Superintendent Collection

LCC-LFB Kennington fire station, Lambeth
Built by the London County Council, Kennington fire station was located in Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington, South London. Seen here are its horse drawn escape ladder

LCC-LFB engines and crews, Whitechapel fire station
Located at 27 Commercial Road, East London, Whitechapel fire station opened in 1874. It was also a superintendent station (district headquarters) and was known as Station No 27

Prestwich Asylum, Lancashire
View of the Superintendents House at the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bury New Road, Prestwich, near Manchester, designed by Isaac Holden and opened in 1851

Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta G-ABTI
Armstrong Whitworth AW15 Atalanta, G-ABTI, after Brackles delivery flight to begin Imperial Airways new service at Cape Town

Hereford Industrial School Superintendent Edwin Horth Date: early 1900s

LCC- MFB motorised senior officers car
At the turn of the century motorised transport was making its presence felt in Londons fire brigade, Seen here is Superintendent Cs Egerton

Large group of male nurses and probable superintendent on steps of institution. Date: 1945-60

White Star Line - Marine Superintendent sign
White Star Line - rare oval enamel sign Marine Superintendent White Star Line'. Reputed ex-White Star Line Marine Superintendent's Office, Princes Dock, Liverpool. 9 inches

RMS Titanic officer Charles Lightoller - resignation
RMS Titanic - Second Officer Charles Lightoller's resignation. Letter from Charles Bartlett, Marine Superintendent of White Star Line, dated 13 February 1920 to Charles Lightoller

Three mine workers in America
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10, 000 to 115, 000 members

Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, London
Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), London -- carrying the coffin to the grave, 29 August 1908. He was Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now London Fire Brigade)

NEWS OF VICTORIA'S DEATH
The death of the Queen - press representatives obtaining the news at Osborne from Superintendent Fraser 1901

Tropical Gardens Battersea
in 1863, John Gibson, Battersea Parks first Superintendent, created a mixture of exotic plants and colourful carpet bedding that started a fashion that swept across England

Cartoon, A Block on the Line (Electoral Reform)
Cartoon, A Block on the Line -- a satirical comment on a delay in the progress of electoral reform, with rival political parties offering to sort it out

Antoine Coiffier, Marquis d Effiat, 1581-1632
Antoine Coiffier de Ruze, Marquis d Effiat, Marshal of France and Superintendent of Finances to King Louis XIII, 1581-1632

Jean de Montaigu, superintendent of finances
Jean de Montaigu, vidame du Laonnais, superintendent of finances to King Charles V and VI, 1363-1409. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a sculpture in the chapel of Chateau de

Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now London Fire Brigade) and its predecessor, the London Fire Engine Establishment, from 1861 to 1891

LCC-LFB engines and crews, Whitechapel fire station
Located at 27 Commercial Road, East London, Whitechapel fire station opened in 1874. It was also a superintendent station (district headquarters) and was known as Station No 27

Formal group of male nurses with probable matron and doctor_ superintendent. Photograph taken in possible boardroom, with three large paintings of probable doctors behind group Date: 1945-60

JAMES BRAIDWOOD Superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment (fire brigade). Date: 1800 - 1861

Dorothy Peto, first Woman Superintendent, Met Police
Dorothy Olivia Georgiana Peto (1886-1974), first Woman Superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police. She served from 1930 until 1946, receiving the OBE in 1920 and the Kings Police Medal in 1944

Hollybrook House, Southampton
The Southampton Unions Hollybrook House childrens home - the superintendent stands at the front door. The home housed pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: Date unknown

Agnes Jones, nurse and nursing superintendent
Agnes Elizabeth Jones (1832-1868), nurse, and the first trained Nursing Superintendent of Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. She overworked and died of typhus fever. circa 1860s

CS Winifred Barker and Superintendent Shirley Becke
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Sir George Sinclair inspecting UK policewomen, Cyprus
Sir George Sinclair (1912-2005), Deputy Governor of Cyprus (1955-1960), during an inspection of 53 UK women police officers on their arrival at training school in Cyprus in April 1957

Chief Superintendent Winifred Barker in her office
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Royal Albert Orphanage, Worcester
The frontage of the Royal Albert Orphanage, Worcester. A man and woman, presumably the superintendent and matron, stand at the entrance. Date: early 1900s

Mrs H. J. Tennant
Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring Mrs H. J. Tennant, formerly May Edith Abraham (1869-1946) wife of Harold John Tennant, the ex-Under-Secretary for War

Cheam Borough Fire Brigade, Surrey
Superintendent of Cheam Fire Brigade with the winners of a Brigade competition shield. A manual horse drawn pump stands in the rear

Trial of Roderick MacLean
Roderick MacLean attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria and was tried for high treason at Reading Assizes. MacLean stands to the right and looks ahead to the judges

Charles Dufay, French chemist and scholar
Charles Francois de Cisternay Dufay (Du Fay), French chemist, scholar, and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi. He discovered the existence of electric charges

Firefighters at a fire in Fore Street, Birmingham, with an inset portrait of Superintendent Tozer. 1888

Group photo, men of Whitechapel Fire Station, Metropolitan (London) Fire Brigade, with their goat mascot. The man to the left of the goat is Charles Samuel Egerton (see also 10535448 and 10535449)

Morning Parade at Barnardos Home, Norwood
Young boys at Barnardos Home, Norwood, salute the homes superintendent at the daily morning parade. Date: Early 1900s

Clapham Home School for Pauper Girls
Girls holding dolls pose with their superintendent at the Clapham Home School for Pauper Girls, Acre Lane, Clapham. Date: circa 1905

Ostia Antica. Mosaic of Baths of Buticosus
Ostia Antica. Baths of Buticosus. 1st - 2nd centuries AD. Caldarium. Mosaic depicting Triton and Nereid. Near Rome

Caricature, Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, fire brigade chief
Caricature of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now the London Fire Brigade). A comment on fire risk in London theatres. 1882

Group photo, women police officers in cricket team
Group photo, women police officers in a cricket team. They include WPC Haywood (centre, holding cup), Commander Sally Hubbard, ? Summers, Superintendent Joan Partridge, ? Sims

Group photo, women police officers in hockey team
Group photo, women police officers in a policewomens hockey team. They include Chief Superintendent Barbara Lilian Kelley (centre, 1920-1998), Elizabeth McClelland, Mary Atkinson, Sylvia King

Assistant Superintendent Betty Barnes, Lagos, Nigeria
Assistant Superintendent Betty Barnes (front row, centre), at the time of her posting to Lagos, Nigeria. She served with the Met Police from 1950 to 1975

Group photo, women police officers, Westminster, London
Group photo of women police officers standing on Clive Steps, Westminster, London. At the front (left) is Superintendent Sophia Stanley

Chief Superintendent Jessie B Moss, Met Police, London. Date: circa 1970s

Queen Elizabeth with Superintendent Peto, WW2
Queen Elizabeth accompanied by Superintendent D.O.G. Peto of the Metropolitan Police, taking part in a visit to Pembridge Hall Section House during the Second World War

Woman police officer Shirley Becke, London, WW2
Shirley Cameron Becke (nee Jennings, 1917-2011), later to become Commander of the Met Polices A4 (Women s) Branch from 1966 to 1973

Superintendent Sophia Stanley, woman police officer
Superintendent Sophia Stanley, who served from 1918 to 1922 as the first Superintendent of Women Police in London. The new uniform for policewomen, introduced in 1919, was named after her

Group photo, Women Patrols Division, Met Police, London
Group photo, Women Patrols Division, Metropolitan Police, London, in March 1922. They are wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in 1919, and named after the womens Superintendent, Sophia Stanley

Superintendent Stanley and three women police officers
Superintendent Sophia Stanley (served 1918-1922, seated), the first Superintendent of Women Police, and three women police officers (left to right: Elinor J Robertson, served 1919-1922)

Woman police officer in new Stanley Uniform
Woman police officer in the new Stanley Uniform, introduced in 1919, and named after the first Superintendent of Women Police, Sophia Stanley

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