Heating Collection (page 9)

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

Advertisement for Acme gas stoves, by Arden Hill & Co, Birmingham. A maid tells Mr Soot that his services aren t needed any more. Date: early 20th century

Bathroom design, Davis, Bennett & Co, sanitary and heating work -- Proposed Bathroom at Melchet Court. 1913

Staff & patients in C Ward of Quex Park VAD Hospital. The patients are all wearing hospital blues with the exception of one man who is a Belgian solder (holding a tray with glasses)

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

Interior of a mobile kitchen, WW2
Interior of a mobile kitchen, looking towards the rear, 25 August 1941. Date: 1941

Queen Mary ocean liner: Purified air; safe deposits
An unrivalled system of air-conditioning for the main public rooms on board the Queen Mary ocean liner; And the unique provision of safe deposits for the valuables of passagers. Date: 1936

British soldiers keeping warm, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers keeping warm round an oven on the Western Front during World War One. Tins of food are being heated up ready for their meal. Date: circa 1916

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

Day in the life of an average household by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: a day in the life of an average household during the Second World War. Detailing economies that need to be practised in order to keep within the limits of fuel consumption laid down

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

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

Collecting maple tree sap
A man collecting sap from maple trees in a Canadian forest; the sap is turned to sugar in the traditional way by heating it in a large metal bath over a wood fire. Date: 1934

Cutting Firewood
Cutting up logs for firewood in a French woodyard. Date: circa 1845

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

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

Bronze Foundry - Tonkin, Vietnam
Bronze Foundry Workers - Tonkin, Vietnam Date: 1904

Christmas card in the shape of a coal scuttle. Date: circa 1890s

Amber pendant
An amber pendant with circular cracks known as sun spangles which are produced by heating the amber. Borrowed from Goldmajor Ltd. Image is from Amber the Natural Time Capsule

Dragon belching fire

Advert for Flavel radiant-panel gas heater 1938
Don t dodge draughts Nearly every house has its own particular draught. Sometimes it is in the hall. Sometimes just round the dinning-room door. Chilly draughts.... ugh! Heres the way to tame them

Advert for Solar aluminium hot water bottle 1933
Insist on solar cast aluminium oval hot water bottle. Keeps hot all night. Will not break. Will not chip. Will not dent. Will last for ever. Top filling. 1933

Advert for Radiation gas appliances 1947
For Gas appliances say New World silent beam gas fires burns silently with a restful glow whether the gas is high or low. 1947

Dining Hall at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
Benches and tables set for a meal line the dining hall in B Wing at Wakefield prison. A black central heating shaft rises from the floor to the roof. Date: Date unknown

Don t go home until you see the celebrated Dubuque soft coal

Hot Dog by William Heath Robinson
An ingenious central heating device for bathing on chilly morning of the early part of the season. A smug and rather rotund gentleman tests out a typically convoluted Heath Robinson invention

Brockton, Mass. Dec. 1940, second-hand plumbing store. Date 1940 Dec

Advertisement: Rendsburg Stoves
Advertisement for Rendsburg Coal-fired Stoves. 1923

Calor Gas Window display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Window display promoting Calor Gas and other products at a hardware ironmongers shop in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. 1956

Silhouette of two soldiers

Poster: Save More Fuel This Winter
Poster encouraging people to Save More Fuel This Winter as part of the War Effort. circa 1940s

Flying Dress
A pilot dressed for a high- altitude flight. Equipped with parachute, harness, oxygen apparatus, telephone, wireless earphones, electrical system for heating clothing. Date: 1920s

Central heating poster Date: 1931

Advert Main Velomain gas space heater 1939
When winter comes! Main Velomain gas space heater, requires no flue, and does not discolour the walls and ceilings. 1939

Roman hypocaust at Chedworth
Roman hypocaust pillars, part of an underfloor and walls central heating system, in the remains of a villa at Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England. 3rd - 4th century A.D. C.1950

Gas Fire Nibbles
Ladies in dinner dresses and stilettos share a nibble and a tipple beside the comforting glow of a Sugg Caprice gas room heater! Date: 1960s

Musgraves Stoves advert
Advertisement for Musgraves Stoves, from Musgrave & Co, Ltd : burn night and day; give no trouble, no dust; no unpleasant smell; no overheating. Date: 1901

Steam heating at Holloway Prison
Steam heating at London City Prison and House of Correction, Holloway. Date: 1862

Female Blacksmith
A German woman blacksmith heating her irons in the furnace. Date: early 1930s

Advert for Belling eletctric fires
The 2 kilowatt Belling is a flicker coal fire fitted with a beautiful flame effect : it keeps your teapot warm for a second cuppa, and its radiant heat warms the whole room ! Date: 1931

Advert for Gas for your home
When heat was master in the home the coal-eating kitchen range and household firres demanded much labour. There was dirt and smoke, waste and inconvenience. Now Heat is sevant

Medieval Fireplace
A medieval group gather around (and warm their hands at) a fireplace. One man has an owl on his arm. A rather unfortunate stork and her young nest in the chimney. Date: 1338-1344

Boiler Room, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
The boiler room at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The schools engineer and four young helpers stand alongside massive lumps of coal

Cauldron and kettle at a gipsy encampment
A cauldron and a kettle heating over a log fire in the open air at a gipsy encampment

Whitby Parish poor relief voucher for coal
A voucher for a shilling bag of coal, issued as poor relief by the Churchwarden at Whitby, North Yorkshire

Advertisement for workhouse kitchen equipment
A trade advertisement for Barford & Perkins of Peterborough, suppliers of institutional cooking, heating and laundry equipment

Indian Goldsmiths at work

Contented Bather 1929
Advertisement for gas for water heating. An old balding man sits in a full, steaming bath and smiles as he wriggles his toes - he obviously hasn t yet recieved his gas bill

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