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Liverpool & Mersey TugThe Mersey tug The Minegarth, approaching the Pier Head at Liverpool, Merseyside, England, with the Royal Liver Building beyond. Date: 1950s
Scunthorpe Iron WorksIron-smelting works at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Tate & Lyle RefineryA coastal barge sailing by the famous Tate and Lyle sugar refinery works, Plaistow Wharf, off Silvertown, North Woolwich, east London
Battersea Power StationThe chimneys of Battersea Power Station, view across the River Thames, from Chelsea Reach, London
Battersea Power StationDesigned by Giles Gilbert Scott, building began in 1933. It was the first of a series of very large electric generators set up in order to nationalize the grid
Miners Coming to WorkWelsh men and women mineworkers coming to work in the early morning
Welwyn Garden City, an example of town planningAn advertisement for new houses and industrial sites at the new town of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, an example of town planning, designed to take people away from polluted cities
Corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, LondonNational Westminster Bank building on the corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1905
Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South WalesView of Cwmpennar Colliery (also known as the Powell Duffryn Colliery), Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales
Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South WalesView of the Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales. Date: early 20th century
Silent HighwaymanDeath - The Silent Highway-Man of the polluted River Thames
Lambeth Bridge 1950SIndustrial steam tugs passing underneath Lambeth Bridge, London, England
Harley Street, London W1Harley Street (looking south), London. Date: circa 1910
Penrhiwceibr Colliery, Glamorgan, South WalesView of Penrhiwceibr (Penrhiwceiber) Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales. The colliery closed in 1985
BSC works, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, South WalesView of the BSC (British Steel Corporation) works in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, South Wales, with rows of houses in the foreground
Court for King CholeraA Court for King Cholera
Old Town and Castle, Edinburgh, ScotlandThe Old Town and Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, seen from Princes Street, with some smoking chimneys in the foreground
1957 nuclear test: Fall-outFallout: The sinister and prolonged after-effect of nuclear explosions: a drawing illustrating some characteristics of this haunting phenomenon.An illustration by special Illustrated London News
Smoke of the PotteriesThe pall of smoke from the factories of the Potteries - the six towns of Staffordshire where the ceramic industry is located. Date: early 20th century
Road Works in Whitehall, London, 1882Engraving, originally entitled Horse Guards under Fire again, showing a group of workmen re-surfacing the road in Whitehall, London, 1882
Jousofka (Yusovka, Stalino, Donetsk), UkraineGeneral view of Jousofka (Yusovka, Stalino, Donetsk), an industrial city in eastern Ukraine
Gerald Road Police Station, Belgravia, LondonGerald Road Police Station (left), Belgravia, London. Date: circa 1910
Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South WalesView of the Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales
Ferndale Colliery and Tylorstown, Glamorgan, South WalesView of Ferndale Colliery (also known as Blaenllechau Colliery) and Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley, Glamorgan, South Wales
Anti-Flu MasksA man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!
Holloway Road, Islington, North London, with a large public house on the corner. Date: circa 1905
Stroud Green Road, Finsbury Park, North London. Date: circa 1905
Industrial panorama, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, early 1900s
Harley Street and Queen Anne Street, LondonCorner of Harley Street and Queen Anne Street, London. circa 1905
Aerial view, Tirpentwys Colliery, South WalesAerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales
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
Father Thames DiseasesFather Thames introducing his offspring to the fair city of London; diphtheria, scrofula and cholera
Woolwich Power Station, SE London, with coal barges on the River Thames. Date: circa 1950s
Aerial view, landing stage, LiverpoolAerial photo landing stage at Liverpool, showing the Liver, Cunard, Dock Office, India, and Midland Bank buildings
Dorset Square, NW London. Date: circa 1910
Horse buses in Baker Street, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1905
View of Robert Street, off Albany Street, NW LondonView of Robert Street, off Albany Street, London, with a motor tyre repair shop on the corner. Date: circa 1908
Garden BonfireBillowing smoke pollution caused by a garden bonfire. Date: 1960s
Landscape view of Dudleys iron works. Showing the pollutionNight-time view of Dudley in the West Midlands and its iron works
England / Canvey IslandThe old sea wall which encircles Canvey Island, Essex, at the mouth of the River Thames. The wall was built about 1623 by the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyder
Smoke Makers / Punch / PollSmoke makers
Satire on polluted water supply in LondonFun makes a comment on diseased water supply. 18 August 1866
Bradford Town Centre and Town Hall, West Yorkshire. 1930s
White Star Line, Titanic and Olympic postcards. Top: the Olympic The Largest Vessel in the World'. Bottom: G D Courtney real photographic postcard of the Titanic in sepia
Aerial view, Universal Exhibition of Paris 1889Aerial view of the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889
The Devil and pollutionEven in the early 1900s the issue of pollution was causing concern. The German artist Heinrich Kley exhibited landscapes and portraits with the Munich Secession
Dirty Father Thames 1848Dirty Father Thames stands in the river water hooking detritus and rubbish that's floating there: old shoes and boots, dead fish, bottles, dead mice and rats
Porter in smog, Smithfield Market, LondonPorter pulling a loaded cart through the smog, Smithfield Market, London, December 1962. Air pollution of this kind was very hazardous to health. Date: 1962