Steel Gallery

View over Wincobank and Brightside, Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1940s - 1950s

From (right) Jenkin Road showing (foreground, left of gas lamp) Tipton Street (left) St. Margaret's C.of E. Church, Brightside and (background) English Steel Corporation's River Don Works, Brightside Lane.
From an original at Sheffield Local Studies library: s43500

© Sheffield City Council

Brightside, English Steel Corporation, Gas Lamps, Jenkin Road, Panoramic Views, River Don Works, Sheffield, St Margaret, Steel, Tipton Street, Yorkshire

Durum wheat, Triticum turgidum

Durum wheat, pasta wheat or maraconi wheat, Triticum turgidum, Ble de miracle. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Durum wheat, pasta wheat or maraconi wheat, Triticum turgidum, Ble de miracle. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincq's La Regne Vegetal: Planets Agricoles et Forestieres, L. Guerin, Paris, 1864-1871. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

NFS 60ft hand-operated turntable ladder, WW2

An Austin K4-Merryweather 60 foot hand-operated turntable ladder (TL). A total of 50 such appliances were built and mounted on Austin K4 chassis for the Home Office between 1942 and 1943. The appliances were designed to be used by crews who were not necessarily qualified TL operators. The TL pictured is being demonstrated at Lambeth, the Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade (between 1941 and 1948 the NFS Regional Headquarters)

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library