Billowing Collection

Sailing Ships Date: 1927

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

Iron Works / Corby / Photo
Smoke billowing out of the Iron Works, Corby, Northamptonshire

Lady golfer looking down the fairway for her drive, which appears to have travelled a decent distance. Date: circa 1920s

American schooner Westward - built by Herrehoff
The American schooner Westward - built by Herrehoff in 1910 and later owned by Mr Thomas Benjamin Davis - a magnificent schooner of 323 tonnes. In 1910 she sailed in eleven races and won them all

LCC-LFB Serious office fire, Farringdon Street EC4
Two turntable ladders deployed at an office building fire in Farringdon Street, City of London, 16 November 1934. The top of the turntable ladder on the left is totally engulfed in the swirling black

Print Users Yearbook -- red-haired woman
Print Users Yearbook -- a red-haired woman in a skimpy costume, with a long scarf billowing from each hand. Date: circa 1930s

Garden Bonfire
Billowing smoke pollution caused by a garden bonfire. Date: 1960s

Don Quixote on horseback with his lance
Don Quixote on horseback, galloping forward with his lance. Date: First published: 1605-1615

Steel And Steam
An oil painting of some vast city buildings, shrouded in billowing streams of steam, conveying a feeling of industry and activity. Date: circa 1920

The Station
An oil painting of a station, seen through a misty fog in the evening, from across a wide river, a train is chugging along on the right, leaving a billowing trail of steam. Date: circa 1919

And So Home, Bored!
An illustration portraying a fed up looking couple, comprising of a lady wearing a billowing gown and headdress, and a man with his hands in his pockets, smoking a cigar. Date: 1915

Waterloo Bridge
A painting of Waterloo Bridge, with the River Thames flowing underneath, a billowing trail of smoke can be seen coming from the tail end of a boat. Date: circa 1916

Ship On The Sea
An illustration of a work ship on the ocean, with thick black smog billowing behind. Date: circa 1915

A Lancashire Ironworks
A landscape etching of an active ironworks in Lancashire, northwest England. The chimneys all have smoke billowing into the sky. Date: circa 1915

A West Lancashire Coal Mine
This etching shows some active smoke stacks of a coal mine in Lancashire, steam and smoke can be seen billowing into the sky. Date: circa 1915

Landscape Woodcut
A landscape woodcut print showing a row of trees lined over a hilltop, with billowing clouds emerging from behind, in New Zealand. Date: circa 1923

Steam engine speeding along
A passenger steam train speeding along on an incline with billowing smoke. Date: circa 1930s

Final phases during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scene from the final phases of the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a British anti-tank post at the Menin Gate

Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Street scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France, showing a burning lorry with billowing black smoke, and debris littering the ground after an intensive German air attack. Date: 1940

Disastrous fire, Coney Island Amusement Park, USA
Disastrous fire at Coney Island Amusement Park, USA, when 100, 000 bathers were cut off by the flames in July 1932. 1932

Japanese cruiser Akashi at NYK Docks, Shanghai, China
Japanese Suma class cruiser Akashi at NYK (Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line) Docks, Wayside Wharf, Shanghai, China. circa 1910s

Steam train in British Columbia, Canada, entering Lower Spiral and Mount Stephen Field. Date: 1930s

Fire at Chappell & Co, New Bond Street, London
Fire at Chappell & Co, music publishers, New Bond Street, London, 6 May 1964. Date: 1964

Santorini, Greece - view across the volcano crater, with smoke issuing from the centre. Date: circa 1940s

Freight Cars Pass Thru Date: 1950

HERO & LEANDER HERO & LEANDER
Leander nightly swims the Hellespont to be with his lover Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, but one day he drowns and she joins him neath the billowing wave

Crinoline Parachute
A Crinoline Parachute. Date: 1802

Firefighters in action at a fire, VDC House, Wembley
Firefighters rush to put out a fire at VDC House, South Way, Wembley. Showing a turntable ladder and hydraulic platform in operation

LFCDA-LFB Woolworths fire, Crystal Palace SE19
Fifteen pumps were called to deal with a major blaze in the Woolworths store in Westow Hill, Crystal Palace, that seriously damaged the store

Bathing-time by Rene Vincent
Art deco illustration depicting bathers with billowing towels and cloaks gathered around a car at the beach. The caption reads: Modern summer holiday-makers seen through an artists eyes

Nitrate fire in Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America
Nitrate storage fire at the Gildemeister company premises in Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America. Nitrate is extremely flammable. Date: circa 1910

Alice in Wonderland, Bill the Lizard pops out of the chimney after a kick from Alice. Date: early 20th century

Blitz in London -- fire damage at Docks, WW2
Blitz in London -- fire damage at the Docks, with billowing smoke, on 7 September 1940. Date: 1940

London Fire Brigade Command unit at fire, Penge
Scene of fire at commercial premises, 23 Green Lane, Penge, SE London, showing a London Fire Brigade Command unit parked nearby

Fire at Crowland Road School, Crowland Road, Tottenham N15
A 10 Pump Fire at Crowland Road School, in Crowland Road, Tottenham N15

LCC-LFB Major fire, Farringdon Street EC4
Fire seriously damages a Farringdon Street office building in Clerkenwell, City of London. Two turntable ladders are at work together with the 15 pumps

Fire at J Lyons Corner House, The Strand, London
Firefighters deal with a fire in J Lyons Corner House, The Strand, Central London. This was a popular and famous tea room in Londons West End, opened in 1915

LCC-LFB J Lyons Corner House fire, The Strand
Firefighters deal with a fire in J Lyons Corner House, The Strand, Central London. This was a popular and famous tea room in Londons West End, opened in 1915

A walk on a windy day
A girl with a billowing dress struggles to maintain her composure due to high winds. Artist: Xavier Sager Date: circa 1925

Explosion on American Front, WW1
An explosion on the American Front, probably in France, during the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Smoke rising from Mount Asama, Honshu Island, Japan
Smoke rising from Mount Asama - an active complex volcano in central Honshu, the main island of Japan. The volcano is the most active on Honshu. Date: circa 1907

Japan - Watching volcanic disturbance, Mount Aso
Japan - Watching volcanic disturbance at the Mount Aso volcano, Higo Province (an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu)

Cartoon, Women and cigarette smoke. A young woman wafts away billowing clouds of cigarette smoke from another woman who is smoking

Burning an effigy of the Pope, French Revolution
Dedicated to the Supreme Being, the revolution has no time for the Pope, who is burnt in effigy in the Palais Royal, Paris. Date: 6 April 1791

WW2 Christmas card, London Fire Brigade and Auxiliary Fire Service. Date: 1939

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

Train leaving Union Station, Pueblo, Colorado, USA
Train standing at Union Station, Pueblo, Colorado, USA. It is the D&RGW (Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad) Scenic Ltd, ready to leave for Salt Lake City, 23 October 1938. Date: 1938

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