Signal Collection (page 9)

Sea Scouts signal lamp training
Sea Scouts undergoing signal lamp training. circa 1944

Arrival of the royal couple at Antwerp, 1858
The arrival of newly weds Crown Prince Frederick William(1831-1888) and Victoria(Vicky) Princess Royal of Great Britain(1840-1901) at Antwerp, Belgium

Communications Palmin 1
Roman soldiers passing messages via signal fires

Our Local Express (2 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (2/2 - see 10425389). 1907

The Signal by Harry Rowntree
A small, rather terrified-looking boy scout holds his staff aloft in the signal for enemy in large numbers although the enemy in this case is a gaggle of curious geese. 1911

Our Local Express (1 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (1/2 10429191). 1907

St. Johns - Newfoundland - Huge Snowdrift
Forest Road on Signal Hill - St. Johns - Newfoundland and Labrador. The occupants of this fine wooden house have burrowed through an enorous snowdrift to provide front access to their home

QSL card - Lithaunian Radio Station
A commemorative card from a Lithaunian Radio Station (a QSL card) commemorating 20 years of the restitution of Lithuanian independence. These were sent abroad, hence the card is written in English

Radio-Control Tortoise
A testing time for Toddle the tortoise. The aerial picks up a signal and makes the arm holding the lettuce (and Toddle!) swing left or right. Date: 1960s

German Navy Signal Room
The interior of a German Navy Signal Room. Date: 1940s

American soldiers under cover, France, WW1
American soldiers of a Signal Corps detachment, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division, under cover before laying wire near Chateau Thierry, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 19 July 1918

Army Signal Service wireless station, Western Front, WW1
An Army Signal Service wireless station on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

American Signal Corps at Brest, France, WW1
Men of the US Signal Corps, 4th Infantry, arriving at Brest, north western France, during the First World War. Date: April 1918

American troops in action at St Barbe, France, WW1
American troops of the 37th Division in action at St Barbe, France, during the First World War. They are taking enemy trenches -- signal flares can be seen in the distance. Date: August 1918

The Distress Signal
Whilst captured by the Iroquois, Captain Mac-Kinsty makes the distress signal and is saved by the Chief, who has recognised him as a Brother. 1890s

Chapel exit indicator, Pentonville Prison
Device to signal prisoners order of exit from chapel at Pentonville Prison, London. Date: 1862

C. Q. D. signals that meant safety on the Republic
C.Q.D. signals that meant safety to two thousand souls: the means by which the sinking liner Republic sent three hundred miles for immediate help

Three soldiers using lamp for signalling, France, WW1
Three soldiers of a Pioneer Battalion using a daylight lamp for signalling at the side of a railway track near Feuchy, Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1917

Allied fleet firing salute in the Bosphorus, WW1
Allied fleet firing a salute in the Bosphorus to signal Peace, probably towards the end of the First World War. Date: circa late 1918

Two soldiers using heliograph for signalling, France, WW1
Two soldiers using a heliograph for visual signalling near Feuchy, during the Battle of Arras in northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Signal exchange beneath Fricourt Chateau, France, WW1
Royal Engineers at work in a signal exchange in a captured German dugout beneath Fricourt Chateau, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Artillery Observation Officer sets lamp, Kemmel Ridge, WW1
An Artillery Observation Officer setting his lamp to signal back to his Battery the results of firing, around the time of the Battles of Kemmel Ridge (Kemmelburg, Lys, Flanders)

Army Signal Service, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Army Signal Service at work on the Western Front during the First World War. Showing a section of the Third Army Signal Office, with Captain Bulman OBE in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Two soldiers using a signalling shutter, WW1
Two soldiers using a signalling shutter during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Woolwich hulks - guards give escape signal
The Woolwich hulks (prison ships) - guards give the escape signal. Date: 1862

Signalman Bayliss stands by his levers in the signal box at Haverstock Hill, London. Date: 1909

The spirit of England at work: railway and dock volunteers
Volunteers on the railways during the General Strike. The ILN reports that Nothing was more remarkable during the General Strike than the skill and efficiency with which the railways were carried

Two Post Office workers waiting for the mail train at a lineside mailbag collection and drop-off point. In the background are railway lines, signals, and a goods train

Cover of The Signal, June 1943
Cover of The Signal magazine from June 1943. The Signal was the station magazine of 47 Air Navigation School, based in Queenstown, South Africa, where RAF personnnel were trained during World War Two

Cover of The Signal, August 1943, the station magazine of 47 Air Navigation School in Queenstown, South Africa, where many RAF airmen from Bomber Command trained prior to operational tours

Policewoman on traffic duty
A policewoman on traffic duty on a busy day in London

Crewe Railway Station electric signal box, Cheshire
View inside an electric signal box near Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire

Near Skewen Railway Station, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of the track, with a road bridge in the middle distance, near Skewen Railway Station on the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan, South Wales

Dunlop advertisement with policeman
Splendid advert for Dunlop tyres showing a busy London street with a police officer in the road directing traffic and helping pedestrians across the road

Electric train line indicators
Three early train line indicators, with arriows which moved from red to green, depending on whether a train was on that portion of track or whether it had left it

Training Ship Exmouth, flag signalling drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth learning flag signalling. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment

Ukraine - Odessa - The Mole

Temporary road works signal, London
A temporary road works police traffic signal, set up by the Metropolitan Police on a London street. A man with a motorcycle and sidecar waits alongside

Police Notice -- Street Crossing Signals
A Police Notice showing Street Crossing Signals in Bridge Street, New Palace Yard, London, close to Parliament and the Met Police headquarters

Bus request stop / W H Robinson
The permanent signaling umbrella fitted to bus stops, for when one finds ones self without suitable equipment for waving or when the signaling arm is heavily occupied with shopping

Battle of the Somme WWI
German soldier firing a flare during the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during World War I

Turning left / W H Robinson
An old motorist gets a hand from a policeman to help him turn left, to the pub. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture

Arm signaling / W H Robinson
This particular arm signal indicates that the driver will be slowing down or stopping...if only for a better look at a passing attractive woman

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

Start of a charity cycle ride, Lands End
The start of a charity cycle ride in aid of Friends of the Earth, from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland

Evocative Railway scene with Cooling Towers. Two small steam engines in a sding close to a Power Station and a signal box in Scotland

Railwayman with black-out lamp
The green signal light of a guard on the railway is shaded with a hood in the wartime black-out as World War Two begins

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