Axe Collection (page 6)

Fire Station Officer Soggee in studio photograph
Fire Station Officer Soggee in a studio photograph, in uniform with his brass helmet under his arm

Car in basement, Claverton Street, London SW1
LFB Special Service attempting to lift a car from a basement in Claverton Street, London SW1, on 24 July 1958. It was a difficult exercise, as the car kept getting caught on masonry, etc

AFS worker with emergency appliance, WW2
An Auxiliary Fire Service worker with an emergency appliance. Date: 1940s

AFS workers with emergency appliance, WW2
Three Auxiliary Fire Service workers loading an emergency appliance into a vehicle. Date: 1940s

LFB firefighters extinguishing oil can fire
Two LFB firefighters extinguishing an oil can fire

Firefighters taking part in a hose training drill
Two firefighters taking part in a hose training drill

Firefighter adjusting turntable ladder mechanism

Studio photo of Fireman A Wall, Harrow Fire Brigade. Date: circa 1928

Studio photo of Escape Foreman Putman, Harrow Fire Brigade. Date: circa 1928

Young fireman in studio photograph
A young fireman in a studio photograph by Wakefields of Ealing, London W5. He is wearing uniform, with his helmet beside him on a table

Firefighters cutting through a roof
Firefighters cutting through the roof of a burning building

A Pick Nick Down Under by William Heath Robinson
A sharp thrill in the Antipodes: one of the dangers of very deep mining. A man tunnelling through te earth with a treacherous looking pick axe surprises an Australian having managed to dig entirely

Turkish dervish, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

British soldier felling tree, Western Front, WW1
British soldier felling a tree in a wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Cartoon, Polish view of German reservists, WW1
Cartoon depicting a satirical Polish view of the German reservist army (or Landsturm) with makeshift weapons including pitchforks during the First World War. Date: September 1914

Fire in the Tower of London, rescuing the Crown Jewels
Breaking into the strong room in the Jewel Tower at the Tower of London to rescue the Crown Jewels during a fire in 1841. Date: 1841

Poster, Italian liberation, Piave, Italy, WW1
Italian fundraising poster during the First World War, showing a soldier about to sink an axe into a large encroaching hand on the other side of the Piave River. Date: circa 1917-1918

GIPSY GIRL
A pretty little gipsy girl chopping logs with an axe, Penshurst, Kent, England. Date: 1973

Jamestown Exhibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The card features an aerial view of the Exnibition site, a fine illustration of a Red Indian Brave and two inset illustrations

Washington and the cherry tree
Postcard celebrating Washingtons birthday - USA. Apocryphal stories about Washingtons childhood include the story that he chopped down his fathers cherry tree and admitted the deed when questioned

Christmas card in the shape of a chopping log with axe and seascape. Date: circa 1890s

Hand-axes, blades & harpoon
The two axe-heads on the left are from the Middle Palaeolithic about 40, 000 BC; the three specimens on the right are from the Upper Palaeolithic abot 20, 000 BC (Agfa Film)

Hand-axes & pebble tool
Left to right: Pebble tool from Olduvai about 1.7 million years old; hand-axe about 1 million years old; hand-axe about 350, 000 years old

Native of Manila, Luzon, Philippines
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Hand-Axes

Hand-axe
Flint hand-axe of Acheulian culture (Lower Palaeolithic) with rounded spall pot-lid split by frost action. Specimen from University of London, Institute of Archaeology

Memoirs sur le Termes, 1786

Flint hand axe (label)
Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400, 000 years old. This close-up of the label shows the date and initials J.P, for John Prestwich

A Swanscombe Hand Axe
One of many hand axes that have been discovered at the Homo neanderthalensis site of Swanscombe, Kent which was inhabited about 500, 000 to 300, 000 years ago

Flint hand-axe
Late Palaeolithic from Farnham, Surrey, England

Lectionary of Cathedral of Reims: Character

Bronze axes. Bronze Age. SPAIN. Vic. Vic Episcopal Museum

Pixies mining a sponge cake
Pixie Pip and Pixies mining a sponge cake

Teddy Bear: Activity around Bear Green duck pond
Activity around Bear Green duck pond

An example of a firefighters axe

Two men, one carrying a large axe, walking along a narrow mountain pass. Date 18--

Portrait of Reverend Egerton. T. Young. Methodist teacher, writer and missionary. 1890s

Stone Age Man hunting bison
A group of stone age men hunt down a bison, armed with primitive stone axes and spears Date: Circa 20, 000 B.C

Harold II at the Battle of Hastings
Harold II, King of England, fights for his life in vain at the Battle of Hastings, where he is defeated and killed by the invading Norman forces under the command of William the Conqueror Date

Unusual Farmyard Gate
An unusual farm gate, with a spade, scythe, axe etc, incorporated into its design, near Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Date: March 1939

Armourer at Work
An armourer hammering a metal helmet. Date: 1930s

She made them some broth
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She made them some broth -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman in her kitchen

Manipur butchers near Arras, France, WW1
Allied Manipur butchers (from Burma) at work preparing meat near Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 20 October 1917

Cutting a tree near Amiens, France, WW1
Two men cutting a tree at sawmills near Amiens and Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

Natives of a cold country sitting round a fire
Natives of a cold country (probably Inuit Eskimos) sitting round a fire in a wood, smoking their pipes. Date: 19th century

Butcher prepares meat
A 15th century butcher prepares cuts of meat, including ribs and hooves. Date: 15th century

Quaint Gate, Moulton, Northampton - A gate formed of agricultural implements. Date: circa 1940

Roman Knives & Axes
Censers and assorted weapons from the Roman era : daggers, knives and axes. Date: ANCIENT ROME

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