Environment Collection (page 8)

A medley of Edinburgh musicians

Metal recycling 1950
Recycling of metal, Landskrona, Sweden, 1950 Date: 1950

Exhaust Fumes
Even back in the 1960s, car exhaust pipes caused air pollution! Date: 1960s

Smoking Chimneys
Smoking factory chimneys... Date: 1930s

Beckett House, once the modern office block premises of the Department of Environment, now demolished. Date: 1970s

British Coastal Erosion
Coastal erosion near Milford- on-Sea, Hampshire, England. Date: 1950s

Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage spewing into the sea and onto the beach at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1980s

Burning Rubbish
Billowing smoke pollution caused by burning rubbish. Date: 1960s

Raw Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage outfall at low tide, Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Water Pollution
Water pollution from factory waste, River Mersey, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Chemical Waste Dump
Environmental pollution : An old marlpit, used as a sump for chemical waste. Date: 1960s

Smoke Pollution
Smoke pollution over Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Smoke and Dirt
SMOKE AND DIRT Date: 1911

A London dust-yard
A pig rummages in a London dust-yard, while a man digs through the rubbish and women sieve the dust hoping to find things of value

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

Cable Railway Future
Overhead railways, in the form of cable lines, would avoid the problems of surface transport in todays congested environment

Taking precautions against infection
An image of a 1909 operating theatre where precautions have been taken to create a germ free environment

Wheat Field / Power Stn
Food and Power. A delightful glimpse of a wheat-field and in the background is Hams Hall Power Station, Warwickshire

Polluted Water / Sloper
Ally Sloper gives a lantern talk to the County Council on water pollution

Caring for Nature
NATURE LOVERS : some of us are fonder of Nature than others

Lord Morpeth / Health Bill
SANATORY MEASURES. LORD MORPETH THROWING PEARLS BEFORE - ALDERMEN Morpeths bills, to be passed as the Public Health Act 1848, initially encounter opposition

Mesozoic L scape
Landscape of the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous) era, showing dinosaurs and erupting volcanoes in the distance

A Drop of London Water
THE WONDERS OF A LONDON WATER DROP A water drop as it would be seen under the Molecular Magnifier. It is home to many hideous microscopic creatures

Pollution / Punch, 1849
The Water that John Drinks a short satirical view on Thames water Date: 1849

Sheffield Pollution
Industrial smoke from the factories of Sheffield, Yorkshire (England)

Sheffield Smoke
SHEFFIELD SMOKE factories at Sheffield, Yorkshire (England)

The Polluted Seine
The polluted Seine

Industry / Power / Solar
Mouchots solar-powered device draws energy from the suns heat and utilises it to power machines

New Schools Pavilion
The People : " New Schools" section of the South Bank Exhibition - the " latest tools and environment for school boys and girls to get the best out of contemporary education"

Polluted London Water
THE CITY NARCISSUS Punch accuses Londons officials of being too self-satisfied to realise the danger to the the citys health from the polluted water of the Thames

Gravity-Free Conditions
Space travellers will have to learn to live in a gravity- free environment

Faraday & Filthy Thames
Faraday giving his card to Father Thames

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