Class Collection

The Royal Logistic Corps

Imperial Airways Poster, Reliability, Comfort. Showing details of the equipment of the most luxurious air liners in the world (Heracles Class), with pictograms of features on a yellow background. 1934

Imperial Airways Poster, four types of plane
Imperial Airways Poster, showing four types of plane, with cutaway drawings of interiors of each class -- Heracles and Hannibal, Scylla, Atalanta, and Scipio. 20th century

Imperial Airways Poster, seaplane Scipio
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a diagrammatic drawing of the seaplane Scipio, one of the new Kent class, for use on the trans-Mediterranean service. 1931

Nursery Rhymes -- Ride a Cock Horse
Nursery Rhymes. An unidentified one (above), showing a man with a brush running into another mans bedroom

Lady Arabellas Birthday Party -- the screaming Betsy, at the castle and mistaken for Lady Arabella, is carried away from the party. 1940

Lady Arabellas Birthday Party -- the Duchess agrees to look after Arabella for a while. 1940

Cunard Line Transatlantic Steamer Timetable poster
Timetable poster advertising the journey times of the Transatlantic steamers of the Cunard Line with 2nd class and Cabin Fares lisited from Liverpool for New York, October 1910. 1910

A Dowager during the London Season
Sketch of a dowager, one of the cliched characters of the traditional London Season, perhaps acting as a chaperone and peering through her lorgnette

Girls in typewriting class, Holland Park School, London
Girls in a typewriting class at Holland Park Comprehensive School, West London. Date: 1965

White Star Line Third Class booklet
Front cover of the Third Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises. Date: circa 1912

Scene in the Lounge, Great Southern Hotel, Killarney
Scene in the Lounge of the Great Southern Hotel, Lakes of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, showing elegant people in evening dress. early 20th century

White Star Line 1st and 2nd Class booklet
Title page of the First and Second Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises. Date: circa 1912

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Boys tying rope round a lamppost, Southam Street
Two boys tying a length of rope round a lamppost in Southam Street, North Kensington, West London, so that they can swing round it (see 10061196). Date: 1956

French Wagons-Lit poster
Poster advertising the French National Railways Wagon-Lits (sleeper train) service to Switzerland

Advertisement for Willys-Overland motor car
Advertisement for the Willys-Overland motor car, for National Service

Oiran, high class prostitutes, Japan
Oiran, high class prostitutes (also entertainers), Japan. circa 1890s

Lord Dufferin, 8th Viceroy of India
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), 8th Viceroy of India, 1884-1888

Lady Dufferin, Wife of 8th Viceroy of India
Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (Lady Dufferin, 1843-1936), wife of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 8th Viceroy of India

Oiran and attendants (high class courtesan) Japan

Drawing Room, St. James Palace c. 1750
A drawing room at St. Jamess Palace during the reign of King George III, when the nobility would be formally presented at Court, thus establishing their place in society. Date: 1750

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

Children in the school classroom

The Winter Gardens, Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth
Scene inside The Winter Gardens of the Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, showing elegant people sitting at tables. early 20th century

Titanic Third Class Smoke Room
The Third Class Smoke Room on the ill-fated Titanic, which sank on 15 April 1912. Date: 1912

Pocket flask and napkin ring from Titanic
1. A silver pocket flask belonging to Florence Ware, a second class passenger who survived the Titanic disaster. It was given to her by the bandmaster, Wallace Hartley. 2

Scene in the Lounge, Prince of Wales Hotel, London
Scene in the Lounge of the Prince of Wales Hotel, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, London, with elegant people taking afternoon tea. early 20th century

Movement class at Fairlawn School

Man tending garden in Princes Place, London
An elderly man tending a front garden in Princes Place, North Kensington, West London. Date: 1963

Sculpture student and model at Central School of Art
A sculpture student works on a clay model on a tripod, while a nude model poses for her, at the Central School of Art and Design (now Central St Martins College of Art and Design), London. Date: 1957

Three boys playing football, Addison Place
Three boys playing football in front of some garage doors in Addison Place, North Kensington, West London. Date: circa 1956

Scene in the Winter Garden, Rosss Hotel
Scene in the Winter Garden of Rosss Hotel, showing elegant people sitting and relaxing. early 20th century

Woodwork class, Warslow County Secondary School
Two boys in a woodwork class at Warslow County Secondary School, Staffordshire. Date: 1964

Four boys in Hampden Crescent, Paddington
Four boys playing in Hampden Crescent, off Harrow Road, Paddington, West London

Elegant restaurant with Schweppes posters
An elegant restaurant full of elegant people, with Schweppes posters on the wall. 20th century

Group of elegant people being served champagne
A group of elegant people being served a bottle of champagne, kept chilled in an ice bucket. circa 1920s

Local children at Corsham Art School
Local children learn about the hatching of eggs at Corsham Art School, Wiltshire. They sit in a circle on the floor with a teacher, each one looking closely at an egg. (2 of 2) Date: 1963

Titanic blueprint (part)
Part of the blueprint of the SS Titanic, showing first, second and third class passenger areas, crew rooms and boiler rooms. Date: circa 1912

Pupils during art lesson, Unicorn School, Richmond
Young pupils make a fine mess during an art lesson at the Unicorn School in Richmond, Surrey. Examples of their work decorate the classroom walls. Date: 1971

Advertisement for Grand Hotel Emma, Merano, Italy
Advertisement for the Grand Hotel Emma, Merano, Italy, showing an elegant lady arriving with her luggage. circa 1930s

Two little girls dancing in Kensal Road, London
Two little girls dancing together on the pavement in Kensal Road, North Kensington, West London. Date: 1957

Boy in an art class at a Kilburn school
A boy in an art class at St Johns School, Kilburn, north west London. He has several pots of paint on the floor beside him, and is painting a face on a large sheet of paper

First Class staircase on Titanic
One of seven builders photographs of the Titanic interior, this one of the First Class staircase. Date: circa 1912

Art class at Charterhouse School
Two boys in an art class at Charterhouse School near Godalming, Surrey. One boy is working on a large painting of a human face, while the other boy just seems to be browsing

Girl using Easatutor at a Leicester school

David Haughton teaching at Central School of Art
The artist David Haughton (1924-1991) teaching a student at the Central School of Art and Design (now Central St Martins College of Art and Design), London

Late 19th century train travel. Compartments/berths in a sleeping carriage, the dining car and first class seating. circa 1880

Adrian Heath and student at Corsham Art School
The artist Adrian Heath (1920-1992) teaching an art student at Corsham Art School, Wiltshire. Date: 1957

Postcard from Tom Mudd, RMS Titanic
A handwritten postcard from Tom (Thomas Charles) Mudd to his mother in Halesworth, Suffolk

Two boys playing in the gutter, West London
Two boys playing some kind of game in the gutter in the Harrow Road area of Paddington, West London. Date: 1961

Dolly Sisters wearing the Bulldog collar
The Dolly Sisters wearing the `Dolly Dog Collar or the Bouledogue (bulldog) collar invented by Marthe Regnier, the famous French actress and couturier

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Wheelwrights making cart wheels
Wheelwrights or wainwrights making large wooden wheels in a traditional rural workshop. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Advertisement for Brennabor motor car, showing an upper class woman doing her Christmas shopping. The car is also recommended as a suitable Christmas present! 1928

Board School carpentry class, Kilburn, London
A Board School carpentry class at the Kilburn Lane Higher Grade School, West Kilburn, north west London. Showing boys working at benches, supervised by three male teachers. 1895

Dunce, dunce, double D, he can t say his A B C. Children in a classroom, with a boy wearing a dunces hat, standing on a stool. 20th century

Cat teaching the ABC
Cat in a mortar board, teaching the ABC -- Well? What next?

Womens Royal Air Force -- Class! SHUN
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a male officer calling the women to attention. Class! SHUN!! 1919-1920

Class of children and two teachers
A class of children and two teachers. The children are in costume for a school production entitled The Tudors. March 1926

Middle class woman in residential street
A middle class woman in smart clothes standing by a shiny car in a residential street

Coal delivery men in Portobello Road
Two coal delivery men chat to a woman in Portobello Road, West London. Date: 1956

Woman and child in St Stephens Gardens
A middle aged woman, Mrs Bidgood, and a little girl, inside one of the flats in St Stephens Gardens, near Westbourne Grove, London. Date: 1961

Boys playing with tyres
Three boys playing with rubber tyres in Heathfield Street, off Portland Road, North Kensington, London. Date: 1958

Boy playing football, Brindley Road
A boy reaches up to catch a football in Brindley Road, off Harrow Road, Paddington, West London. Another boy in the middle of the road stands watching him. Date: 1957

Boys playing football in Southam Street, London
A group of boys play football in the middle of Southam Street, North Kensington, London, while four West Indian men stand chatting on the far pavement. Date: 1956

Boy with cricket bat in Addison Place
A boy with a determined expression on his face wields a cricket bat in Addison Place, North Kensington, London. Date: 1957

Trader in Petticoat Lane, London
A trader in Petticoat Lane street market, East London, holding a horseracing picture in his right hand, points with his left hand and speaks forcefully to his audience

Scene in Hampden Crescent, Paddington
A street scene in Hampden Crescent, off Harrow Road, Paddington, West London, with children playing on the pavement and in the road. The girl on the left is wearing a frilly white party dress

Swinging girl in Southam Street, London
A girl swings on a piece of rope tied to a lamp post in Southam Street, North Kensington, London, aided and abetted by her friend

Woman with children in Hampden Crescent, Paddington
A woman plays with four children in the roadway in Hampden Crescent, off Harrow Road, Paddington, West London. Date: 1957

Boy on roller skates, Harrow Road area
A boy on roller skates steadies himself against a wall in an alleyway next to a bomb site in the Harrow Road area, Paddington, West London. Date: 1957

Boys with football, North Kensington
Five boys on the street in North Kensington, pausing from their game of football. The one in the foreground looks as if hes had enough and is walking away. Date: 1958

Children playing in Portland Road
Three children, two girls and a boy, playing in Portland Road, North Kensington, London

Guy Fawkes Night in Southam Street, London
Guy Fawkes Night in Southam Street, North Kensington, London, with a bonfire burning in the middle of the road. Date: 1956

Men at the London Docks
Two middle aged men at the London Docks -- the one on the left is holding a small clipboard, while the one on the right is relaxing on a bicycle. Date: 1959

Boys playing bows and arrows with a car
A group of naughty boys play bows and arrows outside and inside a rather nice looking shiny black car in the North Kensington area of London. Hopefully it is with the owners permission! Date: 1957

Men in Southam Street, London
A group of men coming out of a house in Southam Street, North Kensington, London. Two men in the foreground are sorting out some cash. Date: 1959

Children in North Kensington
A group of seven children, five girls and two boys, hang out on the pavement in North Kensington, London

Bowling in Addison Place
A boy bowls a cricket ball in Addison Place, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

Playing sports on Brindley Road, London
A group of young men and a boy, with a young woman in the background, playing sports in Brindley Road, off Harrow Road, West London

Children at Wetherby School
Children in a classroom at Wetherby Pre-Preparatory School, South Kensington, London. One thoughtful little boy is looking straight at the camera rather than getting on with his lesson. Date: 1962

West Indian girl in North Kensington
A West Indian girl in a North Kensington street, standing near some boys fighting in the roadway. Date: 1957

Cops and robbers in Addison Place
Two boys playing cops and robbers with a toy gun in Addison Place, North Kensington, London. Date: 1956

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