Lead Collection (page 8)

Firefighters in action, Miles Street, Vauxhall, SW8
Firefighters in action at the premises of Brunton & Co, lead manufacturers, in Miles Street, Vauxhall, SW8, on 6 March 1957. The first floor and roof were on fire when the first crews arrived

General Henry Horne
General Henry Sinclair Horne, 1st Baron Horne (1861 1929), military officer in the British Army, lead the grand attack on the " Hinenburg line" during World War One. Date: 1917

Lead seal stamped WDS with broad arrow - used on old uniforms, etc. buried in the fields of France as shoddy. Trench Art

Abraham Lincoln a the Lyric
The actor, Mr William J. Rea as Abraham Lincoln at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith in 1919, playing the lead role in the play by John Drinkwater

British Vickers Viking airliner by G. H. Davis
Another British air challenge: the Vickers Viking 27-seater airliner. Details of a medium transport aircraft designed to give Britain a lead in the field of civil aviation. Date: 1945

Will It Bite? by Muriel Dawson -- a little girls puppy looks dubiously at a snail. Date: 1941

Fours Company by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl takes two dogs and a cat for a walk. Date: 1940

Silhouette of woman with two dogs
Silhouette of a woman with two dogs. Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Bonzo in London. Bonzo the cartoon dog out for a walk in London. Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Jeek the puppy gets wet in the lake
Jeek the mongrel puppy runs off and gets wet in the lake, and shakes water onto passers-by. Date: 1940

Jeek the puppy in the new park
Jeek the mongrel puppy in the new park, where signs say: No Dogs Allowed Unless Led and Keep Off The Grass. Date: 1940

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

WW1 - Group of manual workers in a factory - Shrapnel
WW1 - A large group of female manual workers in a factory producing lead shrapnel for use in high explosive artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Workman in a factory - lead works - ww1
A workman in a factory, having a break from his work. The factory produced lead shrapnel for us in artillery shells - WW1 era Date: circa 1915

WW1 - Manufacture of artillery shell shrapnel
A group of female manual workers in a factory, standing close to vats containing molten lead, using in the manufacturing of shrapnel for WW1 artillery shells. Date: circa 1915

Manufacturing equipment - Lead Shrapnel - WW1 Date: circa 1915

Lead Shrapnel manufacturing - Women - WW1
A group of manual workers, mostly women, inside a factory producing lead shrapnel for artllery shells - WW1. Date: circa 1915

H. M. S. Duke of Edinburgh
The lead ship of the Duke of Ediburgh class of armoured cruisers constructed for the Royal Navy in the mid 1900s. After participating in the Battle of Jutland in May 1916

Oxford Shoes 1938
A fashionable young woman with her dog on a lead wearing leather and suede Oxfords and a suit. Date: 1938

HMS Diadem (China Squadron) off Hong Kong. HMS Diadem was the lead ship of the Diadem-class of protected cruiser in the Royal Navy

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Well, I m Blowed
Well, I m Blowed! A young girl taking her puppy out for a walk, loses her hat to a sudden gust of wind! Date: circa 1942

Joseph Chamberlain leading John Bull deeper
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) leading John Bull (representing the British populace as a whole) inward into the deeper waters of his new Fiscal Policy

Izmir, Turkey - Donkeys leading a Camel train. Date: circa 1906

Cheeky Cockney man quizzes a London Policeman
The wit of the Classic London Cockney - cheekily enquiring of a Policeman (leading home a small lost child): - " Whats e done, Guvnor?" !!! Date: 1892

Butterscotch wulfenite
A large specimen of the mineral wulfenite from the Glove Mine, Arizona, USA

Cerussite
Aggregates of white crystals on globular crystalline baryte. Cerussite comprises of (lead carbonate). Specimen from Frank Mills mine, Christow, Devon

Scotlandite comprises of (lead sulphite) and derives from the sulphates group. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London originally from Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Schultenite comprises of (lead arsenate hydroxide) and derives from the phosphates group. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Wulfenite comprises of (lead molybdate) and is characterized by thin, square tabulate crystal structures

Pyromorphite

Mendipite is exclusive to the Mendips of Somerset. This specimen is from Merehead Quarry. Mendipite belongs to the oxyhalides and hydroxyhalides group

Descloizite is comprised of (lead zinc vanadate hydroxide) and is characterized by platy crystals with a rounded triangualr shape. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Caledonite comprises of (copper lead carbonate sulphate hydroxide) and is characterized by small, well-formed intricate crystals. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

Jamesonite comprises of lead iron antimony sulphide, and is characterized by hair-like fibrous crystals. This specimen is from the collections held at the Natural History Museum, London

Boulangerite comprises of (lead antimony sulphide) and is characterized by fine, fibrous crystals. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

Mimetite
A tall, orange prismatic crystal of mimetite. Mimetite comprises of (lead chloroarsenate)

Bournonite or cog-wheel ore comprises of (copper lead antimony sulphide). Cog wheel ore contains the mineral chromite, though it is difficult to extract from crystals

Galena
A specimen of the mineral galena (lead sulphide) which is a major ore of lead as well as silver. This specimen is from Wanlockhead mine Dumfriesshire, Scotland

Leucaena leucocephala, coffee bush
Sketch 215 from the Ehret Collection of Sketches (unbound) by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

President Kr�nd his people lead the first
President Kr� nd his people lead the first Boer group to the station. Second Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902. Engraving

Miss Jeanne de Casalis by Madame Yevonde
Miss Jeanne de Casalis pictured during the time she played the lead in Mr Edward Middletons production of Potiphars Wife. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

John Mundell & Cos solar tip shoes Lead all in bright Dongo

Marse George lead her out on de porch. Date 1895?

Hathersage, Lead Mills Bridge, Derbyshire, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Auburn takes the lead

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Blow & Kennett...Granby Newton Co. Mo...Collier White Lead

David Wright Home Chat calendar 1950 featuring dachshund
Front cover of a giveaway calendar incorporated into Home Chat magazine, featuring a dachshund hopefully holding his lead in his mouth, an unusual subject for David Wright

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