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Metropolitan Police air raid sirenA Metropolitan Police air raid siren, as used in wartime
Lis / Fat Lady SingsIt 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, WW1Canadian 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 TrenchesWell, if you knows of a better ole go to it! A comic glance at the desperate reality of the trenches
Noise PollutionA 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 railwayWhen the railway comes over Dovre Mountain, Norway. Caricature by Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914)
Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmetA Metropolitan Police gas mask, bag, rattle and tin helmet, as used in wartime
Hailing taxis / W H Robinson -test editThe fitting of the new Heath Robinson taxi hailer dissolves all difficulties of inadequate whistles (due in some cases to dental work)
Leader of the Band by Muriel DawsonA boisterous child makes a racquet with a pan and lid. Even his toy donkey looks pained by the noise. Date: c.1925-30
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 TheatreCartoon, 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 band1904
Woman with snoring husbandA woman sits up in bed with cotton wool in her ears, kept awake by her snoring husband. Date: 1960s
NOISE POLLUTION TESTERThis 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 MUSICIANA 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 1881A family Bible reading on Saturday night Naughty Grandpapas making a noise Date: 1882
Hawker Siddeley HS. 125-F400A / 731 EI-BRGHawker 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 AirportDr (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, WW1Cartoon, 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, WW1Cartoon, 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, MyanmarThe Mingun Bell. Located in Mingun, Sagaing Division, Myanmar (Burma). Cast between 1808 -1810. Date: 1906
Warship trailing a Fog Buoy, 1912Photograph 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 CarriageJ 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 Porcupinehistrix 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 hurdlesA 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, TurkeyA 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 WomenSoho, London - sign in Frith Street/Soho Square: Hospital for Women, Please Go Quietly. 1973
Never mind... flakes provided they have drinkA drunken couple after a night out celebrating the New Year. Date: 1928
Destructive boy demolishes radioA destructive little boy prepares to demolish a radio - a little girl sticks her fingers in her ears to deaden the noise. Date: 1933