Loud Collection

The Voice that filled the Albert Hall by H. M. Bateman
Illustration by H. M. Bateman showing a buxom, matronly singer hitting a high note in the Albert Hall. Her voice is so loud (or bad)

Canadian gunners, Battle of Vimy Ridge, France, WW1
Canadian gunners firing a 6 inch Howitzer during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Traffic Accident Group
A Metropolitan Police Traffic Accident Group, consisting of two Triumph motorcycles and one Wolseley 6/110 motor car, fitted with radio transmitter and loudspeaker

F H Butler (Vanity Fair)
FRANK HEDGES BUTLER, noted balloonist, looks down from the hot air balloon basket he is riding in and prepares to speak through his megaphone

Preparing loudspeaker for FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium
Preparing loudspeaker for FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium Date: 1946

MOURNING FOR MOSES
When Moses dies, he is mourned by the Israelites with loud lamentations, rending of garments and anointing of heads with dust

Avro Vulcan B. 2
Royal Air Force - Avro Vulcan B.2, at an airshow, displaying the howl generators! (Resonance in the intakes, in certain conditions, generates a very loud howl)

Switzerland - Alpenhorn (Alphorn) - a very long valveless wooden wind instrument played like a horn - used for signalling in the Alps. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for Western Electric wireless receiving apparatus showing a family listening to a loud speaker which was the same as used at the opening ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition in

Advert for Sterling Premax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Sterling Primax hornless loud speaker, 1925 Date: 1925

Advert for Amplon wireless loud speaker, a product of the House of Graham, London, 1925 Date: 1925

WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer
Captain to Captain - The Commander of a Corvette at Sea giving orders by means of the Ardente " Loud Hailer, " which has a remarkable Acoustic Range 1941

Entrance to Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado, USA
Entrance to Clear Creek Canyon, Golden, Colorado, USA, from Castle Rock Mountain scenic incline railway. Date: circa 1920

Musical terms up to date - Fortissimo - very loud
1903

NOISE POLLUTION TESTER
This man measures noise pollution - street traffic, excessively loud speakers, motor vehicles, machinery etc, at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Date: 5 October 1932

EDISONS TELEPHONE 1879
Edisons loud-speaking telephone. Date: 1879

BELLS / EDISONS T-PHONES
Graham Bells first telephone, hand telephone and long- distance telephone, shown alongside Edisons transmitter, and loud speaking phone. Date: late 19th century

HYDE PARK DEMO
Suffragettes speaking at a Hyde Park demonstration. Date: 14 July 1912

SEALYHAM / LOUD N CLEAR
ROWANEDGE LOUD N CLEAR Owned by Porter. Date: 1977

Cartoon, music of Richard Wagner -- young Mr Softly has something important to say, so Miss Ethel asks Lucy to play some Wagner, which ought to prevent her from overhearing! Date: 1895

Chinese Emperor Wu Wang creates loud explosions
Chinese Emperor Yeou Wang (Zhou Dynasty) alarms his enemies with loud explosions. Date: circa 781 - 771 BC

First and Second Impressions by H. M. Bateman
The Majors speaking voice was simply charming. Maisie was rapidly succumbing to its spell. Until one day she heard him use it on parade! Cartoon by H. M

Angel with trumpet on a greetings card: Let the bright seraphim in burning row, Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow (words by John Milton, set to music by Handel in his oratorio, Samson)

Peter Hugo with a clown
Peter Hugo (Prince Charles lookalike) with a clown. Date: circa 1980s

The coming of the Loud speaker
Photograph of a loud speaker being used at Stamford Bridge football stadium. The man seated at the table spoke into the telephone receiver

Mr Louis Napoleon Parker playing a solo on the Megaphone
Mr Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) " playing a solo" on the Megaphone at the Warwick Pageant of 1906 (the only way he could successfully direct a vast cast)

Angus Macpherson at Lords - changing fashions
Angus Macpherson at Lord s, 1875 and 1930. Social satire by cartoonist Patrick Bellew who shows how a young chaps flamboyant outfit of tartan trousers at Lords cricket ground in the 1870s is not

Ruined Chateau, France, 1871 St Cloud?
Ruined Chateau, France, 1871 St circa loud?. Date: 1871

Palace at St Cloud pre destruction 1871 Franco-Prussian War
Palace at St circa loud pre destruction 1871 Franco-Prussian War. Date: 1871

Ruins, France, 1871 St Cloud?
Ruins, France, 1871 St circa loud?. Date: 1871

Palace at St Cloud, Franco-Prussian War 1871
Palace at St circa loud, Franco-Prussian War 1871. Date: 1871

Familiarising horses with the sound of music, to avoid adverse reactions during important state ceremonies. Date: circa 1960s

Tartan Frock 1826
Black velvet beret with red tassel; tartan silk dress with double vandyked hem worn with a pale grey cashmere manteau or cloak with a cape collar. Date: 1826

Shakespeare / Hector(T&c)
Act V, Scene III Cassandra & Andromache plead with Hector not to fight: A: " Consort with me in loud & dear petition, " Date: 1795

Cartoon, Making progress. A young woman sitting at the piano tells her friend: My voice is coming on -- I just had a complaint from the tenant on the sixth floor ! Date: 1919

Duguay-Trouin / Chasselat
RENE DUGUAY-TROUIN French naval commander Date: 1673 - 1736

Charles Dickens reading to an audience
CHARLES DICKENS (1812 - 1870) Dickens reading The Story of Little Dombey at St Martins Hall in 1858. Date: 1858

Crying the Neck at Gulval, Cornwall
A man in the village of Gulval near Penzance, Cornwall, in September 1984, following the harvest tradition of Crying the Neck

Comparison of adjectives, learning for children
Comparison of adjectives to help children learn. Wet, wetter, wettest. Short, shorter, shortest. Etc. Date: 1930s

Pulling an Xmas cracker
Young girl anticipates the crackers loud bang as she pulls it with her brother. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1915

Suffragette in Snow Votes for Women. A lone suffragette holding a banner stands in the snow and ice. The caption reads, And loud that clarion voice replied

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Illustration of a Town Crier, ringing his bell and proclaiming

The Witness Who Spoke Up by H. M. Bateman
Humorous cartoon by H. M. Bateman depicting a rather vociferous witness in the stand at a court hearing, shattering the ear drums of the judge and others around him

A small dog dressed as a pilot ready for take off. He is surrounded by birds who find this hilarious. The caption reads: " What a get-up!" Date: 1928- 1929

Cuban Cigar Factory interior - Havana, Cuba. Interestingly, this postcard shows a lector (or reader) who was always employed to entertain cigar factory workers by reading books

The Old Curiosity Shop, the Punch and Judy people
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

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