Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, Stepney, Greater London

Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, Stepney, Greater London

Photograph taken 12 Jun 1888 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BL08718

Interior view looking down from the balcony towards the pool during a female swimming session.

Location

Greater London Stepney

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Themes

The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. Many of the boys and girls look very young to be at work. The school leaving age was only raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918 so they could well have been younger than that.

Women before 1914

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