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  • Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.
  • Christ's Hospital: the Great Hall during a ceremony. Engraving by J. G. Walker, 1822, after T. Stothard, 1799.
  • A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a distant three-quarter view of the Hall and Chapel, looking east, the Infirmary in the foreground left. Coloured drawing by C. White, 1786.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds, looking from the Surrey side of the river. Engraving, c.1761.
  • Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.
  • The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: two views; one of the central portico of the north side; the other from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by J. Shury after H. West, 1832.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, with a pipe in one hand and a stick in the other, being rolled out of a sheet [hammock?] by a sailor. Wood engraving by J. Jackson.
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Royal Borough of Greenwich
Hospitals
Asylums
Artificial limbs
Uniforms
Smoking
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
Hospitals, Naval and marine
Older people
Fashion