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After World War Two - Heathrow Airport FacilitiesAfter World War Two - The rather basic Heathrow Airport Reception and Communication Facilities. Date: 1946
Poster, Night Mail, quoting part of the poem by W H Auden written for and narrated in the documentary film of the same name (1936). circa 1930s
Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead) - The Judgement(Above) -Twelve Gods seated in Order, as judges before a table of offerings. (Below) - The Psychostasia of Weighing of the Conscience of Ani
Pin-up calendar girl by David Wright, 1950A woman with her red hair swept up in a bun, poses elegantly in some diaphanous lingerie as she speaks on a red telephone. Date: 1950
British Army messager pigeon serviceTaking birds out: to the trenches by despatch-riders to let the pigeons fly for training. Regular going and coming supply service of birds between the pigeon homing lofts at Divisional
Yost Light Running Typewriter No. 15A Yost Light Running Typewriter No.15. Date: 1910
AFS despatch rider and messenger, WW2An AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) despatch rider and messenger on a motorbike at an LFS sub-station during the Second World War
Carrier Pigeon posterPoster warning people of the dangers of shooting carrier pigeons who may be carrying life or death messages. Carrier pigeons, we are told, are a vital part of RAF
Girl Guides: Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret send courierPrincess Elizabeth, patrol leader in the Buckingham Palace Company, sends a message by courier pigeon to Lady Baden Powell at Guide Headquarters
SOS message from TitanicA wireless message received by the Russian steamer Birma from the Titanic about five minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg that sank her
Policeman at a police call boxA policeman on the phone at a police public call box on a London street
Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radioA Metropolitan Police walkie talkie radio
Typesetter at workA compositor at a the Lund Humphries print works places a small type glyph on a forme rack, finishing a page of imposing surface text prior to inking and printing. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
Telephone SwitchboardNew Scotland Yard switchboard
Gutenbergs printing pressGutenberg inspects the first sheet of his Bible, which has just come off the press
Gutenbergs press, with booksGutenbergs press, reconstructed from what was left of it, and housed in the Deutsche Buchgewerbehaus at Leipzig, Germany
Silhouettes from the Somme by H. L. OakleyVarious scenes on the Somme cut by famous silhouette artist, Captain H. L. Oakley showing the work to be done when pursuing the retreating Germans
Christmas parcels for the trenches 1916Army Post Office in Regents Park, was receiving a rate of half a million parcels for Christmas a day for the soldiers in the trenches
The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge, WW1The Surrey Yeomanry on the Struma Valley Front, Salonika 1917-1918. The Evening Wireless - Komarjan Bridge. By Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945). 1917-1918
Advert for using a telephoneIt pays to telephone ! Remember - a telephone in your home saves you time, money, and worry, and minimises inconvenience, anxiety, and loneliness
Sikh Troops DiggingSikh infantry in the British army digging communication trenches and laying cables to connect up advanced positions
Printing equipment at a German printer sA flat-bed press and other printing equipment in a German printers workshop (Buchdruckerwerkstatte)
Transatlantic communications: telephoning London to New YorkHow the London telephone subscriber will " get" New York: the wonders of transatlantic telephony, as explained by The Illustrated London News in 1927. Date: 1927
The Railway Junction. A signal changing from stop to go. This is a classic British semaphore stop signal (lower quadrant type)
GPO map of Mail Steamship Routes. Date: circa 1950s
Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North WalesView of Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The underwater Atlantic telegraph came ashore here. Date: early 20th century
Woman police officer attending an accident where a man appears to have fallen off a ladder. She is speaking into her hand-held radio. Date: circa 1970s
Map of British Empire showing international cableMap of the British Empire (coloured red), showing the All-British international cable going round the world, enabling telegraphic communication. Date: circa 1902
Penny Post Jubilee card - Sir Rowland Hill - 1890A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post. The card features a postman from 1840 and one from 1890
Mails for the Packets arriving at Falmouth, 1833 circa 1930
Pin Up on telephone by David WrightAn alluring blonde woman in a black evening dress and white fur stole talks on a red telephone while looking seductively at the viewer
Louis Braille - inventor of system of raised-point writingLouis Braille (1809-1852) - French inventor of system of raised-point writing for the blind. Date: circa 1850
RAF Harrier Jump Jets, No. 1 Squadron, set up in 1969. The jump jet is a vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft. Seen here are staff at work in a control tower
Town crier, St Marys, Scilly IslesThe local town crier, Wilfred Tonkin, on St Mary s, Scilly Isles. Seen here announcing the fact that the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has taken up residence in his holiday bungalow
LCC-LFB Breathing apparatus communications setA Sub Officer from Lambeths (D61) emergency tender crew demonstrating the Southampton communications equipment that was worn with a full face mask on the Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set
(The Morning After of a Faun) Le Lendemain d un Faune (or, What an Afternoon ) - The Great success of the new ballet L Apres-Midi d un Faune in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself
Graca & Cos stall - Hong Kong - important printers and vendors of postcards, stamps and stationary. Date: circa 1905
Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Iran (Persia). These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford
Poster, Anglo-Swiss Telephone Service, showing a woman skating in the Alps. 20th century
A London skyscape: the sky in Soho, 1905The maze of telephone wires over Soho, at the Gerrard Street telephone exchange. The steeple of St Anne s, Soho, can be seen in the distance, on the otherside of Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: 1905
Phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)Phonograph. Created in 1877 by Thomas Alva Edison (Milan, Ohio, 1847-West Orange, 1931). Colored engraving
Native American Indian Picture Writing (Medicine Mans Chant) of the Chippewa or Ojibbewa Indians. Date: circa 1890s
London Fire Brigades organisation and equipmentA selection of small drawings of the events that take place in 1937, when a call by a pedestrian seeing flames and smoke to the very end when the fire has been put out
HMS Monarch, British cable shipThe HMS Monarch, a British cable-laying ship. There were three cable ships of this name -- this is probably the third one, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1916. Date: 20th century
Blitz in London -- salvaged mail, Calthorpe Street, WW2Blitz in London -- following the bombing of Mount Pleasant Post Office on 18 June 1943, salvaged mail was temporarily piled up in nearby Calthorpe Street. Date: 1943
Example of a woman dialling 999 for the emergency services in a red telephone booth
Invisible inkCoded invisible ink message demonstrated by German spy Kurt H de Rysbach, 1915 Date: 1915
The Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze, EssexThe Naze Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. An historic landmark, it was built on the cliffs in 1721 by Trinity House as a navigation mark to guide shipping