L Aw Collection (page 6)

Union Workhouse Infirmary, Kings Norton, Worcestershire
The pavilion-plan infirmary erected in 1897 adjacent to the Kings Norton Union workhouse on what is now Raddlebarn Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, south west of Birmingham

Odyssey / Penelope / Gorguet
Penelope with her maids, weaving a shroud for her father-in-law. (She unravelled this every night because she had promised to chose one of her Suitors as soon as it was completed)

Harris County 1910 Courthouse, Houston, Texas, United States of America, North America

(1908-1973). 36th President of the United States. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Bill
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (1908-1973). 36th President of the United States. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Bill. Photographed by Warren Leffler, 11 April 1968

Moses receiveing the law. Print shows Moses kneeling and reaching upwards to accept the tablets inscribed with theTen Commandments from the hands of God. Angels can be seen in the heaven. Date c1877

Wig Shop - Middle Temple, London
E Albins Wigmaker and Hair Cutters Shop, selling wigs to the members of the Legal Profession, based in the vicinity of the Middle Temple, London. Date: 1857

Reconstruction upholding equal rights, 1868
Reconstruction depicted as equal rights reform, 1868. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

Amesbury Union workhouse, Wiltshire
A distant view of Amesbury, Wiltshire, with the Union workhouse on the left, designed by William Bonython Moffatt, and built on South Mill Hill in 1837. It was demolished in 1967

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

Union Workhouse, Newent, Gloucestershire
The entrance to the union workhouse at Newent, Gloucestershire

Main building, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
General view of the main building of the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The school opened in 1870 to house workhouse children from the two unions

Laundry at Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey
Inmates ironing clothes and linen in the laundry at the Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey, established in 1904 by the St Olave Union to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Wormwood Scrubs Prison, West London
A general view of Wormwood Scrubs Prison in West London. The prison was opened as a convict prison in 1883 then used as a local prison from 1890

Boy dragging coal wagon with harness and chain in mine
A boy with a harness and chain between his legs drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

Sports Day at Countesthorpe Homes, Leicestershire
A group of boys, including some uniformed band members, at the Countesthorpe cottage homes in Leicestershire on their sports day in 1919

Union Workhouse, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Bakewell Union workhouse. The porter and two other men stand at the entrance, while another stands at the left near a wheelbarrow

Wallingford Union Childrens Cottage Homes, Berkshire
The Wallingford Unions cottage homes on Wantage Road, Wallingford, Berkshire. Cottage homes were established by some poor law authorities to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton, North London
The Strand Unions workhouse at Edmonton, North London, opened in 1870. The Strand Union was located in Central London

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

Union Workhouse, Easthampstead, Berkshire
A distant view of the Easthampstead Union workhouse, Berkshire, opened in about 1836, in buildings adapted from former almshouses

Police group on Coronation Day, 1911
A group of policemen pose for their photograph outside Hammersmith Police Station, west London, to commemorate the Coronation of King George V

Met Police stopwatch -- inside face
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Sir Walter Macarthur Allen (1870-1943), Commander in Chief of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC). Portrait photograph by Hay Wrightson

Policemans helmet with Christmas lights
A closeup view of a policemans helmet with a night time street behind it, decorated with Christmas lights

Traffic Accident Group
A Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker

Union Workhouse, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The Haverfordwest Union workhouse, designed by William Owen, was opened in 1839. It was later known as Priory Mount and then as St Thomas Hospital

Blything Union Childrens Home, Yoxford, Suffolk
Children and staff stand in front of the Blything Union childrens home at Yoxford, Suffolk. The home, opened in the early 1900s, accommodated pauper children away from the workhouse

St Benedicts Hospital, Tooting, South London
St Benedicts Hospital which lay between Church Lane and Rectory Lane in Tooting, South London. The hospital was established in 1897

Swindon & Highworth Union Workhouse, Swindon, Wiltshire
The Swindon and Highworth Union workhouse on Highworth Road, at Stratton St Margaret near Swindon, Wiltshire. The building, opened in 1846, later became St Margarets Hospital

Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Leeds
A very early photograph of the Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The Schools were erected in 1846-48 by the Leeds Board of Guardians to house

Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
An unusual view from the doorstep of the Ecclesall Bierlow Union workhouse at Nether Edge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The building on the opposite side of the street was used as the Unions offices

Wayland Military Hospital, Attleborough, Norfolk. The hospital operated during the First World War in the Wayland Unions new workhouse infirmary, erected at Attleborough in 1912-13

Tooting Military Hospital, Tooting Graveney, Surrey
The Tooting Military Hospital operated during World War One in a building on Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, Surrey, formerly St Josephs Roman Catholic college

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Banstead, Surrey
Aerial view of Beechholme childrens home, Banstead, Surrey, originally established in 1876 as the Kensington and Chelsea District School to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Convict Hulk Gallery
View of the convict hulk, " The Warrior", docked at Woolwich in London and capable of holding 600 men

Police on Walkie Talkie
Police officers talking on a walkie talkie in the street at Notting Hill Underground Station, London Metropolitan Police

Assizes Court, France
A barrister in full flow at an Assizes Court

Justice Personified
Justice holding scales to symbolise even-handedness, stability and equality

PRISON HULK BAHAMA
Prison hulk " Bahama" moored off Gillingham (on The Thames). Norwegian prisoners were kept there

Constable in Trouble
A constable, confronted by a mob of roughs in the East End of London, blows his whistle for reinforcements

Policeman & Traffic
A policeman on traffic duty sees a group of children safely across a busy city street, holding up the traffic with outstretched arm

Making Barristers Wigs
The wigmakers firm, Messrs. Ede & Ravenscroft, prepare a wig to fit a woman barrister, whose longer hair has proved a problem with the wearing of wigs in court

Lawyer / Fashionable Wigs
A barrister wonders if a more fashionable style of wig could help him impress the jurors

Old Bailey (Interior)
The Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey

Wandsworth Prison / Letter
Built in 1851 and originally called the Surrey House of Correction. The inmates writing letters

MOVE ON POLICE SATIRE
A cruel satire aimed at the Commissioners of Police, features a skeleton in a policemans uniform moving on a starving, homeless woman and her baby

Lord Sankey 1935
Lord John, 1st Viscount Sankey, Lord Chancellor during Ramsay Macdonalds Labour government. Famous for the 1927 Persons case, which asked Are Women Persons ?

Prison / Millbank
A bird s-eye view

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