Glowing Collection

Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium
Famous for its greyhound racing track, Walthamstow Stadium opened in 1933. With a distinctive pink and green neon-lit frontage, the stadium has been one of the capitals most recognised landmarks

Festival of Britain
Night scene showing the illuminated exhibition site of the 1951 Festival Britain on Londons South Bank with the Skylon glowing in the dark and the Dome of Discovery visible

Early Precambrian Earth
An impression of the Earths surface during the early Precambrian period (4, 500 to 543 million years ago), by Barry Evans

Moscow has a Plan
MOSCOW HAS A PLAN - propaganda book by M Ilin describing the Soviet 5-year economic plan in glowing terms. We build in our country a new order

Common Glow-worm - female - glowing on a cut grass stalk to attract males - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Advert, Cosmos Lamps

Musique Sur Leau, Le Soir, Venise
A painting of a dark, night time scene with glowing lights revealing a number of gondola boats at a music event on the waters of Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1916

Colour illustration of woman with red, long beads, earrings
Colour lustration of woman with red, long beads and earrings, and jewel box, in front of a hand mirror. Captioned: ??Man-Killers: The Weapons Woman Wields??

Music cover, Glowing Embers by Evan Marsden, Narrative-Intermezzo, piano solo Date: 1924

UFOS/MISSOURI CATTLE
Cattle are found dead - and mysteriously mutilated - on a ranch near St Louis, and that same night, a glowing UFO is reported in the neighbour- hood... Date: June 1978

Comic postcard, man with a glowing nose in the blackout, WW2 - One For the Road! Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, man and policeman in blackout, WW2 - the mans red glowing nose is too bright! Date: circa 1940s

At the Cheltenham Chases, 1932. Society news from the racecourse. Mrs Pease (left, wearing fetching eyepatch), Lady Blanche Douglas

Erica species
Tumid heath, Erica tumida, Mr. Jacksons heath, Erica jacksonii, Dr. Neills heath, Erica neillii, Mr. Aitons heath, Erica aitoniana, Sir Joseph Banks heath, Erica banksiana, glowing heath

Driving in the Rain Date: 1950

Common Glow-worm - female - climbed on top of a cut grass stalk in the dusk - attracts males by glowing and waving abdomen from side-to-side - late in the dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica)

Common Glow-worm - female - attracts males by glowing - holds to top of a cut grass stalk - dusk - midsummer - June (Lampyris noctulica ). meadow in Ural Mountains - Tchelyabinsk region - Russia

Ufo / Hopkinsville / 1955
At the Sutton Farm near Hopkinsville eight adults and three children were terrorised by small glowing aliens who were immune to gun shots

Bengal / Indian Tiger - at night, with eyes glowing in the dark (Panthera tigris). India

Crystal Palace at Sydenham is destroyed by fire
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham is destroyed by a devastating fire on 30th November 1936. One of the 284ft water towers (designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)

Pressed amber also known as ambroid which is formed by fusing small pieces of amber together

Eriocnemis vestita, glowing puffleg
Plate 275, hand coloured lithograph from A Monograph of the Trochilid, or Family of Hummingbirds, (1861) by John Gould

A Sunset Fantasy landscape
A sunset Fantasy landscape, with two birds of prey (Peregrine Falcons?) swooping across a landscape of high peaks, a still sea and enveloping mists against the descending

Communist Wolf Pack
THE RED GUARD The Communists depicted as a pack of wolves, ravening with glowing eyes

The Cuckoo by Charles E. Brookfield (19 May 1857 20 October 1913) adapted from Decore by H. Meilhac (Theatre des Varietes, Paris, 27th January 1888)

WW1 poster, YMCA and YWCA
Poster, His Home Over There, YMCA and YWCA. More than 2000 Such Homes for Our Boys, United War Work Campaign, 11-18 November. circa 1918

A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of
Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1617-1678). Dutch painter. A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter, c. 1644-1648. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Meteorite burning up in the atmosphere
A meteorite burns up as it enters Earths atmosphere, exploding in a shower of glowing debris Date: 1954

Drinks during an interval at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris
L abreuvoir de L Olympia pendant un entr acte (Drinks during an interval at the Olympia Music Hall in Paris) - c. 1918.Recognisable by its giant red glowing letters above the establishment

Luminous Deep-Sea Fish by G H Davis
Various fish capable of luminescence, along with a diagram of the organs that the fish possess that cause this luminescence. Date: 1927

Mexican amber
Piece of amber from Mexico from the Upper Oligocene about 25 million years old. Donated by Christine Bayliss

Lebanese amber
A piece of Lebanese amber from the Lower Cretaceous about 120 million years ago

Phosphaenus hemipterus, glow worm
Photograph of a glow worm (Phosphaenus hemipterus)

Opal

Palaeocene volcanic landscape, Antrim
An artists impression of Palaeocene (65 to 54.8 million years ago) volcanic landscape in Antrim, Northern Ireland, Britain

Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly
The monarch, also known as the milkweed is the largest butterfly found in the U.K. It is not a native butterfly, but is a rare visitor from the U.S.A

Volcano types
Block diagram showing: (top left) Glowing cloud eruption, (top right) a shield volcano and (Bottom) a strato-volcano

Autunite comprises of (hydrated calcium uranyl phosphate). This is a green, radioactive, highly fluorescent mineral. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

Meteorites
An artists impression of a falling group of meteorites

Centipede in Baltic amber
Centipede, Chilopoda in Baltic amber. The centipede has been half polished away and is filled with pyrite crystals

Snipe fly in Baltic amber
A snipe fly preserved in Baltic amber with a pseudoscorpion hanging onto its legs. Specimen dates from the Upper Eocene, about 35 million years old

Isle of Wight amber
Spider in Isle of Wight amber. Lower Cretaceous about 130 million years old. Borrowed from Museum of Isle of Wight Geology

Plate XXXVIII: Lava curtain and royal party
Pl XXXVIII. Observation on the volcanoes of the two Sicilies, Naples, 1776 & 1779 compiled by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) while Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples

Fungus gnat in amber
Fungus gnat, about 2mm in length, in Eocene Baltic amber about 40 million years old

Krakatoa in eruption
Krakatoa during an early stage of the eruption. Plate 1 from The Eruption of Krakatoa (1888) by G. J. Symons

Fluorescent group
A group including amber, ruby, ivory, fluorite and opal photographed in ultra violet light. See 179 for the same group in white light

Kamayut fire walking festival - Rangoon - Down the centre is a shallow pit about 20 feet long, 4 feet wide of glowing charcoal fire

The Full Moon. Like the moon, my brethren dear, I am full as full can be, Full of grace and lager beer, Full of food and sanctity! Date: circa 1910s

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