Freezing Collection

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

Frost Fair by Jan Griffier the Elder
The famous Frost Fair taking place on the frozen River Thames in London in 1683. Freezing to around eleven inches thick, the ice was strong enough to hold shops, stalls, coaches and sleds

Thames Estuary during the winter of 1947
A scene during the great freeze of 1947, one of the harshest winters known in Britain. At Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, a boatman is pictured rescuing his dinghy from the encircling ice which makes

Christmas morning swim in the Serpentine
Page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News featuring various sketches of the Christmas morning swimming handicap in the Serpentine in Hyde Park

A misty frosty morning along the River Penk in Staffordshire near Penkridge Date: 2000

Ingleborough, Yorkshire
Ingleborough hill in the Yorkshire Dales - seen from the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England Date: 1990

Armour Meat Refrigeration Plant - Berisso, nr Buenos Aires
Berisso near Buenos Aires, Argentina - enormous cold meat plant of the American Armour company, who specialised in refrigeration of meat for export and transportation purposes. Photographed at night

Photograph of Niagara Falls frozen, with skiers at base. Captioned, The Frost King at Niagara'. With description, There is no place in the world where the Frost King creates a more beautiful

FRENCH TRAMP DIES
On a freezing January morning, a French chemineau (tramp) is found dead of the cold. Date: 1914

LAST COUPLE ON EARTH
The last couple on Earth freeze to death in a new Ice Age. Date:

Critical position of the ship, the Investigator, part of the Ross Arctic expedition at Ballast Beach, Baring Island. Date: 1853

Mother with new born baby visited by several women in a parlour. A Lying in Visit. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Two Regency men stoppped to talk in a freezing wind, one impatient to walk home. Miseries of Social Life. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Man losing control of his mount while passing a carriage
Man losing control of his mount while passing a horse and carriage on a road. How to Pass a Carriage. Academy for Grown Horsemen

Frost fair on the River Thames, 1814
The last frost fair on the River Thames, London, in February 1814, looking upstream towards Blackfriars Bridge and St Pauls Cathedral

The Midwinter Festival in Roman London at the time of the Emperor Nero as imagined by the artist, Fortunino Matania. Citizens carry offerings to the temple while a small boy stands

Ships in ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland
Ships in the ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland. Date: 1926

During the cold winter of February 1855, people were skating underground, between Regents Park end of the tunnel through which the canal runs under Aberdeen-place and maida Hill

London ice carts 1857
Long trains of ice-carts may be seen wending their way to the shops of purchasers to dispose of their freights. Ice-carts with good effect; labour

DISTRIBUTING SOUP, PARIS 1709
Distributing soup to the needy during the Paris food shortage caused by the freezing winter of 1709. Date: 1709

FOOD SHORTAGE PARIS 1709
Distribution of bread during the food shortage in Paris during the coldest winter in Europe for 500 years. Date: 1709

Kirkcudbright graveyard in winter light
The headstones of Kirkcudbright graveyard in winter light, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Date: 2009

Man in a heavy overcoat walks a small child through the snow
A man in a heavy overcoat and trilby hat walks with a small child through the snow in High Street, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Date: 2010

Woman in red coat in Kirkcudbright snowy graveyard
Woman in red coat walks through the snow among the gravestones in Kirkcudbright graveyard, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 1986

A mother pushes her child in a pram, Krakow, Poland
A mother walks her child in a pram though a flock of ducks in a park in Krakow, Poland. She wears a long winter overcoat and a fur hat. The ground is snow-covered and frozen Date: 1988

Ribblehead Viaduct - 02
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, on a bitterly cold winter morning after a dusting of snow Date: 1990

Ribblehead Viaduct - 01
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire, on a bitterly cold winter morning after a dusting of snow Date: 1990

Downham village, Ribble Valley
Downham village in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England, in winter. St Leonards Church stands above stone cottages Date: 1990

Ribble Valley, winter - 02
Remote hill farm barn in winter near Ingleborough, in the Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales. Snow is on the fields Date: 1990

Ribble Valley, winter - 01
Remote hill farm barn in winter near Ingleborough, in the Ribble Valley, Yorkshire Dales. Snow is on the fields Date: 1990

Ribblehead railway station, Yorkshire
A passenger waits for a train on the southbound platform of Ribblehead railway station, Yorkshire. It is dawn on a frosty and snowy winter morning Date: 1990

Hastings, East Sussex - 3 brave lady swimmers on a cold day
Hastings, East Sussex - Three brave lady swimmers on a cold day! Date: circa 1920s

German Christmas card with soldiers
A German Christmas postcard, depictng a jolly group of German soldiers sitting in a festive barracks building, opening letters and parcels from their loved ones around a table

Train snowed in, Wales in the winter of 1947
A train and locomotive brought to a standstill by snow drifts on the line between Merthyr and Abergavenny following the renewed blizzards of early March during one of the coldest recorded winters in

Snow blocked road in Kent, 1963
A snow plough bulldozes its way through deep snow on Westerham Hill in Kent on a road that had been impassable for days during the very cold conditions of the winter of 1963

Freezing cold winds
Three people wrapped up against freezing cold winds to no avail. Date: 1843

What about a rest, I m freezing
An artists model, posing for sunshine holidays posters, asks to be allowed to rest as, ironically, it is freezing in the studio. Date: 1939

Poster, Antar-Gel antifreeze to help cars start in cold weather. circa 1935

A warmly clad British soldier amongst icicles
Photo from The Illustrated War News, showing a British soldier dressed in warm protective clothes in a freezing cold winter trench

Ice cart in London 1850
Early morning delivery of ice on the back of horse and carts, candied in from chilling Wenham Lake, Norway and Sweden to London, for fishmongers

Jack Frost on a Christmas and New Year card, wearing skates and turning the water to ice. Date: circa 1890s

Comic Hamlet scene on a New Year card -- Hamlet thinks he has seen his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore, but it is only the water pump covered with ice. Date: circa 1890s

Lyric Theatre after a fire, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Lyric Theatre after a fire which destroyed it on 24 February 1907, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. The icicles may be the result of attempts by firefighters to put the fire out with hoses during freezing

Building with icicles, Berlin, New Hampshire, USA
A building covered in icicles in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA, on 4 February 1908. The temperature was minus 20 degrees. The building had been on fire

Red Squirrel - feeds actively on sunflower seeds left by people in bird-feeders (Sciurus vulgaris L.). parkland woods near Ekateringburg - Ural Mountains - Russia

Red Squirrel - feeds actively on frozen berries in freezing weather (Sciurus vulgaris L.). parkland woods near Ekateringburg - Ural Mountains - Russia

Great Tit - ruffles up its plumage in freezing weather - tucks in one foot away from cold - tries to keep warm at -35 degrees celsius (Parus maior L.)

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