Pump Collection (page 5)

West End stage and film star, Miss Judy Campbell, learns how to use a stirrup pump on the roof of a Park Lane block of flats where she takes a regular turn at firewatching. Date: 1939-1945

A street scene in Charing Cross. Date: 1828

A street scene in Charing Cross showing someone using a water pump. Date: 1828

Lambeth Waterworks, supplying fresh water to parts of south London, photograph showing the pumping room. Date: 1900

Red Gas Pump with Serivice Man filling up car with the hose Date: 1935

Farmer Irrigates Land Date: 1948

Gassing Up an Airplane Date: 1948

Filling Station Date: 1950

Auto Mechanic Oils Car Date: 1950

Changing Motor Oil Date: 1950

Explaining theory of circulation to King Charles I

Firemen at Work Date: 1880

Horse-drawn steamer leaving headquarters 1900
Call-out in the streets of London, a horse-drawn steamer leaving the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, with a group of passers-by watching. Date: 1900

LEYLAND FIREMASTER
The first complete British Leyland Firemaster diesel- engined front-mounted pump fire engine, seen during a demonstration at Manchester Citys Fire Brigade H.Q. Date: 1950s

RUSTIC PUMP
A rudimentary rustic pump Date: 19th century

CHILDREN AT A PUMP
Two children fetch water from a pump - note the ingenious use of a hoop Date: late 19th century

PUMP AND WINDMILL
Pumping water with power from a windmill Date: circa 1760

WATER PUMP (GIGUET)
A cutaway view of a water pump in a French rural setting. Date: circa 1880

WATER PUMP / MIDDELBURG
A Dutch girl has to work a massive lever to fill her little pitcher from the fine old pump in the Abbey quadrangle at Middelburg, Netherlands. Date: 1884

SPA / BRITAIN / BATH / 1780
The old pump room, Bath. Date: Circa 1780

WATER SUPPLY / PUMPS
Pump at Aldgate, London. Date: 1927

EXACT TIME, FRANCE
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France Date: 1880

North American T-28A Nomad N7708C at Paloima 49-1515 (MSN 159-27) Assigned to 3300th Pilot Training Group, Graham AFB, FL December 1955; To the Arizona Aircraft Storage Branch [aSB]

WW2 - Getting ready for the Troops - Somewhere in France. Date: circa 1939

Le Faouet, Morbihan Brittany, France, Hotel de la Croix d Or
Le Faouet, Morbihan department, Brittany, France - Hotel de la Croix d Or on Place Bellanger. Date: circa 1910s

Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action
The Great Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action on the waterfront - note the railway lines, laid by the French. Date: 1922

LCC-LFB Dual purpose pump escape at Southwark HQ
A Dennis pump ladder and crew. The Dennis pumps were introduced in 1934-5. This pump saw service in the Blitz and continued peacetime service until it was withdrawn in 1955

Blitz in London -- Oxford Street after an air raid, WW2
Blitz in London -- the aftermath of a nights bombing on Central London and the West End, 18 September 1940. The John Lewis department store (left) was destroyed

LCC-LFB A diesel AEC-Merryweather Dennis pump
Pictured at the Brigade Headquarters drill yard, Lambeth SE1, a dual purpose appliance which for some reason does not have any hosereels!

LCC-LFB A motorised Dennis pump escape
The adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of stations required. A report produced in the 1920s recommended the closure of some 15 fire stations

LCC-LFB Bromptons Dennis pump at Lambeth HQ
Station A8 was Brompton fire station. Here its dual-purpose petrol Dennis pump is seen standing at Lambeth headquarters

Croydon Fire Brigade, Thornton Heath horse fire engine
Thornton Heath was one of three stations in the Croydon Fire Brigade -- the other two were the main Croydon headquarters station and South Norwood

Horse drawn steamer at Sutton fire station, Surrey
A horse drawn oil fuelled Merryweather steam pump at Sutton fire station, Surrey

NFS (London Region) damaged Shoreditch fire engine, WW2
The pump escape from Shoreditch fire station (36 A 1) arrives at Lambeth workshops after extensive damage was caused following a bomb blast

Self-propelled fire engine at LFB HQ, Southwark
The Hatfield motor pump was the first petrol driven engine appliance in which the engine was used to operate the fire pump

Foundry workers, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The moulders at Robert Warners Foundry, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in a group photo outside the moulding shop. The large gear wheels were used in the manufacture of water pumps for which the foundry

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
Detail of the pump flywheel of the 1845 beam engine, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Man with water pump on a comic Christmas card
Man with a water pump on a comic Christmas card -- May the spirit of Christmas be with you long and for aye. Date: circa 1890s

Two robins on pump on a Christmas and New Year card
Two robins on a frozen water pump in the snow on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Customer and barman, Halfway House, Rame, Cornwall
Customer and barman at the Halfway House pub, Rame, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Southern Railway Firemen
Firefighters working for Southern Railway spray water onto the roof of a train. Southern Railway employed eighty A.F.S. men in order to fight fires caused by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs. 1940

Norias at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
Two norias on opposite banks of the Orontes River in Hama, a city in west Syria. Norias are devices similar to water wheels which were used to lift water to a higher elevation

Noria at Orontes River in Hama, Syria
One of the Norias of Hama, a city in west Syria, as seen through a stone arch at the bank of the Orontes River. Norias are

Street next to one of the Norias of Hama, Syria
Man walking on a street in Hama, a city in west Syria. On the left one of the Norias of Hama along the Orontes River can be seen

Culdaff, Inishowen, Co. Donegal - a street scene with people, horse vehicle and petrol pump to the left. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Culdaff). Date: circa early 1900s

Joseph Wright (1734-1797). An Experiment on a Bird in the Ai
Joseph Wright (1734-1797). Known as Wright of Derby. English painter. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768). Oil-on-canvas. Detail. National Gallery. London. England. UK

Newcomen steam engine invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712. It consisted of a pump designed to reduce water steam in the galleries of mines. Engraving

Karakum / Qaraqum / Kara Kum / Garagum Canal - water comes from water pump in sluices. goes along Kopet-Dag Mountain Range - Turkmenistan - Spring - April

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