The Lions Bride by Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von MaxThe Lions Bride - a painting by Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (18401915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter. The scene was depicted in motion picture form as an hommage in the Gloria Swanson film
The red-flowered tree Rhododendron, Danger. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botanic and poetic illustrations
The Song of the SirenTwo beautiful sirens sing their entrancing songs from their seats on some perilous rocks - their magic and beauty luring sailors to a terrible end... Date: 1932
Kraken attacking ship during a stormA mythical Kraken attacking a sailing vessel during a storm
Skerryvore Lighthouse, west coast of ScotlandView of Skerryvore Lighthouse, off the west coast of Scotland, completed in 1844. Seen here with a typically rough sea
Beware of Trains - In English and WelshA metal sign in English and Welsh stating - Beware of Trains - likely to have been positioned at a footpath crossing or at a station
Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a galeThe Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a Force 8 gale. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it
Propaganda poster: careless talk costs livesSecond world war propaganda poster warning people that careless talk costs lives. Tell nobody -- not even her
Dein Vaterland ist in Gefahr Poster - Your Fatherland is in danger, German military recruitment poster
Building Emp State BuilA dizzy perch 350 yards above street level: A New York workman (Carl Russell) engaged on the worlds tallest bulding (at the time), the Empire State Building
Winston Churchill at Sidney Street Siege, East LondonWinston Churchill, then Home Secretary, with a group of policemen during the Siege of Sidney Street in Stepney, East London, on 3 January 1911. Date: 1911
Precariously perched Studebaker Six - YosemiteOn June 10, 1916 photographer Arthur Clarence Pillsbury broke the driving time record from Oakland to Yosemite in his new Studebaker Six
Aerial combat over trenches during First World WarAn aerial combat over the trenches during the First World War
Mouse held away from Mousetrap" My Wife won t let me!" A male mouse is prevented by his wife from taking the unwise step of trying to obtain a tempting block of cheese from a little wire cage
Percy H Fawcett, British explorerPERCY H FAWCETT British explorer who disappeared while exploring the Matto Grosso of Brazil
WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights" Zepp!" WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights Date: circa 1917
SOS message from TitanicA wireless message received by the Russian steamer Birma from the Titanic about five minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg that sank her
Fox hunter is thrown and falls on his headA fox hunter is thrown when his horse refuses a fence, and he lands on his head in the next field
National Air Safety Committee PosterPoster, National Air Safety Committee, providing instructions to new pilots -- please help to keep flying safe. 1933
Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John ClempertUndated coloured poster for Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert featuring illustrations of his tricks and performances. HPF/5B/18
Hare (Bewick)lepus timidus Harmless and inoffensive... fearful of every danger and attentive to every alarm, the Hare is continually upon the watch
Olympics / 1932 / BobsleighChampion American bobsleigh team, nicknamed the Red Devils
Oxford V Cambridge 1877(L) Danger Ahead (R) At Barnes Race which had a controversial dead heat finish
Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbikeSue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph
Scene with ships during the Spanish Armada, when the expedition sent by King Philip II of Spain was met by the Royal Navy and out-manoeuvred. The surviving Spanish ships were badly damaged in storms
Fisting the Mainsail by Arthur BriscoeSailing clinging on to a ships mast to fix the mainsail. Date: 1931
LCC-LFB Fireman in his fire kit with new cork helmetA London fireman in his fire kit, including the new style compressed cork helmet with its LFB crest, which replaced the traditional brass helmets used since the days of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade
Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917
Llest Colliery explosion, Glamorgan, South WalesA group of men and boys waiting for news of miners trapped underground following an explosion at Llest (Lluest) Colliery, Pontyrhyl, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales
Ouija Board DangerThe Ouija Board - Doorway to the Occult - by Edmund C Gruss, chairman of the Department of History at Los Angeles Baptist College at Newhall, California
Athletic Sports at Grasmere - The Guides RaceThe Guides Race at Grasmere showing the plucky runners rounding the flag on Silver Howe - a particularly precarious part of the course. The winner was R. Lancaster who won the race four times in all
Blitz in London -- Union Road, Rotherhithe, WW2Blitz in London -- a large unexploded parachute bomb lying on a pile of timber at Union Road, Rotherhithe, SE London. Date: 1940s
The New Submarine Danger by BairnsfatherThe New Submarine Danger " They ll be torpedoin us if we stick ere much longer, Bill" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring his popular characters Old Bill
Tank abandoned in a field, end of WWIA tank abandoned in a field during the First World War, with a notice attached to it written in French saying, among other things, that it is forbidden to go inside. circa 1921
Why We Lost by William Heath RobinsonSome of the things that made cricket so difficult for Englishmen in Australia. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1921
Warning HornA watchman at Kunszentmiklos, Hungary, blowing his horn during times of danger due to serious flooding over 200, 000 acres of low-lying acres of arable and meadow land. Date: 1930s
Punic Wars, attack on Carthage, SicilyPUNIC WARS : war with Carthage begins when the Roman senator Appius Claudius Caudex backs an unjustified attack on the Carthaginian colony in Sicily
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, on a stormy day with a rough sea and a ship drifting dangerously near to the rocks. The castle ruins can be seen in the top right. Date: circa 1832
Collecting Eggs at Flamborough HeadCollecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge
To the Public DangerHumorous scene by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing policemen chasing a gentleman in a futuristic flying machine along a main road. Satire on flying which was in infancy
Mascaret (tidal bore) of the Seine, Normandy, FrancePeople watching the mascaret (tidal bore) of the River Seine at Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, France, which resulted from large spring tides, and caused the loss of many ships
Sponge diver loses his footingDiving for sponges off the Tunisian coast, diver loses a leg to a shark
Capt Webb / Niagara / ScrapCaptain Matthew WEBB survives Niagara Falls
Lifeboat to Sail ShipLifeboat going to the aid of a sailing ship in trouble
Little Red Riding HoodThe wicked wolf disguises himself as Red Riding Hoods grandmother and asks her to get into bed with him
Richard III and the sons of Edward IVRichard III, as Duke of Gloucester, orders the sons of the late King Edward IV be parted from their mother, Elizabeth Woodville. 1480s
Blitz in London -- burnt-out incendiary device, WW2Blitz in London -- incendiary device which burnt itself out on an asphalt roof. Date: 1940s
In No Mans Land" In No Mans Land: The Dread Territory Which Belongs to Neither German nor Briton" Royal engineers, working in the dark of No Mans Land to construct barbed wire barriers in front of British
