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Road Safety Week posterNo accident, please - a bold and jolly poster promoting National Road Safety Week. Date: c.1960
Gas drill in Australia, two people in gas masks, WW1Two people wearing gas masks hug each other after a successful gas drill at a Military Training Camp in Australia during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918
London Fire Brigade training
Colliery lamp room Victorian period
Coal mine lamp room
Aberdare Valley Miners early 1900s
Mining safety lamps
Miners safety lamps Victorian period
Three Submarines Safety Matches, made in Germany
Six-Sixty Safety Valves, wireless radio 1920s Date: 1920s
Children who played with fire
Call Boy Impregnated Safety Matches, average 50 matches
Abraham Wivell's Improved Fire Escape Date: 1860
Mine Rescue Team Victorian period
Music cover, The New Haymarket Polka, by Meredith Ball, showing the proscenium arch and safety curtain of the Haymarket Theatre, London Date: circa 1880
Advert, Palmer Flexicord Tyres Date: 20th century
Valet Auto Strop Razor AdvertisementAn illustrated advertisement for the Valet AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Ltd, the product sharpens itself before each use for a comfortable shave
White Star Line, Bryant & May match labels, advertising the Olympic and Titanic. 6.5 inches. Date: early 20th century
Advertisement for Dunlop Fort safety tyres, night scene showing policeman, woman in car, and the tread on a Dunlop Fort tyre. Captioned Dunlop Fort, the tyres with teeth'. Date: 1939
Sign at GleneaglesA sign at Gleneagles golf course, explaining the procedure of sounding a siren in the event of a dangerous thunderstorm. Date: 1933
TT Race SpectatorsSpectators behind a protective grill at the RAC TT (Tourist Trophy) Motor Race held in Ards, Northern Ireland. The race was held here between 1928 and 1936. Date: 1931
London policeman helps schoolchildren cross the road Date: 1923
Cessna 182J ZK-CKZ (msn 18256864). Safety Patrol 1480, sponsored by Rothmans. Date: circa 1970
Advertisement for Swan Pens, by Mabie, Todd and Co. Captioned, Send a Swan!, and Give Swans this Xmas!, with illustrations of ladies pens with rolled gold or sterling silver mountings
Convair F-106A Delta Dart 57-2496United States Air Force - Convair F-106A-90-CO Delta Dart 57-2496 (msn 8-24-79), of the 84th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, at Castle Air Force Base, CA, circa 1976
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)
Advert, Bryant & May's Patent Safety Matches. Date: 1868
Boulton Paul P. 111 VT935Boulton Paul P.111 VT935, in the aero-structures hangar at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield Aerodrome, on 30 June 1962
Hansom's Safety Cab as first design 1834Hansom Safety Cab designed and patented by Joseph Hansom on the 23rd December 1834. Diver seated on the roof of the cab and the patent suggesting that the cab might be entered through the wheel
Poster, Pirelli Long Distance tyres. Date: circa 1950
Some of the Republican refugees who fled Spain for France after the fall of Barcelona. Straggling line of women and children marshalled by French Gardes mobiles, while crossing the frontier
Moving Famous London Statues to Safety 1941The Burghers of Calais by Augustave Robin, in Victoria Gardens, Westminster being moved to a place of safety. As a precaution against possible bombing precious art
Cartoon, Railway Undertaking. An undertaker offers a puzzled traveller a business card: a comment on the dubious safety of rail travel. Date: 1852
Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the BlitzGerman bombing campaign against Britain between September 1940 and May 1941 mainly targeting London and industrial places
Road sign, drive carefullyA road sign in English and German: Death is so permanent, drive carefully. Date: 1940s
Osmond's Patent Safety Balancing Dogcart 1875Driver protected if horses falls with a self balancing safety foot rest. Date: 1875
Camouflaged civilians, home guards and dogs in a London park hiding from the enemy above. Date: 1941
As a precaution against possible bombing precious art, relics, sculptures and memorials where moved out of London to a secret place. This was given to the Nation by the National Art Collections Fund
Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, with a bannerBob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC
Lifeboat putting out to sea, St Ives, CornwallThe James Stevens lifeboat setting out in a choppy sea, St Ives, Cornwall. The James Stevens No.10 was built for St Ives by Thames Ironworks in 1899
Lifeboat returning to harbour, St Ives, CornwallThe James Stevens lifeboat in a choppy sea, returning to harbour, St Ives, Cornwall. The James Stevens No.10 was built for St Ives by Thames Ironworks in 1899
A Driver Climbing in to his CabA train driver climbs in to the cabin of a British Rail diesel locomotive. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1950s
Safety Invested in Stocks by A. W. HoldenA 17th century scene showing a Puritan and a Cavalier in some village stocks. A small girl, carrying a dead goose and a cabbage in a basket looks at them with disdain. Date: c.1880
METRO, ACCIDENT 1903When a train - made of varnished wood - catches fire near Belleville station, passengers head for safety but mistake their way and 84 die of asphyxiation Date: 1903
BBC staff take turns firewatching on roof, WW2BBC staff take turns firewatching on the roof during WW2 Date: 1941
Comic postcard, Women at pedestrian crossing with Belisha beacon Date: circa 1930s
Comic postcard, Conversation in a rowing boat Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Woman with bicycle on country lane Date: 20th century