Services Collection (page 7)

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Mess tent
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - John Boucher et al having lunch in the mess tent. Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - A 125th entry team
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A 125th entry team marching in, led by Charles Chuck Kirkbride from the RAF Halton Pipe Band Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Okehampton camp-site
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Camp site at MOD Okehampton Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - A 124th Entry team
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Bedford 3-tonner
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Bedford RL 3-ton lorry used by the team, driven by our friendly neighbourhood Rockape (RAF Regiment). Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - Green worm
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - A tired competitor sleeping through the day. Date: 1977

RAF Halton Ten Tors expedition 1977 - LWB Land Rover
RAF Halton Apprentices competing in the 1977 Ten Tors cross-country team march. - The Long Whee-Base Land Rover used by the RAF Halton team

View over Dikkebus Lake, Dickebusch, Belgium
The name Dickebusch means hick forest and dates from the time that this area was dense woodland. The Germans never took the lake, although they reached the water in May 1918

Beauty on Duty, 1939. Hairstyles and make-up for women in the services. Home front, Britain. Date: 1939

Isle of Man Road Services Emerald bus, Wadham. Date: circa 1940

The Showboat in Maidenhead becomes All Services Club
Scene at The Show Boat in Maidenhead, an art deco style club with swimming pool, which opened to much fanfare in 1933. During the war it re-opened as an All-Services club, financed by Colonel W

New Sanitary Laundry, Novelty Silk Handkerchief
New Sanitary Laundry, Orchard Road, Shepherds Bush, West London - Novelty Silk Handkerchief. circa 1890

Off to the Continent? - British Railways Cross-Channel Services Date: 1956

WaF officer uniform from Moss Bros 1940
Advertisement for Moss Bros during the Second World War, and their regulation uniform. A photograph of a woman modelling an officers uniform in blue barathea cloth for the Womens Auxiliary Air Force

London Metropolitan Main Drainage at Crossness 1865
London Metropolitan Main Drainage: the southern outfall works (machine house) at Crossness (about 3km below Woolwich) - interior view. Date: 1865

Bus conductor collecting fares from queuers, September 1939
London bus conductor collecting fares from passengers as they queue in the street in order to maximise efficiency. The reduction of bus services largely due to spirit rationing led to heavy queueing

Queueing due to reduced bus services, September 1939
Heavy queues in London due to reduced bus services to save fuel in times of spirit rationing, particularly in the mornings as people made their way to work

First voluntary ambulance service 1939
The first voluntary ambulance service, " All India", photographed soon after its formation in London by Indian doctors and medical students. The volunteers wear helmets and carry gas masks

Railway station at Liverpool Road, Manchester (Liverpool and Manchester Railway route), which opened for passenger services in 1830 and closed in 1844. After that date it was used as a goods yard

Women of the River Emergency Service, September 1939
Women of the River Emergency Services standing in a line in full uniform, complete with helmet and scissors slung on a cord around thier necks

Uniformed female workers in British war services, April 1941
A selection of women involved in British war services including the Womens Royal Naval Services, the Womens Auxiliary Territorials Service, the Red Cross, the Womens Auxiliary Air Force

Waterloo Railway Station, London 1883
Metropolitan Prize Puzzles, no.4, Waterloo Railway Station, London. Date: 1883

Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic and International
Promotional postcard for BEA - Domestic, Cross-Channel and International Services and Routes. Date: 1947

Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, WW1
Recruitment poster, Offer Your Services Now, Our brave soldiers at the Front need your help. 1914

Wolverhampton Training Home for Destitute Orphan Girls
Three inmates stand outside the Training Home for Destitute Orphan Girls, St Judes Road, Wolverhampton

Prescoed Camp, near Usk, Monmouthshire
Prescoed Camp used to house well-behaved inmates from the nearby Usk Borstal, Monmouthshire. Date: circa 1945

Usk Borstal, Monmouthshire
Silhouetted inmates at work in a corridor at Usk Borstal, Monmouthshire. Date: circa 1945

Girls Industrial School - Swimming
Girls at an unidentified Industrial School perform an exercise or dance in pairs holding a stick. Date: circa 1924

Girls Industrial School - Dance Exercise
Girls at an unidentified Industrial School perform an exercise or dance in pairs holding a stick. Date: circa 1924

Training Ship Empress, Helensburgh - Boys Band
The boys band of the TS Empress, operated at Helensburgh by the Clyde Industrial Training Ship Association

The Rauhe Haus, Hamburg
Inmates outside the Rauhe Haus, Hamburg. The establishment was founded in 1833 to provide industrial training for poor boys

St Monicas Home Hospital, Brondesbury Park, London
Nurses and patients in the boys ward at St Monicas Home Hospital, Brondesbury Park, London Date: circa 1927

Somerset Council Farriery Training Van
Horses being shoed alongside a travelling farriery training van operated by the Somerset County Council. Date: circa 1900

Sister Hope Creche, Greek Street, London
A nurse sits by a baby in its cradle at the Sister Hope Creche, Lincoln House, Greek Street, London. Date: circa 1896

Barnardos Home, Shrewsbury - Haircuts
The gardener at the Barnardos Home at Shrewsbury doubled as a barber when the children needed their hair trimming

Sheffield Orphan Homes
The boys house at the Sheffield Orphan Homes, Lydgate Lane, in the Crookes district of Sheffield. Date: circa 1915

Sesame House Froebel Kindergarten, London
Going home time for children attending the Sesame House Froebel Kindergarten, London NW8

Portland Borstal Silent Hour
Silent Hour at the Borstal in Portland, Dorset. Inmates were expected to use the time in reading, writing letters etc. Date: 1945

Portland Borstal Inmates Gardening
Inmates work in the garden of the Borstal at Portland, Dorset. Date: 1945

National Childrens Home, Oxted, Surrey
Inmates and staff at National Childrens Home (NCH), Oxted, Surrey Date: 1915

National Childrens Home, Doddington, Kent
Inmates and staff at National Childrens Home (NCH), Doddington, Kent Date: 1915

National Childrens Home, Cardiff
Inmates in training for domestic service at National Childrens Home (NCH), Cardiff. Date: 1915

National Childrens Home, Edgworth - Emigration Party
The 1899 emigration Canadian emigration party from the National Childrens Home (NCH) branch at Edgworth. Date: 1899

National Childrens Home Sisters Training Home, Bethnal Gre
Willard House - the National Childrens Home (NCH) training home Bethnal Breen for its Sisters of the Children. Date: 1899

National Childrens Home - Rev. R Bevan Shepherd
The Rev. R Bevan Shepherd was Vice-Principal of the National Childrens Home (NCH)from 1901 to 1907. Date: early 1900s

National Childrens Home London Choir
The London Choir of the National Childrens Home (NCH) at the Bonner Road Home, Bethnal Green

National Childrens Home, Farnborough
Members of the cricket and football teams at National Childrens Home (NCH), Farnborough

National Childrens Home Birthday Society Letter
A letter to a member of the Birthday Society - one of the fund-raising schemes run by the National Childrens Home (NCH).. Date: 1923

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