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Background imageHeat Collection: LCC-LFB Aftermath of a warehouse fire, Palmers Wharf

LCC-LFB Aftermath of a warehouse fire, Palmers Wharf
Stacked bales of goods affected by heat and water following a fire at Palmers Wharf, Prince Street, Deptford, SE London

Background imageHeat Collection: LCC-LFB fire, Goodge Street deep shelter

LCC-LFB fire, Goodge Street deep shelter
Two LCC-LFB firemen, wearing breathing apparatus, at the Tottenham Court Road end of the Army transit centre located in the deep shelter tunnel system. The fire has been extinguished

Background imageHeat Collection: The Dog Days - Rene Vincent

The Dog Days - Rene Vincent
The Dog Days A Fashionable Older man in formal evening dress and stylish woman in lightweight attire exchange greetings on a boiling hot summers day. Date: 1923

Background imageHeat Collection: Collapsed Scout at 1948 London Olympics

Collapsed Scout at 1948 London Olympics
Scout collapsed through heat exhaustion whilst holding a Liechtenstein nationality sign at the 1948 London Olympics held at Wembley Stadium. 1948

Background imageHeat Collection: Exploring with Airships

Exploring with Airships
The airship will enable explorers to get to remote places easily and comfortably, avoiding lions and bears though it will not enable them to avoid heat and cold

Background imageHeat Collection: British Tommy using sword as toasting fork

British Tommy using sword as toasting fork
Photograph: British Tommy using sword as toasting fork. Shows a group of mounted soldiers in a ?Hommes 40/ Chevaux 8? railway carriage cooking on a fire in a metal bucket

Background imageHeat Collection: Advert for Arden Hills & Co new patent gas fires 1888

Advert for Arden Hills & Co new patent gas fires 1888
Patent asbestos gas fires by Arden Hill s, tiled hearth and brass rail, pattern, no sheet-iron parts, large fire front, hook at back, new burner, fall-down trivet

Background imageHeat Collection: Interesting conical houses near Hama, Syria

Interesting conical houses near Hama, Syria. Built in this style to remain cool during the hot summer months. Date: circa 1906

Background imageHeat Collection: Advertising card for Belgian Cooking Range

Advertising card for Belgian Cooking Range, manufactured by Ch. Van Ackere & Co. - similar in style to an Aga. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeat Collection: Civil Defence Handbook, introduction and basic facts

Civil Defence Handbook, introduction and basic facts
Civil Defence Handbook introduction and facts, pages 4 and 5. Highlights the events following on from a H-bomb explosion

Background imageHeat Collection: Interior of the forge. Engraving. 19th century

Interior of the forge. Engraving. 19th century

Background imageHeat Collection: Steam engines. Room inside. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Steam engines. Room inside. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Background imageHeat Collection: Owakudani - Hakone National Park, Japan - Boiling Waters

Owakudani - Hakone National Park, Japan - Boiling Waters
Owakudani ( Hell Valley ) - brave (or foolish!) tourists getting close to the boiling sulphuric volcanic springs at the Hakone National Park Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeat Collection: Book of Trades, The Glass Blower

Book of Trades, The Glass Blower. 1841

Background imageHeat Collection: DESERT EXPRESS TRAIN

DESERT EXPRESS TRAIN
Libyas " Desert Express", jammed with soldiers, colonists and natives. The Gadames-Tripoli railway runs 350 miles through unbearable heat, unprotected from the sun Date: 1940s

Background imageHeat Collection: Roman Baths of Titus

Roman Baths of Titus
View of the Roman Baths of Titus, public baths or thermae built in Rome by the Emperor Titus in 81 AD. A cross section is shown

Background imageHeat Collection: Advert for Arden Hills & Co gas fires 1884

Advert for Arden Hills & Co gas fires 1884
Asbestos gas fires by Arden Hills with ornamental surround. Date: 1884

Background imageHeat Collection: Radiator Heating from the Triplex Grate

Radiator Heating from the Triplex Grate / Range, showing the passage of hot water heating throughout a house from boiler to tank and radiators. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageHeat Collection: WW1 - Australian Gunners in Gallipoli, 1916

WW1 - Australian Gunners in Gallipoli, 1916
WW1 - Four Australian Gunners from the ANZAC Corps in action at their base in Gallipoli. The gunners working topless in the heat as they prepare their ammunition for their weapons as a team

Background imageHeat Collection: Lockheed P-38J Lightning -in D-Day stripes to help dist

Lockheed P-38J Lightning -in D-Day stripes to help distinguish Allied from enemy aircraft in the heat of battle

Background imageHeat Collection: Darkling Beetle - emerges from day shelter in

Darkling Beetle - emerges from day shelter in sand where he buries itself to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - March

Background imageHeat Collection: White Saxaul trees - on sand dunes with tracks

White Saxaul trees - on sand dunes with tracks of insects - track in foreground ends with a small sand bump where a large darkling beetle has hidden itself during the day heat (Haloxylon persicum)

Background imageHeat Collection: Scene in the Royal Mint

Scene in the Royal Mint. The Deputy Master, The Right Hon William Grey Ellison-Macartney, allowed Matania to sketch the conversion of tons of early Victorian copper coinage into Georgian pennies

Background imageHeat Collection: Fire safety -- paraffin oil stove

Fire safety -- paraffin oil stove
Fire safety -- a Valor Junior paraffin oil stove with a safety guard around it

Background imageHeat Collection: Firefighters in action, Calders Wharf, East London

Firefighters in action, Calders Wharf, East London
Firefighters in action at a fire in Calders Wharf, East London, 21 May 1955. Seen here with hosepipes, cooling down barrels of collodion cotton and boxes of paint

Background imageHeat Collection: Distorted rails after fire in Hackney, East London

Distorted rails after fire in Hackney, East London
Distorted rails after a fire at Wallis Road, Hackney, East London, 16 August 1955. The fire involved baled cork in the arch under Clarnico Bridge on the railway line between Stratford

Background imageHeat Collection: Fire uniform heat tests at Lambeth HQ

Fire uniform heat tests at Lambeth HQ
Demonstration of the Teled Noflam Protective Suit at Brigade HQ, 29 November 1965. The firefighter is retrieving a motor cycle tyre from a burning oil tray, in crouch position

Background imageHeat Collection: Some heat

Some heat. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Background imageHeat Collection: Three women preparing a meal, Japan

Three women preparing a meal, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageHeat Collection: Hill station, India

Hill station, India
A hill station in India -- a high altitude location where the climate is cooler, especially popular with European colonials during the hot summer. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageHeat Collection: Six-inch British howitzer in action, Western Front, WW1

Six-inch British howitzer in action, Western Front, WW1
A six-inch British howitzer in action in the dust and heat of the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Background imageHeat Collection: Advert for Powell Duffryn 1944

Advert for Powell Duffryn 1944
Phurnacite smokeless fuel. Phurnacite is increasing in popularity for Domestic Boilers, stoves and central heating Plants

Background imageHeat Collection: Burning the ice at both ends! by George Studdy

Burning the ice at both ends! by George Studdy
Burning the ice at both ends! Bonzo and the Bonzolines keep their temperatures down on a hot day, with a large cube of ice

Background imageHeat Collection: A Tertiary Igneous Dyke

A Tertiary Igneous Dyke
A Tertiary igneous dyke cutting through a sandstone deposit. The igneous rock pierced its way through the earths crust in a vertical fissure

Background imageHeat Collection: Rooftop Tailors

Rooftop Tailors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageHeat Collection: Tailors Working Outdoors

Tailors Working Outdoors
Tailors working on a roof during a heat wave, cutting and sewing cloth for suits, Regent Street, London, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imageHeat Collection: Summer in the City

Summer in the City
A gentleman in a waistcoat wipes his forehead during a London heatwave. The two women either side of him, wearing coats and hats, do not seem to feel the heat! Date: early 1930s

Background imageHeat Collection: Joseph Chamberlain as Mephistopheles boiling Radicals

Joseph Chamberlain as Mephistopheles boiling Radicals
The Radical Inferno. Joseph Chamberlain as Mephistopheles boiling his Radical political opponents (who were against his proposals for Tariff Reform) - including Henry Campbell-Bannerman (foreground)

Background imageHeat Collection: Fresno, California, USA - drying figs in the hot sun

Fresno, California, USA - drying figs in the hot sun. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeat Collection: Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Assay Furnaces

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Assay Furnaces Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeat Collection: Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Melting Furnace

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Melting Furnace Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeat Collection: The Waefu Heart by T Duncan

The Waefu Heart by T Duncan
Reproduction of the painting The Waefu Heart by Thomas Duncan (1807-1845) (original in the V&A collection). Date: 1841

Background imageHeat Collection: Boiling eggs at the Beppu Hot Springs, Japan

Boiling eggs at the Beppu Hot Springs, Japan
A sign advertising the option to boil an egg at the Beppu Hot Springs, Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Background imageHeat Collection: Sunbathing on a Coral Beach, Bermuda

Sunbathing on a Coral Beach, Bermuda Date: circa 1950s

Background imageHeat Collection: A soldiers night bivouac - WWI - possibly in a church

A soldiers night bivouac - WWI - possibly in a church
A French soldiers night bivouac - WWI - possibly in a church Date: circa 1916

Background imageHeat Collection: Swiss Cheesemaker stiring a large vat

Swiss Cheesemaker stiring a large vat. Date: circa 1940s

Background imageHeat Collection: Heat pump group (Brown-Boveri)

Heat pump group (Brown-Boveri). IMechE Procs. vol.154. 1946. p.160 Date: 1946

Background imageHeat Collection: Variety of tektites

Variety of tektites



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