Alarm Collection (page 2)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Date: 1906

Ball Lightning
inside a farmhouse at Salagnac, Correze (France) a boule alarms two girls but the only victim is a pig in the adjoining stable Date: 10 September 1845

Comic postcard, Elephant and dog Date: 20th century

Anti-Suffrage Cartoon Her Mothers Voice
Young girl and her father view mother with alarm as she races past the window wielding a hammer. Date: 1911

A Maori Fire Alarm, Ohinemutu, New Zealand
A quite spectacular Maori Mounted bell at the Te Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, New Zealand - made in memory of Tara-hai-ahia, a well-respected member of the local Maori community

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - waking up. circa 1910s

Watchroom at Fire Brigade HQ, Southwark
Watchroom at Metropolitan Fire Brigade headquarters in Southwark Bridge Road, with men manning the switchboard and monitoring the fire alarm control board where calls for assistance were received

Gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops, Volhynia, WW1
A gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops of the Landwehr Reserve Batallion at Volhynia (Wolhynien) on the eastern front in north-west Ukraine during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1916

Sofya and Streltsi
Sofya, Peters half-sister and regent during his youth, favours the Streltsi (palace bodyguard). But their excesses alarm young Peter, who will deal with them later. Date: 1682

Down by the Sea - Catch of the Season - Crab biting a toe
Down by the Sea - The Catch of the Season - A pesky Crab bites the toe of a late Victorian / early Edwardian lady having a paddle through the rockpools

No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to a Peeping Tom
No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to an invisible onlooker, who is seemingly admiring her choice of tiny red (with black spots) beach wear and red high heeled shoes. Date: early 1940s

Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet with tights and bare back
Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet standing alongside a some red stage curtains covered in little black stars, looks back over her shoulder

Louis Wain Postcard - The Seaside Bill
Father cat is horrified at the scaleof his hotel bill as the cat family head home from their summer vacation to Catterick (or Purfleet, Mousehole, Shrewsbury etc.) Date: 1904

London Fire Brigade street fire alarm and telephone point
In 1904 the Metropolitan Fire Brigade changed its name to the London Fire Brigade. Less than one year later it was possible for crews to call in to Southwark Headquarters from a remote point

Rome saved from Gauls by geese
Rome is saved from the Gauls when the alarm is given by the Geese of the Capitol (the Sacred Geese of Juno)

Susi - with demolished alarm clock
Susi - with a demolished alarm clock, in pieces on the floor. 1950s

Office Boy burns his bridges and threatens to give notice
Office Boy burns his bridges (disobeying every commandment on his behaviour in sight) and threatens to give notice to his (rather surprised) Boss! Date: 1907

Notes on Etiquette - Greeted with a Kiss. Nothing more readily conduces to a pleasant visit than a kindly, hearty greeting. Date: 1908

Susi - demolishing an alarm clock. 1950s

Susi - in chair, with alarm clock
Susi - sitting in a chair, holding an alarm clock. 1950s

Two robins alarmed by a cat on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century

Dollie Goo Goo surpised by a duckling
European take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Hose the Firemans Daughter. late 19th century

Builders Fall Off a Roof
Three builders fall off a roof Date: 1900

Dr Syntax robbed in St Giles, London. Date: 1820

Canning Defiant / Gillray
Phaeton alarm d George Canning defies his enemies Date: 1808

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

Self-portrait of Andrew Besley, photographer, yawning and stretching in bed in the early morning. 1956

The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur
Inside page of a promotional flyer for The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur. (fourteenth Street Theatre, New York, 30th July 1887). First produced in England Princesss Theatre, 2nd August 1888

Fox and five chicks on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Home interior, Julianehab, Greenland
Home interior in Julianehab (now Qaqortoq), southern Greenland, at this time a Danish colony, with a man sitting reading. 1921

Ringing the gas alarm on the Western Front by Philip Dadd
A British gas sentry rings a medieval church bell bearing figures of saints and armorial insignia (formerly hung in the shattered belfry shown in the background)

Advert for Hawkins kitchen accessories 1952
Home-making begins with Hawkins. Hawkins labour saving kitchen accessory to make light of every chore. From a Tecal, that automatically makes your morning tea or coffee

French church bell used as gas warning alarm, 1917, WW1
The church bell of a destroyed village church in the Upper Marne, France, in use by the French for warning the neighbourhood, and the trenches, of impending poison gas attacks in 1917. Date: 1917

Fire alam post, Cooks Road, Vauxhall, WW2
Fire alarm post (FA41) protected by sandbags outside the AFS station in Cooks Road, Vauxhall, with an LFB fire engine on the left, around the start of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Browns fire alarm head (open)

Browns fire alarm head (closed) with instructions
Browns fire alarm head (closed), with instructions in English and Hebrew

Street telephone fire alarm with group of children
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with a group of children looking up at it

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Aftermath of high explosive bomb, Blackfriars Road, WW2
Aftermath of a high explosive bomb at Blackfriars Road, London, on 24 October 1940. In the background is the train bridge between London Bridge and Waterloo stations

Firefighter using telephone point in street
Firefighter using a telephone point (marked Ambulance Call) in the street

Its coming! Gas attack 1917
The alert has just been given, by means of a shell-going that a German gas wave has been let loose, and is approaching the trenches

Bring the Batman (patented by Germany), Heath Robinson
Bring-The-Batman (Patented in Germany) by William Heath Robinson. Simplicity itself: A device adopted by hun officers for awakening their servants. Date: 1917

Keeping track of German raiders by G. H. Davis
Keeping track of German raiders during the Second World War: the method pictorially explained, from the moment their approach is noted until the sounding of the alert in the threatened areas

ARP Warden - False Alarm - Pimlico, London
(text taken from photo caption) False Alarm. Mrs Mary Bennet, ARP Warden in Pimlico, London (" river slum district" !)

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

Gas Alarm at Loos / Wwi
British troops don their gas masks in the face of a gas attack at the Battle of Loos in autumn of 1915. Date: 1915

That 16-inch sensation - Bairnsfather postcard
" That 16-inch sensation" - Bairnsfather postcard. Bairnsfather was badly wounded by a shell burst in April 1915 and during his weeks of convalescence suffered recurring nightmares

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