Cooling Collection

The Camden Turkish Baths, 11a Kentish Town Road, London
Board-mounted promotional poster for The Camden Turkish Baths, 11a Kentish Town Road, London - designed and erected under the personal superintendence of Mr. H. H. Bridgeman ARIBA Arch

Cooling Castle
The gateway of Cooling Castle, a 14th century fortress, viewed from across freshly ploughed fields, Kent, England. Date: 14th century

Calder Hall Power Stn
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Cumbria, England, Britains first, it opened in 1956. The first in the world to produce electricity on a commercial scale. Closed 2003

Cooling Buoys Icing the Gulf Stream to Chill the Enemy
British U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, showing mine-like cooling-buoys armed with icing apparatus for lowing the Gulf Stream temperature and the morable! Date: 1941

Cold Comfort by W. Heath Robinson
An elegant device now in use in many seaside boarding houses to obviate the rather indelicate act of blowing on ones food to cool it

Farm life in summer: The cooling stream. Date c1867

Cooling Room, Nevills Turkish Baths, London
View inside a Cooling Room at Nevills Turkish Baths, Northumberland Avenue, London. Date: circa 1908

Cooling Her Heels! By Dorothy M. Morgan
Lady sitting in front of a fan in her underwear, trying to cool herself in the heat. Date: 1927

Car cross section / W H Robinson
Cross section through Mr K. R. G. Brownes (author) new sports car, showing drive and water cooling system (watering can). Please note

A carter drives his horse into the water for a drink, Konya
A carter drives his horse into the water for a drink on the shores of Lake Aksehir, Konya, Turkey Date: 1992

Calder Hall Atomic Power Station, Cumbria, the first power station in the world to generate electricity on an industrial scale from nuclear energy, which opened in 1956

PIP'S SIBLINGS GRAVES
In the graveyard of the Church of St. James, Cooling, Kent, England, are the remarkable graves of 13 children who died in infancy, siblings of Dickens Pip'. Date: 19th century

Cadbury's; the factory at Frampton-on-Severn. The milk- condensing factories have subsidiary collecting and cooling stations

Farnborough wind tunnel with Bristol Bulldog
The Royal aircraft establishment wind tunnel at Farnborough, with Bristol Type 124 Bulldog TM K3183 mounted on the balance

Romantic Italians
Young romantic in national costume and his girl cooling herself with a fan in the hot Italian sun

Cooling and lubrication systems for Miss England III. Arrangement of water pipes for gear boxes and stern tubes. Date: 1932

Turkish bath, cooling room 1900
The height of luxury a turkish bath, with men only, in the cooling room at Jermyn Street, London. Date: 1900

Bathers at the rooftop pool of the Piccadilly Hotel
A group of bathers, having taken advantage of the bathing-pool at the Piccadilly Hotel, taking a cooling drink during the heat wave in London in August 1932. Date: 1932

Heating engineer viewing House of Commons chamber
Engineer in charge of heating and air-conditioning for the House of Commons viewing the chamber through a 65 foot long periscope. Date: 1950

Air conditioning for the House of Commons by G. H. Davis
To cool the heads and warm the feet of our legislators: air-conditioning for the new House of Commons. Diagram by G. H. Davis in The Illustrated London News showing how a single switchboard operator

Lady Patricia Moore and Samuel Courtauld studying one of the pictures in the London Artists Association Summer Exhibition at the Cooling Galleries

Punkah - type of ventilator 1886
A " punkah" -type of ventilator for keep cool during warm weather or heat wave, comprising of a large fan flap set above a table, operated by foot pedals

Advert for Homocea 1897
Homocea brand, with toilet soap, embrocation and nursery powder, to help with the cure of oyclists, athletes, pedestrians, soreness, cures tired, swollen feet and rheumatism. Date: 1897

Mathis G. 8R at the Paris Salon Aeronautique 1949
Mathis G.8R at the XVIIIeme Salon Aeronautique du Paris 1949 at the Grand Palais in central Paris, (flying demonstrations were given at Orly Airport)

Cutaway Office Building Date: 1950

Colourful spectators at Fiji rugby match
Spectators sit on a grassy bank, shading themselves beneath colourful umbrellas at a Fiji rugby match near Suva. Date: 1995

Man squats on floor of his streetside workshop, Hong Kong
A man squats on the floor of his streetside workshop in Kowloon, Hong Kong and sifts though a box of spare parts. His benches are full of old cooling fans and electrical goods awaiting repair

Little girl cools off in bath with ice lolly
A little girl cools off in a bath of water on her front doorstep with an ice lolly during the hot summer of 1976. Date: 1976

Didcot Power station
With the cooling towers pushing out lots of steam, the photographer captures a dramatic picture. Taken in the late 60s Date: late 1960s

Titanic Turkish Bath, Cooling Room
The Cooling Room of the Turkish Bath on the ill-fated Titanic, which sank on 15 April 1912

The Turkish Bath Cooling Room on board the Titanic
The photograph shows the Turkish Bath Cooling Room on board the Titanic. The ship surpassed all rivals in size and luxury

Larola skin care protection
A woman in beach attire holding a bottle of Larola lotion. The lotion is beneficial to the skin, cooling and refreshing, and provides relief to irritation caused by bites and stings of insects. 1930

Zoo - (cooling waters) cows - Cows in Stream. Part of Box 175 Boswell Collection - Zoo. Date: circa 1900

Caricature of W E Gladstone and John L Toole
Caricature of W E Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal Prime Minister, and John Lawrence Toole (1830-1906), English comic actor, actor-manager and theatrical producer. Politics and Comedy. 1882

Water / Cooling / India 1838
Indian natives cooling water for colonial types - The Aubdaur (Water Cooler) Date: 1838

Hops in Cooling Loft, Boughton-under-Blean, Kent
Hops in Cooling Loft, Boughton-under-Blean, Faversham, near Sittingbourne, Kent, England. Hops for Brewing Date: 1910s

Great Indian / One-horned RHINOCEROS (Rhinoceros unicornis). Two in water

Firefighters in action, Longmoore Street, SW1
AFS firefighters in action at a fire in Longmoore Street, Victoria, London SW1, on 6 May 1959. They are clearing away corrugated iron sheets in order to expose pockets of fire under the debris

Firefighters in action with hosepipes, Poplar, East London
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at a fire in Simpsons Road, Poplar, East London, 25 January 1958. Showing the east side of Block D

Fire at construction site, Oxford Street, London
Fire at a construction site in Oxford Street, London, 14 February 1955. The building was under reconstruction following war damage

Firefighters in action, Calders Wharf, East London
Firefighters in action at a fire in Calders Wharf, East London, 21 May 1955. Seen here with hosepipes, cooling down barrels of collodion cotton and boxes of paint

Tatler front cover 1964, featuring a gin and tonic
Front cover of The Tatler magazine for July 1964 featuring a close up photograph of a particularly inviting looking gin and tonic, with ice and lemon. Date: 1964

Social Co-operative, Leningrad
A Leningrad Socil Co-operative centre from the 1920s with the slogan on one wall that reads He who is not abel to rest is he who is not able to work. Date: 1927 - 1928

Silhouette Calendar -- June, Midsummer Day. Showing a girl cooling her hand at a fountain. Date: 20th century

Three women in summer dresses
Three women in their best summer dresses, holding cooling drinks in their hands

Advert for Icy-Hot vacuum flasks 1916
Keeps contents ice cold for 72 hours; hot for 24 hours, comes in container enameled in leather effect, with nickel-plated shoulder and drinking cup. 1916

Smoke over Halifax
An industrial landscape, showing smoke over Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1960s

Cooling Room of a Turkish Bath, Istanbul, Turkey
Cooling Room of a Turkish Bath (Hamam), Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1838

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