Hygiene Collection

Child refugees washing in Salisbury Cathedral during the Second World War. 25th November 1940

Arsenal footballer George Armstrong pictured in the bath at Highbury football ground. 1st April 1971

Freddie Garrity, lead singer of the Manchester pop group Freddie and the Dreamers, pictured at his home with his three year old daughter Jackie, brushing her teeth. 24th May 1967

Charlton Athletic eighteen year old footballer Paul Walsh pictured in the showers at the Valley. 22nd October 1980

Interior view of a Liverpool terraced house showing a woman scrubbing her hands in the basin, Merseyside, 1962

England footballer Chris Waddle takes a shower to wash away Gazzas birthday cake which was smeared in his face during celebrations at at the England Team hotel in Italy during the 1990 World Cup

In Paddington three families share a terrace house. The two bedroom house means that one family has to sleep in the kitchen October 1953

Women Coal screeners with soot covering their faces at Lyme Pit in Lancashire coming off shift wash in the pithead showers November 1948

An RAF Airman takes a bath in a wooden tub on the cobbles beside the pump and drinking trough in the courtyard of an Italian farm, an RAF camp in Italy. October 1943

800 yards from the enemy lines, British infantry are entrenched on the 5th Army main front in Italy. By day they live under fire from enemy mortar shells

Beside a pontoon bridge spanning the Palo River on Leyte Island, American soldiers wash themselves and their clothes. One soldier evidently doesn t trust the temporary lull in the fighting for he

One of the things most needed by soldiers returning from the fighting lines in Northern France to the rear areas to rest, is a bath

Scenes on the Russian front during the counter-offensive campaign of the Soviet Red Army to push back the invading German army in Russia

Two new recruits getting use to army life making an early morning toilet in one of the up to date wash houses, Normanton Barracks, Derby. 15th January 1940

Soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France give a wave to camera as they pass from the undressing tent into the bath tent at their camp

Tesco Coventry have been awarded a certificate of hygiene by the City Council. Presented by Councillor Raj Malhotra, vice chairman of the Environmental Services Department, to Claire Coutier Jones

Charlton Athletic team training exercises at the Valley. Players relax in the bath after a gruelling session. 9th August 1954

Miss Enid Hallam a BSC (Agriculture) innoculates cheeses and tests new dairy appliances in the dairy of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, part of the University of Reading March 1927

Someone washing their hands

Everton footballers JN Cunliffe (left) and W Cook in the bath after training. January 1938

No More Tears... ? Plastic halo (made by Besco) & Co of Rochdale
No More Tears...? Plastic halo (made by Besco) & Co of Rochdale, Lancs) keeps soap and water from the babys eyes when washing his hair

One of the crew of the coastal defence guns in Tobruk, takes a bath under the shadow of the gun, during the Allied occupation of Libya in Northern Africa September 1941

Susan the chimp brushes her teeth at night. March 1955

The East End teeth cleaning parade. July 1941

Mrs. Diana Yeomans, a teacher at the tiny village school in Strensall, Yorkshire, gets hot water from buckets for the children to wash their hands, ready for lunch. November 1969 Z11532-001

Mrs. Diana Yeomans, a teacher at the tiny village school in Strensall, Yorkshire, gets hot water from buckets for the children to wash their hands, ready for lunch. November 1969 Z11532

Man and woman sharing a bath. November 1969 Z10586-003

Woman using a bath designed for two people. November 1969 Z10586-003

Man and woman sharing a bath designed for two. November 1969 Z10586-010

Medical Stores: A hospital medical stores where overalls, gowns, masks and equipment used in the operating theatre are sterilized before being re-supplied to theatre. 1954

Medical Stores: A hospital medical stores where overalls, gowns, masks and equipment used in the operating theatre are sterilized before being re-supplied to theatre. 1954

Young toddler having a wash in a tin bath in the back garden in Erith, Kent. July 1943 P009097

Children washing their hands before class at Cookham Nursery School. October 1952 C4852-007

Cyril Annisworth, a 16 years old screen worker bites his lip as sister Ada swabs out his eye which had been covered with coal dust

A popular figure at the Haigh pit, Whitehaven, Cumberland, is 14 stone Mrs. Margaret Aitken. Washes the face of one woman while the other laughs and looks on. December 1955 P017796

Marguerite Kent of Kingsdown Rd. Liverpool is to become the first dental hygienist in the Liverpool School Dental Service. December 1952 C6089

A man washing his daughters hair and face using soapy water in a bowl in their living room, February 1937 1930s parenting father girl household

Liberal MP David Steel having a shave after leaving The House Of Commons, the year his Abortion bill, was drafted into law. 14th July 1967

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