Pollution Collection (page 4)

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

Clayton glass works

View from Charing Cross Bridge and Pool of London
View from Charing Cross Bridge (top), showing the River Thames, Cleopatras Needle on the left and St Pauls Cathedral in the middle distance

A medley of Edinburgh musicians

Exhaust Fumes
Even back in the 1960s, car exhaust pipes caused air pollution! Date: 1960s

Smoking Chimneys
Smoking factory chimneys... Date: 1930s

Smoking Coke Ovens
Coke Ovens and By-Product plant at Derwenthaugh, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Date: 1960s

PRESTON, Lancashire
Distant view of Preston, Lancashire - a nice contrast between countryside and industrial development. Date: circa 1835

London / Farringdon Road
London/Farringdon Road

Electric Cooling Towers
Winter study of the electricity cooling towers at Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, in the morning sunshine, with mist rising from the River Nene. Date: 1960s

Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage spewing into the sea and onto the beach at Mounts Bay, Penzance, Cornwall, England. Date: 1980s

Totnes Rooftops
Winter view of Totnes, Devon, England, seen from the castle walls. The houses (note the coal smoke coming from the chimneys) in this view line the towns main street. Date: 1950s

Burning Rubbish
Billowing smoke pollution caused by burning rubbish. Date: 1960s

Raw Sewage Outfall
Raw sewage outfall at low tide, Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Water Pollution
Water pollution from factory waste, River Mersey, Warrington, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Chemical Waste Dump
Environmental pollution : An old marlpit, used as a sump for chemical waste. Date: 1960s

Smoke Pollution
Smoke pollution over Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Street music: 1892 slum scene
A noisy street scene of 1892:children dance to a barrel organ, competing with an accordion, penny whistle and the hubbub of passers by. 1892

Street music: an unwelcome German band
Preventions better than cure: a servant bribes a German band to clear off before their music makes someone ill

Street music: The organ grinding nuisance, 1864
A difference of opinion: an old lady and a child encourage an organ grinder to play in the street, despite the pleas of a maid on behalf of a suffering invalid. Date: 1864

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Jazz music while you dine, 1929
A couple listen to jazz over a rather fraught dinner. The dog, cat and pet bird screech while the music blares out of the gramophone. Date: 1929

Queen prima-donna at home, 1874
Three girls plead with their musical Mamma to stop playing the piano. Date: 1874

Ta ra ra boom de ay - the popular favourite
Mr. Punch shields his ears against the din of the popular music hall hit Ta ra ra boom de ay, sung, played and whilsted in the street by all and sundry. Date: 1892

Smoke and Dirt
SMOKE AND DIRT Date: 1911

The Country Side by Illingworth
A lady in the back of an open top car (bottom left) relaxes during a drive in the country and says, Oh William, isn t it a treat to get away from the hurry and bustle of town

Derelict slate workings, Nantlle Valley, North Wales
View through an open window of derelict slate workings in the Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. When an industry dies, the area dies too, and only the pollution is left

An advertisement for ICT
A wonderful advertising picture taken for International Computers and Tabulators, showing their office building and lines of light left by the passing traffic. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Rochdale, Lancashire
On the way to One Ash, Rochdale, Lancashire, now part of Greater Manchester

London fog. Pollution from the city
A London fog; smoke carried from the city covering an area of twenty miles with thick smog. Smog tends to form in urban areas when there is a large amount of chimney

Power Station
An industrial landscape in Britain, showing power plant with cooling towers in the background

Steam Locos & Signals
A view from the drivers cab of a mailine steam locomotive nearing Waterloo railway station, London. Two locomotives, spewing out thick smoke, are approaching

King Henry VIII steam locomotive near Slough
The King Henry VIII steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway near Taplow and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Part of the King Class of locomotives, it was built in 1928 and withdrawn in 1962

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