Precautions Collection (page 2)

WW2 greetings card, rabbit ARP warden
WW2 greetings card, a rabbit ARP warden with a torch. Date: circa 1942

Cartoon, Two precautions are better than one, WW1
Cartoon, Two precautions are better than one. A rich and fashionable young woman goes out with two escorts, a rich Swedish man and a rich Dutchman

WW2 Christmas card, ARP (Air Raid Precautions). The message inside reads: England expects every man will do his duty. Date: circa 1942

Squaring Trafalgar Square by Heath Robinson
For " England Expects" - Anything on Peace Night. Trafalgar Square in the heart of London with all its monuments - Nelsons Column

Suffragette Window Smashing Bow Street
This shows a large queue of people, surrounded by police, waiting to enter Bow Street Magistrates Court. Captioned on reverse, Window Smashing Continued

Fire safety -- baby playing near guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a baby playing near a guarded coal fire

Fire safety -- correctly guarded electric fire
Fire safety -- a correctly guarded electric fire

Fire safety -- correctly guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a family in their sitting room with a correctly guarded coal fire

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Fire safety -- paraffin oil stove
Fire safety -- a Valor Junior paraffin oil stove with a safety guard around it

Digging A. R. P. shelters in Kensington Gardens, 1938
Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) volunteers digging trenches and shelters in Kensington Gardens, London, on 26th September 1938, watched by an interested crowd. A.R.P

British sentries at railway tunnels at the start of WWI
Once Germany had declared war on Russia, war with France was certain to follow, with the possibility that Great Britain could be forced into the conflict too

Soldiers guard Tilbury Docks at the outbreak of WWI
Once Germany had declared war on Russia, war with France was certain to follow, with the possibility that Great Britain could be forced into the conflict too

The Lighter Side of Darker London, WW1
She: Sorry!" He: " Delighted!" The darkened streets of London during the First World War come with romantic advantages. Date: 1916

RFA men with parachute equipment, France, WW1
Men of the RFA (Royal Field Artillery) with parachute equipment on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are responsible for air observation using kite balloons

Speed of the great liners by G. H. Davis
The speed of the great liners: a factor which makes head lights and other precautions necessary. Above: a dotted outline shows where the ship would be after 30 seconds movement

Fighting oil fires by G. H. Davis
Fighting oil fires: smothering flames with a blanket of foam. Precautions against fire at oil reservoirs, and methods of extinguishing. Date: 1929

Guarding Dover Pier
With the outbreak of war, precautions are taken guards mounted over places of strategic importance. Here Dover Pier is put under armed guard. Date: August 1914

Paris air raid precautions WWII
A Paris Air Raid Precautions (ARP) decontamination squad at work during rehearsal. The signs used for warning Parisians of a gas attack are certainly grim reminders Date: May 1940

Scout ARP armbands
Scout Air Raid Precautions armbands circa 1940

London Fire Brigade canteen van used as publicity vehicle
Seen here at Brigade headquarters, Lambeth, the canteen van has been converted into a publicity vehicle during a recruitment drive for much needed auxiliary firefighters

Titanic - Lifeboats needed to save lives on board ships
A diagram published in the Illustrated London News following the disaster of the sinking of White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic showing the ratio of lifeboat capacity to passenger numbers

Titanic - Should liners carry headlights, motor fashion?
A cross-channel steamers searchlight reveals a full-rigged ship passing a little close for comfort, a safety precaution which could, perhaps, have prevented the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Queen Elizabeth in 1939
Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, leaving the British Red Cross Society on 5th September 1939, carrying a gas mask in a canvas bag over her shoulder. Date: 5th September 1939

Fire in the Baku oilfields, Armenia, apparently caused by a lack of discipline over cigarette smoking. Date: early 20th century

Dutch poster about blackout precautions during the Second World War. circa 1942

Firefighters in gas masks
ARP Firefighters in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise

Gas Mask fitting
Mothers leave an Ilford school with their children after a gas mask fitting. All the schools in Ilford, Essex (London) were opened to enable residents to be fitted with gas masks under the Air Raid

Mobile decontamination unit
Demonstration by Hornsey Borough Council of a mobile cleansing unit for gas decontamination squads, invented by one of its workers. The unit folds up into a trailer that can be pulled by a car

WWII safety precautions
A man with a white hat band on a steel lined crowned bowler hat and carrying a gas mask box during world war II

Gas Masks in London
Man sitting and sleeping in a London park carrying his gas mask box with him in September 1939

Family wearing gas masks
A family wearing gas masks on a quiet night in at home during World War II

ARPs World War II
ARPs in gas masks during World War II during decontamination exercise in London

ARP Calling You
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) recruiting poster in World War Two to try to encourage people to get in touch with their local council and volunteer

Disinfection Service
Disinfecting a room in Paris recently occupied by refugees

Checking the Bank Thief: Steel Pill-Boxes Guard Valuables
Illustration of precautions taken by a Chicago Bank against bank robbers : an armoured pill box containg an armed guard

Polish Precautions
A Polish peasant hides his masters possessions, to save them from pillage by the Russians

Cholera in Hamburg
Linen being left with customs officers for disinfection. Many precautions were taken in preventing the spread of cholera. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease

Cholera precautions in England
A sketch of the sailors hospital. Fires were used to prevent the infection spreading from the hospital. In September 1892, Dr R

Taking precautions against infection
An image of a 1909 operating theatre where precautions have been taken to create a germ free environment

Cholera in France
Quarantine precautions at Marseilles on the arrival of a ship from the east. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease

Police / Anti-Gas School
A group of officers from the Metropolitan police pose for a photograph wearing their gas masks at the anti-gas training school at Devonport, Plymouth. 2/2 pictures. See 10193283 for

Republican Outbreak - 3
The authorities take precautions when a demonstration by Montagnards - Republican extremists - threatens to disturb Paris

Precautions in Venice
As the threat from the nationalists intensifies, the Austrians in Venice take precautions to prevent any patriotic demonstration by the populace

Sharing the Airspace
The prudent aviator must remember that he is sharing the airspace with others who may not be well disposed towards him, and should take precautions accordingly

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