Blackout Collection

WW2 birthday card, Postman with black kittens
Birthday card, Postman with black kittens, and a reference to blackout regulations. circa 1940s

WW2 - Death In The Blackout
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Death In The Blackout, written by Anthony Gilbert. The image shows a skeleton pulling down his window blind during a blackout. Date: circa 1946

WW2 Greetings Card, Blackout Dog
A WW2 greetings card, the illustration shows the barely visible form of a happy dog during a blackout. The card has a red, white and blue ribbon attached, along with a springy Union Jack flag

WW2 Blackout Birthday Card
A WW2 birthday greetings card, It's impossible to black-out my greetings. The image shows a smiling moon looking down at a snow covered countryside home. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Blackout The Blues
A WW2 birthday greetings card, with imagery symbolic of good fortune including the presence of black cats and a horseshoe

WW2 Birthday Card, Who Said Blackout?
A WW2 birthday greetings card, Who said black-out? The image shows two cats wearing colourful clothes and soldier tin hats. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, Blackout
An illustrated WW2 greetings card, Black-out that light please. The image shows the silhouetted forms of a mouse and children amongst mushroom houses under a night sky, during a blackout

WW2 Christmas Greetings Card
A WW2 Christmas greetings card containing some quite minimalistic illustrations showing various scenes of Britain's home defence, including figures experiencing the holidays during a blackout

Advert for anglepoise lamp
Advert for Terry's Anglepoise lamp, ideal for use during blackouts. Date: 1940

You Can't Be Too Careful!
Cartoon showing an over-enthusiastic ARP warden at a pantomime. He appears to be indulging in some unexpected audience participation. Date: 1940

Put out those dress shirts
Cartoon by Mel highlighting the risks run by gentlemen in immaculate eveningwear during the Blitz. Date: 1939

WW2 - Black-out - Couple driving, with only their dipped headlight beams. Date: circa 1941

Comic postcard, Conversation in the blackout, WW2 Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, Conversation in the blackout, WW2 Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, Couple in the blackout, WW2. Aren t you afraid to sit here and hold my hand in the blackout? - No - I should be afraid to leave go of it!! Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, two cats on a roof, WW2 - it happened in the blackout Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, man and policeman in blackout, WW2 - the mans red glowing nose is too bright! Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, woman and ARP man in blackout, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, woman takes wrong turning in blackout, WW2 - Gents toilet! Date: circa 1940s

Driving under blackout conditions, 1939
Driving under blackout conditions, article by the Earl of Cardigan in Britannia & Eve, November 1939. Date: 1939

Road painters carrying broken white line stencil, Sept 1939
Road painters carrying the " blackout stencil" which enabled workmen to paint broken white lines down the centre of roads with ease, in order to reduce accidents when driving in blackouts

Huge blinds used to camouflage a factory, Sept 1939
Huge dark blinds used to camouflage an entire factory on an A-road just outside of London. Blackout regulations were imposed two days before the outbreak of war to make the factory less visible to

Women painting kerbside for blackouts, September 1939
Women of the Voluntary Ambulance Service painting the kerbside between their headquarters and the first-aid post to allow them to find their way in a blackout. Date: 1939

Man and woman in reflective clothing, September 1939
Man and woman in reflective clothing, suitable for wear in a blackout, The Sphere describes this as " a humorous effort towards a safe night-walking garb" but wearing white or high-vis was

The West End in blackout, September 1939
Photograph of the West End in blackout, shortly after the outbreak of war in September 1939. The Sphere describes the sight as " extraordinarily eerie". 1939

Woman crossing road in the dark in white coat, Sept 1939
Female pedestrian crossing road in front of a car, using her white coat and a newspaper to be seen in the dark, as well as carrying a gas mask

Poster, Lookout for the Platform, WW2
Poster, Lookout for the Platform -- before alighting in the blackout, make sure the train is in the station, make sure you are on the platform side of the train. 1941

War Searchlights over Westminster Bridge, WW1
War Searchlights over Westminster Bridge, First World War. Pastel by Robert Randoll. 1917

Blackout, meal by candlelight, 1949
Once again the victims of an unofficial strike: the long-suffering public. Recalling the inconveniences of the long wartime blackout

Blackout. Fuel-crisis shopping in London, 1947
The Candlelights of London: business as usual in the capital. Fuel-crisis shopping with department store lighting - modern style

WW2 birthday card, blackout scene
WW2 birthday card with blackout scene. Date: circa 1942

Sleeping in the Shelters, 1940
The Bystander depicts a range of different sleeping arrangements during night-time stays in air-raid shelters. On the top-left (Lansdowne House shelter) women can be seen resting on li-los, rugs

Why Not Matches? WWI cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Lights for All: Trapping Glow Worms in Kensington Gardens. A typically ridiculous idea by Heath Robinson for trapping glow worms, thus providing light for Londoners during the black out. Date: 1917

WW2 - ARP man with horse and flashlight wishing the recipient of this card a Happy Birthday. Note the helmet on the horse and the black and white legwear on both horse and watchman

Protective colouring for black outs, WWII - hi vis dog
A night time shot illustrating the use of white accessories to ensure visibility during black outs, making pedestrians visible to motorists during the early weeks of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Protective colouring for black outs, WWII
Protective, reflective clothing adopted by civilians to ensure visibility during black outs in the early days of the Second World War. A couple prepared for the hours of darkness to come

Cartoon, Blackout regulations, WW1
Cartoon, Blackout regulations -- Keep your curtains drawn to avoid air raid warnings! Showing a young girl drawing the curtains at night so that enemy aircraft do not see any light from her home

WW2 greetings card from home to an absent soldier (inside). Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, looking forward to peacetime. Date: circa 1942

WW2 birthday card, cat and poster
WW2 birthday card, showing a cat on a ladder putting up a poster expressing birthday wishes. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, Blackout and snow
WW2 Christmas card, You can t Black Out my greeting this Christmastide. Date: 1939

WW2 Christmas card, wartime restrictions
WW2 Christmas card. Whats in the Post this Morning? Rationing and other wartime restrictions. Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card, Blackout
WW2 Christmas card, with Father Christmas on the roof of a house with his sack of presents -- Blackout or not, I m here to greet you! Date: circa 1942

Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training, WW2
Finnish boy scouts doing first aid training during a blackout -- one boy bandages another boys arm. Date: circa 1940s

Blackouts during WW1
A city during the blackouts, in case of Zepplin attack or aid raids, with a man and woman commenting " The streets look about as cheerful as the Chamber of Horrors on a wet Good Friday"

The Lighter Side of Darker London, WW1
She: Sorry!" He: " Delighted!" The darkened streets of London during the First World War come with romantic advantages. Date: 1916

Suit to prevent pilot blackout by G. H. Davis
Beating the fighter pilots problem: a suit to prevent blackout. Details of the American Berger G2 suit, designed to keep pilots conscious in high-speed air battles during the Second World War

Blackout warning by G. H. Davis
A blackout warning: how one light may help raiders during the Second World War. Date: 1940

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