Pollution Collection (page 5)

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 Part of the King Class of locomotives, it was built in 1928 and withdrawn in 1962

Polluted Water / Sloper
Ally Sloper gives a lantern talk to the County Council on water pollution

Oil Refinery Sunset
Sunset over an oil refinery near Swansea, South Wales

A Drop of London Water
THE WONDERS OF A LONDON WATER DROP A water drop as it would be seen under the Molecular Magnifier. It is home to many hideous microscopic creatures

Pollution / Punch, 1849
The Water that John Drinks a short satirical view on Thames water Date: 1849

Punch / Motoring Cartoon
A quiet Sunday in our village. Cars bringing traffic, noise, pollution and general chaos to a small village

View of Manchester 1870
A view of the factories of Manchester

Sheffield Pollution
Industrial smoke from the factories of Sheffield, Yorkshire (England)

Sheffield Smoke
SHEFFIELD SMOKE factories at Sheffield, Yorkshire (England)

The Polluted Seine
The polluted Seine

ST PAULs CATHEDRAL 1930
The bottom half of the Cathedral is blackened with pollution

Polluted London Water
THE CITY NARCISSUS Punch accuses Londons officials of being too self-satisfied to realise the danger to the the citys health from the polluted water of the Thames

The Industrial Thames
A tug hauls industrial barges along the River Thames, photographed from Chelsea Bridge at flood tide

Whitney Glassworks, Nj
Whitney Glassworks, Glassboro, New Jersey

Faraday & Filthy Thames
Faraday giving his card to Father Thames

Copper works in Cornwall, with smoking chimneys
Copper works in Cornwall, with many smoking chimneys

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