Scheme Collection (page 4)

Choosing fancy dress costumes for Carnival on the Riviera
Illustration by Steven Spurrier showing women selecting fancy dress costumes to wear on the Riviera at Gala events during the Carnival season

Alabaster panel of king Tiglath-Pileser III
Alabaster panel depicting King Tiglath-Pileser III in his chariot under an umbrella and a cuneiform inscription which related their campaigns, taking the city of Astartu. 730-727 BC

Wandsworth Unions Old Peoples Cottages at Tooting
Cottages for the elderly poor erected in 1902 at Church Lane, Tooting, by the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. The scheme was designed by C.A. Sharp. Date: circa 1911

Window Curtain 1800
Decorating scheme for window curtains in a noble home. Date: 1800

Evacuees in Africa
Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, M.P. organiser of the scheme to send British evacuees to the Dominions, talks to Ian and Patricia Allen of Portsmouth at a Durban YMCA. Date: early 1940s

Cross section of cylinder to transport Cleopatras needle
A proposed scheme showing the longitudinal section of a cylinder encasing Cleopatras needle to transport it to London. Date: 1877

WW2 - National Savings Committee Flier - Wings for Victory - The Skys The Limit. Date: circa 1941

WW1 - Conscription in Britain
WW1 - Britannia holding her trident and the National Register, in front of civilians and industrial factory. The patriotic scenario

Conscientious objectors on Dartmoor
Conscientious objectors at Princetown Prison working on the Prince of Waless Duchy of Cornwall Estate (which included the prison)

Volunteer in Womens Land Army on Duchy of Cornwall farm
Miss C. M. Matheson, a novelist, working as a volunteer under the Womens Land Service scheme during the First World War at the home farm near the village of Stoke Climsland

WWI Poster, Join Under the Group System
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Join Under the Group System, It Is Simple and Fair, It Relieves You of Responsibility

WWI Poster, Lord Derbys Scheme
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Under Lord Derbys Scheme a mere Promise to Enlist is of No Value. If a man wishes to be placed in a Group he must be attested by December 11th

Proposed Channel Tunnel, works at Sangatte
The works at Sangatte on the French coast for the proposed Channel Tunnel in 1876, described in The Graphic as, " this gigantic and long-talked of scheme, "

Derby recruits, 1916
Derby recruits of the 1st London Regiment pictured with their kit bags ready for inspection in their new uniform. Date: 1916

Fire safety at bedtime -- a staged photograph for a Safe at Night fire prevention scheme, 28 February 1969. This family have been woken by a smell of smoke

The compleat Angler (Derby Scheme)
Caricature of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith attempting to catch fish, representing men of age able to fight in WW1. The fish in the net represent married men who had already volunteered (attested)

Bystander cover - Derby scheme attesting Bairnsfather
Front cover of The Bystander magazine featuring an illustration by Fred Buchanan which is a pastiche of Bruce Bairnsfathers famous The Better Ole cartoon (in the same magazine)

Bystander cover-Derby scheme
An illustration showing the number of men attested in 1916 for the volunteer (Derby) scheme to encourage military recruitment

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

Buying games for the Tatler scheme, WW1
Cartoon showing a lady leaving her car after spending a day buying various games to contriubte to the Tatler magazines Games Bureau

London recruits at Southwark Town Hall, WW1
Crowds of men anxious to attest under the Derby scheme, crowded into the corridors of Southwark Town Hall in December 1915

Derby recruiters sleeping at a recruiting office, WW1
Worn out Derby recruiters snatching some sleep at their offices after a busy night dealing with the final rush of recruits under Lord Derbys group system

Advertisement for Robbialac paint, from Jenson & Nicholson of Stratford, East London. It costs less than wallpaper, slightly more than distemper, but its durability makes it far cheaper than either

The Underground Reservoir at Crossness, 1865
Engraving showing the interior of the underground reservoir of the Metropolitan Main Drainage Works at Crossness in 1865. This image shows the reservoir illuminated for the officially opening by

WWI - National Loan Scheme from French Bank Societe Generale
By supporting the National Loan Scheme from French Bank Societe Generale, this card gives the distinct impression one was aiding the French war effort against Germany! Date: circa 1916

The view from the RAeS Library, Mailton Place
The view from the Library prior to the Hyde Park Corner reconstruction scheme

Hamilton Place prior to the Hyde Park Corner reconstruction scheme

Blackburn B-24 Skua II L3007
Blackburn B-24 Skua II, L3007, in an experimental red stripped paint scheme

Some Barnardos Emigrants
A promotional picture showing some of the children from Barnardos homes destined to emigrate to new lives overseas. In 1872, Thomas Barnardos childrens homes began sending children to Canada

LCC-LFB - Junior firemen training scheme
The Junior Firemen was created in the latter days of the London County Council. Boys aged 16 to 17 were eligible to join the scheme

War Weapons Week and London Fire Brigade fireboats, WW2
The London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw (which took part in the Dunkirk evacuations) and a fire float are moored at Westminster pier whilst their crews are promoting War Weapons Week

A scheme to save the Russian fleet when Japanese torpedo boats come. Print shows two Russian men watching a battleship with hot-air balloons attached rise from a tub of water. Date 1904 or 1905

National Savings - Growth up to 1945
See how your Savings Certificates have grown already The healthy growth of value of National Savings plotted against a growing boy. Date: 1945

Patrol of boy scouts making its way across difficult country
Practical demonstration of the way General Baden-Powells scouting scheme for boys has caught on ha been given by his scouts camp held at Chollerford near Hexham

Italian Patriotic Card - Do your Duty, do your best! - extolling the national virtue of contributing to a bank savings scheme to aid the underwriting of the Italian war effort. Date: circa 1910s

Nantymoch Chapel, in the Upper Rheidol Valley, Cardiganshire Wales. Sadly submerged when the Rheidol Hydro-Electric Scheme was completed in 1964. Date: 19th century

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Inmates of the Bosmere & Claydon Workhouse, Norfolk
Uniformed inmates of the Bosmere and Claydon Workhouse, Barham, Norfolk. The smartly dressed woman, centre rear, is probably a local organiser for the Brabazon scheme where workhouse inmates made

Burton workhouse 1886. tif
Bird s-eye view of the proposed new workhouse building erected in 1886 on Belvedere Road, Burton-on-Trent. The scheme - a pavilion block layout - was designed by J.H. Morton. Date: 1886

Brabazon Sale, Belper Workhouse, Derbyshire
1907 card advertising sale of work produced by inmates of the Belper workhouse under the Brabazon scheme. Date: 1907

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - section
A sectional view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - elevation
The elevation view of Jeremy Benthams scheme for a panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The design, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - ground plan

Jeremy Benthams Panopticon - bed designs
Bed designs in Jeremy Benthams proposed panopticon workhouse to hold up to 2000 inmates. The scheme, published in Benthams 1812 work Pauper Management Improved

Wandsworth Union Old Peoples Cottages, Tooting
Cottages for the elderly poor erected in 1902 at Church Lane, Tooting, by the Wandsworth and Clapham Union. The scheme was designed by C.A. Sharp. Date: 1902

John Law (Card)
JOHN LAW Scottish financier in France, where he promoted the Mississippi scheme. His initial funding came from success at the gaming table. Date: 1671 - 1729

Leapfrog Girls 1940S
Two Australian girls playing leapfrog. Under an Australian National Health scheme, children from deprived areas were taught how to enjoy exercise and stay healthy. Date: 1940s

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