Burning Collection (page 4)

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

Republic XP-91 Thunderceptor 46-0681 4 May 1949: 0680 (1st prototype) first flight. 14 October 1949: 0681 first flight. Summer 1951:engine failed on take-off summer 1951 at Edwards AFB

Ladies at a factory in Scotland keep munition works going at the weekend, lady seen on the left is Mrs Godfrey Collins, whose husband was Liberal Member of Parliament. Date: 1916

Burning off wheat stubble at Dagnall, a fine view seen from the Downs at Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Encouraged by Paul, the magicians of Ephesus burn their books, an act of vandalism for which it is difficult to forgive them

WW1 - Home Front - Keeping the home fires burning
Keeping the home fires burning. A Mother and her two daughters spending an evening by the fire while husband/Father is away at war

Pipes Taken Thru Desert Date: 1950

Home for Christmas Date: 1930

Peasants celebrating Christmas Eve at Tonniens 1854
Old Christian custom on Christmas Eve, in France Germany and Norway, were farmers and peasants perambulating the fields, going round and round the boundary

Destruction in the Rue Royale; Paris Commune 1871
Burning of the Rue Royale during the fighting that accompanied the end of the Paris Commune, 1871. As the Communards retreated they set fire to many parts of Paris to keep the Versailles Army at bay

Great fire in the old town, Edinburgh 1824
Buildings destroyed by in The Great fire in the old town, Edinburgh. One of the most destructive fires in the history of Edinburgh, lasting for five days. Date: November 1824

FURNACE OF STEAM ENGINE
The furnace, boilers and temperature gauge of a fully operating steam engine Date: early 19th century

FIREMAN
London characters: Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, and with a coal fire burning in every hearth, the FIREMAN is all too often called to cope with it. Date: circa 1870

BURNING OF BISHOPS HOME
A firey attack on the castle home of the Archbishop of Chayla by the Protestant prophet Seguier in the Cevennes. Date: July 1702

RUE DE RIVOLI DAMAGE 1871
Paris burning: houses falling in the Rue de Rivoli Date: 1871

ENGLISH BIBLES BURNT
BIBLE BURNING During Marys reign, english translations of the Bible are burnt at Saint Pauls Cross, London, to prevent ordinary people reading it Date: circa 1555

Tourism - Herculaneum
Visiting the remains of the Theatre at Herculaneum : the guide uses a burning torch to illuminate the building for the sightseers Date: circa 1830s

CHINESE BEGGARS / MASOCHIS
Strolling Beggars in China placing burning coals on their heads and using other austerities Date: 1752

OFFERING HEART TO GOD
Thus should the Pious Christian make an Offering of his Heart to God, as twere on a burning Altar of Sacrifice Date: 17th century

WESTMINSTER / 1834 / BURNS
Parliament burning down. Date: 1834

Puritan demonstrations against monarchy, 1643
Puritan demonstrations in London against the monarchy. Their actions included pulling down the cross at Cheapside and burning Catholic texts where the cross had stood. Date: May 1643

Emperor Nero watching Rome burn
The emperor NERO watches Rome burn Date: 64

Strolling beggars in China with burning coals
Strolling beggars in China laying burning coals on their heads and using other austerities in order to extort alms. Date: 1752

Burning effigy of the Pope
Violence caused mainly by fervent anti-catholic feeling in the mid-17th century. Date: 19th century

A son shot before the eyes of his mother: the murder of James Lockhart at Lisdrumliska in South Armagh, where two families were lined up outside their burning houses. Date: 1922

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

The Red Light, New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London
The Red Light, at the New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London. 20th century

The Flight (La Fuite) by Pierre Paulus - a Belgium family flee the advancing terror of the German army and the atrocities which ensued. Date: circa 1914

Monk and incense, Temple of the Six Banyan Trees
A monk puts incense sticks on a shrine at the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, or Liurong Temple, Guangzhou, China Date: 1982

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 10
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 8
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by two donkeys stops in the rubbish-strewn streets Date: circa 1995

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 9
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A man catches a pig by the leg. It will be eaten. There is little time for religious niceties among the poverty and filth of the rubbish tip

Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - 7
Zabbaleen of Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. A cart pulled by three small donkeys carries rubbish and three men from the tip Date: circa 1995

A farmer sits in the farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
An elderly farmer sits in the farm kitchen and puts the kettle over the peat fire. He wears a cloth cap and wellington boots. Co Clare, Ireland. See also 12445690 - 1247384 Date: 1990

Craftsman puts finishing touches to replica suit of armour
Sparks fly as a skilled craftsman puts the finishing touches to a replica suit of armour with conquistador-style morion in his workshop in Birmingham, England Date: 1992

Filthy streets, Mokattam, Cairo
The filthy street of Mokattam in the middle of the rubbish tips of Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1995

The Cotton Tree, Sierra Leone
A man burns leaves beneath the Cotton Tree, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Over 500 years old, this tree is a treasured symbol of the city

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland - 2
A farmer and his wife and family sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Sunday Times

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
A farmer and his wife sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Warehouse fire, Manchester
Simon Snorkel is used to fight a warehouse blaze at night in Shudehill, Manchester Date: circa 1969

WW2 - German tank driving through a burning Russian village
Photograph of a German tank driving through a burning Russian village in the Crimean area, 1941-1944 (c). From a collection of 34 photographs relating to different theatres in World War Two

Martin Luther (1483-1546) burning the papal bull Exsurge Do
Martin Luther, (Eisleben, 1483, Eisleben, 1546). German reformer. Doctor of Theology and Augustinian priest. In 1517, outlined the main thesis of Lutheranism in Wittenberg

Christmas arrangement of candles, flowers and holly
Christmas arrangement of two red candles, white flowers, red ribbon, holly and mistletoe on a circular log

Fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle
Destructive fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle, the ancestral seat of the Duke of Argyll. Valuable paintings, furniture and books were saved though some were water-damaged

Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan during plenum chamber burning tests in 1981. Date: 1981

Scene of a fire at Tiffin Girls School, Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames

Helicopter used in filming Thames TVs Londons Burning
A Kawasaki 216 helicopter, leased by Thames Television and used in the filming of their popular programme about the LFB, Londons Burning

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