Spreading Gallery

Firefighters in action with hosepipes, Shad Thames, SE1

Firefighters in action with hosepipes at night, at a fire in Shad Thames, 19 February 1958, at the premises of Corry & Co, showing the Gainsford Street/Maguire Street corner of the building. At this stage the first floor was completely involved, with the fire spreading rapidly to the upper floors and roof. After a partial internal collapse, crews were withdrawn from inside and the main attack was concentrated with escapes and extension ladders pitched to the various floors on three sides of the building. Date: 1958

© London Fire Brigade / Mary Evans Picture Library

Probable Settlement of the Descendants of Noah (steel engraving)

A creased and stained steel engraving of a map which shows a€œThe Countries of the Ancient World Exhibiting the Probable Settlement of the Descendants of Noaha€, from a€œA System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and its Various Divisions. Volume VI, Part IIa€ by James Bell and published by A. Fullarton & Co. Glasgow, in 1838

© Linda Steward

Vesircaria, rocket, toothwort and wallcress species

Globe-podded vesicaria, Vesicaria utriculata, yellow rocket, Barbaria vulgaris, rock alyssum, Aurinia saxatilis, mountain alyssum, Alyssum montanum, five-leaved toothwort, Dentaria pentaphylla, rose-coloured wallcress, Arabis rosea, alpine wallcress, Arabis alpina, spreading aubrietia, Aubrietia deltoidea, and long-styled hutchinsis, Hutchinsia stylosa. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane Loudon's Ladies Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials, William S. Orr, London, 1849. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans