Services Collection

Universal Rescue Mission Caravan - E. H. Smith of Sheffield
Universal Rescue Mission Caravan and its owner, Mr E. H. Smith of Sheffield (on the right) - a local Christian Evangelical preacher, known as the Blind Evangelist

Training Ship Mercury and boys racing crew, River Hamble
The racing crew of the training ship Mercury with the ship itself in the background

Headingley Orphan Homes, Leeds - Boys Playground
Boys in the playground at the Headingley Orphan Homes, Leeds Date: circa 1909

Preston Docks, Lancashire
A wonderful photograph showing the Bardic Ferry unloading British Road Services trucks while docked at the quayside in Preston, Lancashire. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Guernsey Airways Poster
Guernsey Airways Ltd, poster giving a stylised route map of flights from London and Southampton to Channel Islands, and Dinard on the French coast. 20th century

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, Spithead Air Ferry to and from the island, winter fare seven shillings and sixpence return, seven services daily

Poster, Scotland, Western Highlands and Islands, map. Date: circa 1939

Jersey Airways Poster
Poster, Jersey Airways Ltd, Regular Daily Services, Multi-Engined Air-Liners. Showing a De Havilland biplane with a map below. 20th century

Boys Swimming, Training Ship Mercury, River Hamble, Hants
Boys from the Training Ship Mercury swimming nude in the River Hamble

Firefighters, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. September 1991
Lostwithiel firefighters gather for the retirement of three of their number in 1991

Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim, 1900
Queen Victoria, Empress of India, listening to a despatch describing the elation of the troops at the services they had rendered to the Queen. Her Indian servant, Munshi Abdul Karim, supports her

Mini Police Britain

Charnock Richard Services, M6 Motorway
Charnock Richard Services (Fortes) - a motorway service station, between Junctions 27 and 28 of the M6 in England, which opened in 1963. Pictures here shortly after opening. Date: circa 1963

de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide G-AGUF
de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide, G-AGUF, of Island Air Services

Multi service emergency vehicles and their personnel

How to recognise rank in the Royal Navy-a wartime advert for Dunlop fort tyres. Date: 1941

Fire Engine Scania

Chimney Sweeps 1866
The young and the old, both looking tired after a days work

Anti-Mau Mau poster, caricature of a Mau Mau rebel, 1952 (c).Inscribed: ?THE MAU MAU WANT YOUR GUN! SEE THAT THEY DON?T GET IT

Waifs and Strays Society Pyrford St Nicholas
Children, some using crutches, at St Nicholas Hospital, Pyrford, run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: circa 1909

London Slums - Feathers Court, Drury Lane
Old tea chests and a cart at Feathers Court, Drury Lane - one of Londons Victorian slum areas. Date: circa 1902

St Mary in the Fields Childrens Colony, Mayfield, Sussex
Inmates of the St Mary in the Fields Childrens Colony, Mayfield, Sussex Date: circa 1924

SS Maloja - P&O Line - India-China-Australia mail and passenger services. Date: circa 1910s

Railway Air Services Poster
Railway Air Services (RAS) Poster, serving Plymouth, Teignmouth, Cardiff, Birmingham and Liverpool, Cowes (Isle of Wight), Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham, London (Croydon) and Isle of Wight

Poster for Eastern National Express Coach Services
Poster for Lander Eastern National Express Coach Services running between London and Clacton-on-Sea (pictured). 1955

Training Ship Mercury, River Hamble, Hampshire
The Training Ship Mercury was established in 1885 by the London philanthropist Charles Hoare

Poster advertising trains to the Cote d Azur
Poster for French railways, advertising services to the Cote d Azur, with its warm winters and dry summers

Wouldn t you like to just sail away? Theres a fabulous Union-Castle / Safmarine mailship
Wouldn t you like to just sail away? Theres a fabulous Union-Castle/Safmarine mailship leaving a South African port every week. Date: circa 1970s

Pishiobury Approved School, Hertfordshire
Aerial view of the Approved School at Pishiobury, near Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. A cricket match is taking place. Date: circa 1940s

Office of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, London. Date: 1905

Picture No. 10900348
Royal Air Force mountain rescue helicopter Date:

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Princess Diana, William and Harry meeting firefighters
Princess Diana and her sons, Princes William and Harry, meeting firefighters at the The Blitz Remembered Service at St Pauls Cathedral, London, on 25 October 1990

The Blitz Remembered Service at St Pauls Cathedral
Princess Diana an her sons, the princes William and Harry attending the The Blitz Remembered Service at St Pauls Cathedral, London

Cover design, Western Airways timetable
Cover design, Western Airways summer timetable, showing a map with destinations: Manchester, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Weston, Barnstaple, Newquay and Penzance. 1939

Poster, Guernsey Airways, offering frequent services to and from the Channel Islands, with a map showing places and flight durations. circa 1936

Automat Dining Room - Broadway, New York, USA
Automat Dining Room - 1557 Broadway, New York, USA. Horn & Hardart was a food services company of the USA noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia and New York City

Firefighter
MODEL RELEASED. Firefighter in a smoke-filled training room

Fire Engine Scania

Mobile Chimney Sweep
A chimney sweep stands with his equipment beside his car which has a model of a chimney on the roof with a broom sticking out of the top, to advertise his trade

London Rag & Bone Men
A rag and bone horse and cart and other horse drawn vehicles, about to cross Tower Bridge, London, England

Hereford Industrial School Schoolroom
Boys sit at desks in a classroom at the Hereford Industrial School. Date: early 1900s

Hereford Industrial School Basket Making
Boys sitting making baskets at the Hereford Industrial School. Date: early 1900s

Advert, Southern Railway Excursions
Advertisement for Southern Railway Excursions to Birmingham, Cambridge, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Rugby, Wolverhampton, etc, every Sunday from December to March

Male Chimney Sweep 1909

Exterior - Automat Dining Room, Times Square, New York, USA
The exterior of the Automat Dining Room - Times Square branch, New York, USA

Training Ship Exmouth
The Training Ship Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the River Thames off Grays, Essex

Charity Bootblacks
To raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London

GLC-LFB Road traffic accident (RTA)
A collision between a bus and car resulted in the bus careering into a terraced house and a response by all the emergency services

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd (PS & IOWA), Daily Air Services to Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Plymouth, Portsmouth & Southsea, London. Book Here. 20th century

Sikh Warrior on Horse, India 1847 Date: 1847

Santos-Dumont Demoiselle replica 9 : A flyable replica built by Personal Plane Services Ltd at Booker, for the 1965 film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution
Exterior view of Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution, near Nottingham. Date: circa 1945

Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, Redhill
A view of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, Redhill, Surrey, founded in 1847. It later became known as the Royal Earlswood Hospital. Date: circa 1854

Advertisement, James Figg, sword fighting, boxing
Advertisement for the services of the champion boxer James Figg - teaching gentlemen the use of the small backsword and quarterstaff, at home and abroad

Duke of York at Countesthorpe Cottage Homes, Leicester
The Duke of York pays a visit to the Countesthorpe Cottage Homes, Leicester - 24th November 1921. The homes provided accommodation for pauper children away from the workhouse. Date: 1921

Military regimental badge brooches advertisement, WW1
An advertisement for Charles Packer & Co, goldsmiths and silversmiths, and their selectrion of regimental badge brooches available for 2 2s. each

British Seamens Orphanage, Brixham - Rock House
A view of Rock House - the chaplains accommodation at the British Seamens Orphanage, Brixham, Devon

Guy double-decker bus HWO342 number: L1749 of Red & White Services in south east Wales and Gloucestershire. Date: 1973

Edinburgh Industrial School, Liberton, Gardening
Inmates gardening at Dr Guthries Original Industrial School for Boys, Liberton, Edinburgh. Date: circa 1899

Handley Page HP-70 Halton
Bond Air Servicehandley Page Hp-70 Halton Hp-71 Halifax A-9 Parked Date: 1940s

Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude
A Japan - Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude Parked Date: 1940s

Balmoral Industrial School, Belfast
A view of the Balmoral Industrial School for Protestant Boys, Belfast Date: 1899

Wilpshire Orphanage, Blackburn, Lancashire
Children, including one on a pony, stand outside the Blackburn and Orphanage at Wilpshire, near Blackburn. Date: Date unknown

Bisley Farm School No. 2 Ground-floor Plan
Ground-floor plan of the new building added to the Bisley Farm School, Surrey, in 1873, and later known as the Shaftesbury School block. Date: circa 1888

Christiana Hartley Maternity Home, Colne, Lancashire
The Christiana Hartley Maternity Home, Colne, opened in 1927 in premises of former Jubilee Cottage Hospital

Barrabool - P&O Line (one class only) - England-Egypt-Ceylon (Sri Lanka)-Australia service - twin-screw vessel. Date: circa 1910s

A Boeing B-17 converted to an airliner by Saab for SILA on its transatlantic services under the designation F-17

Example of a woman dialling 999 for the emergency services in a red telephone booth

Poster, Jersey Airways
Poster, I m going by Jersey Airways, showing monkeys, a pig and a puppy rejecting alternative means of transport

Training Ship Warspite, Greenhithe, Kent
The Training Ship Warspite at anchor on the River Thames at Greenhithe, Kent. The Warspite, established by the Marine Society in 1876, was originally moored at Woolwich

Cessna 550 Citation II HZ-a1 (msn 550-0116), of the Arabian International Services Company, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1981

Poster, Experienced Travellers Fly British - BOAC and BEA offer services to and from nearly 70 countries Date: circa 1955

Suez Crisis 1956, The aircraft carriers HMS Theseus (nearest camera) and HMS Bulwark docked at Portsmouth, In the background can be seen the cruiser HMS Glasgow July 1956

Croydon Airport - de Havilland DH. 84 Dragon G-ACIU
de Havilland DH.84 Dragon G-ACIU (msn 3041) of Surrey Flying Services Ltd. approaching to land at Croydon Airport

Portsmouth Prison Tread-wheel
Prisoners on the tread-wheel at Portsmouth Prison, Hampshire. Date: circa 1900

Portsmouth Prison Gallery
One of the galleries at Portsmouth Prison, Hampshire, cell doors lining each side. Date: circa 1900

National Nautical School, Portishead
Boys holding oars in a boat - possibly in the Schools swimming pool - at the National Nautical School, Portishead, near Bristol. Date: circa 1945

Lancaster Nazareth House - young inmates
Younger children on the steps of the Nazareth House at Lancaster, run by the Sisters of Nazareth. Date: circa1913

Fyfield Truant Industrial School, Essex
Boys at the Fyfield Truant Industrial School, near Ongar, Essex, run by the West Ham School Board. Date: circa 1913

Exminster Industrial School
Inmates stand in front of the Exminster Industrial School, Devon

Toilet Services, Real Wedgwood Ware, Plate 50, showing patterned washing bowls, jugs, soap dishes, and a slop pail far too nice to put slops in. Date: circa 1880s

Spring Bank Orphanage Band, Hull
The boys band at the Spring Bank Orphanage Band, Hull, pose with their instruments and conductor. Date: 1920

Training Ship Formidable, Portishead, Bristol
The Training Ship Formidable, moored in the Bristol Channel at Portishead, was established in 1869 as an Industrial Training establishment

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"Exploring the Rich History of Services: From Aviation to Chimney Sweeps" Take a trip down memory lane with the vintage Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster, showcasing the early days of air travel and the services that made it possible. Discover the adorable Mini Police Britain poster, highlighting community services and inspiring young minds to protect and serve their neighborhoods. Dive into maritime history at Preston Docks, Lancashire, where bustling trade relied on essential services to keep ships sailing smoothly. Step back in time with the Jersey Airways Poster, reminding us of how aviation services connected distant islands and opened up new horizons for travelers. Let your imagination soar as you explore a bygone era through a poster advertising trains to the Cote d'Azur – an invitation to experience luxury travel services along stunning Mediterranean coastlines. Uncover colonial history through an intriguing Anti-Mau Mau poster featuring a caricatured rebel figure from 1952 Kenya – shedding light on political tensions and efforts to maintain law and order during turbulent times. Witness an unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and Munshi Abdul Karim in 1900 – a testament to cultural exchange and personal service that transcended boundaries during Victorian England's imperial reign. Experience traditional craftsmanship with Mobile Chimney Sweep services; these skilled professionals ensured homes were safe from chimney fires while preserving cozy hearths for families throughout generations. Transport yourself back in time with Male Chimney Sweep 1909 imagery, capturing both nostalgia for simpler times and appreciation for those who provided vital cleaning services amidst industrialization's sooty aftermaths. Pay tribute to brave firefighters who risked their lives battling flames in Lostwithiel, Cornwall during September 1991 – reminding us of selfless emergency response services protecting communities when disaster strikes.