Call Collection (page 5)

Blitz in London scene in a fire station control room, WW2
Blitz in London -- scene at night in a fire station control room, 19 September 1940. Date: 1940

Display of exhibits about the London Fire Brigade, March 1955, with photographs, helmets and a model firefighting appliance. Date: 1955

Browns fire alarm head (closed) with instructions
Browns fire alarm head (closed), with instructions in English and Hebrew

Street telephone fire alarm, out of order
Street telephone fire alarm for emergency calls, with an out of order notice on it

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

Two women in control room, WW2
Two women taking messages in a fire station control room during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

London firefighters sliding down a pole. Date: 1960s

Belgian boy scout in phone box
A Belgian boy scout (or cub) in a phone box

Thousands have Answered the Nations Call, but you May be the One to Turn the Scale at a Critical Moment. do you Realize this. Poster

Advertising print for Cavanders Army Club cigarettes. She : Tell me, what do you boys call a washout He : A place where one can t get Army Club cigarettes. Dated March 1918, on reverse. Will Owen

Womens Royal Air Force -- Roll Call
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a group of women during Roll Call. Date: 1919-1920

Wake-up call
An early morning wake up call at a naval college. A trumpet sounds and two big drums are banged in order to get the recruits out of their sleeping hammocks. Date: 1885

Elizabeth Thompson
ELIZABETH THOMPSON (lady Butler) artist famed for her military scenes such as The Roll Call (Crimea War) and Scotland for ever (Waterloo). Date: 1846 - 1933

Scottish American War Memorial, West Princes Street Gardens
Scottish American War Memorial (1927), West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh - The Spirit of 1914. The Sculptor was Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938). Date: circa 1940

The Circus Clown anounces the End of the Book. Date: 1895

Call to Prayer - Muezzin
A Muezzin standing high on a minaret balcony, pronouncing the Call to Prayer. Date: circa 1910s

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, red-billed chough
Plate 62 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Ixobrychus minututs, little bittern, Botaurus stellaris, Eur
Plate 275, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 2 (1760)

Spain (706). War of the Spanish Succession. Murder
" Spain (706). War of the Spanish Succession. Murder of Francesc Nicol᳠ de Sant Joan, " conseller en cap" (fisrt counsellor), in the bell tower of the cathedral of Barcelona

Kitten cats

London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator
A London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator

Browns Fire Alarm: Break Glass, Pull Knob, Wait For Engine

Firefighters answering a call, Barking fire station, Essex
Firefighters answering a call at Barking fire station, Essex. Seen here with their team of horses pulling the steam fire engine away from the fire station

LFB firefighters working on a roof at a warehouse fire
London firefighters working with hose lines on a warehouse roof at the scene of a fire, Carran Wharf in Upper Thames Street. City of London

Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council Fire Brigade
A horse drawn escape cart and a fire officer belonging to Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe, SE London

LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe

Santa Claus on the telephone
Santa takes a call, 1892 Date: 1892

Second call for the peace congress. Illustration shows a large group of representatives from several nations, many carrying weapons and making threatening gestures to others

The call

Bugle call. Date c1863

A newspaper seller in Trafalgar Square, London

Talking on the telephone, postcard
" I don t know why ou botherd to send me a postcard, a phone call would have been much quicker!" - the declining post card industry pokes fun at itself in 1915. 1915

A Glasgow newspaper seller

The greatest mother in the world - Red Cross Christmas roll call Dec. 16-23rd. Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Date c1918

Third Red Cross roll call. Poster showing a Red Cross nurse holding out her hands. Date 1918

First call - I need you in the Navy this minute! Our country will always be proudest of those who answered the first call. Poster showing Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer. Date c1917

Join the Red Cross - all you need is a heart and a dollar Red Cross Christmas roll call, Dec. 16-23. Poster showing a Red Cross nurse in a cloak, extending her hand. Date 1917

Red Cross Christmas roll call December 16th to 23rd. Poster showing a figure of Columbia holding a pen, and a Red Cross nurse with a scroll, inscribed Where Columbia sets her name

The roll call, a masque of the Red Cross, by Percy MacKaye. Poster showing a draped figure reaching upward toward the insignia of the Red Cross. Date 1918

I summon you to the comradeship - Woodrow Wilson Answer the Red Cross Christmas roll call for universal membership. Poster showing a portrait of Woodrow Wilson. Date 1918

The poor boys friend, the proprietor call himself. Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov. The poor boys friend, the proprietor call himself. Omaha, Nebraska. Date 1938 Nov

Orville Wright, Major John F. Curry, and Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who came to pay Orville a personal call at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. June 22, 1927. Date 1927 June 22

Good Luck Postcard - WWI era - wishing the recipient a Safe Return from posting to France and Belgium. " When duty caled, you answered and bravely took your stand

Call to prayer - Dobrogea, Romania
Turkish Mullah (Hoja / Hodja) outside a mosque at Dobrogea, Romania calling out the call to prayer from a raised platform. Date: circa 1906

Policeman on the Phone
A young policeman makes a telephone call. Date: 1960s

Shall I Call Him?
A young woman decides who to call, or perhaps shes licking the receiver! Date: 1960s

OH REALLY?
Blonde woman on the telephone. Date: 1960s

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