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Middlesex House of Detention, ClerkenwellGround plan of the Middlesex House of Detention at Clerkenwell. Date: 1862
Ground plan of Coldbath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell. Date: 1862
John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel IslandsJohn Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905
Middlesex House of Detention, ClerkenwellBird s-eye view of the Middlesex House of Detention at Clerkenwell. Date: 1862
1930s Slum dwellings at St Pancras, LondonSlum housing in St Pancras shortly before its demolition. Date: circa 1936
1930s Poor housing at Bethnal GreenInterior of a cramped one-room dwelling at Bethnal Green. The cramped room contains a double-bed, old pram, and unwashed teacups on a chest of drawers. Date: circa 1936
Carrington House, DeptfordCarrington House was erected in Deptford in 1903 by the London County Council as a hostel for working men. It was operated along similar lines to Londons commercially run Rowton Houses
The Eiffel Tower, Paris - Elephant StatueThe Eiffel Tower, Paris - Statue of an Elephant being tethered to a rock by a Baboon. This statue now is to be found outside the Musee D Orsay in Paris. Date: circa 1902
Chepstow Bridge, the fine iron bridge over the River Wye, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. It connects England with South Wales
Pen-Y-Bont BridgePen-y-Bont Bridge, over the River Rheidol at Penparcau, near Aberystwyth, Wales. Date: 1950s photo
Ireland / KilkeeThe rocky coast of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, showing the Lions Head. Date: 1930s
England / River FromeA scene on the River Frome, with the riverside houses and the old bridge at Wareham, Dorset, England. Date: 1960s
Grasse, France - Cultivation of Jasmine. Twenty-seven tonnes of jasmine are harvested in Grasse every year!! Date: circa 1910
Bhutia Woman, Sikkim, IndiaA Woman from the ethnic Tibetan Bhutia tribe from Sikkim, a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. Date: circa 1908
Haiti - Port au Prince - The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, destroyed by an earthquake in January 2010 Date: circa 1920
Sindh Valley, Srinagar, Kashmir, IndiaSindh Valley to the north of Srinagar, Kashmir, India. Date: 1904
India - Parsee BeautyA Parsee (Parsi) Beauty of India Date: circa 1910
Harraby Hill House Band, CarlisleThe boys band at Harraby Hill House, Carlisle - a home run by the Carlisle poor law union to house children away from the workhouse. The building was formerly St Cuthberts parish workhouse. Date: 1904
Hackney Union Workhouse, Homerton, LondonInfirmary ward blocks at Hackney Union workhouse on Homerton High Street. Pedestrians and a horse and cart pass along the adjacent street. Date: 1905
Female convict in cell, Millbank PrisonA female convict in a cell at Millbank Prison, London. She is wearing a canvas dress and is being punished for tearing her normal clothes. Date: 1862
1930s poor street in StepneyA small child stands outside a row of dilapidated houses on a poor street in Stepney in the East End of London. Date: circa 1936
1930s Poor housing at Blaina, MonmouthshireA woman and her small child stand outside a single-storey cottage at Blaina in South Wales. Industry in the area was centred on coal-mining and the local tinplate works and suffered great poverty
Undermined houses, Blaenavon, MonmouthshireA row of houses at Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, supported by wooden props because of subsidence resulting from mining beneath them. Date: circa 1936
South Wales miner washingA South Wales miner, face and forearms black with coal-dust, washes at home in a large tin bath. His wife helps wash his back. Date: circa 1936
Coatbridge miners houses, LanarkshireA deserted street of single-storey miners cottages at Coatbridge, a mining and iron-producing area to the east of Glasgow. Date: circa 1936
Fairfield General Hospital, BuryAn aerial view of Fairfield General Hospital at Jericho near Bury, Lancashire. The building was originally opened in 1857 as the Bury Union workhouse. Date: Date unknown
Actor Hugh Griffith as King LearHugh Emrys Griffith ) - an Oscar-winning Welsh film, stage and television actor. Seen here in the role of King Lear. Date: circa 1960
Street Children - Naples, Italy. The Scunizzi street urchins, running wild amid the bombed buildings of Naples. The priest Father Mario Borrelli achieved international renown with his campaigns to
Poor law childrens hospital wardA childrens hospital ward, though to be in a workhouse or poor law infirmary. In the scene are nurses, patients, cot beds, babys crib, and a playpen. Date: circa 1912
Union Infirmary Griffithstown, PontypoolThe infirmary at Pontypool Union workhouse on Coedygric Road, Griffithstown, Monmouthshire. The site later became Panteg County Hospital. Date: circa 1908
Shirley Schools, near Croydon, SurreyThe entrance (left) tot the Shirley Schools on Wickham Road, Shirley. The Schools were established in 1904 by the St Olave Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse
St Georges Infirmary, Fulham Road, LondonSt Georges Infirmary on Fulham Road. Passers-by include a cyclist and a horse-drawn omnibus. The building, designed by Henry Saxon Snell
Prisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, IndiaPrisoners spinning yarn - Yerwada Jail, Pune, India (Gandhi was imprisoned here for a time, spinning thread whilst imprisoned). Date: circa 1908
Hawaii - Delonix regia treeDelonix regia - a species of flowering plant from the Fabaceae family, Caesalpinioideae subfamilia, noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers
Kenya, Africa - Old Man from pygmy tribe Date: circa 1910s
Schiller - AuthorJohann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805) - German author and writer Date: circa 1910s
Israel - Magdala NunayyaMagdala Nunayya - near Tiberias. Magdala Nunayya ( Magdala of the fishes ) is located on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Al-Majdal
Fort Santiago Gate - Manila, PhillipinesFort Santiago Gate - a defense fortress built for Spanish conquistador, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The fort is part of the structures of the walled city of Intramuros, Manila, Philippines
Macedonia - Bitola (Monastir) - a corner of the town (WWI era) Date: circa 1916
Papagayo Room, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, USAAl Williams world famous Papagayo Room in the Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, San Francisco, California, USA, where the best Mexican food was served -- would the parrots pass a health inspection today
Pulpit in the church of St Martin, Courtrai, BelgiumThe ornate baroque pulpit in the church of St Martin in Courtrai (Kortrijk), West Flanders, Belgium. Date: circa 1917
Hydrological EquipmentEquipment used by the River Board Engineers on the River Ouse, near Skelton, Yorkshire, England, for hydrological surveys, including the rate of flow, measurement, etc. Date: 1960s
CORN DOLLYA Havest Festival Corn Dolly, over the porch at Overbury Church, Worcestershire, England. It incorporates wheat, oats and barley and is a survival of Pagan customs. Date: August 1963
Dunkeld CathedralThe venerable ruins of Dunkeld Cathedral, in lovely grounds overlooking the River Tay, Perthshire, Scotland. Date: 13th century
Capel LligwyThe roofless ruins of the tiny chapel of Capel Lligwy, Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Date: Medieval
Winter RamblersRamblers trudging through the winter snow and mist in the Troutbeck Valley, Cumbria, England. Date: 1950s
Farne Islands TowerThe squat Tower House, built about 1500 and St. Cuthberts Chapel, all that remains of a church built here by the Master of the Farne, c.1370, Farne Islands, Northumberland. Date: early 16th century