Safety Collection (page 7)

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a boy and two dogs made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with an elephant chasing a deer made by Takashima in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man fighting a tiger made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Martin-Baker ejection seat, as used in British aircraft during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Old Swedish Matchbox label with Robber and a tiger hunting possibly for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Old London Characters - Night Watchman with lantern

Old London Characters - Charley, an aged parish constable or night watchman, carrying a lantern. 19th century

Civil Defence Handbook, preparing the house
Civil Defence Handbook provides instructions on preparing the house in the event of an attack

French Revolution (1789-1799). the Committee of Public Safe
French Revolution (1789-1799). During the Revolution, special courts were created. The most important was the Committee of Public Safety. Colored engraving. 19th century

Page from catalogue of Safety razors 1929
Safety razors, razor strop, stropping machine and assorted scissors set. Products available from the Harrods catalogue cutlery department. Date: 1929

Pan Catching Fire
A cautionary tale in the use of pans which are not made of aluminium branded with an official safety mark from the Societe Francaise des Metaux Ouvres ! Date: 1928

Air stewardess demonstrating oxygen mask on board a passenger plane. Date: circa 1970s

WW2 poster, In an air raid, what motorists must do
WW2 Civil Defence poster, In an air raid, what motorists must do, by day, at night. Date: early 1940s

WW2 Christmas card, patriotic dogs sheltering behind sandbags. Date: circa 1942

Marching Song of the Daily Sketch - Childrens Road Safety Le
Hand coloured. Illustration of a scroll with a poem about road safety inside, bordered by a boy and girl holding up flags with treble and bass clefs on them

WW1 cartoon on postcard - munition worker
Expecting a rise shortly. Humorous, First World War postcard depicting a female munition worker jauntily sitting on a barrel of dynamite with a cigarette. A health and safety nightmare. Date: c.1916

Smothering burning clothes with blanket
Smothering burning clothes with a blanket -- a fire safety officer instructs a woman in the use of a blanket to smother the burning clothing of a child (dummy)

Road safety poster, A Long Way Off? Drivers travel much faster than we do! Showing two children trying to cross a busy road, with two scenarios

Advert for Gillette razor combination set 1915
Get it today. How much better the choice of christmas gifts is than it used to be! For a man - a Gillette safety razor, instead of the fripperies

Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes

British naval convoy system by G. H. Davis
The method of safeguarding the freedom of the seas: the British naval convoy system at work. Making the high seas safe for Allied

Cartoon, Be Prepared! WW1
Cartoon, Be Prepared! Showing a member of the Womens Emergency Corps in a shop, asking the assistant for a gross of safety pins in the early days of the First World War. Date: September 1914

French World War One refugees
Liberation: the freeing of the civil population. Rescued after living for four years in the enemy lines: a party of French refugees being conveyed to safety in Northern France after cessation of

Minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea, WW1
A minesweeper trawling for mines in the North Sea on the outbreak of the First World War. A wire rope attached to a weight is dragged along the seabed

HMS Poseidon submarine escape apparatus
HMS Poseidon and the submarine escape apparatus. Poseidon was sunk on 9th June 1931 after colliding with the Chinese merchant steamer SS Yuta

WW1 - League of National Safety - set up to promote the value of rationing, the efforts to avoid wastage, to further the objects of the Food Economy Campaign

Fun on the flying machine at Southport, Merseyside
Fun on Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride at Southport, Merseyside, which opened in 1904. Testament to the design

Stephenson?s safety lamp

LCC-LFB Change from brass to cork fire helmets
A significant landmark when on 14 July 1934 the LFB started to replace its traditional brass helmet with a new compressed cork design. It would be four years before the changeover was completed

GLC-LFB Chemical Incident Unit (CIU)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

Blitz in London -- improvised shoulder protectors
Blitz in London -- the London Fire Brigade innovated to protect its fire crews from injury from falling debris by utilising old rubber tyres, cut to form shoulder protectors

Poster - Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme
Mothers - let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health. Public Information poster issued by the Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme circa 1942

Advert for Durham Duplex Safety Razor 1914
A close shave but in comfort with Durham Duplex Safety Razor, the razor which enables you to shave with the barbers diagonal stroke without fera of cutting yourself

Sprint Cyclist
A sprint cyclist. Date: 1980s

Ski Lift and Safety Net
The ski chair lift and safety net at Caingorm, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Pruning an Apple Tree
Two girls pruning an apple tree on rather dangerous looking step ladders on an orchard in Essex, Engand. Date: 1950s

Interior of cell block at Portland Prison, Dorset
Interior of a new wing at Portland, Dorset showing cell doors, iron stairways and corridors. Wire netting was placed between balconies to prevent inmates falling to the ground

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford
A night time traffic accident in Brandon Grove, Ilford, Essex. The bollard in the middle of the road says Keep Left, but this car kept a little too far to the left

A sance with Willi Schneider
Undated flashlight photograph taken during a sance with Willi Schneider in his home town of Braunau, Austria, showing a white cloth " phantom" pinned to a curtain by means of a safety pin

Refugee camp at the Purana Kila Fort
Indian Muslims fleeing New Delhi await admittance to the Purana Kila Fort

The Yacht Eira in the Arctic, 1881
Engraving showing the yacht Eira, used by Benjamin Leigh Smith, to explore the Arctic region around Franz Joseph Land and the ocean North of Russia, 1881-1882

1960S PICNIC
Mum is about to pour the tea from the flask and Dad is adjusting his daughters Alice band in this jolly picnic scene

Publius Horatius Cocles defending the Tiber bridge
Publius Horatius Cocles, an army officer of the Roman Republic, together with two companions, Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius

Start Point lighthouse, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Calshot Spit lightship at sea, Southampton Water. Date: circa 1960s

Safety Cab - horse-drawn, with passenger and driver. circa 1830

Hastings lifeboat on a rough sea, with crew on board. Date: circa 1930s

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