthquake... Date: 1803

Low rent - Woodhill Homes, 2567 Woodhill Road. Poster for Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority promoting low income housing, showing a construction worker waving with houses in the background

223 E. 107th St. NY Rent sign states that these are Eleganti Apartmenti. License was recently revoked and after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there

The rent day. Date c1875

Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Prov
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Providence. Eight persons live in these three small rooms, three of them are boarders

Paying the rent. Scene from the Swedish every day life Date: 1850s

Newcastle miners dwellings
Miners dwellings outside Newcastle, Northumberland

Harold Wilson housing campaign
Harold Wilson, as leader of the Opposition in September 1963 pictured opening the five thousandth flat to be built in the borough of St. Pancras since 1945

Rent, Profit and Interest, supported by two miners
A propaganda cartoon by W E Jones, made for his father to use while campaigning for support for the Miners Union

Agent and eviction party, Country Kerry, Ireland
This landscape view illustrates a scene during the Rent War in Ireland. Here an agent and eviction party consult their operations plan at Glenbeigh, Country Kerry

Scenes from the Rent War in Ireland
Scenes in the late 19th century during the Rent War in Tipperary as follows: 1. A Riot at Templebraden, Limerick County 2. Boycotted Policemen 3. A No Rent Placard 4

Driving cattle for rent in Ireland
A mans livestock is being driven away in lieu of outstanding rent. The owner and his family can only stand by and watch. Two young women carrying wood and water stand sadly

Roofless cabin during evictions in Ireland
Rear view of a couple of gentlemen and two grieving women near the cabin of Pat MacNamara which has been tumbled by levellers

Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887
Engraving showing several poor Irish farmers preparing to attack an eviction party with boulders, Ireland, 1887

Landlord Evicts Tennant
PAY-RENTAL RELATIONS (A Landlord of Limited responsibilities) Landlord - " Didn t think it safe? Well as long as my rent was, that was no business of mine"

Shown Property to Rent
The owner of an apartment looks dubiously at the overdressed lady, accompanied by her manservant and the estate agent, who is interested in renting it

Buy as you Rent / Property
A trade card of the British Homes Assurance Corporation Ltd. who invite you to buy as you rent - secure a house of your own in five easy steps

Farmer and Landlord 1886
Lady Day: The farmer complains to his landlord that hes going through a bad patch and can t pay the rent

Pew Rent Receipt
Well-to-do members of the Church of England congregation rent a private pew by the year, ensuring that their regular place is always available for their use

After the Eviction
ALL THAT IS LEFT Scene after a family in County Mayo have been turned out of their cottage for failure to pay rent

C19th Lancashire Family
A Lancashire Working-man, who now lives " rent free", in his " own home". An idealised working class scene showing a happy and contented family

Land League Meeting
Police surprise a clandestine meeting of the outlawed Land League, which advocates non- payment of rent and other forms of resistance to the authorities

Farm Destroyed
When tenant-farmer M Cormack pays his rent contrary to Land League instructions, his home is burnt down by moonlighters (terrorists)

Trader Boycotted
A shopkeeper of county Mayo, who has paid his rent despite Land League instructions to refuse, is boycotted by his customers

Land League Demo
The Land League stage a demonstration at Limerick, calling on tenant farmers to refuse to pay rent so long as the Land League is outlawed by the authorities

Parnell Arrested
Parnell, Irish leader, is sent to Kilmainham gaol charged with obstructing the Land Act. He instructs his followers to pay no rent while the Land League is outlawed

Rent Collectors Reckon
Rent collectors do their reckoning

Events / Ireland
Land League supporters(whose policy is not to pay rent to English landlords) demonstrate at a forced sale of cattle seized from a farmer in lieu of rent

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