Search our collection

Clear all filters
Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Four Sanitary Ware Models by Doulton

1801-1900

Brass wash basin used in Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, 1801-1900

1801-1900
Wash basin, for corner mounting, white ceramic, Southern Railway, c. 1924, ex Selhurst Station.

Wash basin, Southern Railway

1924
Wash basin on stand, walnut veneer, ex Great Western Railway, Queen Victoria's royal saloon, 1874.

Wash basin on stand

1874
Wash basin, porcelain, ex unidentified Royal Saloon.

Porcelain wash basin, ex Royal Saloon

Washbowl, ceramic, by George Jennings, Stangate, London, Pullman, tip-up type with broad gold rim, marked 'LIFT UP' on front and decorated with gold patterns. 6 x 14 in.

Ceramic wash bowl, Pullman

Mobile sink unit and items previoulsy stored inside the unit. Used in the NHS Nightingale North West temporary hospital to provide appropriate handwashing facilities for a hospital. NHS Nightingale NW was set up in the Manchester Central Convention Centre in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide additional hospital bed space to reduce strain on permanent NHS hospitals. As a convention centre, and ex-railway station, the building did not have the right plumbing to have a sink on every ward. These mobile sink units contain two water cooler bottles in the base, one full of clean water and one empty. The full, clean bottle provides water to the tap and the dirty water drains from the plug into the empty bottle until the clean bottle is empty and the dirty bottle is full and then they are replaced. This enabled a sink to be installed on each ward to ensure hospital-level hygiene without expensive, disruptive and time-consuming plumbing work.

Mobile Wash Basin Unit from NHS Nightingale North West

circa 2020