SUBJECT INDEXING TERMS - CONTROLLED VOCABULARY

ANIMALS OR LIVESTOCK
Birds
Cat
Cows
Dogs
Game
Horses
Pigs
Poultry
Rabbits
Sheep

BIOGRAPHICAL/PEOPLE (Name the specific person and their significance and dates in the description.  Use personalities keywords also to describe field of endeavour.)
               Biographical
               People (use people where any figure at all appears on a picture whether single or plural,      known or unknown)

BUILDINGS
Abbey
Air-raid shelter
Almshouses
Arcade
Aviary
Bandstand
Bank Barracks
Building Society
Bungalow
Bus Station
Café
Castle
Cathedral
Cemetery
Cenotaph
Chapel
Church
Cinema
Civic Centre
Clubs (WMC, RAF, Liberal, Conservative etc.)
Cobbler
College
Community Centre Convent
Cottage
Court house
Crematorium
Department store
Educational Building (incl schools, colleges, Universities etc.)
Factory
Farmhouse
Filling Station
Fire Station
Flats, Block of
Foundry
Garage (car dealer or showroom)
Gasometer
Grandstand
Greenhouse
Hairdressers Hall Health Centre
Hermitage
Hospice
Hospital
Hostel
Hotel
House (back to back, semi-detached, manor house, council house, Terrace house etc) use singular form only even if there is more than one house in the image
Internet Café
Leisure centre ( for use in modern circumstances where there is mixed leisure use of a public sports building see also Swimming pool/Swimming baths)
Library
Lodging house
Mansion
Market (Street, Indoor, Outdoor, Hall)
Mill
Minster
Mission room Monastery
Mosque
Motel
Museum
Observatory
Offices
Pavilion
Petrol station
Police station
Post office Priory
Prison
Public house
Racecourse buildings
Railway station
Residential home
Restaurant
School
Scrapyard
Shed
Shop (for use where the trade is unidentifiable or mixed or where there is something like a parade of little local shops)
Shopping centre Showroom
Signal box
Sports hall Stable
Sub-station - power Surgery
Swimming baths ( if it is the building housing the swimming pool)
Swimming pool ( if an actual pool with or without water is shown)
Synagogue
Tea room
Theatre
Toilet
Toll house
Town hall
University Vicarage
War memorial
Warehouse
Water tower
Wine bar Workhouse
YMCA

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND FEATURES
Brick
Cellars
Chimney
Concrete
Door
Drain
Glass
Grate
Lamp post
Manhole
Plant machinery
Road
Road unsurfaced
Roof  (type - slate, pan-tile)
Shutters
Stained glass windows
Steps
Stone
Subway
Windows (bay, dormer, sash, mullioned)
Wood
Yard

CELEBRATIONS/ EVENTS
Banner
Brass band
Bunting
Celebration
Charity event
Clog dancing
Coronation
Decoration
Demonstration
Exhibition
Fair
Festival
Flags
Gala
Jubilee
Mayday
Maypole
Meeting
Mela
Millenium
Morris dancing
Opening ceremony
Pageant
Parade
Presentation
Royal Visit        
For family based events ( e.g. Wedding, Christening, Funeral see Home Life section)  

EDUCATION
Class photograph
School event
School staff
Sports day
Teacher

HOME LIFE
Childbirth
Childcare
Christening
Cleaning
Cooking
Funeral
Furniture ( for furniture use Indoor views and specify room only in keywords e.g. bedroom, dining room, lounge, kitchen, describe and name individual items in description section)
Holiday
Indoor views
Pram Pushchair
Wedding

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Alderman
Chairman
Civic events
Civic regalia
Coat of arms
Councillor
Election
Local official
Mace bearer
Mayor
Member of European Parliament
Member of Parliament
Recorder
Town clerk
Town crier
Town emblem

PERSONALITIES (use in conjunction with biographical section)
Artists
Clergy
Local personalities
Music personalities
Sports personalities
Television personalities
Theatrical personalities
Writers

SITES AND LOCATIONS
Allotment Aqueduct
Athletic track
Beck covering
Boat yard
Bowling green
Bridge
Building site
Canal
Car park
Cemetery
Circus
Coal yard
Colliery
Common Demolition Site
Excavation ( e.g. in the case of an archeological site)
Fairground
Farm
Field
Garden
Indoor views
Lake
Landscape industrial
Landscape rural
Lock (Canal)
Market garden
Orchard
Park
Path (for use where there is no road associated with it e.g. a country footpath. Consider use of Pedestrianised area, Road Unsurfaced or Road if it is only a pavement associated with a paved road)
Playground
Pond
Quarry
Racecourse
Railway
River
Road building
Road works
Sewer construction site
Sports field
Stadium
Stream
Streets (to be Named in description, for keywords use the generic term 'Road')
Tennis court
Tip
Village green
Wasteground
Water tower
Water treatment works
Wharf
Woodyard

SITE FEATURES
Arch Brick wall
Bridge
Bush
Cantilever
Dry stone wall
Fence
Flower bed
Flowers
Ford
Goal posts
Gravestone (names specified in description)
Hedgerow Machinery
Plants
Railway embankment
Rooftop
Scaffolding
Stone wall ( stone wall, brick wall etc are for free standing boundary walls only)
Tent
Tree
Vegetable bed ( see also allotment, park etc)
Vegetables Weir
Winding gear

SOCIETIES & CLUBS (under name of eg. Mothers Union
Rotary Club, Women's Institute, Girl Guides Brass band)

SPORTS
Angling
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Bowling
Boxing
Chess
Cricket
Cycling
Dancing
Football
Gambling
Golf
Greyhound Racing
Gymnastics Hockey
Horse Racing
Horse Riding
Hunting
Ice Skating
Indoor Sport
Keep Fit
Knurr and Spell
Marbles (use local termTaws also in description)
Martial Arts
Model Aeroplanes
Motor Sport
Netball
Pigeon Racing
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Shooting
Skating
Squash
Swimming
Tennis
Weight Lifting
Wrestling
Yoga

STRUCTURES AND ORNAMENTS
Advertisement (specify names in description where visible see also Newspaper placard, Noticeboard and poster, use multiple if necessary)
Aviary
Band stand
Barber's pole
Bench
Bollard
Brazier
Bunting
Bus stop
Christmas decorations
Cigarette machine
Clock
Decorative plasterwork
Dovecote
Drinking fountain/troughs
Electric light Flag
Flag pole
Floodlight
Fly poster
Foundation stone
Furnace
Gas lamp
Gates
Heritage plaque
Lamp post
Memorial (consider also the use of cenotaph, war memorial, gravestone)
Milestone
Monument
Newspaper placard (specify names/headline in description)
Noticeboard
Pavilion
Pawnbrokers sign
Post box
Pumping house
Railings (see also wrought ironwork and gates)
Sculpture
Sign (specify names where visible in description)
Stall
Stamp machine
Statue (specify name of subject/artist in description)
Telegraph pole
Telephone box
Tram lines
Tram stop
Transformer (electrical)
Vending machine
Viaduct
War memorial
Washing line
Wrought ironwork

TYPES OF SHOP
Artists supplies Audio visual (e.g. video store or record shop)
Baker
Bank
Barber
Blacksmiths
Bookmaker Bookshop
Building contractor
Building society
Butcher
Café
Chain store (Specific name in description)
Charity Chemist
Clothing
Coal merchant
Computer supplies
Confectioner
Co-operative (specify branch name or work e.g. bakery/butchery dept. in description)
Craft
Dairy
Department store (Specify name in description)
Draper
Electrical goods Estate agent
Fish and chip shop
Fishmonger
Florist Footwear
Fruiterer
Furrier
General store
Grocer
Hairdresser
Hardware
Hatter
Herbalist
Hobby shop
Home furnishings Insurance
Jeweller
Ladies outfitter
Leather grinder
Manufactures agent
Menswear
Mobile shop
Motor engineer parts
Newsagent
Optician
Painter and decorator
Pastry cook
Pawnbroker Pet shop Plumber
Poultry and game
Printer
Radio engineer
Restaurant Saddler
Signwriter
Solicitors
Sporting goods
Stationer
Supermarket
Tailor
Takeaway
Timber merchant
Tobacconist
Travel agent
Wheelwright
Woollen merchant

TYPES OF FACTORY AND INDUSTRY
Boat yard Boiler Works
Brewery
Brickworks
Casting
Ceramic Cheese manufacture
Chemical works
Clothing manufacturer
Coal mining
Coking works
Confectionary factory
Engineering works
Farming
Flax mill
Flour mill
Food manufacture
Foundry
Glass works
Industrial estate Kilns
Liquorice factory
Magneto manufacturer
Maltsters
Mill
Oil merchant
Open cast mining
Pit
Pottery
Power station
Quarry
Railway works
Rhubarb sheds
Ropeworks
Service industry
Ship building
Shunting yard
Sidings
Textile industry
Valve manufacturer
Warehouse
Water treatment works
Wire works
Woollen mill

VEHICLES
Ambulance
Barge
Bicycle
Boat
Bus
Car
Caravan
Cart
Charabanc
Coach
Container lorry
Delivery van
Fire engine
Freight railcar
Handcart
Hansom cab
Hearse
Horse and cart
Ice cream van
Lorry
Mobile shops
Motorbike
Passenger railcar
Plant machinery
Police vehicle
Steam roller
Tanker
Tom pudding
Traction engine
Tractor
Train diesel
Train steam
Tram
Van

WEATHER CONDITIONS
Drought
Flood
Ice
Snow
Storm damage

ADVERSE EVENTS (MAN MADE OR OTHERWISE)
Bomb damage
Collapse
Crash
Explosion
Fire
Pollution

MILITARY
Air Force
Army
Home Guard
Land Army
Navy
War
War Work