Old Peoples Home Collection

Refuge for the aged at Auteuil, near Paris, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Refuge for the aged at Auteuil, near Paris, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by M. Felix Thorigny. 'The institution of St

View of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Rotunda in London's Ranelagh Gardens, 1751. Creator: Thomas Bowles
View of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Rotunda in London's Ranelagh Gardens, 1751

View of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Rotunda in London's Ranelagh Gardens, 1751. Creator: Thomas Bowles
View of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and the Rotunda in London's Ranelagh Gardens, 1751

Stanstead College, Rowlands Castle, Hants. 1856. From "Illustrated London News", 1856. Creator: Unknown
Stanstead College, Rowlands Castle, Hants. 1856. The late R. Dixon, Esq...who, during a long and honourable career as a port-wine merchant

House for Aged People from the Hayes Garden, Cambridge, Mass. between 1900 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
House for Aged People from the Hayes Garden, Cambridge, Mass. between 1900 and 1920

The Printers Almshouses, Wood-Green, Tottenham, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Printers Almshouses, Wood-Green, Tottenham, 1856. Inauguration of charity housing in London...for the reception of aged

'The Last Muster, after Hubert Herkomer, Esq. A.R.A. c1880-83. Creator: Hubert von Herkomer
'The Last Muster, after Hubert Herkomer, Esq. A.R.A.From "Modern Artists" by F.G.Dumas. [J.S.Virtue & Co Ltd, London, c1880]

The Aged Freemasons Asylum, at Croydon: opened on Thursday, 1850. Creator: Unknown
The Aged Freemasons Asylum, at Croydon [south of London]: opened on Thursday, 1850. The Asylum has been erected from the design of Mr. S. W

Celebration of Palm Sunday in the Hall of Sackville College, East Grinstead, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Celebration of Palm Sunday in the Hall of Sackville College, East Grinstead, [Sussex]. 1850. This Hall, until lately used as a scullery, is a spacious lofty room with an open oak roof of three bays

The Dover Sailors Home, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Dover Sailors Home, 1856. The Dover Sailors Home was inaugurated on the 29th of November last by Captain Hall, R.N. of her Majesty's ship Blenheim...From a small though comfortable receptacle

Old veterans playing cribbage at Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C. ca. 1900, c1900. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Old veterans playing cribbage at Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C. ca. 1900, c1900

New Alms-houses at Northfleet, 1844. Creator: Unknown
New Alms-houses at Northfleet, 1844. These buildings have just been erected at Northfleet [in Kent], from the design of Mr. W. Chadwick, of Adelaide-place, London-bridge

Greenwich Hospital (recto); Study of a Building (verso), ca. 1831

Chelsea Hospital, c1876. Creator: Unknown
Chelsea Hospital, c1876. Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement and nursing home for veterans of the British Army, founded by King Charles II in 1682, the gardens are Grade II listed

Lakelet in the Grounds of the Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Lakelet in the Grounds of the Soldiers Home, Milwaukee, c1897. Milwaukee VA Soldiers Home, a post-Civil War veterans campus designed by Henry Koch

Soldiers Home, Washington, D. C. c1897. Creator: Unknown
Soldiers Home, Washington, D.C. c1897. Sherman Building, built 1852-57 by Barton S. Alexander with clock tower and third floor added in 1869 by Edward Clark

Greenwich Hospital, from the River, (c1878). Creator: Unknown
Greenwich Hospital, from the River, (c1878). The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, on the River Thames in London, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor

Pensioners in the Womens Day Room at the Lambeth Home for Aged Poor, London, 1935
Pensioners sitting and reading in the Womens Day Room at the Lambeth Home for Aged Poor (renamed Elderwood ), London, 1935. Women sit in armchairs ranged round the walls

Pensioners playing cards in the Mens Day Room, Lambeth Home for Aged Poor, London, 1935
Pensioners playing cards in the Mens Day Room, Lambeth Home for Aged Poor (renamed Elderwood ), London, 1935

Men sitting in the library at Cedars Lodge old peoples home, Wandsworth, London, 1939. Old men sit reading or nodding off in a parquet-floored room with no visible bookshelves

Interior of an old peoples home, Kilnhurst, South Yorkshire, 1961

At Home, a Favourite Window Recess in the Womens Corridor, 1901. From The Sunday Strand Vol. IV, [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1901]

The Charterhouse from the square, London, 1912. Artist: Frederick Adcock
The Charterhouse from the square, London, 1912. The Charterhouse has variously been a Carthusian monastery, a public school, a medical school and a home for pensioners

Abbotts Hospital, Guildford, 19th century. Artist: Shury & Son
Abbotts Hospital, Guildford, 19th century. George Abbot (1562-1633) became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1611. In 1619 he began building the Hospital of the Blessed Trinity

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