Saving Collection (page 6)

Cyclist in Plus Fours
A cyclist wearing plus fours, stops to read the inscription on the sundial monument to daylight saving campaigner William Willet, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Kent, England. Date: 1939

Willett Sundial Memorial
WILLIAM WILLETT Willet, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, Kent, England. His campaign for daylight saving led to the Summer Time Act of 1925. Date: 1856 - 1915

Poole Lifeboat Crew
The brave men of Poole Lifeboat Crew, Dorset, England. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Cavendish boilers with female model (Pat Knight). 1959

US Life Saving Station - Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1906

Jamestown Exhibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The card features an aerial view of the Exnibition site, a fine illustration of a Red Indian Brave and two inset illustrations

A V2 on display in Trafalgar Square
A V-2 on display in Trafalger Square with a crowd listening to a speech by Clement Atlee at the beginning of Thanksgiving Saving Week. 15 September 1945. Date: 1945

Spain. Francos dictatorship. Camarada ahorra
" Spain. Francos dictatorship. " Camarada ahorra!" (Comrade, save). Poster by P. Clapera. SPAIN. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia)."

The Miracle at the Well. Cano, Alonso (1601-1667). Oil on canvas. Saint isidore is depicted after saving a child from a well

Advert for buying Defence Bonds in WW2 1941
Advert issued by The National Savings Committee, london. When the axis crumbles before the thunder of British tanks, will you be able to say.... I played my part to the full. Buy 3% Defence Bonds

Advert for buying 3% savings bonds in WW2 1942

Advert for The National Savings Committee 1940
This year make your holiday weeks National Savings Week ! In 1940 The National Savings Committee asked that the general public put aside the thought of going away on holiday

LCC-MFB Print of fire brigade rescues
A Victorian print giving an artists impression of the bravery of two firemen in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, rescuing those trapped by fire from the top floor of a house on fire

NFS-London Region 100ft turntable rescue sling, WW2
A turntable ladder rescue sling being demonstrated at the Regional fire headquarters, Lambeth SE1

Scaling ladder rescue drill demonstration, WW2
The position in which a line is attached to a scaling ladder in order to perform a rescue from the upper floors of a building

Curb service 10, 000 current books - convenient, free, time saving : Chicago Public Library, Randolph St. corridor. Poster for bookmobile service of the Chicago Public Library

Help him win by saving and serving - Buy War Savings Stamps. Poster showing a soldier solemly clasping the hands of two children. Date c1918

Don t let up - Keep on saving food. Poster showing a man standing over a fallen German soldier. Date 1918

Saving daylight ends, for 1918, Sunday, Oct. 27th Set your clock back one hour at 2 AM Sunday October 27th. Poster showing Uncle Sam shaking hands with a clock-headed figure

Ninety and nine or the lost sheep. Date c1878

National Savings - Growth up to 1945
See how your Savings Certificates have grown already The healthy growth of value of National Savings plotted against a growing boy. Date: 1945

Itinerant preacher from South Carolina saving the souls of the construction workers at Camp Livingston job near Alexandria, Louisiana. Date 1940 Dec

Two lifeboat coxswains, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Retiring lifeboat coxswain John Byford (left) and new coxswain Thomas Bloom, pictured at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. John Byford had been cox from 1929 and Thomas Bloom, known locally as Puggy

Honourable Artillery Company lifeboat, Walton, Essex
The first National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, donated by and named after The Honourable Artillery Company whose Drama Club sponsored it, was launched in 1884

Humane Society Iceman and boat for rescuing
An iceman of the Royal Humane Society who warned people from venturing out skating on thinly-frozen lakes and helped them when they got into trouble, and a boat for saving persons from drowning

Prince George naming the new lifeboat, Walton, Essex
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942), at the naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. The boat was named EMED

Four Scout badges and awards -- the Life Saving Bronze Cross, the Medal of Merit, the Life Saving Silver Cross, and the Ambulance Badge. circa 1912

Saving a baby from flooded building, South Wales
A baby is handed to safety after houses were swept away when heavy rains hit the Aberdare area of South Wales. circa 1911

Joseph Rodgers, Able Seaman
Joseph Rodgers, (b. 1830 in Malta - ?), seaman of the Royal Charter, a ship which sank off the coast of Anglesey on 26th October 1859 in terrible storms

Goalkeeper
A goal-keeper in action, Landskrona 1950s. Date: 1950s

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Coverack Lifeboat
Launching the Coverack Lifeboat, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

Swimming medal, Life Saving Championship
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to JHW (J. H. Watson) for coming 3rd in the Individual Life Saving Championship. Date: 1912

Dog Saves Doll from Sea
This brave dog leaps into the sea, regardless of danger, and rescues his mistresss doll from what might otherwise have been a watery grave. circa 1912

Italian Patriotic Card - Do your Duty, do your best! - extolling the national virtue of contributing to a bank savings scheme to aid the underwriting of the Italian war effort. Date: circa 1910s

Albert Medal 1877
ALBERT MEDAL: Introduced on 7th March 1866. A Royal Warrant of 1867 created two classes of medal & in 1877 was altered to allow the saving of life on land to be eligible. Date: 1877

UNSINKABLE LIFEBOAT
Our lovely model demontrates a novel and unsinkable lifeboat at the British Industries Fair, Olympia, London. Date: 17 February 1930

Large Ships Buoy
A large ships buoy, with an anchor chain attached, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Town mice and country mice
Two couples eating at a restaurant at separate tables, one couple looking smug dressed up in the latest attire with their wine and bowl of fruit

Swimming medal, 100 Yards Breast Stroke
Medal of the Derby & District Swimming & Life Saving Association, awarded to K. W. Watson for coming 2nd in the 100 Yards Breast Stroke. Date: 1933

Swimming medal, Derby Peace Celebrations
Swimming medal of the County Borough of Derby Peace Celebrations, Life Saving Competition, awarded to J. H. Watson. Showing the Derby emblem at the centre, the Deer in a Park. 1919

Serbian troops in retreat, WW1
Serbian troops in retreat during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Badge, Royal Life Saving Society
Badge of the Royal Life Saving Society, featuring a lifebelt design. Date: early 20th century

Wartime poster advertising Savings Certificates, said to be safe as the British Empire (marked red on the map). Showing returns on investments over 5 years and 10 years. 1940s

Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service
Wartime leaflet about the blood transfusion service, showing how blood, and blood transfusion equipment, are dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to save the lives of wounded soldiers. 1940s

Poster advertising War Savings Certificates. One workman tells another that its worth while. 1940s

Harold Wilson and Eric Johnston
Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, and Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Pictures Association of America

Page from The Sphere, 4th May 1912, called The Newsletter, Week by Week. It features images of Indian students who have studied at the London School of Economics; Signor Murri

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