Images Dated 18th April 2004

Water pump

An advertisement from 1893 for Marryweathers hand fire-engines, a device which doubles up as both a fire extinguisher and plant watering machine. The illustration shows a maid extinguishing flames billowing from parlour curtains

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07, 14th, 1893, 21, Advertisement, Billowing, Curtains, Dec, Device, Doubles, Engines, Extinguisher, Extinguishing, Fire, Flames, Hand, Historical, History, Illustration, Iln, Import, January, Machine, Maid, Marryweathers, Parlour, Plant, Pump, Shows, Water, Watering

Belgian people kissing the Union Jack

Illustration by Lascelles, of a crowd of Belgian people gathered outside the British consulate in Ostend, kissing the Union Jack. After some disbelief that the British would actually send troops to Belgium in 1914, the news that the British Expeditionary Force had begun its journey brought out a nocturnal crowd, demonstrating their joy

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Sikhs on the march

Indian troops on the march in September 1914. The Sikhs are identified by a stell quoit, the old-time national battlefield weapon of the Sikhs, in the Sepoy's turbans. In August 1914, as the German Army advanced through France and Belgium, more Allied troops were desperately needed for the Western Front - and the Indian Army seemed the obvious source

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