Fire Collection (page 14)

Girl has Fairy Dreams
A small girl sleeping by the fire with her dolly dreams of the joys of Christmas Day

Singing Round Camp Fire
The round-up camp - cowboys play the guitar and accordian round the camp fire

Abbots Leigh church after the fire
Engraving of the church in Abbots Leigh near Bristol, which suffered a fire on 20th February 1848. The fire was thought to have originated from the flues of a stove becoming over-heated

Scottish Cottage Inter
An old Scots peasant sits by the fire in the kitchen of his simple home

Bremen Launched
In her heyday this fine German liner wins the Atlantic record, but in WW2 she becomes a naval accommodation ship, destroyed by fire in 1941

Ordeal by Fire & Water
A stage magician performs a feat of being immersed in fire and water

C17th Fire Engine / Dutch
An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

Motor Fire-Boat / London
The Beta III one of the London Fire Brigades several fire-boats, constructed by Merryweathers in 1926

Electric Fire Engine
Merryweathers electrically propelled fire-engine, which enabled 12 men to travel on the vehicle

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Quadricycle Hose-Carrier
Merryweathers Quadricycle first-aid hose-carrier, consisting of two tandem bicycles suitably connected, between which was a carriage for fire-brigade implements Date: 1895

Steam Fire Engine
Canterburys steam fire- engine, built be Messrs Merryweather & sons, of Greenwich

FOULIS GAS FIRE / 1889
Foulis Patent Regenerative Gas fire, supplied by the Carron Company. Universally admitted to be the most efficient gas fires by the trade both at home and abroad

Smoking Fish
Smoking fish, in France. The fish are hung inside the chimney over the fire

Late C18 Fire Engine
Known as a bed-poster, this London engine is a manual machine worked by pumping handles on either side : a Beadle and a Watchman are in official attendance

London Fireman 1750
A London fireman stands beside his engine : he is employed by an insurance company, the Hand-in-hand whose uniform he wears

Stage Effects - Fire
Victorian stage managers went to remarkable lengths to achieve realism on the stage - here, one tries to simulate the Great Fire of London

Royal Exchange (Original
Inspired by the bourse at Antwerp, Thomas Gresham built the first Royal Exchange at Cornhill, City of London; it was destroyed in the Fire of London, 1666

Great Fire of London
Street scene during the Great Fire of London

Ww1 / Sep14 / Brewing Tea
British brew tea while under fire on the Aisne, meanwhile someone plays the bagpipes

Pioneer settlers outside their log cabin. A woman cooks over a fire, watched by two children

Goblins spying on witches on a Christmas card
Goblins spying on two witches with a cooking pot on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

LCC-MFB Fulham fire station, SW London
Fulham fire station, which remains operational over 100 years after it was first opened (1895). Located at 685 Fulham Road SW6

LCC-MFB Hammersmith fire station, West London
Located at 1-3 Brook Green Road W6, Hammersmith fire station opened in 1877. It was it closed in 1914 with the opening of a new Hammersmith fire station in Shepherds Bush Road

LCC-LFB Herne Hill fire station, Brockwell Park SE27
Built by the London County Council, Herne Hill fire station was located at Milkwood Road, Herne Hill. The widespread adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB led to a reduction in the number of

LCC-MFB Greenwich fire station
Located at 9 Lindsell Street on the corner of South Street SE10, Greenwich fire station was built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (a forerunner of the London Council)

MFB (later LCC / LFB) Hampstead fire station
Built originally for the MFB in 1868, Hampstead fire station was located at 49 Heath Street. It became the responsibility of the London County Council in 1889 upon the LCCs creation

LFB-AFS parade for an exercise
Part of the Civil Defence Corps, until it was disbanded in the late 1960s, the Auxiliary Fire Service consisted of volunteer firefighters who would attend a fire station for drill and training

Siren, salamander and axolotl
Greater siren, Siren lacertina, three-toed amphiuma, Amphiuma tridactylum, olm, Proteus anguinus (vulnerable), axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum (critically endangered), dwarf waterdog

Map of the Greater London area with council areas marked. Date: mid-20th century

Primitive Stone Age people, Kazakhstan area
Primitive Stone Age people using ancient fire lighting methods. In the background are foragers harvesting. 8700-2000 BCE

World War II battle for Senio River in Italy, a flamethrower
Vintage World War II photograph - 8th Army battle for the Senio River in Italy, a flamethrower in action

Mushroom cloud Nagasaki Japan in 1945, atomic bomb
Mushroom cloud following the expolsion of Nagaski atomic bomb, Japan, World War II

Brighton West Pier - Prior to fire and final collapse Date: circa 2002

People escaping by boat during the Great Fire of London
People escaping by boat on the River Thames during the Great Fire of London. Date: 1666

Salamander, newt, olm and siren
Near Eastern fire salamander a, Salamandra infraimmaculata, southern crested newt b, Triturus karelinii, olm or proteus c, Proteus anguinus, and greater siren d, Siren lacertina

Interior of a working class home 1920
Decor of early 1910s working class home, but photograph taken near the end or just after the First World War, showing carpeted floor, wallpaper, photographs in frames and ornaments on shelving

Smelting Furnace - Sierra Leone, West Africa
Smelting in a bloomery-type furnace in Sierra Leone, West Africa. circa 1910s

Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton MR. 3 Phase 3 XF701
Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton MR.3 Phase 3 XF701. The MR.3 Phase 3 had Armstrong Siddeley Viper auxiliary turbojet engines under the outboard engine nacelles

A great dane dog in front of a log fire at Plas Teg, a Grade I listed Jacobean house in North Wales, near the village of Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, north Wales

Supermarine Spitfire 14 / XIV
An RAF Supermarine Spitfire 14 Flying, Aircraft Number 251B Date: 1940s

Poker, detail
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

Fire shovel, reverse
Cast polished steel fire shovel with a decorative brass handle, a floral finial and a bell-shaped blade with a pierced flower motif, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a poker

Poker
Cast polished steel fire poker with a twisted brass handle and a floral finial, part of a set of fire tools including tongs and a shovel

Coal vase
Japanned coal vase made from lacquered tin plate with gilding and painted floral decoration on the lid, cast iron claw feet and iron lion mask handles, with a removable tin-plate liner

Tinder box
Canister tinder box made from sheet iron, with a tube candle socket and a ring carrying handle, made in England c.1750-1775. Date: c.1750-1775

Development of trench warfare in France by Matania
Protecting the man and armouring the trench. French soldiers wearing the new steel helmet holding an armoured trench during a violent German artillery bombardment

The Uncut Koh-i-noor Diamond, c. 1851
Engraving of the Koh-i-noor ( mountain of light ) diamond, in its original state, circa 1851. Previously owned by the Mogul emperors, the Persian Shahs and Ranjit Singh, the Lion of the Punjab

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