Policewomen Collection (page 9)

Two women police officers giving directions, London
Two women police officers giving directions to a man, with the aid of a map, London. Date: circa 1960s

Two women police officers, London
Two women police officers (Jessica Penfold or Leach and Barbara Melham or Bissell) leaving a building in London to go on duty. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police officer outside Peel House, London
A woman police officer (Sergeant Hobbs) posing for her photo outside Peel House, a Met Police training centre in London, in September 1951. Date: 1951

Three police officers on duty in London, one of them WPC Elly Macon, holding a crowd of children back. Date: circa 1960s

Police officer on horseback, WPC and little boy, London
A police officer on horseback smiles as a woman police officer holds up a little boy so that he can stroke the horse. The WPC is wearing the Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Woman police officer in street, London
Woman police officer (Aileen Dunseath) walking along a busy shopping street, London. Date: 1967

Woman police officer with little boy, London
Woman police officer (Diana Hill or Adam) with a little boy, London. Date: 1961

Woman police officer at Festival of Britain, London
Woman police officer (Patricia Mulberry) on duty at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, standing outside the Sutton Gate entrance to the Royal Festival Hall. Date: 1951

Woman police officer with couple, London
Woman police officer (Diana Hill or Adam) giving directions to a couple, London. Date: 1961

Three women police officers in a dormitory, London, WW2
Three women police officers, one of them in uniform, sitting in a dormitory (possibly also an air raid shelter) in London during the Second World War, having a cup of tea. Date: 1940s

Woman police officer in London, WW2
Woman police officer on duty wearing an air raid helmet on a London street during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Two women police officers with children, London, WW2
Two women police officers in air raid helmets, on duty in London during the Second World War, seen here on a railway station platform with a group of child evacuees with labels on their coats

Helping woman out of the back of a police van, London
Woman police officer and a man (possibly the driver) helping a middle-aged woman out of the back of a police van in a London street. Date: circa 1950s

Three women police officers in a garden
Three women police officers (Iris Walker, Connie Hobbs(?) and Joan Strangleman) posing for their photo in a garden. They are in the Bather style uniform which was worn from 1946 to 1968

Woman police officer on traffic duty, London
Woman police officer on traffic duty in a London street, helping a schoolboy and schoolgirl cross the road safely. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1960s

Woman police officer on duty in a London street
Woman police officer (Hilda Bannon, or Cambridge) on duty in a London street. Date: circa 1950s

Two women police officers on duty in London
Two women police officers on duty in a London street, one of them on a police telephone reading from a notebook, the other one (Annette Payne) in the background with a member of the public

Woman police officer on duty in Westminster, London, with Big Ben in the background. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police officer on duty in Central London
Woman police officer (Sylvia Cloake) on duty in Central London, with the National Gallery and St Martin in the Fields in the background. Date: circa 1950s

Woman police officer W Gould at Woolwich, SE London
Woman police officer Winifred Gould (joined August 1931) photographed outside Woolwich Police Station, SE London. She is wearing the recently updated Stanley uniform -- a white shirt

Group photo, women police officers, London, WW2
Informal group photo of women police officers on a balcony at the Met Polices WEC. They are M Pascoe (joined March 1942), Shirley Jennings (joined May 1941, later Becke)

Woman police officer K M Boyd in uniform, London
Woman police officer Kathleen Mary Boyd (joined October 1931) in uniform, London, 22 October 1934. Date: 1934

Woman police officer posing in uniform, London
Woman police officer Ivy Cook (joined December 1930) posing in the recently updated Stanley uniform. A white shirt and tie were introduced, the jacket had four buttons and a matching material belt

Woman police officer posing in uniform, London, WW2
Woman police officer Sergeant Ivy Cook (joined December 1930) posing in uniform, 18 June 1940. Date: 1940

Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian, London
Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian on a London street. Date: circa 1930s

Woman police officer holding hands with children, London
Woman police officer holding hands with a girl and a boy on a London street -- perhaps she has just guided them across the road. Date: circa 1930s

Woman police officer in studio photo
Woman police officer in a studio photo, wearing double-breasted overcoat (for winter wear), white shirt and tie, helmet with badge and duty armband. Date: circa 1931

Male and female police officer on a street, London
A male and a female police officer on a street in London, reading something in a notebook. Date: circa 1930s

Woman police officer guiding little girl across the road and holding up her hand to an oncoming car, on the corner of Vincent Square, London SW1. Date: circa 1930s

Civilian woman with woman police sergeant
A civilian woman in white shirt and striped tie, sitting on a bed with a small suitcase, talking to a woman police sergeant

Woman stepping out of the back of a covered van. She is the same woman with the striped tie who is shown being fitted with her policewomans uniform (see 11007562 and 11007563)

Woman being fitted with policewomans uniform
Woman being fitted with her policewomans uniform. The policewomens uniform was updated in 1931, when a white shirt and tie were introduced, the hat badge became smaller and shoes replaced boots

Group photo, women police officers, Carlisle
Group photo of ten women police officers in uniform, with a sergeant in the middle of the front row, from the studio of Fred W Jassell of Carlisle. Date: circa 1920s

Three women police officers in uniform, London
Three female Metropolitan Police officers pose in their uniforms (winter dress, with overcoats) -- an inspector, a sergeant and a constable

Woman police officer on duty for a parade
Woman police officer on duty with military men on horseback in a parade, and spectators behind a fence. Probably during the 1929 Met Police centenary celebrations in Hyde Park, London

Woman police officer Ethel Hilda Dry, London
Studio photo of Ethel Hilda Dry, an early woman police officer. She joined the force in July 1919, and is seen here wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year. Date: circa 1919

Woman police officer, Elsie G Hutchinson, London
An early woman police officer, Inspector Elsie G Hutchinson, who joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919. Date: 1919-1920

Woman police officer Elsie Houghton, London, WW2
Woman police officer Elsie Houghton (married name Makin, joined November 1939), on duty in London during the Second World War

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

Two women police officers and a policeman, London
Two early women police officers and a policeman, London. They are (left) Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), (right) Alice Foscoe (nee Wills) both wearing the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919

Woman police officer Sergeant Florence Hill, London, wearing the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919. She joined the force in October 1919

Woman police officer on duty, London
Woman police officer in London, wearing a helmet, a double-breasted coat and a duty armband. Date: circa 1920s

Woman police officer with small boys, London
Woman police officer on duty in London, tying the shoelace of a small boy as his friends look on. Date: circa 1920s

Two women police officers, Bow Street, London
Two women police officers outside Bow Street Police Station, London. They are WPC Ivy Ellis (left) and Inspector Alice Bertha Clayden (right)

Woman police officer Beatrice Wills on duty, London
Beatrice Wills (nee Wakefield), an early woman police officer, seen here on duty in a London street. She joined the force in January 1919, and is wearing the Stanley Uniform, introduced in that year

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