Search Lights Collection

Propaganda poster for the RAF during World War Two. Victory of the Allies is assured. Intensive bombing of Germanys war industries continues

ZEPPELIN RAIDER / 1915-16
A Zeppelin raider is caught in the searchlights over the countryside

First Zeppelin air raid on London, 1915
First Zeppelin air raid on London, during World War I 1915

Tivoli Gardens - Concert Hall Illuminations
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark - Concert Hall. The Illuminations

War Bonds Wwi Poster
World War One poster encouraging the public to invest in war bonds to help buy guns and " bring them down" (presumably Zeppelins)

WW1 / C 1916 / SHADOWS SKY
The shadows of soldiers are projected onto the night sky by flares and searchlights

Book cover design, Aerial Warfare by RP Hearne, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908, with an introduction by Sir Hirams Maxim. 1908

Weymouth - Ships illuminated for visit by British Royals
Ships of the British naval fleet illuminated off the coast at Weymouth, Dorset for a visit by the Royal Family, including King George V, Edward, Prince of Wales and other family members. Date: 1932

Titanic - Need for Searchlights on Ocean Racers
Page from The Sphere demonstrating how searchlights on fast ocean passenger liners might have avoided the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (1 / 3)
Torquay, Devon - Illuminations (1/3) - The Pier and arbour Date: circa 1930

Montjuic Fountains, Barcelona, Spain - built for the 1929 Internation Exposition (World Fair). The Fountains lead up the Montjuic Hill toward the Palau Nacional. Date: 1929

German battleship sinking at night, WW1
An artists impression of a German battleship sinking at night, with searchlights flashing in all directions, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment
Wartime poster giving the cost of various weapons and equipment, from aircraft, tanks, ships, guns and shells to barrage balloons and searchlights. 1940s

Premiere at Graumans Chinese Theatre
Hollywood, California - A World Premiere for a movie feature film at Graumans Chinese Theatre. circa 1920s

Reconnaisance Airship
An airship of the future carries out a reconnaisance flight, using powerful searchlights to reveal the enemys defences. Date: 1907

Echo Mountain, California
Searchlight on Echo Mountain, California, America

Searchlights over St Pauls Cathedral
Searchlights pick out the menacing shape of a German Zeppelin flying a bombing raid over the capital during World War One

Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition
The Great Fountain by night. Barcelona, Spain - International Exhibition of 1929 - 1930. In a large park on the Montjuic hill

Zeppelin illuminated by searchlights
The unmistakable and ominous outline of a raiding German Zeppelin airship, illuminated by five searchlights. The Zeppelin raids (which commenced on 31st May 1915)

a Searchlight Battery
SLC radar equipment on an anti-aircraft searchlight battery on the Home Front in England during World War II in 1945

Old Lambeth Bridge, World War I
Searchlights on Old Lambeth Bridge, London, during World War I

Christmas in the home of a peace crank
A man rather disdainfully labelled as a peace crank watches in dismay as his children play aggressively with a variety of war-inspired toys during World War One

Wwi / 1915 / Wire Cutting
In preparation for a raid on German trenches, a party of the 9th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment, despite exposure by searchlights and Very lights, cut wire entaglements

Bomber in Searchlight
A German bomber is caught in the beams of three Russian searchlights, making it a fine target for the anti-aicraft guns

Destroyer at Speed
A destroyer at speed, taking evasive action to escape from searchlights

1914 / Nieuport Flares
Flares and searchlights illuminate the night sky over no-man s-land near Nieuport

Robinson Downs Zep 1916
Lieutenant W.L. Robinson shoots down a Zeppelin over Cuffley, Hertfordshire, winning the Victoria Cross for his valour

Robinson Downs Zeppelin
Zeppelin L21 falls from the sky after being attacked by Lieutenant Robinson; this image was based on an account by an eyewitness 20 miles away

CIRCA 1918
A night bombing raid : allied bombers run the gauntlet of the enemys searchlights

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