Noise Collection

Metropolitan Police air raid siren
A Metropolitan Police air raid siren, as used in wartime

Lis / Fat Lady Sings
It isn t over.. til the fat lady sings. A female singer sings a song

Future New York will be pre- eminently the city of skyscrapers - and of noise, what with the elevated railway passing your window and the aircraft flying low overhead

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - trumpeter. circa 1910s

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

Cartoon on the Trenches
Well, if you knows of a better ole go to it! A comic glance at the desperate reality of the trenches

Noise Pollution
A knife-grinder, a milkmaid, dogs, beggars, musicians, a coalman, and a dustman, a postboy with his horn and a child with her rattle - noise pollution in the 18th century

Norwegian railway
When the railway comes over Dovre Mountain, Norway. Caricature by Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914)

Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet
A Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet, as used in wartime

Hailing taxis / W H Robinson -test edit
The fitting of the new Heath Robinson taxi hailer dissolves all difficulties of inadequate whistles (due in some cases to dental work)

Comic postcard, Plump woman sitting on man on beach Date: 20th century

Caley Crackers, Norwich - Coming To Your Town Date: 1950s

Children in fancy dress pulling a Christmas cracker Date: 1940s

Georgian cartoon, The First Scrape - woman smashing a violin over a young man's head, because he was making a terrible noise with it. Date: circa 1820s

Caricature illustration of bedroom scene, by G E Studdy, with person being woken by alarm clock, steam, and fist banging a pan

Advert for Linovent, which could be laid under carpets and linoleum to create extra spring and deaden noise. Date: 1932

Comic postcard, Man disturbed by late night party in hotel Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man in bed disturbed by party Date: 20th century

Christmas postcard, Man playing bugle in the street - Christians Awake Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, dilemma at baptism Date: 20th century

Scottish traveller dancing a jig with a violinist. I ve been throw Hollan, Spain and France, An at Vienna learn d to dance

Silhouette, Practising a Duet. late 19th century

Cartoon, J L Shine, director of the Gaiety Theatre
Cartoon, J L Shine (left), director of the Gaiety Theatre, London - Now, Mr Shine, what does all this rumpus mean? 1885

The despair of the sun-worshipping Peruvian Incas during a lunar eclipse. The people bang drums and tambourines, whip dogs and scream to prevent the eclipse

Cinema sound effects machine for silent movies - noises include babies, dogs, artillery and cars. 1912

Phil May cartoon - Tuneless Street band
1904

Woman with snoring husband
A woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s

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

1741 / ENRAGED MUSICIAN
A violinist is disturbed by a ballad singer, a screeching parrot, a piper, a drummer, a barking dog, a knife grinder, fighting cats and other noises Date: 1741

Cartoon, An Unseemly Interruption 1881
A family Bible reading on Saturday night Naughty Grandpapas making a noise Date: 1882

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-F400A / 731 EI-BRG
Hawker Siddeley HS.125-F400A/731 EI-BRG (msn 25281/NA774) of Ven Air-Anglo-Irish Meats, at London Heathrow Airport. Built as a 400A, powered by Rolls-Royce Viper turbojet engines

Dr C. Thomas frightens birds with flare, Manchester Airport
Dr (now Professor) Callum Thomas, in 1987 the countrys only full-time bird scarer, fires a maroon flare to frighten birds at Manchester Airport

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Raised Shelters - Boy Scarecrows warding off birds in the rice fields. Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon, Two Horses, WW1
Cartoon, Two Horses on the Western Front, hearing explosions. One horse asks the other: Doesn t all this noise scare you? The other horse replies: No, I m used to it

The Merry Family, 1668, by Jan Havicksz Steen (c. 1625-1679)
Jan Havicksz Steen (c.1625-1679). Dutch painter. The Merry Familiy, 1668. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, WW1
Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, showing the ladies of the Turkish Harem alarmed by the sound of the guns of Gallipoli - likewise the Sultan himself! Date: 1915

The yule log. Medaeval musicians hauling in the yule log at Christmas. Come bring with a noise my merrie merrie boys the Christmas log to ye firing. Artist: Albertine Randall Wheelan Date: circa 1908

The Mingun Bell, Myanmar
The Mingun Bell. Located in Mingun, Sagaing Division, Myanmar (Burma). Cast between 1808 -1810. Date: 1906

Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912
Photograph of a British warship trailing a fog buoy. When a group of warships travelling line ahead entered fog they would stream fog buoys

Virots Steam Carriage
J Virots purposeful-looking steam tricycle, supplied with a horn to warn passers-by to get out of the way, though you d think the noise of the engine would suffice

Brazilian Porcupine
histrix prehensilis It preys by night and sleeps in the day. It makes a noise like the grunting of a Swine, and grows very fat

Young lady jumps over her bed, practising the hurdles
A sporty young lady jumps over the bed (disturbing the dogs and the neighbours in the flat beneath), practising her hurdling. Date: 1923

Runner holding an accordion - Istanbul, Turkey
A Turkish Fireman - a runner who ran ahead to warn of a fire, making an almighty wail and a racket on his accordion. Date: 1873

Soho, London - Hospital for Women
Soho, London - sign in Frith Street/Soho Square: Hospital for Women, Please Go Quietly. 1973

Woman with snoring husband
A woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s

Never mind... flakes provided they have drink
A drunken couple after a night out celebrating the New Year. Date: 1928

Destructive boy demolishes radio
A destructive little boy prepares to demolish a radio - a little girl sticks her fingers in her ears to deaden the noise. Date: 1933

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

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