Pollution Collection (page 3)

London Air Pollution Mist Misty Street Road Building
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Abadan Oil Refinery from the air
Abadan oil refinery, Iran (Persia) from the air. The largest in the world at that time on the Shatt al-Arab Waterway (the southern end of which forms the border with Iraq). Date: 1951

Die Herren der Welt (The Masters of the World. When the kings of industry are mad, the common people suffer), cover of Simplicissimus magazine, 1922. Critique of the power of big industries

Didcot Power station
With the cooling towers pushing out lots of steam, the photographer captures a dramatic picture. Taken in the late 60s Date: late 1960s

A scrapyard for cars, St Erth, Cornwall
A scrapyard for cars at St Erth near Hayle in Cornwall. A crane is about to drop another car on the heap

Beautiful Sheffield! A sarcastic interpretation on the skyline of dark satanic mills which characterised Sheffield from the Industrial Revolution through to the 1950s

Steam train at Acton, West London, on the Great Western Railway. Date: circa 1920s

A railway smoke catcher
Impression of a chimney designed to extract bothersome smoke from stationery steam engines in use at a station in Chicago. Date: 1932

Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, at the time of the Universal Exhibition. Date: 1900

Hamburg, Germany - Elbe Tunnel and ship
Hamburg, Germany - external view of the Elbe Tunnel, connecting the districts of St Pauli and Steinwerder, with a large ship on the water in the background. Date: circa 1930s

Knights Cyclopaedia of the Industry of all Nations, detailing the contents of the Great Exhibition in London. Showing the River Thames and the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park. 1851

The London Bathing Season, filthy River Thames
The London Bathing Season cartoon. The figure of Father Thames, filthy and carrying a dead cat, a bent kettle, and other detritus from the river, beckons to a small boy on the quayside, " Come

American Steamship 1920S
An American passenger steamship, possibly at New York Harbour, U.S.A. Date: 1920s

Industrial Landscape / C19
An industrial landscape in Etruria, showing farm life at the forefront and the steady advance of heavy industry in the background. Date: 1840

Harley Street and Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1910

Portland Place and Langham Hotel, London W1
Portland Place, London, with the Langham Hotel at the far end, on a busy day with traffic and crowds of people. Date: circa 1910s

Albany Street, NW London. Date: circa 1905

Devonshire Street, London W1. Date: circa 1905

Madame Tussauds museum, Marylebone Road, London
Madame Tussauds waxworks museum, Marylebone Road, London. Date: circa 1905

Marylebone Road with underground station, London. Date: circa 1905

View of Harley Street, London. Date: circa 1908

Wimpole Street and Queen Anne Street, London W1
Wimpole Street on the corner with Queen Anne Street, London W1. Date: circa 1900s

Upper Wimpole Street and Devonshire Street, London W1
Upper Wimpole Street on the corner with Devonshire Street, London W1. circa 1905

Weymouth Street and Beaumont Street, London W1. Date: circa 1910

Lifeguards marching, Upper Albany Street, NW London
2nd Lifeguards and brass band marching in Albany Street, NW London. Friswells car showroom can be seen on the left. Date: circa 1910s

The Garrick Hotel, Charing Cross Road, London, with bars, saloon, grill room and restaurant. Date: circa 1910

Advertisement for Sapolio Soap - Spotless Town. Date: circa 1930s

Paddington Street, West London. Date: circa 1905

View of Baker Street, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1905

York Street Chambers, York Street, London W1. Date: circa 1905

General view, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
General rooftop view looking inland, with buildings including the Avenida Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1925

Maritime Station, Genoa, Italy
The new Maritime Station, Genoa, Italy, with ships on the water in the background. Date: circa 1910s

Caspian Sea Shore - oil refinery near Krasnovodsk town - oil pollution along the water edge. Turkmenistan. April

Pollution - abandoned docks and rusting barges - bay of Krasnovodsk town. Caspian sea shore - oil refinery and oil storage on another side of the bay - Turkmenistan. April

A typical oil-pump - oil-well in a desert. near Kumdag - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

A typical oil-pump on an oil-well with a puddle of oil - in a desert near Kumdag. typical in Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April

Smoking pipes of metallurgical complex in Norilsk, Russian Arctic.. Summer, August. Severely polluted town sits in the same landscape depression in arctic tundra

Allegheny River and bridges, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Allegheny River and bridges, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1900

Fire at Colonial Wharf, Wapping, East London, in September 1935, with billowing black smoke on the right. On the left, firefighters train their hoses from a fireboat on the River Thames. Date: 1935

Suggested site for London University
A suggested site for London University: how another fine building might be placed next to the new LCC Hall (later known as County Hall)

Steam engine in a smoky atmosphere
Steam engine and tender in a smoky, polluted atmosphere

Aerial view of trains near Grand Central Station, New York
Aerial view of steam trains just outside Grand Central Station, New York, USA. Date: 1906

Mersey Salvage Vessel
A salvage vessel steamship on the River Mersey, Merseyside, England. Date: 1950s

Smoke over Halifax
An industrial landscape, showing smoke over Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1960s

Usnea inflata, beard lichen
And Hypogymnia physodes (right), Burnham Beeches, Bucks, W. London. The former is a recent colonist following reductions in SO2 pollution

Lichens result from an intimate relationship between a fungus and an alga; there are about 18, 000 species

WW2 - Water Pollution 500 fine and two years imprisonment Date: circa 1941

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