Bells Collection (page 9)

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

Carillon, 1889
Diagram showing the method of playing a carillon. Date: 1889

Girl in a muff skating
Traditional seasonal card depicting a girl skating surrounded by golden Christmas bells. Date: circa 1903

Prayer Bells, Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai
Giant prayer bells at Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Buddhist Monk, Wat Chedi Luang temple, Chiang Mai
Buddhist monk ringing bell at sunset at the Wat Chedi Luang temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Advertisement for Three Nuns tobacco
Advertisement for Bells Three Nuns tobacco, showing an historical scene with a man in a wig in the garden of a thatched cottage, enjoying a cigarette. 1914

O-Ooh! by Muriel Dawson -- a toddler standing up in its cot finds a Christmas stocking with Mr Punch looking out of the top. Date: 1925

Handbell ringing
Five Swedish gentlemen in white tie ring an array of bells of different sizes. Date: C.1900

Street performers, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Prayer Bell, Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai
Giant prayer bell at Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Santa Claus Lane, Hollywood, USA
Santa Claus Lane, Hollywood, California, USA -- otherwise known as Hollywood Boulevard, with Graumans Chinese Theatre on the left. Seen here decorated for Christmas with trees, bells and stars

Gold Hill Liberty Fire Dept No. 1, Virginia City, USA
The men of Gold Hill Liberty Fire Dept No. 1, ready to put out any fire in Virginia City, Nevada, USA. Date: 1887

Cake design, flower making. Holly and bells. Date: 1936

The bell ringers of St Pauls Cathedral, 1903
The interior of the ringing chamber at St Pauls Cathedral, London. The twelve bells of the north tower can be seen here, about to be rung by an all male band of ringers. Date: 1903

The bells of St Pauls Cathedral on an upward turn, 1903
The bells of St Pauls Cathedral, photographed specially with flashlight photography with the bells mouth up. Date: 1903

Owl in Clock Tower by J. E. Millais
" The Death of the Old Year" by J.E. Millais in Moxons Tennyson 1857 depicting an owl in a clock tower Date: 1925

Nursery Rhymes -- foxhunters, Mary in her garden
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Three foxhunters find a hedgehog (above). Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? (below) Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Ride a Cock Horse
Nursery Rhymes. An unidentified one (above), showing a man with a brush running into another mans bedroom. Below is a scene illustrating Ride a Cock Horse, showing the fine lady on her white horse

Haydns Toy Symphony performed
Performance of Haydns Toy Symphony by children of the Royal Asylum of St Anne, Redhill, Surrey. Date: 1887

CHEAPSIDE
The church of St Mary-le-Bow, on the left, houses Bow Bells but will be destroyed by bombs in 1941. Date: 1895

Roger Smith, Bell-Ringer
ROGER SMITH itinerant musician, bell- ringer with bells not only in his hands but on his head and his feet ! Date: CIRCA 1804

Zhonglou or Bell Tower of Beijing, China. Along with the nearby Drum Tower, the Bell Tower played an important role in the official timekeeping in China in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties

Japanese Geisha Ensemble with Musical Instruments (including bells and Shamisen), performing on a staging on the seafront. The tea ceremony appears to be occurring at the same time. Date: 1902

Thessaloniki, Greece - Vlatodon Monastery (Vlatades). Date: circa 1910s

Whittington Stone - Highgate Hill, London - where Dick Whittington heard the Bow Bells Date: circa 1940

Young Kitchenmaid shocked by the odour of Brown Garlic - " Lovely grub - lovely grub!" Date: circa 1940s

Corneville-les-Cloches, Eure, France - The Bells. Date: 1914

Belltower of the Convent of Saint Gerasimos - Kefalonia
Kafalonia, Greece - The Belltower of the Convent of Saint Gerasimos Date: circa 1910s

Russian Church - Cannes, Frances Date: circa 1904

South African gas alarm post trench sentry, 1917
Soldier ready to ring the bell to give warning to a gas attack. In the Western Front they took gas attacks as " all in the days work"

LCC-LFB station officer standing by Lambeths TL
With his LFB cap badge and undress uniform, this Station Officer is probably the officer in charge of Lambeth Fire Station, standing next to a turntable ladder

Pump vehicle at Southwark HQ, SE1
The pump from Southwark fire station at Brigade Headquarters, SE1. Bells and flashing amber lights were the means of clearing a passage through Londons traffic before blue lights

Camacha woman with musical instrument, Funchal, Madeira
A woman from a folklore group from the village of Camacha, seen here in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira. She is holding a musical instrument known as a brinquinho

Javanese Musicians / 1889
Javanese musicians playing traditional Bonang percussion providing music for traditional dancers in the Java Hall at the Paris Exhibition Date: 1889

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