Crude Collection

Prehistoric Art. Greece. Handmade vase without decoration. Globular body with two small handles, wide mouth and foot. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Fireless Locomotives - Llandarcy, Wales. Oil storage depots and oil handling docks used fireless locomotives (steam was pumped in to a specially constructed usually dome-ended boiler)

Fireboat tackling fire at Colonial Wharf, East London
A fireboat tackles a fire at Colonial Wharf, Wapping High Street, East London, 27 September 1935. This was a typical big Thamesside fire of the sort which the London Fire Brigade has tackled for over

The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth Date: 1733

Bee-Alley Gardens, Dunfermline, Proposals
The top image shows the large palace at Bee-Alley Gardens in Dunfermline, Scotland, with a crude white smithy building in the foreground, the bottom picture shows the same view

Bee-Alley Gardens Smithy House
This photograph shows the large palace at Bee-Alley Gardens in Dunfermline, Scotland, with a crude white smithy building in the foreground. Date: circa 1904

Dunfermline Cottages
A photograph of a crude shed in the foreground, with cottages visible in the background in Dunfermline, Scotland, which lie east of the dye-works. Date: circa 1904

Evening, Near Little Thetford
This etching shows a crude wooden bridge which spans a narrow river with high banks, two people are walking across, situated near Little Thethford, in Cambridgeshire. Date: circa 1923

Weatherby's Pond
A landscape etching of Weatherby's Pond, with a crude wooden barrier at one end, and a withered tree hanging over the top. Date: circa 1923

Workmen
An illustration which shows a procession of workmen crossing a crude platform which bridges an intimidating gap below. A man with a wheelbarrow filled with rubble leads the group, behind which

The Little Sluice, At Edam, Holland
An etching of a sluice gate with an old stone bridge spanning the water, upon which some figures are crossing, some crude buildings stand to either side, situated in Edam, Holland. Date: circa 1920

The Haunted Cottage
An etching of a large, haunted cottage with a thatched roof and crude walls, it stands in a rather unkempt state. Date: circa 1920

Resting
A portrait painting of a young woman sat on a crude bench by the edge of a forest, she is casually leaning on her travel bags. Date: 1917

Countryside Town
A painting of a country town, with a few stores lining the edge of a crude road. A large steepled column building dominates the area. Date: circa 1915

RMS Titanic - signet ring recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - an 18 carat gold and small old-cut diamond solitaire band/signet ring, slightly tapering (1/4ins)

Village Street, Ambleside
A pencil drawing of a village street in ambleside, Australia, with a plain wooden house structure, beside a crude fence. Date: circa 1924

The Slip-rail
A landscape drypoint etching showing an old, crude slip-rail fence, running along some Australian grasslands. Date: circa 1921

Winter Light
A landscape watercolour painting showing a simple, crude bridge spanning a small river in an australian country side. Date: circa 1921

Afterglow
A landscape oil painting of grassland with a crude fence, long past sunset in the twilight hours, giving a warn afterglow effect. Date: circa 1918

AJEP W-8 Tailwind G-BALR
AJEP W-8 Tailwind Series 1 G-BALR (msn TW4-381), at Southend Airport in October 1977. This aircraft was destroyed when it flew into Steeple, Scoat Fell, in bad weather on 29 February 1984

Fawley Oil Refinery
An aerial view of the 3, 200 ft long jetty at the Esso oil refinery, Hampshire, England. Three of the four breasting islands are shown, which are able to berth four tankers simultaneously

Comic postcard, milking a cow Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sergeant and soldier - criticism of baggy trousers Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Scene at a fun fair - Shut your eyes, you boys!! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, The Astronomers - Venus, Jupiter and Mars Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple roller skating Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman sitting in a tree - Things are looking up this way Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sailor and woman at the seaside - My word, if I catch you bending! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple walking in the countryside - My word, if I catch you bending! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple climbing a cliff at the seaside - getting the wind up Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, men gossiping about young woman Date: 20th century

Interior view of under three spans of roof of Prices Candle Company, with their new substance of crude petroleum from Burma

MAPS, ASIA, INDIA 1719
Crude map of northern India, previous to any extensive colonisation, including parts of Pakistan & Bangladesh & the sources of two great rivers the Ganges & Indus

Magic Lantern
Using a double lantern, which makes it possible to superimpose one image on another, giving a crude illusion of movement

BP petrol advertisement, 1925
150 miles of pipe lines. Advertisement for British Petroleum with an illustration by Christopher Clark showing construction of a pipe line in the Persian desert - one of the many activities of

Tustanowice, Borislav, Ukraine - Naphta wells
Naphta (crude oil) well at Tustanowice, close to Borislav - a city located on the Tysmenitsa River (a tributary of the Dniester), in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. Date: 1910

Swinging Bridge, Glencolumbkille - a view of a crude bridge over a river with a man in the middle. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Glencolumbkille). Date: circa early 1900s

WW1 - Patriotic Red Cross Dog cocks his leg on German Flag (having rescued a French hat from the likelihood of any accidental indignity)

A Roman lime-kin, ca. 1634-1637, by Sebastien Bourdon (1616
Sebastien Bourdon (1616-1671). French painter. A Roman lime-kin, ca. 1634-1637. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Cartoon, German soldier with mask of Culture, WW1
Cartoon, German soldier with a mask of Culture (Kultur) during the First World War. Date: 1914

Advert for Goodyears Chemigum synthetic rubber 1942
Another Goodyear contribution to progress. Since the Japanese Invasion of the Dutch East Indies the loss of our crude rubber supply has been extremely serious to the Allied War Effort

LCC-LFB fireboat Massey Shaw in action
The Massey Shaw fireboat at its first major riverside warehouse fire on the River Thames. The Colonial Wharf fire in Wapping High Street E1 occurred on 27 September 1935

LFB fireboat Massey Shaw tackling a warehouse fire
The Massey Shaw fireboat at its first major riverside warehouse fire on the River Thames. The Colonial Wharf fire in Wapping High Street E1 occurred on 27 September 1935

Mr Fitzpatrick Kights balloon flight
A hand-painted drawing showing a man standing in the gondola of a balloon waving umbrellas. A handwritten note reads: Mr Fitzpatrick Kights Ascension bought in a native bazaar, Calcutta April 1853

Ukraine - Explosion at a Naphta Well
Explosion at a Naphta (crude oil) well at Tustanowice, close to Boryslav - a city located on the Tysmenitsa River (a tributary of the Dniester), in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine

Cryptic Postcard - Three Abbots empty their bowels
Musings from the papal throne...! A postcard with a caption calculation (equation) which needs to be read phonetically (in French)

Oil Pipelines - Llandarcy Oil Refinery, Swansea
A row of eight oil pipelines at the Llandarcy BP Oil Refinery, Swansea, Wales

Gas Absorbtion Plant - Iraq
Gas Absorbtion Plant - industrial buildings and plant relating to BPs oil exploration in Iraq

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