Flames Collection (page 2)

Bloemfontein, South Africa - Government Building on fire
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa - Government Building on fire. Note the Union Flag on view on the dome, showing that this is a re-use of an earlier image (British rule ended in 1905!!)

The Battle of the Nile 1798
The Battle of the Nile Date: 1798

Children who played with fire

WW2 - Outlaw Squadron
A front cover illustration for a WW2 children's story book, Outlaw Squadron, written by Erroll Collins. The image shows a German plane falling in flames from the firing of fighter planes

WW2 - Boy's Own Paper March 1941
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's paper, Boys Own, March 1941. The image shows two British Royal Air Force pilots giving each other a thumbs up from different fighter planes

British silent film Flames of Passion (Flowers of Passion)
A dancing scene from the British silent film Flames of Passion (Flowers of Passion), directed by Graham Cutts, 1922. The dancers are from the Purcell School of dancing

WW2, Wartime Firemen
An illustration which shows some WW2 firemen putting out flames in the city, a woman of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps is helping out. Date: circa 1940s

Colonel Henry Ridge leading the stormers at Badajoz, Spain, during the Peninsular War - The Fighting Fifth, Northumberland Fusiliers Date: 1812

Houses of Parliament in London destroyed by fire Date: 1834

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - 3500 USAF aircraft shot down
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Celebrating 3500 American aircraft shot down and destroyed. Date: 1972

Cover design, Stirring Science Stories, science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine Date: 1941

Cat by a fire - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, Japanese traditional story
Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, in a Japanese traditional story involving the beautiful daughter of a village magistrate who falls in love with a young priest

The Motor Picture Book, Fire Engines Past and Present Date: 1930

Great Fire at Tooley Street, London Bridge, June 1861
The Great Fire at Tooley Street, London Bridge, 22 June 1861 Date: 1861

Advert, Merryweather, Fire Fighting Steam Pump
Advert, Merryweather, Long Acre, London, the Valiant fire-fighting steam pump, useful as a fire engine. Date: 1907

Gloster Javelin T. 3 XK577
Gloster Javelin T.3 XK577, formerly operated by the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down, at the Ministry of Aviation Fire School, Stansted Airport, in April 1965

Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF. 11 WD687
Armstrong-Whitworth Meteor NF.11 WD687, at the Ministry of Aviation Fire School, Stansted Airport, on 7 April 1962, before succumbing to the flames, during fire-fighting practice. Date: 1962

A stunt car flies through the air over a bonfire of tyres, watched by spectators standing in the rain. Date: 1960s

The great martyrdom of Nagasaki, September 10th 1622, in which 22 missionaries and native Christians were burnt to death, and 30 others, including several women and children, beheaded

BRUNNHILDE'S DEATHBED
The devouring flames curl round the body of Brunnhilde as she lies on her funeral pyre, driven to death by despair at the death of her lover, Siegfried

BIPLANE DOG FIGHT
Death takes wing over the skies of Europe as another plane is shot down in flames Date: 1917

ANGELS RESCUING
The prayers of the living can help the dead - in sufficient quantity, they can even save them from the flames of Hell, rescued by angels

SNATCHED FROM HELL
The prayers of the living can help the dead - in sufficient quantity, they can even save them from the flames of Hell, rescued by angels

The Phoenix in its nest of spices, fanning the flames with its wings

The Vinh-Long, French naval vessel (a 5500-ton screw steamship, which was built in 1881) - on 16 November 1922, while carrying 495 persons

Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyters attack on the fortress, Upnor Castle, in the Raid on the River Medway, Kent, 19-24 June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667). Date: 1667

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

Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 16 October 1824
The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, London, 16 October 1824 Date: 1824

Spent, by Harry Rountree - Union Jack Club Date: 1907

Bombardment of Sveaborg, 9 August 1855, Crimean War Date: 1855

Original Artwork - Family around the fire on Christmas day
Original Artwork - Family sitting around an open fire on Christmas day, with a holly wreath hanging above the hearth. Date: circa 1937

World War II - Corsair lands in flames on aircraft carrier, Pacific Ocean, pilot unhurt

New protective water-spray 1903
The latest German novelty for protecting firemen from flames. Water is fed through a branch from a hose which the fireman carries for playing upon flames

Audience with the Grand Vizier in the throne room of Topkapi Palace. Sala del Trono. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre after Giulio Ferrario in his Costumes Ancient

Tombs in the Temple of Bel or Baal, Palmyra, Syria. Sepolcri di Palmira. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Portrait of Roman Emperor Constantius I
Roman Emperor Constantius I, 250-306. Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius Herculius Augustus, commonly known as Constantius Chlorus

Dunkirk under bombardment, 1940
View of Dunkirk under bombardment, taken from the deck of a destroyer, showing huge smoke columns from fires, during the Dunkirk evacuations in June 1940. 1940

Lady badly burned in an accident with a paraffin lamp. Date: 1871

Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. circa 1900

Plaque from Alcora, Spain, 18th century, decorated with a scene of Venus and cupids in a ritual with sacred flames. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Hindu devotees firewalking in the Nepu Tirunal or Thimithi festival in honour of the goddess Draupadi. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Fireplace, Banqueting Hall, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
Fireplace in the Banqueting Hall, Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, dating back to 1163. Date: circa 1905

Women workers raking out white hot coke, Vauxhall
Women workers raking out white hot coke at Vauxhall Gas Works, London

Disastrous fire, Coney Island Amusement Park, USA
Disastrous fire at Coney Island Amusement Park, USA, when 100, 000 bathers were cut off by the flames in July 1932. 1932

Rammed HMS Swift and HMS Broke, Straits of Dover, WW1
Rammed HMS Swift and HMS Broke in the Straits of Dover, First World War. 1914-1918

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

WW1 - The Exodus from Antwerp, Belgium over bridge of barges
WW1 - The Exodus of the inhabitants of Antwerp, Belgium over a bridge of barges across the River Scheldt. 1914

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