Beta Collection

Army airship Beta in shed at OTC camp, Farnborough
Army airship Beta in a shed at an Officers Training Corps camp in Farnborough, July 1910. Date: 1910

British airship Beta at Firminy, France, WW1
The British airship Beta (HMA No. 17) on the landing ground at Firminy near Dunkirk, northern France, during the First World War

The British Army Airship Beta and Hangar
The British Army Airship " Beta" and hangar. Served in northern France during the First World War. She had a 45-50 Clerget engine, a speed of 35 mph and a crew of three

Shi drum and cingle
Shi drum, Umbrina cirrosa 1 and cingle, zingel, Zingel zingel 2. Ombrina barbuta, Cinglo. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

White beet, Beta vulgaris, and garden orache, Atriplex hortensis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Chard, Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Wild beet, Beta sylvestris, and wintergreen, Pyrola minor. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Fodder beet, Beta vulgaris var. rapa. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Leaf vegetables, Herbes potageres. Chard, Beta vulgaris, nettle, Urtica dioica, rhubarb, Rheum rhabarbarum, garden orache, Atriplex hortensis

Root vegetables, racines alimentaires. Beetroot, Beta vulgaris, wild carrot, Daucus carota, and rampion, Campanula rapunculus

Unknown South African waxbill and Brazilian firefinch varieties (Red-rumped waxbilled finch, Loxia astrild beta, and white-tailed waxbilled finch, Loxia leucera)

Beet, Beta vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena

Curtis British Entomology Plate 601
Trichoptera: Hydropsyche fulvipes Curtis [Plant: Chara sp. (Chara vulgaris var. beta)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 310
Coleoptera: Blemus micros = Tachys micros (Narrow Blemus) [Plant: Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima (Beta maritima, Sea Beet)] Date: 1824-39

THAMES FIRE FIGHTERS
London fire-fighters attend to the engines of the Beta III fire float, one of several such boats used for fire cover along the river Thames. Date: June 1933

LFB fireboat Beta II at Cherry Garden Pier
LCC-LFB fireboat Beta II (the sister craft to fireboat Beta) moored off its fire station at Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe, SE London

Lees blue-flowered tree lupin, Lupinus nootkatensis beta fruticosus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn by John Curtis and engraved by Weddell from Curtiss Botanical Magazine, 1820

Dangers of radioactivity by G. H. Davis
Death rays released by an atomic bomb explosion: the dangers of radioactivity explained in drawings. Date: 1946

Flag of the Commonwealth of Australia. The flags original design (with a six-pointed Commonwealth Star - as shown on this card)

The Royal Aircraft Factory Farnborough from Beta at 600ft
The Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough from Beta at 600ft. About 1913. Date: 1913

Beta vulgaris, common beet
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Beta vulgaris, spinach beet
Illustration from Icones Plantarum Medicinalium (1784) by Johann Zorn. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

LCC-LFB First fireboats in the London Fire Brigade
A fire float and tug were first introduced in 1877 and used until 1900 when they were replaced by shallow draft fireboats

LCC-LFB fireboat fleet at Lambeth HQ, London
As part of the formal opening of the London Fire Brigade headquarters building on the Albert Embankment, Londons fireboats Massey Shaw

LCC-LFB fireboat Beta III, midstream on River Thames
A side view of the London Fire Brigades fireboat Beta III, stationary and midstream, downstream of Tower Bridge with Wapping wharves in the background

LCC-LFB fireboat Beta at Cherry Garden Pier
Fireboat Beta alongside Cherry Garden Pier, Rotherhithe, in the Port of London, downstream from Tower Bridge. The twin funnelled Beta had a large capacity firefighting fitted monitor near its prow

LCC-LFB Fireboat Beta III on the River Thames
Fireboat Beta III facing downriver, seen from the River Fire Station at Rotherhithe (Cherry Garden Pier)

LCC-LFB fireboat Beta III on sea trials
Civilian marine engineers on the Beta III fireboat during her sea trials prior to being placed in operational service

Monitor Water Pump / Jet
A large Monitor water pump, providing a powerful jet, mounted onboard the Beta III fire-boat of the London Fire Brigade

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