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Background imageSafe Collection: Postcard from Tom Mudd, RMS Titanic

Postcard from Tom Mudd, RMS Titanic
A handwritten postcard from Tom (Thomas Charles) Mudd to his mother in Halesworth, Suffolk, to let her know that he has arrived safely at Southampton for the departure of the Titanic on her maiden

Background imageSafe Collection: National Air Safety Committee Poster

National Air Safety Committee Poster
Poster, National Air Safety Committee, providing instructions to new pilots -- please help to keep flying safe. 1933

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 1, Size MP, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Bank Vault

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault at The New Britain Trust Co. Bank Vault

Background imageSafe Collection: Evacuation - World War Two - Children Safer in the Country

Evacuation - World War Two - Children Safer in the Country
Evacuation - World War Two - Children are Safer in the Country.... leave them there. Governement advice recommending children stay away from the big cities and targets of the bombers. circa 1942

Background imageSafe Collection: Thos. Brett Cleveland, O. Diebold Safe & Lock Company

Thos. Brett Cleveland, O. Diebold Safe & Lock Company. Date c1879. Thos. Brett Cleveland, O. Diebold Safe & Lock Company. Date c1879

Background imageSafe Collection: Evacuees on a Train

Evacuees on a Train
Its goodbye to the little tots who are bound for new homes with new parents in the safe country districts of Britain - evacuees looking out of the window of a train

Background imageSafe Collection: New Pavilion Saltair and bathers, Salt Lake City, USA

New Pavilion Saltair and bathers, Salt Lake City, USA
The New Pavilion Saltair (built in 1926) and bathers on Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The first Saltair, completed in 1893

Background imageSafe Collection: The Savings Bank of Utica, New York

The Savings Bank of Utica, New York
Diebold Safe and Lock Co. The Savings Bank of Utica. Exterior of the Savings Bank of Utica building, Utica N.Y

Background imageSafe Collection: Mossel Bay poster

Mossel Bay poster
Travel poster for Mossel Bay in South Africa, advertising safe bathing, excellent golf, unsurpassed fishing, and illustrated by a sandy beach scene with three ladies in bathing costumes enjoying

Background imageSafe Collection: Soviet Heavy Tank in Berlin; Second World War, 1945

Soviet Heavy Tank in Berlin; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Soviet heavy tank moving through Berlin, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background, May 1945. Berlin fell to the Russian Army on 2nd May 1945

Background imageSafe Collection: Missionary Society Seal

Missionary Society Seal
Seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; the banner above the ship is a plea for a safe passage

Background imageSafe Collection: Bank Vault

Bank Vault
The Diebold Safe & Lock Co. Vault in The Bank of Montreal, New York. Bank Vault

Background imageSafe Collection: Frys Cocoa advertisement by John Hassall

Frys Cocoa advertisement by John Hassall
Advert for Frys Cocoa Powder showing two burglars, delighted to discover several jars of Frys cocoa and Frys milk chocolate in a safe. 2nd December 1908

Background imageSafe Collection: Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Northern Trust Company Bank, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Northern Trust Company Bank, La Salle and Monroe Streets, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageSafe Collection: Thaxted 1950S

Thaxted 1950S
A little girl with a bow in her hair rides her bicycle in a corner of the picturesque old town of Thaxted, Essex, England, with its old thatched cottages beside the Guild Hall Date: 1950s

Background imageSafe Collection: Blitz in London -- rescue workers in bombed street, WW2

Blitz in London -- rescue workers in bombed street, WW2
Blitz in London -- rescue teams and building workers (not firefighters) searching and making safe houses in Sydney Street, East London, after a bombing raid in the East End

Background imageSafe Collection: Garnerins balloon and parachute

Garnerins balloon and parachute

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner fire-resisting safes and wall safes

Ratner fire-resisting safes and wall safes
Ratner light fire-resisting safes, and wall safes, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Trawler, Bridlington harbour entrance - 1

Trawler, Bridlington harbour entrance - 1
Trawler Ocean Reward returns to Bridlington harbour after a fishing trip in the North Sea Date: circa 1987

Background imageSafe Collection: Safety Deposit Vault

Safety Deposit Vault
Merchantile Safe Deposit Co. 120 Broadway, c. 1904. Safety deposit vault with mosaic tile floor flanked by banks of safe deposit boxes

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner wooden safe stands

Ratner wooden safe stands - box, frame, drawer and cupboard. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting

Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 2, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars, Size No. 5, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Pavilion Saltair on Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City

Pavilion Saltair on Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City
The Pavilion Saltair on Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The first Saltair, completed in 1893, was jointly owned by a corporation associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Background imageSafe Collection: Robbery in Paris Home

Robbery in Paris Home
An audacious robbery: gold and jewellery worth 110, 000 francs are stolen from a Paris home. The robbers get in through a hole in the ceiling!

Background imageSafe Collection: Girl Prays for Father

Girl Prays for Father
A little girl kneels on her bed to pray for her fathers safe return from the war

Background imageSafe Collection: Frys Cocoa Advert

Frys Cocoa Advert
Frys pure concentrated cocoa So good it has to be kept in a safe, for the pleasure of two skilful thieves

Background imageSafe Collection: Sir Humphry Davy in a mine with his safety lamp

Sir Humphry Davy in a mine with his safety lamp. circa 1815

Background imageSafe Collection: Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller YB7976 Toby

Babcock and Wilcox 6 ton Steam Roller YB7976 Toby (msn 95/4009). Seen with a 1955 Standard 10 motor car 200CPJ at a 1959 Walford Cross auction. Built in 1925 to the design of Messrs

Background imageSafe Collection: Tunisia - Tunis - Street Snake Charmer with a pair of cobras

Tunisia - Tunis - Street Snake Charmer with a pair of cobras - note the French colonial men and women watching on (from a safe distance). Date: circa 1907

Background imageSafe Collection: Agatha Christies abandoned motorcar, Surrey, 1926

Agatha Christies abandoned motorcar, Surrey, 1926
Photograph showing the abandoned motorcar at the edge of a Surrey chalk pit, near Newlands Corner, which Agatha Christie had driven before disappearing on 3rd December 1926

Background imageSafe Collection: The Secret Of The Evacuee

The Secret Of The Evacuee
An illustrated front cover for The Secret Of The Evacuee, written by Paul Urquhart, no. 731 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

Background imageSafe Collection: Meat safe - larder

Meat safe - larder Date: circa 1950

Background imageSafe Collection: Wesleyan & General Advertisement

Wesleyan & General Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for an Ideal Homes Exhibition stand for Wesleyan and General Assurance Society, promoting a safe way to buy houses. Date: circa 1936

Background imageSafe Collection: Pierrot And The Banker Part 2

Pierrot And The Banker Part 2
A series of illustrations portraying Pierrot the sad pantomime clown and a banker, Pierrot grabs a safe and puts a black cat inside, upon arrival to the banker

Background imageSafe Collection: Advert, Hudson's Extract of Soap

Advert, Hudson's Extract of Soap, railway signalman shining a beam of light Date: 1888

Background imageSafe Collection: Safe. 16th century. Spain

Safe. 16th century. Spain
Safe. 16th century. Cast iron and fretwork. Maria Pita House-Museum. Corunna, Galicia, Spain

Background imageSafe Collection: Georgian cartoon, A Suspicious Character

Georgian cartoon, A Suspicious Character, by Henry Heath Date: circa 1820s

Background imageSafe Collection: The Duke and Duchess of Kent, children, domestic portrait

The Duke and Duchess of Kent, children, domestic portrait
The Duke and Duchess of Kent with their children, domestic portrait captioned Home on Leave'. With description Their Royal Highnesses The Duke And Duchess Of Kent were able, last week

Background imageSafe Collection: Commonwealth Bank of Australia Advertisement

Commonwealth Bank of Australia Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, highlighting the importance of security as one of their facilities, the image shows a very secure looking safe made by Chubbs

Background imageSafe Collection: Samuel Plimsoll MP

Samuel Plimsoll MP (1824-1898) - English politician and social reformer, now best remembered for having devised the Plimsoll line (a line on a ship's hull indicating the maximum safe draught)

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner branch bank strong room door, drill proof and blowpipe resisting. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner strong room door, No. 6, banker's patent steel door with grip frame and ventilating grille

Ratner strong room door, No. 6, banker's patent steel door with grip frame and ventilating grille. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Ratner strong room door, No. 3, fire-resisting with lobby and grille. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner strong room door, No. 3, fire-resisting with lobby and grille. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageSafe Collection: Nikita Khrushchev with Tereshkova and Bykovsky

Nikita Khrushchev with Tereshkova and Bykovsky
The Russian Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev waving from an open-topped car between the cosmonaut heroes Valentina Tereshkova and Lieutenant Colonel Valery Bykovsky

Background imageSafe Collection: Soviet Russian cosmonauts Tereshkova and Bykovsky

Soviet Russian cosmonauts Tereshkova and Bykovsky
The Soviet Russian cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (b 1937) and Lieutenant Colonel Valery Bykovsky (b 1934). They had each undertaken a space mission in June 1963, Bykovsky in the Vostok 5

Background imageSafe Collection: Millionaire Starves Trade Money Safes 1938 Greek

Millionaire Starves Trade Money Safes 1938 Greek
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