Trapped Collection (page 2)

Russian Desman - caught in a snare (Desmana moschata). Okski Biospheric Nature Reserve, Central Russia, 50 km East from Ryazan town

Fire reported in Danbury Street, Islington, N1, with people trapped, on 25 May 1958. Showing the front area of the basement involved in the fire. Date: 1958

Second British action in Narvik harbour by G. H. Davis
The spearhead of the Royal Navys second attack advancing on Narvik, putting the enemy destroyers to flight. The advance of Vice-Admiral Whitworths force upon Narvik was preceded by super-destroyers

Battleship v. submarine by G. H. Davis
Battleship versus submarine: Sir Percy Scotts views on the position of the capital ship illustrated in a series of special Sphere diagrams. Top: the fleet bottled up in a harbour by submarines

Houdini Preparing for Bridge Jump
The prolific Austrian-Hungarian escape artist Harry Houdini preparing for one of his many daring feats of escapology, this time a highly publicised Bridge Jump whilst in metal chains. Date: circa 1910

Nursery Rhymes -- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. A white cat catches Uncle Rat (above), and a white goose catches the Frog (below). Date: early 20th century

Horse-fly in resin
A horse-fly preserved in resin, no more than a few hundred years old

Scorpion tail in Burmese amber dating from the Upper Cretaceous about 80 million years old. Image from Amber The Natural Time Capsule. Figure 100

Insects in amber
Insects trapped and preserved within in amber. Amber is fossilised tree resin

Ladybird
A waterlogged ladybird on the edge of a leaf, unable to move until droplet dries

Lorry under bridge, Loughborough Lane, SW9
Lorry stuck under a bridge, Loughborough Lane, London SW9

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

LFCDA-LFB Thermal image camera (TIC) in use
A thermal image camera was deployed at this major building collapse in SW London to help in the search for survivors trapped in the debris

NFS(London Region) Boy trapped in a coal scuttle
Boy trapped in a milk churn is set free at Brigade HQ on 4 July 1947. The milkman had brought him to the fire station in his milk float

Burmese Pagoda - Kolkata (Calcutta), India
A promotional card for the National Council for Animals Welfare of London. " God gave us the World" - " Man gives us a CAGE" Date: circa 1920s

Two Caribou with locked antlers
On occasion, two caribou stags when fighting become so interlocked they are unable to seperate - consequently both animals perish

Youth who Cdnt Shudder

Dangerous fashions in the street
The dangers of impractical fashions in the street. The reintroduction of the trained skirt, even for walking dresses, proves inconvenient and possibly fatal! Date: 1871

Tank in barbed wire
A tank crossing through barbed wire on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in October 1917

Members of the rescue parties at Gresford Colliery, Wales
Equipped with oxygen apparatus, these are some of the men who battled for a day and a half to save the lives of miners who had been trapped by flames following an explosion in the mine

Waiting for the news of the Missing, Gresford Colliery
After an explosion in the mine flames trapped the miners and efforts were made to rescue them. The crowd that had gathered could only stand by and wait for news

Fleet Street Snowstorm
Fleet Street during the snowstorm of Tuesday night of January 18th 1881 showing horses and coaches trapped in the snow

Train Blocked by Snow
Train passengers discover they are stuck in the snow during the storm of Tuesday 18th January 1881

The Vicious Circle
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE Unsportsmanlike conduct of a trout during the trouting season on Hampstead Ponds Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Croc(k)ed! by William Heath Robinson
Pictorial proof that - an Englishman never knows when he is eaten. A man waving his trousers for help from inside a crocodile which has eaten him

Moose (Elk) / Olaus / Caught
A moose is trapped for the medicinal properties of its right foot

Creswell colliery, where eighty men perished in a fire. Aeri
Creswell colliery where eighty miners perished in a fire at the junction of two conveyer belts. An aerial view showing ambulances approaching the pithead and anxious families gathered at the offices

Beaver Hunting / America
Trapping for Beaver

Orient Express Halted
The prestigious Orient Express, full of spies, smugglers and femmes fatales, is halted by snow on the Hungary-Romania border

SAFETY SAC
People trapped on upper floors escape from a blaze via a sac (chute) which they slide down head first to the sapeurs- pompiers waiting below

Water Baby / Tom / Lobster
Tom helps the lobster out of the lobster pot

Leningrad Destroyer
The destroyer Opytnyi trapped by ice in Leningrad harbour throughout the winter, uses its guns for the citys defence. Date: 1942

Truck Stuck in Mud
Soviet troops try to move their truck trapped in the mud in the Ukraine

Fire / Opera Comique / 1887
As fire takes hold of the Opera Comique theatre in Paris, firefighters attempt to rescue those trapped on the roof by ladder

Coal Mine / A Fall-In
A fall-in in a coal mine, leaving the miners trapped

Native Indian Myth / 1914
Feather-woman gazes down from Sky Country, where she is trapped for digging up the sacred turnip & sees the camp of the Blackfeet where she had once lived

Lady Lifts Car 1925
When a car overturns between Amboise and Tours, in the Loire valley, countrywoman Madame Bonnigal lifts it and frees the two men who are trapped beneath it

German Sub Exploded
A trapped German submarine is driven inshore and blown out of the water

Hereward is Trapped
HEREWARD THE WAKE How Hereward was caught in a trap. He did not flinch. Dropping his reigns and driving in the spurs once more, met them in full shock

St Bernard and Victim
A Saint Bernard finds a man trapped in the snow

Pavlovs dogs trapped in a flood
When Pavlovs dogs are trapped in a flood of the River Neva at Leningrad (St Petersburg), their conditioned reflexes are altered, leading him to a crucial psychological breakthrough

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