Accidents And Disasters Collection (page 7)

Fire Fighters
30th October 1909: A fire engine and crew leave Greenwich Fire Station in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Colliery Disaster
19th August 1908: A crowd gathers at the pit head during a colliery disaster in Wigan. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Smashed Aeroplanes
8th November 1913: Two army aeroplanes smashed on Salisbury Plane when the descending plane crashed into a Henri Farman which was about to start. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Failed Flight
18th June 1910: Grahame White crashes his plane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flooded Railway
10th March 1914: An engine arriving at Burnt Mill Station, near Bishops Stortford, over flooded lines. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Houndsditch Outrage
3rd January 1911: Smoke coming from a building during the Sidney Street Siege. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin Massacre
29th July 1914: Nationalist Volunteers following the hearse at the funeral of one of the victims shot by the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, during the Bachelors Walk Massacre in Dublin

River Police
circa 1921: Waterloo police station, on the bank of the River Thames, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Up Turned Car
circa 1936: A group of school children examining an up-turned car lying on the pavement in Tufnell Park, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fallen Poles
circa 1926: Telegraph poles which were ripped down during a tornado. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wrecked Cars
circa 1924: Several cars swept into Lake Erie during a tornado. Two of the occupants were drowned. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wrecked Pier
circa 1923: The earthquake damage at Kobi Pier. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bloomsbury Damage
circa 1925: A general view of the extensive damage caused by a gas explosion in High Holborn, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

SS America
1926: The SS America on fire while being refitted at New York harbour. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Liner On Fire
1925: The Southern Pacific Companys giant liner Bienville, on fire off the coast of New Orleans. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steamer Sinks
1920: The sunken Belgian steamship Ville de Liege, stranded on rocks at the entrance to Dover Harbour. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Taxi Crash
23rd February 1914: A taxi cab, damaged after skidding on tramlines and mounting the pavement. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shipping Disaster
29th May 1914: Crowds gather to read the latest newsheet, following the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, with great loss of life. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rail Crash
22nd August 1910: A railway carriage is damaged after a smash at Victoria Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Carlton Fire
9th August 1911: Firemen fighting the blaze at the Carlton Hotel, in the Haymarket, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dangerous Cuppa
5th August 1927: An umbrella and fancy goods shop in kentish Town, London where a woman and her two teenage daughters died in a gas filled room after a kettle boiled over and put the gas out

HMS Gladiator
April 1908: HMS Gladiator lying on its side having been rammed by the American liner St Paul. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fireman Sladen
circa 1900:s Sladen, a fireman. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Earthquake Damage
January 1909: The aftermath of an earthquake at Reggio, in the Catania province of Sicily. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Howth Funeral
29th July 1914: Mourners pay their respects to the victims of the massacre at Bachelors Walk, where the Kings Own Scottish Borderers killed three and injured thirty civilians in frustration

Lifeboat Depot
4th March 1924: The stores and depot of the Roral National Lifeboat Institution in Poplar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Collision Damage
February 1928: The damaged bows of the soviet ship Tovarisch, after its collision with Italian steamer Alcantara off Dungeoness. It is feared that the Alcantara is sunk with all hands

Colliery Disaster
February 1908: A crowd waiting anxiously outside the perimeter fence of Hampstead Colliery for survivors of a disaster in the mine. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Policemans Walk
22nd July 1939: Metropolitan Police Athletics Championships at Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey. 2 mile walk in progress. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Crystal Palace Fire
31st December 1936: The shell of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, London, after its recent destruction by fire. The structure of the North Transept can be seen, looking towards the South Tower

Motor Steamer
1905: A British fire brigade motor steamer. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Fire
February 1922: The New York treasury building on fire. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Quake Refugees
January 1909: People flee with their personal belongings, from the earthquake at Catania. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Timing
January 1909: A Policeman signalling from a roof top as a method for timing motor cars. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belgian Exhibition
17th August 1910: Damage to a lion statue following a fire at the Brussels Exhibition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)

Point Of Impact
2nd October 1916: A group of men cluster round a dent in the grass caused by a falling body at a zeppelin crash site in Potters Bar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lifeboat Launch
The launching of the Newquay lifeboat

Fire Fighters
Two fire women at drill, with a hose spraying at full force

Fire Women
Members of the Womens Fire Brigade on a fire drill with hoses and extingushers at full force

Airship Wreckage
The remains of a Zeppelin L2 naval airship, near Berlin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Zeppelin Fire
Crowds survey the wreck of a Zeppelin airship LZ-4, the fourth design of Count von Zeppelin, which caught fire at Echterdingen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayfly Disaster
H M Airship No 1, built in Barrow as a response to German advances in airship technology, lying twisted in half and beyond repair after a gust of wind tipped it over prior to its maiden test-flight

Shipwreck
5th November 1918: The former Cunard liner Campania sinks in the Firth of Forth after a collision with the HMS Revenge. Built in 1893, she became one of the first seaplane carriers

Airship R101 Disaster Wreckage
7th October 1930: Wreckage of the airship R101 which crashed and burst into flames in a forest near Beauvais on its maiden voyage to India. Only six of the 54 people on board survived. (Photo by S)

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