Shed Collection (page 8)

LCC-MFB Escape cart standing ready in station
An MFB fire station, showing the escape cart, carrying a 50 foot wheeled escape, ready to be connected to the horses who are standing in the stalls on either side of the fire engine

LCC-LFB Knightsbridge fire station appliance room
Opened on 27 June 1907, Knightsbridge fire station was located at 16 Basil Street. Horses would remain in use in the London Fire Brigade until 1921

LCC-LFB Kensington fire station Kensington Gardens
Located in Old Court Place near Kensington Church Street, Kensington fire station retained a horse drawn turntable ladder until 1921 when it was finally replaced by a motorised version

LCC-LFB Vauxhall fire station, Lambeth, SE London
Built by the London County Council (LCC), Vauxhall fire station opened in 1902 and was located on the Albert Embankment (Vauxhall Bridge end)

Appliances in a shed outside a fire station

Interior of a Shed for express trains. Spain

A stopping place on the road: the horse shed. Date c1868. A stopping place on the road: the horse shed. Date c1868

1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to the December 14th trial. Four men from the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station helped move it from the shed to the hill

Wilbur with visitors and fellow campers in front of the Wrights work shed at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Left to right: Edward C

Visitors and fellow campers in the Wrights work shed at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Left to right: Octave Chanute, Orville Wright, and Edward C. Huffaker seated at left and Wilbur Wright standing

Wright brothers rebuilding their glider in a wooden shed erected in July to serve as a workshop and to house the glider in bad weather, August, 1901; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1901 Aug

Opening of the Electric Tram System - Lima, Peru Date: circa 1907

Felling Chemical Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland

Metropolitan Police officers on horseback
A group of eleven Metropolitan Police officers on horseback, undergoing training in a large indoor space. Date: 20th century

Karaganda, Kazakhstan - The New metal works
The new metal works at Karaganda, Kazakhstan Date: 1909

Pile of elk horns - Yellowstone National Park
Pile of elk horns in front of the post office - Yellowstone National Park. Date: circa 1910

Streetley Chapel of Ease
The aspidal end of the tiny Norman Chapel of Ease at Streetley, Derbyshire, England. During the 19th century, it was used as a cow shed! Date: 13th century

Sierra Leone, West Africa - A Cotton Weaver
Sierra Leone, West Africa - Cotton Weaver at work in the open air. On wet days, the weaving is done in a Barri or working shed. Date: circa 1910s

Storage Shed - Corner Brook - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1920s

Sorting Whale Blubber
Fishermen sorting out whale blubber on shore. Date: 1930s

Garage with a Past
This unassuming garage of James Sawyer, near Buckingham Palace, London, has a secret past - it was once Queen Victorias cow shed! Date: 9 April 1930

Men of the RFC loading Lewis guns, WW1
Men of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) loading Lewis guns during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Maurice Farman MF11 Shorthorn biplane, WW1
A Maurice Farman MF11 Shorthorn biplane on an airfield during the First World War. It was a French reconnaissance and light bomber aircraft developed by the Farman Aviation Works

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Cotton Weaver at work in the open air. On wet days, the weaving is done in a Barri or working shed. Date: circa 1910s

Westinghouse Railway Works, Manchester
Machine shop aisle Westinghouse Train Works, Manchester, Lancashire, England. circa 1906

Watercolour sketch with buildings and boat
A watercolour sketch with buildings, washing drying on a line, and a boat

Watercolour sketch with buildings and shed
A watercolour sketch with buildings and a shed

Country lane with farm buildings
A country lane with farm buildings

Running Shed - GWR Railway at Old Oak Common
Stunning photographic postcard of locomotives at rest in the Running Shed of the Great Western Railway at Old Oak Commons. Date: circa 1908

Eglinton Tournament 7
The Melee : the knights divide into two teams and indulge in a free-for-all. No blood is shed, but the spectators enjoy such beautiful sights as one can never expect to see again Date: 30 August 1839

Colourful Garden
This woman knows how to create a colourful garden, as she wheels flowers in her wheelbarrow. Her patio is crammed with potted plants and hanging baskets galore. Date: 1960s

Muybridge Work Place
His open-air studio at the Palo Alto stock farm, California : camera shed on right, background wall left, four cameras on stands at corners of the track area Date: 1878

Guy Fawkes reprimands trespasser
A life-like effigy of the famous Gunpowder Plot conspirator reprimands a schoolboy who has trespassed, having climbed a ladder over a fence to take fruit from the store shed

Naval Airship Shed, Cavendish Dock, Barrow

Quarrymens shed, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A quarrymens shed at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales, showing drystone construction and superb workmanship in walls and roofing

Three machine guns on display
Three machine guns on their tripods on display in front of a shed during the First World War

Three boys playing on top of a wooden shed in a rural area. They seem to be taking turns at jumping off the roof

Boy with cigarette behind the garden shed
A boy having a crafty cigarette behind the garden shed

Garden landscape
Landscape scene of gardens with shed and trees; a somewhat sinister air

Farm carts in a wooden outbuilding

Steam Engine by their locomotive shed - Scotland
An aerial view looking down on a group of working steam locomotive some entering and someexiting their shed. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

LMR Dual-Purpose Maintenance Depot
The Depot at Allerton on the outskirts of Liverpool, opened to serve the maintenance needs of the London Midland Railway (LMR) to maintain and service electric and diesel rolling stock

Beppu Hot Springs, Japan - the seashore
Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Beppu - Sand Baths at the Hot Springs
Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Lifeboat Station interior - Constantinople
The interior of the Lifeboat Station, Constantinople

Sawing a large plank
Two carpenters use a large upright saw to split a large wooden plank. A colleague is signalling a break with the arrival of a cup of tea, whilst two boys look on with keen interest

Carpenters building a wagon
Three carpenters working on a wooden wagon, using traditional tools and techniques. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Milking, Darenth Training Colony, Kent
Milking parlour at the Darenth Training Colony near Dartford in Kent. The colony, for adult mental defectives, was set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 as an addition to the existing

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