Forerunner Collection

British Museum - reading room
The great domed reading room at the British Museum, forerunner of the British Library 1952

Mutoscope at Gravesend
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free !

Glyptodon Asper
a gigantic forerunner of the armadillo, from the Pleistocene period in South America (near Buenos Aires) more than two metres in length

LCC-MFB Peckham fire station, Camberwell
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1867, Peckham fire station was located in Peckham Road opposite Southampton Way SE5

LCC-MFB Hackney fire station, E9
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) for the MFB, Hackney fire station was located at 2-2A Bodney Road, East London

Exterior of British Museum - reading room 1855
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library Date: 1855

LCC-MFB Kennington fire station, London SE11
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1870, Kennington fire station was located in Refrew Road, Lower Kennington

The forerunner of the modern type writer- a piano like machi
Photograph of a typewriter from 1851. This typewriter resembled a toy piano with black and white keys

Countrywear / Men 1876
A country gentlemen wears a Norfolk shirt (the forerunner of the Norfolk jacket), knickerbockers, bowler hat, woollen socks & leather shoes & carries a knobbly cane

Mastodon / Prehistoric US
A family of Mastodon, roaming the area of modern-day Manhattan Island. Bones of this large forerunner of the modern-day elephant have been found in this region

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)

ENGLAND / GRAVESEND
New Road, Gravesend (Kent) - notice the premises of The Wonderful Mutoscope (a forerunner of the cinema) - Admission Free ! Date: 1906

Forerunner of a gym treadmill or running machine
Gymnastic mill - forerunner of a gym treadmill or running machine Date: 1893

Five famous three-year-old racehorses of 1876 - Enguerrande, Forerunner, Camelia, Kisber and Petrarch. 1876

Taylorcraft A N19843, The forerunner of the Taylorcraft and Auster families. Date: circa 1960

SATURNALIA
Romans celebrate the festival of the SATURNALIA which occurred in December and was the forerunner of the Christians Christmas

Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte d Angiviller (1730-1809). Director of the Batiments du Roi. Portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis (1725-1802). 1780-1789. National Museum of Denmark

Gloster F9 / 40 DG205 / G forerunner of the Meteor
Gloster F9/40, DG205/G, forerunner of the Meteor, with, from left, John Crosby-Warren, test pilot; Michael Daunt, test pilot; Frank McKenna, md, Gloster; Air Cdre Frank Whittle and W.G

LCC-MFB Rushey Green fire station, SE London
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council), Rushey Green fire station was located at Rushey Green, Catford, SE London

Askers Road House
Cover of a brochure for Askers Road House, between Bridport and Dorchester, Dorset, a forerunner of the motel Date: circa 1930

Blackwell Mill Cottages, Millers Dale, Peak District
A very rare photograph of Blackwell Mill Cottages with the railway line with a goods train in view. One of the trucks identifies its owner as Brunner Mond, the forerunner of I.C.I. chemicals

Boys of our Empire. West Indies
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Sth Africa
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. India
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Gt Britain
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Canada
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

Boys of our Empire. Australia
Promotional postcard for the Boys Empire League, forerunner to the Boy Scout movement. Artist: Charles Crombie Date: 1901

WW2 poster, Draw Attention to Low Stock
WW2 poster, Draw Attention to It -- Low Stocks are the forerunner of No Stocks. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Boeing B-299 X-13372 the forerunner of the B-17
Boeing B-299, X-13372, the forerunner of the B-17

LCC-MFB Sydenham fire station, Crystal Palace
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1869, Sydenham fire station was located on Crystal Palace Parade in the shadow of the Crystal

LCC-MFB Battersea fire station, London SW8
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1874, Battersea fire station was located on the corner of Simpson Street and Battersea Road

LCC-MFB West Norwood fire station SE27
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council), West Norwood fire station opened in 1881, located in Norwood High Street, near Knights Hill

LCC-MFB Poplar fire station, E14
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council), Poplar fire station was located at 75 West India Dock Road, East London

LCC-MFB Whitechapel fire station, E1
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) for the MFB, Whitechapel fire station was located at 27 Commercial Road East (later just Commercial Road)

LCC-LFB Camden fire station, NW London
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) for the MFB, Camden fire station was one of a number of London stations to incorporate the distinctive round

Youth Club in Islington, London, 1887
Engraving showing poor children playing in the gymnasium and skittle alley of what was a forerunner of a youth club, Islington, London, 1887

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Suggestions for the homes of tomorrow: High frequency cooker
Photograph of a woman demonstrating the cooker of the future, in which the high frequency waves cook right through the food. The invention was a forerunner of the microwave oven, commonly in use today

French Colonial Soldier
A mounted soldier of the French Colonial Cavalry (forerunner of the French Foreign Legion)

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