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Merchant & Wife 1590A London merchant wears a fur- lined gown with hanging sleeves, cut-fingered pumps & a low-crowned hat. His wife wears a tall crowned copotain hat, yellow kirtle & pink gown Date: 1590
Court Dress C16ThMan: trunk hose with panes & padded with bombast, doublet, cod-piece, cloak, flat cap & feather, cut-fingered pumps. Woman: sleeves with deep fur cuffs, Spanish farthingale. Date: mid 16th century
French Court Dress C1520French court dress: paned & bombasted trunk-hose, cod- piece, doublet & jerkin with fur-collar & wings, gown, ruff, ermine cape & cut- fingered pumps. Date: mid 16th century
Man at Drinking FountainOur gentleman, overcome with a sudden rush of patriotism, is drinking the health either of the old king George IV or the new king William IV, in water from the town pump. Date: 1830
Street PumpWorking a street pump Date: circa 1840
Burmese Water FestivalBURMESE NEW YEAR In Mandalay, during the Water Festival, passers-by are sprayed from bowls, pumps or custom-made squirters Date: 1888
Great Central Filling Station, Marylebone Road, LondonGreat Central Filling Station, on the corner of Marylebone Road and Wyndham Street, London, with petrol pumps and garage. circa 1910s
Swimming Attire - FranceStylish French girl in a figure-hugging Swimsuit, with light pumps laced up her calves, a bonnet on her head and towel draped over her right shoulder. Date: 1911
Charles Jourdan bulls eye shoesA nouveau classic - black patent leather shoes by Charles Jourdan with a multi-coloured bulls eye. Date: 1966
Service station, Wendover, Utah-Nevada, USAState Line Service Station at Wendover, on the border between Utah and Nevada, USA. Date: 1950s
Queen Mary Ocean Liner, supplying her 1000 needsThe Queen Mary, then known as Hull Number 534, had been halted between 1931 and 1934 due to the Great Depression of the 1930s
Well boring tools and pumps advertisement, 1888A selection of well-boring tools and pumps available from R. Richards & Co of 2, Upper Ground, London. Date: 1888
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (back)LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps
LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (front)LFB-AFS Commer transportable water unit (TWU, commonly known as the Bikini). It carries three deflated rubber rafts and nine light portable pumps
LFB Dennis dual-purpose pump, Lambeth HQLambeths (D61) pump at its base station, on display in Brigade headquarters drill yard. Side mounted pump outlets together with hose-reel tubing and two hook ladders can be seen
Ealing Fire Brigade with horse-drawn applianceFirefighters of the Ealing Fire Brigade, West London, with a horse-drawn appliance. Date: 1888
Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, WW2Blitz in London -- oil tank fire, Thames Haven, near Thurrock, Essex, 8 September 1940. Two fire floats of the Essex Fire Brigade moored alongside a jetty
LFB dual purpose fire engine, St Pauls Cathedral, LondonA London Fire Brigade dual purpose fire engine near St Pauls Cathedral, City of London
Shand Mason MFB horse-drawn steam pump and crewA Shand Mason MFB horse-drawn steam pump and crew, taking part in a special drill display given to chief officers of provincial fire brigades on 13 October 1937
Weekly LFB drill display with manual and motor pumpsWeekly LFB drill display with an old manual pump and a modern turbine motor pump both brought into action, 26 August 1936. Date: 1936
Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump and crewA Shand Mason horse-drawn manual pump, with crew from Red Cross Street fire station in traditional costume, taking part in the 1932 Lord Mayors Show, City of London
Blitz in London -- charred remains of a pub, WW2Blitz in London -- the charred remains of a pub, The White Hart in Windmill Street, near Tottenham Court Road, on 30 March 1941. View of the bar from the street door. Date: 1941
Blitz in the City of London - Queen Street, WW2Scene in Queen Street, with trailer pumps at work, following a bombing raid and incendiary attack, 11 May 1941. Date: 1941
Major fire at Prudential Assurance Building, High HolbornFirefighters at work on a major fire at the Prudential Assurance Company building in High Holborn, London WC1, on 16 June 1932. Date: 1932
Operating the London Fire Brigades fireboat Massey Shaw below decks Date: circa late 1930s
LCC-LFB motorised Hatfield type fire engineA motorised Hatfield-type fire engine. The London Fire Brigade was introducing motorised fire engines and the last horse-drawn appliance (a turntable ladder) would be withdrawn in 1921
Rayne shoes advertisement, 1964Advertisement for classic British shoe brand, Rayne showing a portrait of Mr Edward Rayne, as a backdrop to some styles from the Miss Rayne Autumn Collection
Motor car at a petrol stationAt the petrol station. A motor car being filled up with petrol by a station attendant at night. Date: 1928
Scene outside a garage, with a burning car. Date: 1932
Dennis Guildford motor pump. Date: 1928
London Fire Brigade motorised pumpA London Fire Brigade motorised pump
Fire crew and horse drawn pump. Date: circa 1900
Faversham Water PumpThe ornate water pump at the Market Place, Faversham, Kent, England. Installed in 1855, it replaced an earlier pump dating from 1635. In 1864, a piped water supply was Date: 1855
Village Pump, JavaNative drawing water from the village pump, Java, Indonesia. Date: early 1930s
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Adaby PumpJapan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Adaby Pump Date: circa 1910s
Bailiffs Daughter of Islington, London - Pint at the barA Bailiffs Daughter drinking a pint of foaming ale at the bar of a pub in Islington, London Date: circa 1911
WW2 - Austerity - Getting by with alternative transport. Comic postcard from wartime England by Evelyn E Morris, showing alternative forms of transport available if the petrol pumps ran dry
Petrol pump attendantPeople You See. Petrol pump attendant. From Teddy Bear (7 December 1963)
LCC-LFB enclosed pump at Southwark HQThe Brigade introduced these enclosed pumps in 1935, designed for the Brigade by its then Chief Officer, C C B Morris. The pump also carried breathing apparatus sets for three of its crew
London Fire Brigade pump damaged by fireA London Fire Brigade pump damaged by a dramatic fire which took place on the night of 15 August 1920 on the Thames at Woolwich, SE London
LCC-MFB Shand Mason steamerShand Mason steamer ready for the turnout from Manchester Square Fire Station. This is a more powerful two-cylinder model. Water in the boiler was kept warm by a small gas ring
LCC-LFB Dennis motorised pump-escapeIn 1910 the London Fire Brigade took delivery of the latest motorised fire engine from Dennis, the fire engine manufacturers in Surrey
Shand Mason MFB steam pump and crewA Shand Mason Metropolitan Fire Brigade horse-drawn steam pump and crew, taking part in a special drill display given for chief officers of provincial fire brigades on 13 October 1937
London Fire Brigade steam pumpA London Fire Brigade steam pump
Leyland motor pump and crew
Firefighters pose in front of a steam pumpFirefighters pose in front of a horse drawn steam pump with a trophy
Firefighters in a motorised pump vehicle, London Fire Brigade
Firefighters in a pump ladder vehicle, London Fire Brigade