Social Services Collection

Victorian London - Scripture Reader in a Night Refuge
" Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. A missionary reads from the bible to homeless people in a night refuge, circa 1870."

Mother Bethel AME Black Church - Philadelphia, PA
Illustration of the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first American church for Black congregations founded by Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1786

A yellow and a black pencil crossing out the letterings Familien, Hartz IV and Rente, German for families, Hartz IV, a German unemployment benefit, and pension

Whitgift Almshouses
19th September 1919: The Whitgift Almshouses at the corner of Drummond Road and George Street in Croydon and under threat of demolition from the Croydon Corporations road-widening schemes

Whitgift Almshouses
19th September 1919: The Whitgift Almshouses at the corner of Drummond Road and George Street in Croydon and under threat of demolition from the Croydon Corporations road-widening schemes

Matches And Fag Ends
The matches and fag ends box at the Embankment Fellowship Centre, London, a night centre, canteen and recreational facility for ex-service men over 45-years of age

The YMCA
December 1911: The new YMCA building on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Great Russell Street in central London (replaced by a new building in the 1960 s)

Crowd Scene at a Central London Housing Estate
Tenants at a central London housing estate, watching a show put on by Westminster Council as part of their Holidays at Home programme

Midtown Over Roosevelt Island
View of the Manhattan skyline over the Goldwater Memorial Hospital on the southern tip of Welfare (now Roosevelt) Island, New York, 1940s

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