Ladder Collection (page 17)

Concrete balloon houses by G. H. Davis
Concrete balloon houses: an ingenious system of construction from America. Date: 1942

Inflatable German dinghy by G. H. Davis
Saving the Luftwaffe: an inflatable dinghy for defeated German airmen. It was carried by the larger German aircraft during the Second World War

Ladder drill at LFB Southwark HQ. Date: early 20th century

Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis
From Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935

Bomb damage at the Leysian Mission building during WW2. London

The Fire Brigade responds to a building fire, Manchester
The Fire Brigade responds to a building fire next to the Daily Sketch offices in Manchester (C. Walter and Co.) A wheeled escape ladder had been deployed to the top right window where two people can

British soldiers with boarding for trenches, WW1
British soldiers carrying boarding for the bottom of trenches on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Heligoland submarine rescue by G. H. Davis
During the naval action off Heligoland in the early part of the First World War, a boats crew is rescued by a British submarine. Date: August 1914

View inside Cannon Street Station, London, showing trains waiting to depart, but very few passengers in evidence. Date: circa 1940

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Jolly Miller, Tom Thumb
Nursery Rhymes. Above, the Jolly Miller, carrying a sack. Below, a woman sits at a table, watching Tom Thumb riding a tiny horse. Date: early 20th century

German soldier in a trench, WW1
Artists impression of a German soldier in a trench, with a fence of barbed wire, in a mountainous area during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Cottages in a bleak Scottish landscape

People on sandy beach with cars and light aircraft, Scotland
People on a sandy beach in Scotland with two cars and a light aircraft belonging to Northern & Scottish Airways Ltd of Glasgow. The G-ACSM was a Spartan Cruiser with three engines. Date: 1930s

London street with King George VI display
A narrow London street with a display marking the accession of King George VI. Date: circa 1936

Harvesting scene with laden cart
Harvesting scene showing a cart laden with hay, and two oasthouses in the background

Factory with coiled wire - WW1
A factory with newly manufactured wire standing in coils on the floor. Possibly the basis for barbed wire detined for the Western Front - WW1 Date: circa 1915

NFS fire engines at Wembley
National Fire Service fire engines at Wembley. Date: 1948

Recruits training at Lambeth HQ. Date: 1930s

Firefighters climbing wheeled escape ladders
Firefighters demonstrating various lengths of wheeled escape ladders. Date: circa 1900

Turntable ladder drill at Southwark HQ. Date: 1915

Balloon ascent from the Tuilieries Gardens, Paris
Second balloon ascent, made from the Tuileries Gardens by Charles and Robert, watched by a crowd of spectators. Date: 1 December 1783

Balloon being filled with gas
Balloon in a yard, being filled with gas from a barrel in preparation for flight. Date: late 18th century

Women painting RAF symbols
British women working during the Second World War to paint identification marks on aircraft wings for the RAF. Date: 1941

Sumatra, Indonesia - Batak Architecture Date: circa 1910s

Birthday card, the Many Happy Returns Inn
Birthday card, depicting the Many Happy Returns Inn, a colourful toadstool where special birthday teas are served. Various elves are making preparations and enjoying tea in the foreground

Children queueing up for a ride on the swings, probably at a seaside resort in France

Hiding Prohibition Booze
A young woman up a step ladder demonstrates the enormous lengths people went to to hide their bootleg booze during the Prohibition in the U.S.A.! Date: early 1930s

Superstition - Ladders
Is walking under a ladder really bad luck? These London pedestrians seem to think! Date: early 1930s

Walking under a Ladder
Is walking under a ladder really bad luck? These pedestrians think so, doing their best to avoid a ladder! Date: early 1930s

Household Cupboard
Two young women look in an odds and ends cupboard in a corner under the stairs. Date: early 1930s

William Huntington - 2
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON coalheaver who climbed the social ladder to become a methodist preacher. (With some very odd ornamentation, doubtless allegorical.) Date: 1745 - 1813

William Huntington - 1
WILLIAM HUNTINGTON coalheaver who climbed the social ladder to become a methodist preacher. Date: 1745 - 1813

LFB recruits taking part in hook ladder training at HQ -- having reached the top of the tower with a single hook ladder, the recruits learn the two-man hook ladder drill

LFB recruits taking part in escape training at HQ
LFB recruits taking part in escape ladder training at HQ -- team spirit is essential as speed can save lives

Underground home - Kamchatka - Far Eastern Russia - used in the harsh winter. Date: circa 1800

London Fire Brigade - Tottenham Station and Engine Date: circa 1900s

Drying fish on the thatch roof, Southern Ireland
Drying fish on the thatch roof of a country cottage, Southern Ireland Date: circa 1930s

The Golden Fruit of Florida, USA - pickers picking oranges from a Floridian Orange Grove and a wooden crate packed with Vitamin C-providing delights from the Sunshine State. Date: circa 1940

Aerial Truck - Extending ladder - Calgary Fire Department, Alberta, Canada. Date: circa 1910

Blitz in London -- turntable ladder in operation, WW2
Blitz in London -- turntable ladder in operation, with firefighter and hose

Dendrobium involutum, ladder orchid
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Epidendrum myrtifolium

VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Illustration from From
" VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Illustration from " From the Earth to the Moon" (1865). Litography."

Linseed oil is used in the manufacture of paint and soft soap. From Look and Learn no. 456 (10 Oct 1970)

Repairman
People You See. Repairman. From Teddy Bear (2 January 1965)

Shop repairmen
People You See. Shop repairmen. From Teddy Bear (date unknown)

Pixies mining a sponge cake
Pixie Pip and Pixies mining a sponge cake

Workmen drilling in Bristol, possibly doing maintenance work on the underground sewerage system. Date: circa 1950s

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