Title

Vacuum cleaner demonstration, Frederick Gorringe's Department Store, London, 1910

Caption

Vacuum cleaner demonstration, Frederick Gorringe's Department Store, 75 Buckingham Palace Road, London, 1910. A woman demonstrating the latest in vacuum cleaning technology. Gorringe's opened in the 1900s, but finally closed its doors in the 1960s.

Date

1910

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B40_155

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,6Mb (2,3Mb) / 16,1in x 13,2in / 4838 x 3945 (300dpi)

Keywords

road London England female women woman people interior indoors domestic fashion street shopping shop shops industry country hoover costume clothes British English lane cleaning carpet avenue dress Westminster location century Britain inside skirt housework demonstrating lady department store demonstration B&W vacuum cleaner MONOCHROME household appliance Domestic Appliance black & white black and white B W Edwardian emporium 1910s 20th century City of Westminster English Heritage demo domestic chore TGN photograph Buckingham Palace Road H Bedford Lemere retailing Gorringes Bedford Lemere H Henry Bedford Lemere Harry Bedford Lemere Lemere Henry Bedford photograph