Washing Collection

Three young friends leap over a puddle outside a Govan tenement block in Glasgow. September 1956

Scotlands top lady footballers will leave their Captain on the touchline when they run on to the field for their most important match of the season

Some of the residents in a street in Pendleton, Greater Manchester. July 1932

Housing slums in the Dalmarnock district of Glasgow the deralict tenament housing with its windows broken a load of washing is hung out to dry October 1963

Young Navy cadets in Gravesend 1944
Young Navy cadets training for the seas by scrubbing the decks of this steamer in Gravesend. Nearby will be HMS Gordon, a Navy school on land

Ace race driver Stirling Moss is now Stirling Moss Limited, in his three story mews office/home in Londons West End. Sun bronzed and bearing only the slightest marks of his recent crash

The sun just makes it into their old Liverpool courtyard. 3rd April 1939

View at the rear of Gildarts Gardens, near Eldon Grove, Liverpool, Merseyside. 9th April 1964

Slum housing in Everton, Liverpool. 3rd April 1960

Tommy Steele and his parents at his new £5000 house in Catford, London
Tommy Steele and his parents at his new £ 5000 house in Catford, London. Tommy helps with the washing in the garden. 25th August 1957

Little one-yr-old, Georgina Rumph, likes to be in the swim. In fact she just loves a tub with some-water in it. However, a showers another thing

Miners in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England, showering after their shift August 1954

The last remaining corporation wash house on Shipley Street, Byker, Newcastle - local residents use the facilities for the last time 30 September 1971

Tenement blocks in Govan, Glasgow. September 1956

Coal Miners shower after their shift in the pit head. February 1942 P018169

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

Washing day in Cruelly where French civilians and British tommies do their washing side by side in the River Seullas. 4th July 1944

Newcastle women washing their clothes at Snow Street Wash House, Newcastle. 16th November 1970

Every washing machine made by Hoover at their Pentrebach, Merthyr, factory are given a running test before they leave the production line

The Nolan sisters at home in Ilford. Bernadette helps Linda to wash her hair. 23rd June 1978

A miner enjoying the newly installed showers at Askern Colliery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. This Bevin Boy is Bill Thomas

Hotel Landlady Mrs Maureen Roach puts up another line of washing outside the Bulls Head Hotel, Brecon, a market town and community in Powys, Mid Wales, 25th July 1977

Little Paradise, off East Street, Bedminster, demolished in 1961

The new European Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Henry Cooper, relaxes at his Wembley home. The morning after the night of the fight where he won the title from Germanys Karl Mildenberger

Washing day for Orient Girls football team. 27th September 1970

Education was far more sexist in the 1930s than it is today. These little girls who attend holland Street School are obviously learning how to be good wives and mothers. Circa 1930s

A rag and bone man and his horse and cart seen here taking rest from travelling the streets of a un-named northern town looking for scrap metal 1st February 1982

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

33 year old Mrs Mavis Graham of Plymouth, mother of 13 children aged from 4 months to 14 years, gives them all a shower using a watering can on the front lawn outside their house on a hot summer day

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

Paddington playmobile on a double decker bus. Boys of Paddington Comprehensive School, Liverpool, put the finishing touches to the bus which will be used as a mobile play room

Santa Claus, makes time for Laundry, ahead of Christmas, 10th December 1977

A mile from Westminster. Flats that back on to each other in Pollock Road SE17. Clothes lines stretch across the area. Large refuse bins stand full against the walls the area in

Lily Carlson, manageress at the Liver Laundrette in Runcorn, offers refreshments to her customers. She also allows yoga fan Lawrence Fulton to meditate as his washing spins. 6th March 1979

Manchester United youth team celebrate in the bath with the FA Youth Cup trophy after their 6-3 aggregate victory over Crystal Palace Youth in the Final. May 1992

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

At 14 Months baby David is just lobster pot size and that is just where mum puts him. April 1949

Any day is washday for the housewives of Talworth, Surrey, thanks to the ten automatic machines in this new shop. Here is Miss Doreen Borcham who runs the new sevice, receiving a customers laundry

Housing slums in the Dalmarnock district of Glasgow The deralict tenament housing with its windows broken A load of washing is hung out to dry October 1963

A naked man taking a bath in the window of the Sir larry boutique In Kensington London having his back scrubbed by Susan Gilmore watched by a group of ladies outside October 1969

Coal miners John Derbyshire front and Vinc Higson give each other assistance to get clean in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England August 1954

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

33 year old Mrs Mavis Graham of Plymouth, mother of 13 children aged from 4 months to 14 years, gives them all a shower using a watering can on the front lawn outside their house on a hot summer day

The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960

Hanging dollies smalls Along comes Jack the Jackdaw Dollies scanties falls. Audrey Parslow aged 7 years has trouble on her washing day when hanging out her dolls clothes

Wilfred Pickles seen here under the thumb. January 1947

Rev Roy Allison - finalist in national contest Husband of the Year, September 1967

Hampden Park, Glasgow Queens Park strips hanging out after being washed washing hanging out to dry at hampden stadium 1971

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