Accident Collection (page 15)

J Hassall. Jack & Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water... 20th century

Motoring in Lakeland Theres nothing like motoring (when you get stuck). For testing your temper, endurance, and pluck !! circa 1920s

Boating in Lakeland - humorous postcard cartoon. Man on Boat to Boatmen: " If you don t get ashore can I keep the boat?" !! circa 1920s

Broken Axle - South Africa
A wagon with a broken axle - " 70 miles from anywhere" ! - South Africa. How lucky a travelling photographer was on hand to assist....! Date: circa 1904

Vintage Car Crash
The scene of a serious motor accident involving quite a number of cars, somewhere in America. Date: 1930s

Artists Accident
While seeking a suitable point from which to sketch a ruin, Dr Syntax slips... Date: 1815

ZEPPELIN HINDENBURG
Zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg. one of the most successful of the passenger-carrying Zeppelins until its spectacular accident Date: 1936

Maid Drops Tray
Maid drops the tray Date: circa 1900

AKRON ACCIDENT - 2
AKRON : the ship suddenly takes to the air, carrying three men with her : one saves himself by clinging to a rope, but his companions fall 200 metres to their deaths. Date: 1932

Strike / Train Derailed
A derailed train at Cremlington, Northumberland, and an undergraduate volunteer working as a station porter Date: May 1926

Ambulance / Car Accident
An ambulance at the scene of a road accident Date: mid 1950s

Horse & Cart Accident
Four men trying to help a distressed cart horse which has fallen onto a river onto a riverbank, somewhere in Germany. Date: 1920s

Laputian Gent Walking
GULLIVER IN LAPUTA A scholar of Laputa, out walking, must be accompanied by a servant who prevents him from accident, so deep is he likely to be in his thoughts. Date: First published: 1726

Railway disaster engine no 1722

Railway disaster, debris including hats and bags in foreground, several onlookers in the background Date: 1905

Scotch express collision, Cudworth, debris of carriages Date: 1905

Cudworth railway disaster, debris, including a wheel axel in the foreground Date: 1905

Railway disaster, locomotive engine on its side and a torn carriage Date: 1905

Scotch Express collision Cudworth, people viewing the wreckage Date: 1905

Railway disaster, 19 January 1905, the wheels of the derailed train Date: 1905

Salisbury railway disaster July 1906 engine no 421 Date: 1906

The Grantham accident, overturned carriages and debris

British Ballad, The Twa Brothers
THE TWA BROTHERS. Popular British Ballad. Two brothers are wrestling when a blade that one of them is carrying mortally wounds the other

The Result of Purchasing a Blind Horse : Dr Syntax causes chaos riding a blind horse in the street, knocking over a woman whose donkey bucks and kicks

Scene of mine disaster at Wellington Pit
The under-seas tomb of over a hundred men. The scene of the great mine disaster at Whitehaven: Wellington Pit, which extends five miles under the Irish Sea

Chalked message at Wellington Pit
The Wellington Pit explosion and fire at Whitehaven on 11th May 1910 was one of Britains worst mining disasters in which 136 men and boys lost their lives

Explosion at Faversham
The remains of a gun cotton or gun powder mill at Favershams Marsh Works, Kent, which was destroyed in a violent explosion in 1847. The blast was so strong that it was heard 17 miles away

Double page spread in a diary for 22-27 November
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 22-27 November. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Double page spread in a diary for 10-15 December
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 10-15 December. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup
A policeman standing guard at a traffic pileup of three cars

Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet
A Metropolitan Police car with a smashed bonnet and its door falling off

Metropolitan Police Specimen Reports book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Specimen Reports: A Guide for Police in Reporting Accidents, Collisions, Etc. How to Report a Case for Summons

Large country house gutted by fire, Mid Wales
A large country house gutted by fire, probably in the Mid Wales area. The fire is recent, as smoke is still drifting from the building

The Culprits by Muriel Dawson
An accident in the garden. A sweet little girl in a pink pinafore and blue bonnet looks at a bird who perhaps she is going to blame for smashing a plant pot holding a red geranium

Spilt Milk by Muriel Dawson
A little blond boy in blue shorts looks upset and worried after spilling and breaking a jug of milk

Artists impression of a colliery explosion
An artists impression of a colliery explosion caused by firedamp, used in lectures on mining, taken from the Illustrated London News

Collapsed roof, Llanerch Colliery, South Wales
View of a collapsed roof at Llanerch Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. Some of the thick wooden props have broken

Soldiers and tank in trench
A group of World War One soldiers, looking at an armoured tank which has accidentally slipped into their trench

Christmas decorations / Ally Sloper
Whilst decorating his dining room with holly, Ally Sloper slips and falls through the chair he has been standing on - a painful experience

Traffic Accident Group car
A late 1940s Traffic Accident Group car, which was manned by two police officers, with two solo motorcyclists accompanying it

Traffic Accident Investigation officers at work
Met Police Traffic Accident Investigation officers measuring distances on the road to determine speed and braking distance

He fell through to the path
A rotund gentleman takes a tumble. Illustration by William Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Steve Donoghue

Transatlantic race trimoran capsized
A Transatlantic multihull race trimoran capsized 1000 miles west of the Scilly Isles, photographed from RAF Nimrod

The Search for M2
The Royal Navys new deep-sea observation chamber, invented by Robert H Davis of Siebe, Gorman & Co. the inventor of submarine life-saving apparatus

Worthington Crosswords advertisement
An advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along

Chicago, USA - car smash
Chicago, USA - the rather spectacular wreck of a car crash, which appears to have come in close contact with a nearby tree (looking remarkably unscathed!)

Fire on Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
The fire which destroyed the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868, James Hall

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