Burning Collection (page 3)

Comic postcard, Whats cooking? Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man lighting cigar with one pound note Date: 20th century

Burning ghat, burning the dead, Benares, Varanasi
Vintage 19th century photograph: burning ghat, burning the dead, Benares, Varanasi, India

Waste paper vehicle catches fire, East Ham, London
A vehicle collecting waste paper in East Ham, London, catches fire, and the fire brigade is called out, watched by crowds. Date: circa 1930s

Demoltion wth bulldozer, South London
Bulldozer clears rubble during demolition of a house in South London. Date: circa 1950s

Art students protest about Lord Leverhulme
Art students in London protest against Lord Leverhulme who had returned a portrait of himself by Augustus John to the artist with the head cut out

India - women preparing a corpse for cremation, Calcutta
Vintage 19th century photograph, India - women preparing a corpse for cremation, Burning Ghat, Calcutta

c. 1880s India - burning ghat Ganges at Benares Varanasi
c.1880s India - burning ghat for cremation dead bodies on the Ganges at Benares Varanasi

World War II fires burning Pforzheim, Germany
World War II vintage photograph - fires burning and bombs exploding over Pforzheim, Germany

World War II fires burning on Tarakan Island Borneo
World War II vintage photograph - fires burning on Tarakan Island Borneo prior to invasion

Making a vessel of smoke for a dead Empress: burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Cixi of China across the river separating it from the heavenly Nirvana

Built to be burnt: a u7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for a
Built to be burnt: a 7500 boat for a Chinese funeral. Sending a boat up in smoke for an Empresss spiritual use. A rite performed in Peking (now Beijing)

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling pencils, and fishing. Worker at a charcoal pit in Furness 64, Jewish pedlar selling pencils door to door in Borrowdale 65

Hernan Cortez in Mexico
Hernan Cortez landing at Tabasco, Mexico 10, presented with 20 women including Marina by the Mayans 11, and destroying a Mayan temple and idols 12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Woman about to fall over with her shoes caught in the mud during a walk after the rain. Miseries of the Country. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Gas Bus the first one [in photo] was in public service between Kingston and Epsom Downs yesterday [2 Nov 1939]. Towed by the bus, the trailer produces gas from a stove burning solid fules

Hearts and Flowers - Coeurs et Fleurs - Music Sheet - a new flower song using a melody of Alphons Czibulka by Theo M. Tobani. Date: circa 1920s

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

Moonlit view during Battle for Dunkirk, northern France, WW2
A moonlit view from Kent across the Straits of Dover during the Battle for Dunkirk, showing the distant glow in the sky from fires burning on the coast of northern France

British artillery covering the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
British artillery (25-pounders) firing over open sights, while French and British infantry use their machine guns, to cover the evacuation of Dunkirk, northern France

Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, WW2
Scene during the evacuation of Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, with German dive-bombers attacking shipping and setting a paddle steamer on fire

Dunkirk during the evacuation, northern France, WW2
Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, during the evacuation, with a British Lockheed Hudson of the coastal command on guard, and burning oil tanks producing a huge cloud of black smoke. Date: 1940

Dittany, Dictamnus albus, Dictame blanc. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pierre after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Burning lens built in 1782 by William Parker, the London instrument maker. According to Parker, the optical glass melted platinum in 30 seconds

Burning love, Silene chalcedonica (Scarlet lychnis, Lychnis chalcedonica). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis Botanical

Benares, India, burning Ghat, cremation by the Ganges
Benares, India burning Ghat, cremation by the River Ganges. circa 1910

Burning bits of wood in a mobile furnace on an area of wasteland. 1920s

Storming the Mole at Zeebrugge from HMS Vindictive, WW1
Storming the Mole at Zeebrugge, Belgium, from HMS Vindictive, 23 April 1918, First World War. Known as the Zeebrugge Raid, it was an attempt by the British navy to block the port. 1918

Moses and the Burning Bush

Rioters throwing furniture, Spanish Revolution, 1931
Rioters throwing furniture from a burning Jesuit convent during the Spanish Revolution. 1931

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre fire, Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, destroyed by fire on 6 March 1926. 1926

Bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816. 1816

Napoleon at The Burning of Moscow. 1812

Four men burning the Holy Rood near Harwich, Essex
Four men burning the Holy Rood (from All Saints Church, Dovercourt) near Harwich, Essex. 1533

Burning of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar - Siege of Gibraltar, 1782. 1782

Gunners passing burning buildings, by Ugo Matania, WW1
Gunners passing burning buildings, illustration for The Sphere, 26 May 1917, oil on card by Ugo Matania, First World War. 1917

LFB turntable ladders in use at Hackney fire
Firefighters in action at Messrs Woolf, a furniture store in Hackney, East London. Date: 1949

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

Fire at White Swan Laundry, SW London
Fire at the White Swan Laundry, Stockwell Road, SW London, 30 January 1950. Date: 1950

Blitz in London -- AFS firefighters in action, WW2
Blitz in London -- Auxiliary Fire Service firefighters in action at night during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Warehouse on fire near railway line, with flames and thick black smoke billowing out, and fire engines in the foreground. Date: mid-20th century

Blitz in London - night scene, WW2
Blitz in London - a night scene, with blazing fire, smoke, and firefighters in action with hoses, in silhouette. Date: 1940s

John Keelings appliance for putting out fires, from a trade card. Date: 1670s

Balcony for saving lives and goods in case of fire
A Description of the new invented Balcony for saving the Lives and Goods of Persons whose Houses are on fire. Showing firefighters in action in the street below. Date: circa 18th century

Armentieres area, billets on front edge of town, WW1
My return to France in February 1917 as Officer commanding 505th Field Co. RE, found me once again in the Armentieres area with billets on the front edge of the town

Druids build a wicker man for sacrifice
The Wicker Man In which people were burnt as sacrifices to their deities

Burning refuse in November Date: 9th Century

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