Floor Collection (page 26)

Design for Linoleum / Floor Covering in green, red and gold. Gouache on squared cartridge paper. Silver Studio. circa 1935

Design for floor covering in art deco style. Watercolour and ochre heavy paper. Silver Studio 1934

IMechE: first council room, 3rd floor 1899 Date: 1889

Burgessia bella, fossil arthropod
An arthropod fossil which lived on the sea floor, dating from the Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale, British Columbia

The Botany Gallery
An interior view of the Natural History Museums Botany Gallery in 1911

Silurian seafloor
An artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs

Chart of oceanic section, Tenerife to Sombrero
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, Bermuda to Azores
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, to St. Pauls Rocks

Chart of oceanic section, Tristan D Acunha to Cape of Good H
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Chart of oceanic section, Halifax, Bermuda
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Ocean floor
Diagram of the main features of the ocean floor, including an oceanic ridge, island arc and sea mounts

Ophiroid brittle stars
These invertebrates can occur in huge numbers on the deep ocean floor. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Montane rainforest, Sri Lanka
Rock wall covered with moss in montane rainforest, The Knuckles, Sri Lanka

Subduction zone
An illustration of a subduction zone at work beneath the South American continent. Fig 20 from The Story of the Earth 1977, London

Ceramic floor tiles depicting the production

GERMANY. Br�ugustusburg Palace. Decoration
GERMANY. Br� ugustusburg Palace. Decoration

Paris International Exhibition (1937). Floor of the Spanish Pavilion, with the signature of the architects Josep Llu� Sert and Luis Lacasa. SPAIN. Salamanca. Archivo Hist󲩣 o Nacional

Kambawza Palace - Rangoon -.. the view from the tower is worth the climb up the steps, from parquet floor to parquet floor. Date: 1951

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Sheltering on underground stations 1940
During the blitz of the Second World War, Londoners made uses of the underground tube stations as air raid shelters, because they felt secure. Date: 1940

Billingsgate Fish Market, London, 1876
Engraving showing an interior view of the, then new, Billingsgate Fish Market in London, 1876. This image shows the large number of fish dealers crowding round a mound of fish

Dining Hall at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
Benches and tables set for a meal line the dining hall in B Wing at Wakefield prison. A black central heating shaft rises from the floor to the roof. Date: Date unknown

Girl drawing

Boy Reading in Nursery
A little boy sits on the nursery floor near his wooden rocking horse and reads a large book in the sunlight streaming through the windows. Date: 1930s

Fire appliances in a London fire station appliance room
Motorised fire engines in a London fire station appliance room. Note the wooden blocks on the floor, to help stop the ladders deforming, especially in damp conditions

LCC-MFB Print of fire brigade rescues
A Victorian print giving an artists impression of the bravery of two firemen in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, rescuing those trapped by fire from the top floor of a house on fire

LCC-LFB Major fire, Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square
Westminster and Soho firefighters were joined by almost 100 other firefighters as fire engulfed the seventh floor and roof of the Grand Hotel on the corner of Northumberland Avenue

GLC-LFB Major fire, Chelsea Hospital, Pimlico
Twelve pumps and two turntable ladders were called to deal with the major blaze at the Chelsea Hospital that destroyed the roof of the building and seriously damaged the upper floor

LCC-LFB Merryweather Magirus 100 foot turntable ladder
The Magirus 100 foot turntable ladder being demonstrated at the Brigade headquarters, Lambeth. Showing the full working height of the TL, reaching the 9th floor of the drill tower

LCC-LFB fire in Kensington High Street, London W8
The aftermath of a roof and top floor fire in apartments at 1 Kensington High Street. A fire engine (pump) is set into a hydrant

LFB Bishopsgate fire station, City of London
Bishopsgate fire station, located at 162 Bishopsgate, City of London, EC2, built in 1902. It was closed in 1965 and later sold off

Rescue, lowering line from drill tower, Lambeth HQ
Saturday drill display at Brigade HQ Lambeth. London firefighters performing a rescue by lowering a line from the third floor window, during the fire brigade display

Live carry-down from drill tower at Lambeth Brigade HQ
Saturday drill displays at Brigade HQ Lambeth. London firefighters performing a rescue by carrying down an extension ladder from the second floor window during the display

Stocks of fire brigade hose fittings, LFB HQ workshops
An assortment of pump collector heads, hose adapters and suction hoses on the floor of the London Fire Brigade workshops at Lambeth

Suburban homes, a book containing exterior views and floor plans, drawn to a scale, of all these cottages. Date c1878 May 16

The floor of the New York Stock Exchange, secretly shot with a camera hidden in the photographers sleeve. Date c1907 Nov

Horrified onlookers in formal dress view dead woman and smoking gun on floor; vignettes of couple and portrait on left side. Date c1899

Colour plate, Art Gout Beaute, 1924

Ward & Vokes, the men of joy presenting a second whirl of The floor walkers. Date c1900

Library of Congress, second floor, central stair hall. Date c1900

A small dog dressed as a pilot ready for take off. He is surrounded by birds who find this hilarious. The caption reads: " What a get-up!" Date: 1928- 1929

Ardwick Industrial School, Manchester - Boys at Camp
Boys from the Ardwick Industrial School, Manchester at Camp carrying the wooden floor for tent. Their assorted headgear includes caps and a cowboy hat. An old barn stands behind. Date: circa 1912

Breakfast in a Persian house with several men sitting on carpets. 1818

Co-Op Store, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of part of the Co-Operative Department Store at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing clothing and rolls of material on display. 1957

Wire-drawing Machines at Birmingham Wire Works
Wire-drawing machines at the Birmingham Wire Works. Men wind large coils of wire which are then piled up on the floor. Date: 1844

International Stores, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Interior view of The International Stores at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, showing biscuit containers (Mitre Biscuits) in front of the counter, and stacks of tins and packets on shelves behind. 1963

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