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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

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. It is described as a curious civil custom

How Housing Shortage is Being Met 1920
At the end of First World War One almost 80% of Britains rented homes from private landlords. David Lloyd George was concerned by the standards of the housing

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. Healthy and comfortable housing for working-class families

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. The paying of quit rents by the Corporation of the City of London to the King (or Queen)

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. Bancroft is portrayed as Shylock wanting his pound of flesh

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. A mother, baby and small child stand at the door of one of the tiny, dilapidated

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

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