Helmets Collection (page 7)

Aircraft Firefighters School, Stansted, Essex
Aircraft Firefighters School based at Stansted, Essex, where men and women from around the world were trained. Old aircraft were deliberately set ablaze to give crews realistic training

Firefighters hosing down a burnt-out car, with their fire engine and police cars in the background. Date: 1972

Government officials in a car, India
British colonial government officials in a car, India. Date: 1908

Battle of Hastings re-enactment. With cross-gartered jeans and dyed sackcloth doublets, the students of Kent and Sussex Universities re-enact the battle 900 years later. Date: 14 October 1066

Canadian Pacific cruise passengers with train in India
Canadian Pacific cruise passengers from the Empress of Australia cruise liner, standing in front on a train which offers them a special trip across India as part of their trip. Date: 1929

Caricature of Howard Paul, American writer and performer
Caricature of George Henry Howard Paul (1830-1905), American writer, playwright, comic actor and theatre manager, active in the UK

Police officers at Driving School with car and motorcycles
Police officers at the Police Driving School with a car and motorcycles. At this time, training courses were being run for WPCs in the use of a new type of lightweight motor scooter

Women police officers in Nijmegen March, Holland
Women police officers of the Met Police, together with a small boy in police uniform and helmet, taking part in a Nijmegen March in Holland. Date: circa 1950s

Policewomen recruits measured for height, London
Policewomen recruits in civilian clothes being measured for height by a woman police officer (possibly Inspector Alice B Clayden). Another woman police officer watches from behind a desk

Three police officers, Isle of Man, WW2
Three police officers in an informal group photo while serving at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War. Their duties included luggage checks and guarding internees

Women police officers off duty in Section House
Women police officers off duty, relaxing in the Section House. Date: 1919

Two police officers on horseback, London
Two police officers, a man and a woman, on horseback in a London street. They are wearing protective helmets introduced in 1984. Women were appointed to the Mounted Branch in 1970. Date: circa 1984

Wedding group with police officers
Group photo of a police wedding, with the happy couple and some of the guests in civilian clothes, and five men in police uniform. Date: circa 1950s

Police officers with dogs, conducting a search, London
A group of police officers, male and female, belonging to the Special Patrol Group, with police dogs, conducting a search. The WPCs are wearing the Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Queen Elizabeth with Superintendent Peto, WW2
Queen Elizabeth accompanied by Superintendent D.O.G. Peto of the Metropolitan Police, taking part in a visit to Pembridge Hall Section House during the Second World War

Woman police officer Shirley Becke, London, WW2
Shirley Cameron Becke (nee Jennings, 1917-2011), later to become Commander of the Met Polices A4 (Women s) Branch from 1966 to 1973

Woman police officer in overcoat, London
A woman police officer in London, wearing a double-breasted overcoat (winter uniform), helmet with badge, white shirt and tie, duty armband and boots. Date: 1933

Woman police officer helmet, Stanley uniform, London
Aerial view of an early Metropolitan Police female officers helmet, part of the Stanley Uniform introduced in 1919. The helmet was made of cork and hard felt, with a large badge on the front

Two women police officers entering Bow Street police station
Two women police officers (Constable Sheila Acton and Sergeant Margaret Heald) entering Bow Street police station, London. A policeman stands at the top of the steps. Date: circa 1960s

Three women police officers in a dormitory, London, WW2
Three women police officers, one of them in uniform, sitting in a dormitory (possibly also an air raid shelter) in London during the Second World War, having a cup of tea. Date: 1940s

Woman police officer in London, WW2
Woman police officer on duty wearing an air raid helmet on a London street during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian, London
Woman police officer chatting to a pedestrian on a London street. Date: circa 1930s

Woman police officer holding hands with children, London
Woman police officer holding hands with a girl and a boy on a London street -- perhaps she has just guided them across the road. Date: circa 1930s

Male and female police officer on a street, London
A male and a female police officer on a street in London, reading something in a notebook. Date: circa 1930s

Woman police officer guiding little girl across the road and holding up her hand to an oncoming car, on the corner of Vincent Square, London SW1. Date: circa 1930s

Woman being fitted with policewomans uniform
Woman being fitted with her policewomans uniform. The policewomens uniform was updated in 1931, when a white shirt and tie were introduced, the hat badge became smaller and shoes replaced boots

Three women police officers in uniform, London
Three female Metropolitan Police officers pose in their uniforms (winter dress, with overcoats) -- an inspector, a sergeant and a constable

British soldier on camel
British soldier using the means of a camel for transportation in Africa. Date: 1894

On Western Front 1918
Officers making obeservations from a safe distance with the aid of binoculars, near the Front Line of the Western Front. Date: 1918

Dog Collects for Wool
Southville Beau, a Yorkshire Terrier, has collected three thousand pennies for the Wool Fund to knit socks and balaclava helmets for our boys in the trenches. Date: 1914 - 1918 war

Mussolini / On Parade 1940
BENITO MUSSOLINI Italian dictator on parade in 1940 with Marshal Badoglio and others Date: 1940

Strike / Constables
A detachment of the new civil constabulary - volunteers to act as transport guards and help quell disturbances Date: May 1926

Gunners prepared to face the gas 1916
French gunners wearing masks and helmets against the asphyxiating gases sometimes released far from the battlefront. 1916

Roman Shoes / Helmets &c
Various Roman shoes, helmets, ornaments and other objects. Date: circa 100 BC

Military / Dress / 15th Cent
Armour and helmets - the more fancy ones were intended for use in the tournament rather than the battlefield Date: 14th/15th centuries

Military / Dress / 14th Cent
Armour, helmets and weapons Date: 1350 to 1460

Group photo, London Fire Brigade, Manchester Square, Winners of the Motor Escape Competition in 1927, 1928 and 1930, runners up in 1929. Six firemen and a trophy with a fire engine behind them

Music cover, The Fire Bell Galop, composed by Charles Blamphin. circa 1860

Firefighters attending a fire in the Strand in London
Firefighters attending a fire on the south side of the Strand in London circa 1910s

London Fire Brigade, Manchester Square, London
London Fire Brigade turn-out, Manchester Square, London, with horse-drawn vehicles. circa 1910s

Raf Monoplane Pilots
Squadron Leader Q.R. Gayford and Flight Lieutenant O.L.G. Bett, pilots of the giant RAF Fairey (Napier) Long Range Monoplane, at Cranwell Aerodrome, destination Egypt. Date: 22 October 1931

Firefighters in action up a ladder, with smoke pouring out of a window. Date: circa 1960s

London Fire Brigade, Southwark HQ, London -- Making up and bringing up horses to get away home after District Call at Headquarters. Date: circa 1905

Advert for Reduca chin-strap helmet 1933
Regain a youthful chin-line, nothing betrays a womans age more definitely than a double-chin, yet this can be comfortably removed (or prevented) with the new Reduca chin-strap helmet. 1933

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