Shelter Collection (page 2)

WW2 Christmas Card, The Optimist
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Optimist. The image shows a positive looking man inside his shelter as searchlights beam into the sky above ground. Date: circa 1940s

Cromer, Norfolk, viewed from the cliff shelter - Painted by artist Charles Howard for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Kings Gardens and Floral Bridge, Southport, Lancashire
Kings Gardens, Floral Bridge and Crescent Shelter, Southport, Lancashire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Shelter and Promenade, Prestatyn, North Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Felixstowe, Suffolk, viewed from South Cliff Shelter - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Tecton Bomb Shelter Design 7, 600 People
An architectural design showing a sectional view of a bomb shelter that can contain 7, 600 people, numbers indicate features including the entrance ramps, air-lock and first raid post

Tecton Bomb Shelter Design 830 People
An architectural design showing a sectional view of a bomb shelter that can contain 830 people, numbers indicate features including entry ramps, air extracts and intakes, water sump

Modernist House, Moor Park, Roof Terrace
A photograph of a roof terrace to a modernist house in Moor Park, Rickmansworth, designed in 1937 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Middle Ages. Wood mantlet on wheels. Engraving by Serra
Middle Ages. Mantlet. Large shield or portable shelter used for stopping projectiles. Wood mantlet on wheels. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

Air raid cartoon
Cartoon depicting Oxford Circus tube station during an air raid. Date: 1940

Shelter suit
The shelter suit, essential for remaining fashionable in one's air raid shelter. This one is by Burberry. Date: 1940

Shelter in comfort
Advert for Debenham and Freebody Department Store, promoting the latest fashion in air raid suits and coats. Date: 1940

Advert for Walpoles
Walpoles, advertising Autumn 1939's must-have outfit: an all-in-one air-raid shelter suit, with pockets large enough to accommodate gas-mask, torch and make-up. Available in Air Force blue

A young English lad takes shelter in a barrel from the rain
A young English lad takes shelter in a barrel from the pouring rain - Somewhere in England'. Date: circa 1930s

Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon
United States Navy - Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon from St.Louis Naval Air Station providing shelter during a downpour at an airshow in the US. Date: circa 1950

Salvation Army Shelter, Blackfriars Road, London
Men scrubbing floors at the Salvation Army Shelter, Blackfriars Road, London Date: 1897

Politics Political People Demonstration March
politics, political, people, demonstration, march, charity, shelter, support, homeless, august, 1977, 1970s, 70s, seventies, protest, housing, adults, children, poster, placard, posters, placards

Spanish Civil War Building An Air Raid Shelter
spanish, civil, war, building, an, air, raid, shelter, in, the, factory, serra, i, balet, gava, september, spain, monistrol, de, montserrat, library, of, abbey, vertical, upright, black, and, white

Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz
German bombing campaign against Britain between September 1940 and May 1941 mainly targeting London and industrial places

From Bedroom to Shelter in One
Kind warden sets the machine in motion to allow people to sleep through a air-raid. Swinging from bedroom to living room to shelter without waking. Date: 1941

The Home Front by Frank Reynolds
All clear, dear! Mothers gone, Date: 1940

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882-1958), British civil servant, then politician and government minister. He served as Home Secretary from 1939 to 1940

Tokyo earthquake 1923
A railway shelter for the night with men, women and children huddled together in a carriage on a siding at Numadzu Station after the catastrophic earthquake that hit Tokyo

The cabmen's shelter in Acacia Road, St John's Wood, north London. Date: 1875

Sheltered Cabmen 1870
Hansom cab drivers waiting in a hut in the pouring rain for a fare in Birmingham. Date: 1870

SEPECAT Jaguar GR. 1A
Royal Air Force - SEPECAT Jaguar GR.1A, in a Hardened Aircraft Shelter, in Desert Storm colours. Date: circa 2000

General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon FA31
Force aerienne belge - General Dynamics F-16AM Fighting Falcon FA31 (msn 6H-31, ex 87-0054), on display in a Hardened Aircraft Shelter at Florennes Air Show, 7-8 September 1997

Panavia Tornado ECR MM7052 - 50-02
Aeronautica Militaire Italiano - Panavia Tornado ECR MM7052 / 50-02 (msn 424/ECR../5061), of 155 Gruppo / 50 Stormo, in a Hardened Aircraft Shelter, at Ghedi Air Force Base - LIPL, Italy

Earthquake damage in Japan c. 1890, collapsed houses
19th century vintage photograph: earthquake damage in Japan c.1890, collapsed houses in a town

Man in a bush tent, likely New Zealand
Vintage 19th century photograph: possibly New Zealand - man in a bush tent, reading, news from home

The Belfry of Bruges, Belgium
19th century vintage photograph: The Belfry of Bruges is a medieval bell tower in the centre of Bruges, Belgium

Durham Cathedral from the River Wear
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: Durham Cathedral from the River Wear

England religion, church: York Minster
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: York Minster

England religion, church: Canterbury Cathedral
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: Canterbury Cathedral

England religion, church: Westminster Abbey
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: Westminster Abbey, London

England religion, church: Ely Cathedral
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: Ely Cathedral

England religion, church: Salisbury Cathedral
19th century vintage photograph, England religion, church: Salisbury Cathedral

Bedouin camp in the desrt, North Africa, Algeria
Vintage 19th century photograph - Bedouin camp in the desrt, North Africa, Algeria

Tomb of Lazarus at Bethany, Holy Land
Vintage 19th century photograph: tomb of Lazarus at Bethany, image c.1890. The Tomb of Lazarus is a traditional spot of pilgrimage located in the West Bank town of al-Eizariya

Merchant Street, Rangoon Burma, Yangon, Myanmar
Vintage 19th century photograph: Merchant Street, Rangoon Burma, Yangon, Myanmar

Village street scene, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
19th century vintage photograph - village street scene, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, image c.1880 s

View in Genoa, Genova, Italy
19th century vintage photograph - Palace, Palazzo in the historic center of Genoa, with street market, image c.1880 s

Train station with steam engine, India, c. 1880s
19th century vintage photograph - large group of Indians and Europeans at a train station with steam engine, India, c.1880s

Snow shed, Selkirk mts. Canadian Pacific Railroad
Vintage 19th century photograph - snow shed, tunnel, Selkirk mountains, Canadian Pacific Railroad, Canada

Two boys explore nuclear fallout shelter, Deal, Kent
UKs first domestic nuclear fallout shelter about to be installed in Deal, Kent. Two young boys explore it. Date: circa 1960s

A family, three adults and a little girl, sitting in a rustic, trellis garden room outside. They re drinking wine so are likely to be French! Date: 1890s

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - baker baking bread
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - a baker at work baking bread. Vintage 19th century photograph

Group of women, Ouled Nail Algeria, French flag flying
Group of women, Ouled Nail, Algeria, with French flag flying. Vintage 19th century photograph

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