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Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1936-10-14

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1936-10-14

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1936-10-14

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1935-10-10

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1935-10-10

Enema set and stomach pump by Laundy

1783-1844

Stomach pump set

1843-1865

Trade card: John Snart

1805-1827

Patent model showing screw propeller with James Lowe's blade principle

1851-1852

Herb cutter

1871-1910

Scarpa's boot

1871-1900

Mechanical vibrator (Veedee)

1900-1910

Embalming syringe set, London, England, 1790-1820

1790-1845

Drug jar for Salicylic Acid Ointment

Bye-laws and regulations made by the South Eastern Railway with the approval of the Board of Trade for traffic and use of Folkestone harbour

Bottle of chloral hydrate tablets

A solar powered car

1998

Model of a ship's stern fitted with a screw propeller patented by James Lowe

1838

Mechanical Veedee vibrator

1900-1910

Veedee vibrator by F. Garratt

1930

Forceps, craniotomy, Conquest

1825-1867

Boxwood contour gauge

1878-1882

rules and regulations to be observed in locomotive and carriage and wagon departments

1868

Regulations made by the South Eastern Railway company with the approval of the Board of Trade for regulating traffic and use of Folkestone Harbour

1867

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1936-10-14

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1935-10-10

Equal-arm balance chondrometer

1756-1789
Grasshopper steam engine c. 1855 probably by Easton, Amos & Sons, Southwark, London.

'Grasshopper' Engine, c. 1855

1855
Gelatin silver print entitled 'The courtyard of Chaucer House, a hostel for homeless families'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

The courtyard of Chaucer House, a hostel for homeless families

1971-03
Gelatin silver print entitled 'November, 1970. London, Southwark.Horace Bettles lived with his wife and son in a ground floor tenement flat off Redcross Way.'We go to bed about seven o'clock. We put the gas fire on until the shilling goes and then we go to bed'. See interview P14 'Happy Christmas', photographed by Nick Hedges.

Horace Bettles lived with his wife and son in a ground floor tenement flat…

1970-11
Gelatin silver print entitled 'Redcross Way'. Photograph by Nick Hedges, Southwark, May 1970.

Redcross Way

1970-05
Gelatin silver print entitled 'Mr Thompson was living with his family in Chaucer House, a hostel for homeless families. "We've got to work our own miracles now."' See interview p.41 'Condemned'.

Mr Thompson was living with his family in Chaucer House…

1971-07
Untitled silver gelatin print, photographed by Nick Hedges, Southwark, May 1970.

Untitled silver gelatin print

1970-05
Gelatin silver print entitled 'An old deaf Jewish man living in a fly-ridden tenement flat off Redcross Way'. Photograph by Nick Hedges.

An old deaf Jewish man living in a fly-ridden tenement flat off Redcross Way

1970-11
Two bottles of calomel tablets, by Wright,Layman and Umney, Ltd., English

Two bottles of calomel tablets

Model of the Appold Centrifugal Pump designed by J.G. Appold, F.R.S., about 1849 and made by Easton & Amos, Engineers, Southwark, and as exhibited at the Great Exhibition 1851

Model of the Appold Centrifugal Pump designed by J.G. Appold

1851; circa 1849
One photograph showing judges for Daily Herald £2.500 snapshot competition selecting images at the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle, London.

Daily Herald Photograph: Sunny Snaps competition judging

1936-10-14
South Eastern Railway handbill entitled 'Rates for conveyance of hops to London' with the rates and conditions. Issued by John Shaw, manager and secretary. Printed by Mccorquodale.

Rates for conveyance of hops to London

1876-09-01
Poster, bye-laws and regulations made by the South Eastern Railway with the approval of the Board of Trade for traffic and use of Folkestone harbour. Issued by John Shaw and Edward Jones. Printed by Mccorquodale.

Bye-laws and regulations made by the South Eastern Railway with the approval of the Board of Trade for traffic and use of Folkestone harbour

Ribbed circular brown glass bottle, with a paper label, containing tincture of cannabis indica, of which some remains. The bottle is labelled 'Tinct. Cannab. Ind. B.P.', and embossed 'POISON'. Manufactured by Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd of London. Pure cannabis preparations became illegal in the United Kingdom in 1925 when under an amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act it was classified as a class B drug. As a result all cannabis preparations were removed from the British Pharmacopeia 1930.

Ribbed brown glass bottle, containing tincture of cannabis indica

1900-1950
1x100ml glass bottle (sealed) of concentrated syrup of red poppy (SYR. RHOEAD B.P.C. 1949). 135 mm x 45 mm diameter, 266 g. Made by Wright Layman and Umney, English, 1949-1970.

Glass bottle of concentrated syrup of red poppy

1949-1970
Green glass poison bottle half-full of powdered papaverine hydrochlroride with bakelite lid. 66 mm x 39 mm diameter, 65 g. Produced by Wright, Layman and Umney, Ltd., London, 1920-1955.

Glass bottle of papaverine hydrochloride powder

1920-1955
Amber glass bottle with cork stopper for 500 ml of syrup of red poppies (SYRUPUS RHOEADOS) B.P.C. 1934, with traces remaining. 230 mm x 75 mm diameter, 526g. Made by Wright Layman and Umney, London, 1934-1949.

500ml bottle of syrup of red poppies B.P.C.

1934-1949
Glass bottle with metal lid full of Compound Syrup of Cocillana (contains opium, morphine hydrochloride and antimony). 162 mm x 51 mm x 30 mm, 309 g. Label reads, ' Expectorand, Sedative and Tonic Laxative...A soothing rememdy for irritating Coughs, Bronchitis and Chest and Lung troubles.' Produced by Wright, Layman and Umney Limited, early twentieth century.

Bottle of Compound Syrup of Cocillana

1901-1950
Green glass poison bottle with bakelite lid full of Dover's Powder tablets (TAB. IPECAC. ET OPII). By Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd., English, 1920-1960.

Poison bottle of Dover's Powder tablets

1920-1960
Bottle of adrenaline cream (D.T.F.), by Wright, Layman and Umney, from Savory and Moore's shop

Bottle of adrenaline cream (D.T.F.)

1951-1970
Bottle of ammoniated mercury ointment, by Wright, Layman and Umney, from Savory and Moore' s shop

Bottle of ammoniated mercury ointment

1951-1970
Bottle for caraway water, by Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd., English

Bottle for caraway water

Bottle of benzoinated lard, c. 1960, by Wright, Layman and Umney, from Savory and Moore

Bottle of benzoinated lard

1951-1970
Bottle of zinc and castor oil ointment, c. 1960, by Wright, Layman and Umney of Savory and Moore

Bottle of zinc and castor oil ointment

1951-1970