Lighting Collection

Neon Frontage at Walthamstow Dog Racing Stadium
Famous for its greyhound racing track, Walthamstow Stadium opened in 1933. With a distinctive pink and green neon-lit frontage, the stadium has been one of the capitals most recognised landmarks

Royal Ediswan, Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company 1919

Lucas Lamps Advert
A fabulous advertisement for Lucas Lamps We Make Light of our labour

TILLY LAMP
A Model X 246 Storm Lantern Tilley Lamp. Date: 1960s

Temple Square at night - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Temple Square in the moonlight - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA with the Tabernacle and Salt Lake Temple visible. Date: circa 1910s

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - One of the many steel mills. Date: 1937

Art deco illustration for Christmas Card, 1920s
Art deco illustration fro Christmas Card, 1920s 1920s

UCL - Senate House - Floodlit
University of London - Senate House, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London - Floodlit. Date: circa 1938

The neon lights of Piccadilly Circus at night, London Date: circa 1950s

Fred and Adele Astaire in Stop Flirting
Fred and Adele Astaire starring with Majorie Gordon in the successful show, Stop Flirting which opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London in 1923 and moved to the Queens Theatre a few months later

WW2 poster, Don t be fuel-ish
WW2 poster, The worker who left the lights on -- Don t be fuel-ish. Wasted electricity means less fuel to make the weapons we need for victory

WW2 poster, The Merchant Navy was there! Merchant Navy Comforts Service. Date: 1940s

Berlin, Germany - Brandenburg Gate in the late evening light, casting the form into sharp silhuette relief against the last light of the day. Date: circa 1930s

Economics a la Heath Robinson
Do not scrap your disused lighting, heating, or cooking apparatus; they can be easily adapted to other requirements. Please note

Sacha Guitry / Jeidels
SACHA GUITRY French actor and playwright, lighting a cigarette

The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - Bateman
The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - H M Bateman. This illustration shows an arrogant man who has defied etiquette by lighting his cigar before the correct course of dinner

Franklins expedition seeking Northwest Passage
Seals and sea-birds watch as Sir John Franklins Erebus and Terror sail cautiously between Arctic icebergs

Open gas street light at Kings Cross
A street view with an open gas street light in the foreground, two high walls to either side of the road, a man walking, traffic on the road

Trafalgar Square 1926
Trafalgar Square, London 1926, at night - street lighting, car headlights, Nelsons Column through the gloom. Date: 1926

Lake Bala, evening, Gwynedd, Wales. Date: 1950s

London Tram 1952
The last week in service for the poor old Route 36 tram, from Abbey Wood to Embankment via the Old Kent Road and Blackfriars. Londons very last tram ran on 7 July 1952

Edison Lightbulb Advert
The Edison lightbulb American advertisement

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1890
Variety of Victorian household items. 1890

Nude Danae by Jean Straker
A woman reclining on a bed is captured in a shaft of light. A nude study by photographer Jean Straker inspired by the painting Danae by Rembrandt which appeared in his art photography book

Country Home At Horsham
A photograph of a charming old country home in Horsham, West Sussex, restored in the early 1900s to equip the property with an electric lighting plant, without losing it's old world appeal

The Lantern Spectre by Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) - The Lantern Spectre. A burning paper lamp takes on the aspect of a spectral face - one of a set of Ghosts and Goblins. Date: circa 1810

Cartoon, Arf a Mo, Kaiser! WW1
Cartoon, Arf a Mo, Kaiser! by Bert Thomas of the Artists Rifles, showing a British soldier lighting his pipe. The cartoons purpose was to raise money to supply tobacco

A London Underground platform at Bank station
An empty London Underground platform at Bank station, on the Northern Line. early 1930s

Advertisement for Aladdin safety paraffin mantle lamp from Aladdin Industries Ltd. of Aladdin House, South Street, London. Date: c.1924

Leslie Howard as RJ Mitchell in The First of the Few
Leslie Howard (1893-1943) photographed on the film set for The First of the Few, in which he played the Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell. 1942

Advertisement for Horlicks -- Better Luck Next Time. Female model (Julie Bishop) in the foreground, looking with disappointment at a dancing couple in the background. 1959

Greer Garson (1904-1996) - British and American actress and singer. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront

Scene on a London Underground Station. Date: 1966

Italy. Milan. La Scala by night. Opera house. Inagurated in 1778. Built by Giuseppe Piermarini (1734-1808)

The Embankment at Night - Base of Cleopatras Needle
The Embankment at Night - Sphinx at the base of Cleopatras Needle. Date: circa 1910s

Lamp post made from German torpedo, Gibraltar
Lamp post made from a German torpedo, at a Royal Navy camp in Gibraltar. Date: circa 1920s

Temple of Luxor. Night view of the first courtyard. Egypt

Rothesay Pier, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland at night
Rothesay Pier, Scotland at night. Date: circa 1930s

Thames Embankment by night - View toward Westminster, London
Thames Embankment by night - View toward the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London. Note the elctricity saving of only lighting every other light. Date: circa 1910s

Royal Arch, Dundee, Scotland. This extraordinary structure was erected between 1849 and 1853 to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert (in 1844)

Fossil trees in coal mine
Fossilised trees and plants found in a coal mine. Date: C.1870

Wellington Inn and The Shambles, Manchester Date: circa 1906

The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D. C. Date: circa early 1930s

Muffin Man / Thomas Crane
The muffin man, with a tray of muffins balanced on his head, rings his handbell to attract the attention of passers-by

English Oil Lamp 1800
A London lamplighter on his ladder refills a street lamp with the oil which his assistant passes to him

Porch Light
A lamplight pattern from a porch light at St. Edwards House, Westminster, London

Armada Beacons 1588
THE SPANISH ARMADA Lighting the beacons to signal the alarm as the enemy fleet approaches the English coast

Spotlight operator, Maskelynes Theatre, London
Spotlight operator, Maskelynes Theatre, Langham Place, London. Date: circa 1930s

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