Frozen Collection

HMAS Melbourne head-on. HMAS Melbourne was laid down in 1943 as HMS Majestic. Construction was frozen at the end of WW2 but resumed in 1949 after the ship was taken over by the RAN

The crew of HMAS Melbourne line up on the flight deck alongside its complement of Skyhawk and Tracker aircraft. HMAS Melbourne was laid down in 1943 as HMS Majestic

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 on the Thames by Pauline Baynes
Illustration painted for Holly Leaves by Pauline Baynes showing Londoners in 1683-4 enjoying the delights of the Frost Fair on the frozen River Thames

Dante & Virgil on Ice
Virgil is Dantes guide on a tour of Inferno; they come across some evildoers punished by being placed up to their necks in ice

Perfect Wife: No. X. By Joyce Dennys
A illustration of a wife struggling through the cold to watch her husband ice-skating. The Sketch - 29th January 1930. By Joyce Dennys

Ice skating in Winter
J Rankine ands Duff-Taylor, with a lady each, waltzing on Craiglockhart Lower pond, Edinburgh, 1907 1907

Boeing-Stearman A75N1 N803RB
Boeing-Stearman A75N1 (PT-17) N803RB (msn 75-1668 - military serial 41-8109), Red Baron of the Stearman Squadron, sponsored by Red Baron Frozen Pizzas. Date: 1992

Four frogs ice skating on a Christmas card
Four frogs ice skating hand in hand on a Christmas card, with comic verse below. circa 1890s

Samoyed People with their reindeer sled
Two Samoyedic hunters on a sleigh pulled by reindeer at, northern Russia. Date: circa 1903

Scott at Amundsens Tent
Scotts team arrive at the South Pole to find that Amundsens crew have beaten them to it; frozen and demoralised, they perished weeks later

Kalmar - Sweden - Brick Water Tower
A very fine decorated brick water tower at Kalmar, Sweden

Mariner, the Albatross
The frozen crew are joined by an albatross which sits on the ship

Events / Exploration / Polar
The Discovery frozen in during the Scott, Shackleton and Wilson exploration of the Antarctic

A Christmastide morning
Front cover illustration from the Christmas edition of The Sphere, 1933 by Van Jones, showing a snowy scene on Christmas morning

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

Winter in Tientsin (Tianjin), China
Winter in Tientsin (now Tianjin) in China : boats on the partially frozen river Hai. Date: C.1911

Ice Skating Couple - Christmas Greetings Card. Although a UK card, it was printed in Germany and features a very teutonic-looking skating pair

New York Snow Scene
Parked vehicles, abandoned in deep snow during bad winter weather which has lasted for over 2 months. A costly headache for snow removers in New York, U.S.A. Date: 1960s

Winter painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and girl in the Victorian era pictured skating on a frozen pond. In the background is a fine slope for sledging and a dog cart, a popular form of conveyance

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

FROST FAIR / THAMES / 1715-6
A frost fair on the Thames which was frozen from 24 November 1715 until 9 February 1716

Narrow Boat Icebreaker
An icebreaker narrow boat on the frozen Grand Union Canal, near Buckby Wharf, Northamptonshire, England

Passage of the Issel (Ijssel), a river which runs through Germany and the Netherlands, by British troops, winter of 1794-1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Date: 1794

Niagara Falls, frozen in winter, circa 1890. Date: circa 1890

Winter Pastime with children playing on a frozen pond. Date: 1855

Breaking ice for water, Tientsin, China
Men breaking ice on a frozen river for water and hauling it on sledges in Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, around 1911. Date: C.1911

Meteorite in Antarctica
A large meteorite found in the MacAlpine Hills, Antarctica in 1988

Washington at Delaware
Washington and his army cross the half frozen Delaware River, prior to the battle of Trenton

Mariner, Wondrous Cold
The ship enters the icy waters near the South Pole: And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold

Mother and daughter skating on a Christmas card
Mother and daughter skating, on a Christmas card design by Kate Greenaway. Date: circa 1880s

1970S Chest Freezer
A trendy chest freezer. Date: 1970s

Skating on a frozen Whitestone Pond, Hampstead Heath, London. Date: 1933

FROZEN FOOD SHOP / 1970S
People with trolleys lift the lids and peer into the chest freezers trying to decide which foods to choose. There is a good selection including Kosher meat and poultry. Date: early 1970s

Frozen pond with back light, Church Eaton, Staffordshire, England Date: 2000

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

Skating on the River Trent at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in 1895

Loading frozen beef for export, Brisbane, Australia, early 1900s

Skating on frozen lake, Dulwich Park

Skating on the Serpentine, London, Victorian period

Frozen River Thames at Hungerford Bridge, London, Victorian period

Frozen River Thames and Waterloo Bridge, London, Victorian period

Clearing a London park of snow, Victorian period

Thames Embankment and frozen River Thames, London, Victorian period

Skating on the River Thames at Oxford, Victorian period

Skating on the Thames at Oxford Victorian period

Frozen waterfall at Dota, ten miles from Phari, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

A frozen waterfall at Dotha, near Phari, in the Chumbi Valley, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan

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