Lamp Collection (page 6)

A Raid on the Dessert - children at a table

The cards never lie, Ladies - social scene. circa 1898

North arcade, St Laurence Church, Pittington, Durham
View of the north arcade of St Laurence Church, Pittington, Durham, dating back to around 1100. Date: 1911

Dining Room, Grand Hotel de Madrid, Seville, Spain
View of the Dining Room, Grand Hotel de Madrid, Seville, Spain. Date: circa 1910

Norway Lane, St Ives, Cornwall. Date: circa 1900s

Imperial Billiard Hall, Deansgate, Bolton, Lancashire, with eleven full-size tables by E J Riley Ltd, Accrington. Date: circa 1910s

American cruise ships lounge. Date: late 1920s

LCC-LFB horse drawn vehicle, South Croydon Fire Station
LCC-LFB horse drawn vehicle and crew outside South Croydon Fire Station. Date: circa 1900s

Advert for Gamages model pedal cars 1925
Selection of kiddies model pedal cars with lamps, windscreens, motormeters and metal imitation radiators. Date: 1925

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1893
Selection of wrought iron and polished brass extending floor lamps. Date: 1893

Bethnal Green - slum houses
Slum houses in Crosland Street, Bethnal Green, London. Date: circa 1914

Advert for Elkingtons fireproof dish 1909
Round and oval Limoges fireproof china. Date: 1909

Stand and lamp for making toast 1909
Christmas gift for any table! Elkington plate stand and lamp for making toast for breakfast table, also forming a stand for the kettle. 1909

Electric kettle connected to the ceiling light 1902
Two victorian couples seated at the dining room table with a hot cup of tea, from a kettle connected to the ceiling light. 1902

Poster for Aladdin, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate & soup tureen 1912
Welbeck plated pattern hoat plate, soup tureen and syphon stand. 1912

Advert for Alexander Clark, hot plate 1912
Luxury patent hot plate. 1912

Advert for Mappin & Webb luxury items 1916
Varity of sterling silver luxury Christmas gifts for the homefront. 1916

A call-box attached to the electric lighting standard at a cab-rank in Kensington, London, enable residents to call up a taxi at will. Date: 1910

DOEUILLET / DINNER DRESS
A design by Doeuillet for an elegant dinner dress. Picture shows a lady by French windows admiring a vase of purple flowers. Date: 1912

An old milestone in the main street of Hadleigh, Suffolk, England, which bears a unique lamp standard (now removed). Date: 1930s

Goats roam the Forum of Trajan. Date: 1890s

The annual celebration of the Relief of Derry, attracted a large group of nationalist protesters in Londonderry, commemorate the events in 1689 when a 105 day siege of the city by Jacobites was

Group of nurses outside hospital
Large group of nurses and staff standing and seated at steps of hospital building, with two lamp posts on either side of door. Date: circa 1930

Lamplighter at work
A lamplighter at work on what appears to be a foggy (or smoggy) day

Paraffin lamp mounted on a 4 5 Howitzer shell case
Paraffin lamp mounted on a 4.5 Howitzer shell case. Trench Art

Horseless carriage 1896
Advertisements on the side of open-top carriage in the streets of London. Date: 1896

New portable gas lamps for railways 1845
General railway use patented by Mr. Johnstone. The lamp consists of small flat shaped retort of about six inches long, an inch broad and about a quarter of an inch in depth

A stitch in time saves nine 1866
A middle class mother sews her daugthers clothing with the little watching her. Date: 1866

AUX TROIS QUARTIERS 1909
Ladies in fashionable hobble skirts, one wears a coatee or spencer with Directoire collar & lapels & a blouse with a ruff. She also wears a large hat not unlike a Lunardi. Date: 1909

ALADDIN AND GENIE
Aladdin and the obsequious genie of the lamp

SITTING ROOM 1918
An English middle class sitting room designed by Waring and Gillow. Date: 1918

WOMAN READS IN BED
A woman in bed alone with a book. She wears a shawl of blue with a white fur trim. Date: 1879

Lamplighter
London characters: London is lit by gas lamps now, and every evening the LAMPLIGHTER must switch on every lamp in the metropolis, and every morning switch them off again. Date: circa 1870

NIGHT WATCHMEN / LONDON
A constable goes his nightly round, patrolling the streets accompanied by what must surely be one of the first police dogs ! Date: circa 1660

EAST END GIRLS SWING
Girls enjoy a makeshift swing, from a lamp-post in Londons East End Date: late 19th century

SAFETY LAMP IN MINE
Safety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine Date: 19th century

HOMELESS FAMILY / ADELPHI
Taking the census in the dark arches of the Adelphi. A bulls-eye lamp illuminates the misery of a homeless family sheltering under the arches. Date: 1861

PSYCHE LOOKS AT EROS
Psyche, visited by Eros after sundown, seeking to know what he looks like, spills hot oil from her lamp onto him, waking him, with sad consequences, though all ends happily enough

PAN AS A LAMP
holding an oil lamp

Hogarth Times Night
4. Night A street leading to Charing Cross, with a statue of Charles I at the far end; a frightened horse has caused a coach to overturn. Date: 1738

CHARLES DARWIN CARTOON
CHARLES DARWIN The advent of mankind is celebrated by a congregation of apes, who hold a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871). Date: 1809 - 1882

APES, MONKEYS & BABY APES, MONKEYS & BABY
The advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871)

Evolution - Baby - Monkeys
The advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book The Descent of Man (1871)

Folklore - Jinn - Genie
When Aladdin rubs the magic lamp, this Jinn, or Genie, appears and announces that he will do whatever Aladdin wishes

SMITHFIELD / LANTERN SLIDE
Smithfield Market by night Date: 1910

Ascetics monks burn to death in temple
Six ascetics of a Hindu sect are meditating in temple near Shahabad when a lamp falls & sets their mat alight; forbidden to move, they let themselves be roasted... Date: 1939

Robin Goodfellow, a sprite (also known as Puck). Date: 1911

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