Sandbag Collection

First World War, trench warfare

Balloon Enthusiasts
1909: Edwardian ladies and gentlemen attend a hot air ballooning event. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Phillips/Getty Images)

West Door
December 1915: Sandbags at the west door of Amiens Cathedral, France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

In The Firing Line
August 1915: Central telephone headquarters in the firing line. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Guns On Show
October 1918: Sandbags protect the guns at the Feed The Guns show in Trafalgar Square, London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shelter Interior
May 1918: Inside the YMCA air raid shelter in the Strand. Posters on the wall show life at the front. (Photo by Booth/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

In The Aftermath
In the foreground a group of men from all walks of life stand on a completed section of a protective levee that they have built while in the background others continue to work on their part, East St

Sebastopol
Bastion VI at Sebastopol, after it was stormed by Allied troops during the Crimean War, 1855. (Photo by Robertson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Ready For Action
1870: Gun battery directed over Paris at Fort D Audervilliers during the Franco-Prussian war. (Photo by Alphonse Liebert/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Sandbag Abbey
circa 1940: A wall of sandbags in Westminster Abbey to protect against bomb damage. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Air Raid Chimp
15th September 1939: Jack the chimp fixing up an air raid shelter sign at Londons Regents Park Zoo as it reopens to the public. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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