Explosion Collection (page 2)

A dummy village made of canvas used for Artillery practise with Lyddite shells - near Okehampton, Dartmoor. A shell explodes near the Church'. Date: 1912

Explosion of a bridge on Western Front, WW1
German explosion of a bridge on the Western Front, First World War, isolating Allied troops. 1914-1918

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Explosion

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Battle of Brunete (July 1937). Soldiers facing an attack of artillery and red aviation in the point 333. Drawing

Spanish Civil War. German bombs launched over Madrid and that they didn't explode. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)

Harnessing the atom by G. H. Davis
The force which can move mountains: harnessing the atom to vast projects for the benefit of mankind. Showing how the use of atomic explosives could be used on ambitious engineering works

Parcel bomb
The result of a parcel bomb explosion at the offices of the Morning Star newspaper, which left the paper's postal manager Ms May Pateman burned and shocked

Home Guard practise
Home Guards practise blowing up tanks: a demonstration at the school for guerilla warfare at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where Spanish Civil War veterans provide the training

ALEXANDER II DEAD
Tsar ALEXANDER II, assassinated by nihilists, on his deathbed in the Winter Palace whither he was taken after the fatal explosion. Date: 1818 - 1881

NASHVILLE/TRENCHES STORM
The storming of the trenches at Franklin-Nashville. Date: November 1864

Armoured train bombed, Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War. A Republican armoured train is hit by Nationalist bombers, 1936. Date: December 1936

CARTAGENA NAVAL ATTACK
NAVAL ATTACK Nationalist attack on the port of Cartagena Date: December 1936

Arley Pit 1853 Industry Coal Regional Collieries
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The Capture of Gibraltar by Anglo-Dutch forces, 1 to 4 August 1704, part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Date: 1704

Battle of Portland between English and Dutch ships, off the Isle of Portland in the English Channel, under Admiral Robert Blake and Admiral Maarten Van Tromp, 18 February 1653

Storming of Badajoz towards the end of the Siege of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, 6 April 1812, by Wellingtons Anglo-Portuguese forces against the French, part of the Peninsular War (1807-1814)

Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay), Egypt, a naval battle between the British (led by Nelson) and the French, 1-3 August 1798

Wreck of the ship Gipsy at Bristol
The stranded Waterford Steam Navigation Companys steamer, the Gipsy, on, May I2th, 1878. The boat left Cumberland Basin for Waterford in the early morning. It was then high water

Storming the Taku Forts, August 1860, Second Opium War, China Date: 1860

Battle of Navarino, Greek War of Independence, 20 October 1827, Navarino Bay (Pylos). Date: 1827

Comic postcard, Drunken man with bottle - We re all going Bang on the Bust! Date: 20th century

The World, Boston Theatre Company, USA - Tableau II, a dramatic scene from The Infernal Machine. Date: late 19th century

Are we uprooted? No! by G. L Stampa
Are we uprooted? No! Despite the fact that a three storey house has had a huge explosion near by and shrapnel has pierced through their home

Vintage photograph WW II - sinking HMS Barham in 1941
Vintage photograph World War II - sinking of HMS Barham in 1941 in the Mediterranean Sea - hit by German U boat, take after magazine explosion. 859 men lost

Nagasaki Japan in 1945, atomic bomb
View of the city of Nagasaki Japan in 1945, before the explosion of the atomic bomb, 1945, World War II

City ruins following atomic bomb Japan, WW II 1945
City ruins following nuclear explosion - atom bomb Japan, World War II 1945

View of the city of Nagasaki Japan 1945, atomic bomb
View of the city of Nagasaki Japan in 1945, following the explosion of the atomic bomb, 1945, World War II

Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaving, hog feeding
Trades in Regency England. Carpet weaver at a loom in Wilton 16, pig farmer feeding hogs in Hampshire 17, and women knitting and embroidering with needles made in Chichester 18

Examination of underground railway tunnel after explosion
Examination by government officials of the underground railway tunnel between Charing Cross and Westminster after the explosion of a bomb in the tunnel on 30 October 1883. Date: October 1883

Train from Charing Cross to Westminster after explosion
Conducting the first train from Charing Cross to Westminster after the explosion of a bomb in the tunnel on 30 October 1883. Date: 1883

Napoleons Army retreating from the battlefied
Napoleon Bonaparte and his Army retreating from the battlefied of Liepzig, after the premature destruction of the bridge on the Elster River, 1813

Napoleon blowing up his comrades. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815

Air and sea battle between British and German forces, WW2
A combined air and sea battle in the North Sea between British and German forces during the early stages of the Second World War

British submarine C3 at Zeebrugge, Netherlands, WW1
British Submarine C3 strikes and explodes at Zeebrugge, Netherlands, First World War. 1914-1918

Police searching debris after bomb explosion, London
Police searching debris after bombs concealed in mailbags exploded at Euston Station, London, 6 February 1940. 1940

Defeat of the French Fleet by Sir Cloudesley Shovell, 13th August 1704. 1704

Colliery explosion, Duffryn pit 1852
Scene of an explosion, near Aberdare Valley, mouth of the middle Duffryn pit. No deaths were occasioned more by choke or after-damp than from the fire-damp. Date: 1852

Front cover of The Graphic, of the pit-mouth immediately after the explosion, killing 268 men and boys. Date: 11 September 1878

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

HIGH BROOKS MINE 1866
An explosion at the High Brooks colliery, near Wigan in Lancashire, England, results in the deaths of 30 miners. Date: 23 January 1866

FIREWORK FACTORY BLAST
The explosion at Madame Cotons Firework Factory, Westminster Road. Date: 1858

Cartoon, Brown entertains his friends wi a haggis
Brown entertains his friends wi a haggis by stabbing it and splattering them all as they sit around the table on Burns Night ! Date: 1859

MAN SHOT FROM GUN
A human shell is seemingly shot from a cannon. In truth, he is propelled by a spring, and the explosion occurs a fraction of a second later... Date: 1884

RETREAT FROM LEIPZIG
The French retreat after the Battle of Leipzig Date: 19 October 1813

Chinese Emperor Wu Wang creates loud explosions
Chinese Emperor Yeou Wang (Zhou Dynasty) alarms his enemies with loud explosions. Date: circa 781 - 771 BC

Flying Colours, Hippodrome Theatre, London
Flying Colours, a revue at the Hippodrome Theatre, London, an Albert de Courville production

Cannon firing in pub -1
The owner of a company manufacturing miniature cannons test fires one of his products in the Quarter House pub, Compton Road, Wolverhampton

Ship struck by a submarine-fired torpedo between the boiler and engine compartments. Date: circa 1910s

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