Bells Collection (page 8)

Butterfly and flowers on a birthday card. Date: circa 1890s

Butterflies and flowers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two clowns with cockerels on a New Year card
Two clowns separating fighting cockerels on a New Year card, with a comic verse. circa 1890s

Church bells in the snow on a Christmas card
Church bells in the snow on a crescent-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Ringing bells on an audible Christmas card
Ringing bells and holly on an audible Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Easter card in the shape of a bell, with two white doves. Date: circa 1880s

Three angels ringing bells on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1900s

Boy and two girls in the snow on a Christmas card, with a verse about pealing bells. Date: circa 1870s

The Waterloo Tower, Quex Park
The Waterloo Tower was built in 1819 to house a ring of twelve bells for English change ringing. It was the first ring of twelve bells in Kent

Construction of Singing Tower, Lake Wales, Florida, USA
Construction of the Singing Tower (or Bok Tower), a belltower with a carillon of 60 bells, the centrepiece of the Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary in Lake Wales (or Wailes), Florida, USA

Walesbilt Hotel, Lake Wales, Florida, USA
Walesbilt Hotel, Lake Wales (or Wailes), Florida, USA, with the Singing Tower (or Bok Tower) and Mountain Lake Sanctuary (left). Date: 1937

The Bells, illustration by William Heath Robinson
The Bells, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, illustration by William Heath Robinson (1900). Showing a group of frantic-looking bellringers pulling on ropes. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Testing Candidates by William Heath Robinson
Testing candidates for the position of water diviner on the Metropolitan Water Board. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C. Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1947

Carranza beacon and chimes, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico
Carranza beacon and chimes at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico. Date: 1930

Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell - Boys at Drill
Spurgeons Orphanage, Stockwell. Boys perform a drill exercise holding dumb-bells

National Childrens Home (NCH) Industrial School, Gravesend. Uniformed boys stand in front of a table bearing a large number of bells of different sizes. Date: 1890s

French Theatre -- Les Sobres Sotz
Les Sobres Sotz (The Sober Fools), a farce, showing a fool, Le Badin, in yellow and green motley. Date: 16th century

Cupid ringing foxglove bells in a garden. Date: circa 1910s

Evening bells, Les Images en Musique
Two dogs stop to pray when they hear the Angelus (evening bells), illustration in Les Images en Musique, with illustrations by Benjamin Rabier and easy pieces for piano by Jane Vieu. Date: 1908

Indian hats, headdresses, hairstyles, necklaces, bracelets, etc.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

Musical instruments of the Hebrews and Babylonians.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity

The Village, Eye, Ipswich, England
The Village, Eye, Ipswich, near Diss, Suffolk, England. Showing the Eight Bells Inn. Date: 1908

Shortia galacifolia, Oconee bells, native of Carolina.. Hand-coloured botanical illustration drawn by Matilda Smith and lithographed by John Nugent Fitch from Joseph Dalton Hookers Curtiss Botanical

Bells of Ouseley Inn in its Original Guise, Old Windsor, Ber
Thought to be the Bells of Ouseley Inn in its Original Guise, Old Windsor, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Rebuilt 1936 Date: 1900s

Ring o Bells Inn, Challacombe, Devon
Ring o Bells Inn, Challacombe, Bratton Fleming, near Barnstaple, Devon, England. Date: 1930s

Morris Dancers performing outside St Pauls Cathedral as part of the Lord Mayors Procession

Tsar Kolokol, or King of bells, Moscow, Russia, 1834
The Tsar Bell, also known as the King of Bells, Tsar Kolokol or Royal Bell, being rung by a team of men, Moscow, Russia. Date: 1834

Tenor bell for St. Pauls, 1878
New peal of bells for St Pauls Cathedral: the tenor bell, presented by the city corporation, produced by John Taylors Bellfoundry of Loughborough. Date: c. 1830

A casting-pit of a bell foundry, c. 1830. Date: c. 1830

Great Chinese bell at Buckingham Palace, 1844
An extraordinary Chinese present to Queen Victoria in 1844: a great Chinese bell in the library of Buckingham Palace. About five foot high and three foot in diameter

Various bells
1. The approved form of a bell. 2. A diagram illustrating the vibration of bells. 3. A flat bell. 4. A Chinese bell 5. A section showing the most approved form of a bell. 6

A codonophone - a new musical instrument, 1890
A codonophone, a new musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of bells. As used in Gastinels ballet Reve, which featured at the Paris Opera House in 1890. Date: 1890

Chimes
An automated musical instrument that chimes, somewhat similar to those used in miniature in musical boxes. See picture 10809687 for a similar chiming machine in action

Carillon of Dunkerque, 1851
A man plays the carillon of Dunkerque, 1851. Date: 1851

Summer flower arrangement with trellis background

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)

Blue Bell Motel, San Diego, California, USA
Blue Bell Motel, Pacific Highway, San Diego, California, USA. Date: 1940s

The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, 1898
The town hall carillon of Levallois-Perret, Paris. Date: 1898

Bells for Christ Church, Boston, Massachusetts
A chime of thirteen bells for Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the foundry yard.The bells were manufactured by Henry N. Cooper and Co, of Boston. Date: 1860

Medieval music making: man plays bells
A halo-ed figure(possibly King David)plays a row of eight bells

Paris, France - Notre-Dame. Date: 19th century

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

LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQ
Lambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen

Palma, Mallorca, Spain, - Tower Sanct Nicolas Church
Palma, mallorca, Spain. The Eighteenth Century Bell tower is the focus of the Sanct nicholas Church. Date: 2013

LFB dual purpose appliance in Westminster
A London Fire Brigade dual purpose appliance near Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. Date: 1951

LFB Dennis fire engine (back view)
A London Fire Brigade Dennis fire engine (back view, showing the gallows)

The German use of church towers as observation posts in WW1. This report in the Illustrated War News, dated 1917, claims that the Germans attacked Rheims Cathedral on the premise that it was being

Church bells saved from becoming enemy shells, Russia, 1915
Placed together for safety in the Nikolsky Monastery near Moscow, some of the 300 Russian church bells removed to prevent invading Germans re-using them as metal for shells

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