Fire Collection (page 20)

Fire drill at Southwark headquarters. Date: 1896

London Fire Brigade - Southwark Headquarters 1896
Rescue drill at Southwark headquarters. Date: 1896

Advert for Coalite smokeless coal 1951
Coalite was a ideal smokeless fuel for every type of grate, cooker and boiler. Date: 1951

16th Century 1562 1560s Animal Art Bruegel Brueghel
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Swing, the rick-burner
An arsonist during the Swing Riots in Southern England. Date: 1830-1

The Triumph of Death, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525?1569), Flemish Renaissance painter. The Triumph of Death. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado. Madrid. Spain. Date: 1562

13th Minnesota Volunteers 19th Century 1899 Aguinaldo
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German Peasants War (1524-1525). Fires and looting by the German reformer, Thomas Muntzer (1491-1525) and his people during the rebellion. Colored engraving. 19th century

19th Century Albert Keller Capitalism Capitalist
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1969 1960s 60s Sixties Electric Man Men Electricity
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Cartoon, A good idea, WW1
Cartoon, A good idea. A French soldier says he has asked his father to write to say he is dead: that way, he will be able to get leave of absence from the Front. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

Dead cattle, Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA
Dead cattle amidst the rubble on Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA, after the earthquake and fire, 18 April 1906. 1906

London Fire Brigade Firemen Firefighting Firefighters
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LFB light alloy hose ramps, marked DEAD SLOW -- one pair of four-foot end sections assembled to bridge two lines of 2.75 inch hose

Bomb damage in a London suburb, WW2
Bomb damage in a London suburb during the Second World War (23 August 1940). Bombs were dropped in the early hours of the morning

Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw, London
Funeral of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908), London -- carrying the coffin to the grave, 29 August 1908. He was Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (now London Fire Brigade)

Insurance companies memorial with the Latin motto: Non Omnis Moriar (not all will die). The sculpture shows firefighters on a horse-drawn fire engine, rushing to fight a fire. (2 of 3)

Woman with body of soldier on battlefield
A woman with the body of a soldier on a battlefield

Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I, Westminster Abbey
The tomb of Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey, London

Spanish Civil War. Excursionistes: Sigueu prudents amb el foc! (Hikers: be careful lighting fire!). Propaganda poster from the Forest Service

Combined Civil Defence exercise, WW2
Civil defence rescue workers administering first aid to a released casualty from the exercise site. The R on the helmet signifies Rescue team workers

London firefighters training at Brigade HQ, Lambeth SE1
LCC-LFB firefighters (recruits) undergoing pump training in the drill yard of Brigade HQ. Hard suction hose is being connected to the open topped pump

Russian soldiers
A group of Russian soldiers sit in a coniferous wooded landscape in a circle around a small fire. Part of the British Soviet Friendship society. Date: 1950s

Couples ingenious device so they don't wake up the baby. A makeshift pump that extinguishes incendiary bombs that have landed in your home without leaving the comfort of your bed. Date: 1941

Cremation on the bnaks of the Ganges - Benares
Benares, India - Cremation area on banks of the Ganges. Bodies wrapped in cloth await the ceremonial burning at the waters edge. circa 1920s

Whitehall, London, pre-1691
An aerial view of Whitehall, London, prior to the fire of 1691. This image was used by Mark Lemon in his lecture About London in 1862. Date: pre-1691

Two Nationalist volunteers reloading their rifles as they fire at a Republican position near San Sebastian, northern Spain, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

Journalist saving a child in Irun; Spanish Civil War, 1936
Photograph showing the French journalist, Raymond Vanker, running across the International Bridge from Irun to Hendaye with a child he was saving, whilst under intense gun-fire, 1936. Date: 1936

Scene in Woolwich Arsenal, London showing an armstrong gun being made. This gun was introduced into the British Army in 1859

Monument raising above the other buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Date: 1897

Christmas-Eve dinner time in the East End club-house, where everyone brought their own dinner to cook themselves, over the community oven with one frying-pan

Exterior of Trinity House in Tower Hill, London, rebuilt after the Fire of London 1666. Date: circa 1750s

The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, ca. 1515. Patinir, Joachim (1480-1524). Oil on wood

Rioting Miners Events Belgium 25 29 March 1868
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ROMANY FUNERAL PYRE
A Romany gipsy funeral pyre, where the caravan of the deceased gipsy elder is burned. Here, accompanied by a policeman, relatives are paying their last respects. Date: 1930s

VILLAGERS MURDERED
In a village near Louvain, Belgium, the Germans set fire to homes, ordering the inhabitants to stay inside ; those that try to flee are shot. Date: 1915

CHICAGO THEATRE FIRE
600 people die when the Iroquois Theatre, Chicago, burns Date: 1904

MUSSORGSKY/KHOVANSCCHINA
Costume for Martha, a widow, mystic, former mistress of Andrei Khovanski, son of Ivan K : she escapes being drowned, dies throwing herself into a fire

Magic Flute Liebig Music Opera Mozart Die Zauberflote
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BOITO NERONE LIEBIG 6
Scene from act five : in the vault of the circus, the Christians are trapped by the fire, and die when the building collapses. Date: first performed 1924

WOTAN'S FAREWELL
Act Three : Wotan takes a last look at his daughter Brunnhilde as she sleeps encircled with fire

WOTAN ENCIRCLES ROCK
Act Three : Loge encircles the rock on which Brunnhilde is sleeping with a protective fire which only a true hero can penetrate (Siegfried will manage it, of course)

THE SLEEP OF BRUNNHILDE
Act Three : Brunnhilde sleeps, encircled by fire

Man gathering peat, to keep the home fires burning through the winter. Date: 1890s

CIVIL WAR DUBLIN 1922
Civil war in Dublin - the last rebels are forced to yield because of a fire. Date: 1922

JAPANESE FIREBALL
A fire-ball is seen from time to time on Lake Biwa, at Zeze, and is attributed to the spirit of a dead daimio (prince) Date: 1908

Bulging of the theatre curtain
At Royal, Exeter, fire on stage curtain blows out towards the auditorium and the audience flee the fire. 187 people die in the blaze

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