Chalk Collection (page 5)

Firefighters in breathing apparatus, Oxford Street, London
LFB firefighters in breathing apparatus outside the main entrance to the Chinacraft store, 499 Oxford Street, London, on 28 July 1958. A fire had occurred in the basement area. Date: 1958

Firefighters at a fire in Goswell Road, London EC1
Firefighters at the premises of H Robin and Sons Ltd, 119-123 Goswell Road, London EC1, on 30 April 1958. Showing men chalking up details of progress during the fire

Private in full marching order, E Company, 106 Provisional Battalion. Chalk pits in the distance. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment

Chalk Pit, Cliffe Creek. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St. Oswalds Place, Upper Kennington Lane

A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, Kent
The Chalk Pit Guard Room. A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, near the village of Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, dated 29.12.15. 21017 Private P. J

WW2 poster, Elephants know no arithmetic. Its the little things that count. Attention to detail is vital to all good work. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Book cover, Learning to Spell, by Irene Martyn. Showing a girl at a desk in front of a blackboard. Date: circa 1940s

Londons secret reservoir by G. H. Davis
Very valuable in droughts: Londons secret reservoir. The water question: artesian wells that give immunity from droughts -- how Inveresk House and other large buildings get their own supply

Shall I Draw You? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy draws a cat on a blackboard. Date: 1943

British gunner with instruction board, Western Front, WW1
A British gunner under camouflage alongside a big gun, copying instructions from a board, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Pavement artist 1930s
A pavement artist kneels by his work, drawn in chalk on the street. The central wording reads, light burdens long borne grow heavy

The Seven Sisters - Sussex, England
The Seven Sisters - a coastal chalk cliff formation, which form part of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne. Date: 1933

Chalk Farm 1730
When it was truly a farm... Date: 1730

Winter in the British Lines on the Somme 1917
In February 1917, when the ground was sodden with slush and snow everywhere, work had to be still done, making or capturing trenches

Amelia Anne, Dowager, Marchioness of Londonderry d.1829 (c.1825). Lawrence, Sir Thomas 1769-1830. Date: 1825 (circa)

The Hon. Winifred Sturt (1882). Hicks, George Elgar 1824 - 1914. Date: 1882

Abraham Sacrificing Isaac. Slattery, John Joseph d.1859

Abraham and Isaac ?
Abraham and Isaac (?). Slattery, John Joseph d.1859

Bugler, Ulster Division (1916). Conor, William 1881-1968. Date: 1916

Off: The Ulster Division (1915). Conor, William 1881-1968. Date: 1915

Male Figure Studies. Orpen, Sir William 1878 - 1931

The Falls of Powerscourt. Forrester, James 1730 - 1776 (attributed to)

Study of a Head (1890). Sandys, Frederick 1829-1904. Date: 1890

The Tinkers. Barker, Thomas of Bath 1769 - 1847 (attributed to)

Le Treport - a corner of the Beach - France
A corner of the Beach at Le Treport, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in north-western France. Date: circa 1909

A Rainbow over the sea at Beachy Head, Kent. Date: circa 1915

The Long Man of Wilmington, East Sussex. Formerly thought to originate in the Iron Age (or even the neolithic period), more recent archaeological work has shown that the figure may have been cut in

Ceratolithoides aculeus, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of an isolated coocolith from Cretaceous chalk. These are thin calcite shells protecting the coccolithophore within

Lysandra coridon, chalk-hill blue
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Gonioteuthis, a fossil belemnite
Guard of the belemnite Gonioteuthis, 8 cm long, from the Cretaceous Chalk of Salisbury, England

Belemnitella minor, belemnites
Natural History Museum specimens of belemnites or thunderbolts from the Paramoudra Chalk of Norfolk

Tylocidaris clavigera (Konig), sea-urchin
This sea-urchin has highly characteristic club-like spines and is 80-83m yrs old. Specimen originates from the Upper Cretaceous Upper Chalk, S. England

Foraminiferan remains from the White Cliffs of Dover, U.K. The cliffs are made up of unimaginable numbers of chalky shells of long dead marine animals

Micraster coranguinum, echinoid
This a common heart-shaped Cretaceous sea-urchin originates from the Upper Chalk. This specimen is preserved in its original calcite and its length is around 6cm

Axopodorhabdus albianus, coccolith
Scanning electron microscope image of a Cretaceous coccolith from Folkestone Chalk (x 10, 000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Raper drawing No. 5
View of SW coast of the Isle of Wight, 1. St Catherines Point; 2. the Needle Point. Painting by George Raper, 1789

Chaeropus ecaudatus, pig-footed bandicoots
Pencil and chalk drawing by John Gould (1804-1881) c. 1845

Coccoliths magnified a thousand times
An illustration of Coccoliths magnified a thousand times. Coccoliths are micro-fossils and feature heavily in the composition of chalk

Lower Chalk

Actinopora disticha, bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cyclostome bryozoan from the Cretaceous Chalk, Santonian, Kent

Wilbertopora woodwardi (Brydone), bryozoan
Scanning electron micrograph of a fossil cheilostome bryozoan. Specimen originates from the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, West Mean Station, Hampshire, U.K

Flint nodule
This flint nodule originates from the Cretaceous rocks of the North Downs, England

Chalk
A piece of flintless white chalk from the Upper Chalk, Flamborough, Yorks. Chalk is a sedimentary rock formed in deep seas

Settlement Certificate from Newington, Oxfordshire
A 1747 settlement certificate relating to Alecksander and Marcy Chalk of Newington, Oxfordshire. The certificate guaranteed that if the Chalks needed poor relief while living elsewhere

Blitz in London -- bombed sub-station, South London, WW2
Blitz in London -- a South London sub fire station was obliterated by enemy bombing. Showing firefighters in defiant mood, declaring themselves NOT BEATEN

Chalk dust modern, youthful, comedy, drama Chalk dust modern
Chalk dust modern, youthful, comedy, drama. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Chalk Dust at the Hollywood Playhouse, showing a girl writing on a chalkboard. Date 1936

Chalk dust a play in 16 scenes, cast of 40 Chalk dust a play
Chalk dust a play in 16 scenes, cast of 40. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Chalk Dust at the Emery, Walnut and Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio. Date 1936

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