Album containing photographs of servicemen, who were disabled in WW1, receiving training at Roehampton, Regent Street Polytechnic and Queen Mary's workshops, Brighton, as well as the workshops of CA Vandervell & Co, RH Davis & Co and the London United Tramways Generating and Sub-stations The photographs are labelled with a description of the activities; some also have the names of the individuals and the nature of their disability. The captions are labelled with letters and numbers but it is not clear what these relate to.

Activities depicted include: electricians, motor driving and repairs, woodwork, glass working, repair and adjustment of resistance frames, Magneto construction, bootmaking, submarine fittings, ladies handbags (leatherwork), engineering, commercial training, tinsmithery, Kinematograph operation (cinema)

Individuals mentioned are: W Chaplin 1/Hants Regiment; Leading Cook Wooding, HMS Lightning; H Gurbey 1/Herts, B Dale 2/Grenadier Guards; J Middleton RHA; G Smith 1/N Staffordshire

Also included are photographs of the exterior and interiors of the Queen Mary's workshops at Brighton Pavilion Hospital, as well as general view of the RH Davis & Co Fancy Leather factory with many women workers as well as the disabled men.
[51 photographs in total].

The prospectuses were issued as individual pamphlets but have been bound into a single volume.

General Prospectus
Day Schools
Ambulance, Afternoon (Winter Term)
Ambulance, Afternoon (Spring Term)
Ambulance, Evening (Winter Term)
Ambulance, Evening (Spring Term)
Architectural, Day
Architectural, Evening
Art Lectures
Art School
Business Training, Day
Business Training, Evening (Winter)
Business Training, Evening (Summer)
Carriage Building
Chemistry
Company Law and Secretarial Work
Commercial Law
Cookery (Winter Term)
Cookery (Spring Term)
Dispensing
Draughtsmanship (Special Summer Course)
Draughtsmanship For Ladies
Dressmaking (Winter Term)
Dressmaking (Spring Term)
Electrical Engineering
Elocution (Winter Term)
Elocution (Spring Term)
Elocution (Clergy and Public Speakers)
Engineering, Evening
Gas Engineering
Grocers' Course (Winter Term)
Grocers' Course (Spring Term)
Gymnastics and Physical Exercises
Gymnastics (Swedish)
Hairdressing
Horticulture
Income Tax, etc.
Italian (Winter Term)
Italian (Summer Term)
Italian (For Officers)
Language Classes (Winter Term)
Language Classes (Spring Term)
Lectures (Winter Term)
Lectures (Spring Term)
Making and Sharing of Wealth
Mathematics
Matriculation
Methods of Expression in English (Winter Term)
Methods of Expression in English (Spring Term)
Methods of Expression in English (Summer Term)
Music
Photography, Evening
Physiology, Hygiene, etc.
Science and Mathematics
Shakespeare Lectures
Tailoring Trade School, Day
Tailors' Cutting
Telegraphy and Telephony

The prospectuses were issued as individual pamphlets but have been bound into a single volume.

General Prospectus
Day Schools
Accountancy (Special Summer Course)
Ambulance, Afternoon (Winter Term)
Ambulance, Afternoon (Spring Term)
Ambulance, Evening (Winter Term)
Ambulance, Evening (Spring Term)
Architectural, Day
Architectural, Evening
Art Lectures
Art School
Business Training, Day
Business Training, Evening (Winter Term)
Business Training, Evening (Spring Term)
Business Training, Evening (Summer Term)
Carriage Building
Chemistry
Commercial Law
Company Law, etc.
Cookery (Winter Term)
Cookery (Spring Term)
Dispensing
Draughtsmanship for Ladies
Dressmaking (Winter Term)
Dressmaking (Spring Term)
Economic Geography
Electrical Engineering
Elocution (Winter Term)
Elocution (Spring Term)
Empire Day Celebration
Engineering, Evening
French Lectures (Spring Term)
French Lectures (Summer Term)
Gas Engineering
Horticulture
Italian
Language Classes (Winter Term)
Language Classes (Spring Term)
Language Classes (Summer Term)
Lectures (Winter Term)
Lectures (Spring Term)
Making and Sharing of Wealth
Mathematics
Matriculation
Music
Photography, Evening
Physiology, Hygiene, etc.
Poets and Poetry of To-day
Russian
Science and Mathematics
Speech Training School (Annual Examination)
Tailors' Cutting
Telegraphy and Telephony
Theory and Practice of Commerce
Waving (Marcel & Water) [Hairdressing]

Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 16 Jul 1914 and 27 Oct 1921.

Matters arising include: appointments and salaries; membership statistics; financial statements; war fund; volunteer training corps; insurance against bombs; Compassionate Fund; VR Hoare memorial; Royal Flying Corps training; war bonuses; Hospital Saturday Fund; large hall lettings; air raid protection; hairdressing classes for disabled soldiers (Apr 1918); death of Alice Hogg; memorial tablet to members and students who have fallen in the First World War (27 Feb 1919); Boathouse tank (27 Jan 1921); Major Robert Mitchell's retirement (23 Jun 1921); Poly cinema leases (1921).