Supervising Collection

LCC-LFB Manchester Square fire station
Manchester Square fire station, Chiltern Street, W1, built 1888, now closed. By 1900 a number of new fire stations were being opened across London: many were substantial and elegant buildings

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

WW1 Maxine Elliot supervising fitting out of chartered barge
WW1 Maxine Elliot supervising the fitting out of a chartered barge Date: circa 1916

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter AP-AWJ (msn 298), of Pakistan International Airlines, at RAF Luqa / Luqa International Airport, on 12 March 1971, during its delivery flight

Beneath the arena at the London Hippodrome
Scene beneath the arena of the London Hippodrome with stage hands readying themselves to convey large wooden properties above for the next act. 1900s

Colonel The Master of Sempill supervising training of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service personnel, 1921. The Short-built Porte/Felixstowe F5 had been sent to Japan as part of the British Aviation

Spain and Portugal - Persian Water Wheel - man supervising old water wheel. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. Date: circa 1900

Ambulances arriving at Quex Park VAD Hospital
Major Powell-Cotton is supervising the removal of a stretcher from an ambulance at the front of Quex House. The stretcher is being carried by two VAD Hospital patients wearing the patients uniform of

VAD Ambulances at Quex Park
The two Quex Park VAD Ambulances are parked outside the front of Quex House. A stretcher is being unloaded from Q1, while Q2 alongside is closed up

Melly Drinking Fountain
Charles P. Melly stands beside his first drinking fountain in Liverpool, supervising the work of a bricklayer. Date: 1861

Merchant Checks Goods
A British merchant supervises a stock take of goods while his assistant jots down the details in a ledger with a quill pen. Date: 1827

Laundry at Girls Home
The laundry at a girls home, possibly a Magdalen home, location unknown. Nuns are supervising the work. Sheets are being ironed in a roller press. Date: Date unknown

Fruit Pickers
Three smart young men in waistcoats, scything, hoeing and picking fruit, with an older man supervising them, on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Met Police stranger danger education for children
PC Doug Curwen of the Metropolitan Police supervising stranger danger education for children. A strange man brandishes a sweeping brush at two children, who don t seem to be at all frightened of him

Brtish troops breaking stones, Flanders, WW1
British troops breaking stones for road making around the time of the Battle of Broodseinde, Flanders, during the First World War. circa 1917

Wounded man in street, Malines, Belgium, WW1
Tending a wounded man in the street at Malines, Belgium, during the retreat to Antwerp, First World War. He is carried by soldiers, under the supervision of a nurse. Date: 1 September 1914

Egyptian Chair
On this handsome seat a Pharaoh may have rested after a busy morning supervising the work on his new Pyramid. Well, its possible... Date: BCE

Matchmakers filling frames with wax strands
Women working at a matchmaking factory fill frames with wax strands

Boys Playground, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
View of the Boys Playground at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. It is evidently playtime -- a few teachers supervise the large crowd of boys

Convicts delivering meals to prison cells
Uniformed warders supervise convicts delivering food cans and bread to the cells at an unnamed London prison

Woman working in a rope works, 1916
Photograph showing a woman working in a munition, steel and rope works, Britain, 1916. This photograph shows her supervising the coiling of wire rope onto a large drum

Loading a Steamship, Woolwich, 1884
Engraving showing the loading of rails and other materials for the Souakim Railway onto a steamship, at Woolwich, 1884. Stevedores and dockworkers are visible

Hadrians Wall Built 122
The Roman Emperor Hadrian supervising the construction of Hadrians Wall. Running from the Solway to the Tyne, it was built to exclude the Picts (Scots)

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