Salvage Collection

Bomb damage and crater, Petherton Road, London, WW2
Panoramic view of extensive bomb damage and a crater in Petherton Road, North London, 2 July 1944. A salvage operation took place, pumping out flooded basements

Ships figureheads over the gate at Castles Shipbreaking Yard, Westminster, London, 1909
Ships figureheads over the gate at Castles Shipbreaking Yard, Baltic Wharf, Millbank, Westminster, London, March 1909. Entrance to the yard, with wooden figures salvaged from ships decorating the sign

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959

LFB and London Salvage Corps at a serious fire
With 25 pumps attending a serious fire at Eversholt House, 163 Eversholt Street, NW1, the London Salvage Corps bring in reinforcements to deal with the effects of firefighting operations

Turn out more Scrap Metal - Turn out More Tanks poster
World War II poster encouraging civilians on the home front to donate more scrap metal which can be turned into tanks to help the war effort

German Diver Goes Down
A German diver goes down to the wreck of an Allied vessel, hoping to salvage useful items and materials

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959. Date: 1959

USS Maine, 1911. The USS Maine, a pre-dreadnought battleship, exploded and sank in Havana harbour, Cuba, on 15 February 1898, with the loss of 274 of her crew

Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8
London firefighters and the London Salvage Corps (in the long coats) at the scene of a fire involving shops and dwellings in Wandsworth Road, Clapham, SW8, on 9 September 1959

The London Salvage Corps HQ, 40-42 Watling Street
Built in 1907 and located in the City of London, the headquarters station of the London Salvage Corps until it moved to its new premises in 1960

London Salvage Corps at work with salvage sheets
The London Salvage Corps were financed by the Insurance Companies and were not part of the London Fire Brigade

City of London handcart with scrap bomb metal, WW2
WW2 - City of London Corporation handcart containing scrap metal, including bomb ordinance, Southwark Bridge, London

The Wreckers
Artist: Morland, George - Title: The Wreckers - Date: c.1790 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 50.8 x 68.6

The Wreckage, 1898--1901 (oil on canvas)
1128203 The Wreckage, 1898-A-1901 (oil on canvas) by Hemy, Charles Napier (1841-1917); 153.5x247.5 cm; Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, West Yorkshire, UK; eBradford Museums & Galleries; English

Boy with bicycle wheel, Balham, SW London
A little boy with a bicycle wheel on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Salvage operation, Petherton Road, London, WW2
Salvage operation, pumping out flooded basements in Petherton Road, North London, on 2 July 1944, during the Second World War

GLC-LFB Warehouse fire, Herring Street, London
A serious warehouse fire in riverside wharfs and a turntable ladder at work in the distance

Poster: Salvage Saves Shipping. Encouraging people to recycle materials rather than throw them away, to help with the War Effort. circa 1940s

Army airship crash at Farnborough
An army airship, the Morning Star Lebaudy Dirigible, which crashed into Woodlands Cottage, the home of Captain and Lady Follett, at Farnborough, Hampshire, near the Farnborough to Farnham road

Tummel Bridge, Perthshire, between 1802 and 1803. Creator: JMW Turner
Tummel Bridge, Perthshire; Dummel Bridge; Dummel Bridge, Fifeshire, Painted in 1812; Highland Bridge, between 1802 and 1803

Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, WW2
Salvage operation in Victoria Park Road, East London, following a flying bomb explosion, 19 June 1944. Date: 1944

Spain, Andalusia. Lifeboat with boxer rope-launcher device
Spain, Andalusia, Cadiz. Lifeboat with boxer rope-launcher device, ready to be thrown into the water

Trash and cans and dumpster for pickup by recycling and disposal company to take to landfill for value of items in cans

Pupils at Binley Park Comprehensive school in Coventry are collecting newspapers to recycle and have already collected over a ton

Tank Graveyard
May 1958: British tanks which took part in the defeat of Germany at the end of World War II, lie piled on top of each other at a scrapyard in Hamburg, waiting to be broken up and recycled

Decommissioned Tanks
May 1958: British tanks which took part in the defeat of Germany at the end of World War II, lie piled on top of each other at a scrapyard in Hamburg, waiting to be broken up and recycled

Iron Mink Wagon converted into a salvage van, c. 1940
This special salvage van was converted from an iron mink wagon

Two fishermen dragging a cannon across the tideline at Harlyn Bay
Merope Rocks can be seen in the background. Photographer: Thomas Henry Williams

Fishing village of Salvage, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

The vicar and parishioners search through the rubble and wreckage of St Clements, Newfoundland Road, Bristol shortly after the November 24th 1940 air raid on the city

The salvage operation of HMS Gipsy. East coast of Britain, near Harwich, Essex. November 1939. HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s

Busy scene on a blitzed housing estate, Collin Road, Birkenhead, where the voluntary services aided in the salvaging and removal of furniture from demolished homes, Friday 16th April 1941

Housewife Baling waste paper into neat bundle in Derby 15th October 1939 Paper recycling was also important in the Second World War huge demands were put upon British timber stocks

ARP personnel and rescue workers did through the rubble of Sculcoates Lane, Hull looking for survivors following the raid on the city 7th - 8th May 1941

A girl has rescued a dolls house from the destruction of a house as salvage workers sift through the wreckage of homes destroyed in Newfoundland Road, Bristol during the blitz. 25th November 1940

A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941
A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works in 1941. Bound bundles of paperwork and ledgers can be seen piled on the cart ready to be taken away to be pulped

Bomb damage to the GWRs salvage warehouse in London, 1940
In a cruel twist of fate, this image from the 15th November 1940 shows bomb damage to the GWRs salvage warehouse at Park Royal in north-west London

FIshing village at sunrise. Bonavista Bay. Salvage, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

Burden´s Point, Salvage village, east coast of Newfoundland, Canada
Burden's Point, Salvage village, east coast of Newfoundland, Canada

McDonnell XF-88A 46-526 (2nd prototype) on the salvage dump at Langley AFB, VA, stripped for spares to keep XF-88B 46-525 flying with NACA Langley Research Centre. Date: 1955

Bow of USS Maine, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Bow of USS Maine, between c1910 and c1915

Charity (chromolitho)
8635412 Charity (chromolitho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Charity, man and woman clinging to a rock in a storm)

The Snow Queen (chromolitho)
8664004 The Snow Queen (chromolitho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Snow Queen)

The orangutan of Fitzgerald (colour litho)
8664107 The orangutan of Fitzgerald (colour litho) by Job, pseudonym for Onfray de Breville, Jacques (1858-1931); Private Collection; (add.info.: The orangutan of Fitzgerald)

Lifeboats adopted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (engraving)
8676579 Lifeboats adopted by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (engraving) by English School

The Tiger-Cub (colour litho)
8673848 The Tiger-Cub (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Tiger-Cub)

The attempt to salvage the Great Britain after she went aground in Dundrum Bay, 1850
3359196 The attempt to salvage the Great Britain after she went aground in Dundrum Bay

Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy, 1605-20 (oil on panel)
5860619 Aeneas Rescuing Anchises from Burning Troy, 1605-20 (oil on panel) by Steenwijck, Hendrick van, the younger (c.1580-1649); 22.6--31.5 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Miracle of Virgin Mary at the Mont Saint Michel, 19th century (engraving)
8698410 Miracle of Virgin Mary at the Mont Saint Michel, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Religion. Piglrim saved from the water)

The White Swans (chromolitho)
8675762 The White Swans (chromolitho) by Havers, Alice (1850-90); Private Collection; (add.info.: The White Swans)

A first Japanese film seen in England (b/w photo)
8676125 A first Japanese film seen in England (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A first Japanese film seen in England)

Rescuing the drowning during the wreck of SS Utopia, Gibraltar (engraving)
8631451 Rescuing the drowning during the wreck of SS Utopia, Gibraltar (engraving) by Wright

Wood, the fire escape conductor heroically rescuing a mother and child from the fire in Whitechapel (engraving)
8672747 Wood, the fire escape conductor heroically rescuing a mother and child from the fire in Whitechapel (engraving) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wood)

Alp Rescuing Uncle Peter (colour litho)
8629431 Alp Rescuing Uncle Peter (colour litho) by Weir, Harrison William (1824-1906); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alp Rescuing Uncle Peter)

The salvaging of a sunken ship, 1850
3359180 The salvaging of a sunken ship, 1850; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the salvaging of a sunken ship. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) English mathematician
531910 Charles Babbage (1791-1871) English mathematician. Babbage's proposed design for a diving bell to be used by divers placing charges to blow up wrecks

Dog saving Charley's Life (colour litho)
8629424 Dog saving Charley's Life (colour litho) by Weir, Harrison William (1824-1906); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dog saving Charley's Life)

Coastwise: To the Rescue (b/w photo)
8671416 Coastwise: To the Rescue (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: To the Rescue)

Illustration for Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (litho)
8664574 Illustration for Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (litho) by Furniss, Harry (1854-1925) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lizzie Hexam to the rescue)

Ratchet, Rattle, Raven, Razor, Reading
8651549 Ratchet, Rattle, Raven, Razor, Reading, Reaper, Reaper, Redbreast, Reindeer, Reptiles, Rescue, Retort (engraving) by German School

Rescue of the will (engraving)
8667394 Rescue of the will (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rescue of the will)

Rescue of Nellie Wilson (engraving)
8667387 Rescue of Nellie Wilson (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rescue of Nellie Wilson)

The salvaging of a sunken ship, 1850
3359485 The salvaging of a sunken ship, 1850; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the salvaging of a sunken ship. Dated 19th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Rescue of Hattie Newberry (engraving)
8667407 Rescue of Hattie Newberry (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Rescue of Hattie Newberry)

Humorous cat postcard (colour litho)
8643388 Humorous cat postcard (colour litho) by Ellam, William Henry (1858-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Humorous cat postcard)

Beaching the lifeboat (engraving)
8635209 Beaching the lifeboat (engraving) by Wimperis, Edmund Morison (1835-1900) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Beaching the lifeboat)

Rescue of the Spanish brig Samaritano by the Ramsgate Lifeboat
8634846 Rescue of the Spanish brig Samaritano by the Ramsgate Lifeboat, 12 February 1860 (engraving) by Cooke

The brave fireman (engraving)
8652558 The brave fireman (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The brave fireman. Illustration for Home Words (1884).); © Look and Learn

The attempt to salvage the Great Britain after she went aground in Dundrum Bay, 1850
3359197 The attempt to salvage the Great Britain after she went aground in Dundrum Bay

Diver in diving suit inspecting a wreck at Le Havre, France, 1892 (print)
545236 Diver in diving suit inspecting a wreck at Le Havre, France, 1892 (print); (add.info.: From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 13 February 1892.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Sinking of the Russian warship Varyag, 1904 (litho)
8655635 Sinking of the Russian warship Varyag, 1904 (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sinking of the Russian warship Varyag, Chemulpo, Russo-Japanese War)

The life brigade man (engraving)
8652567 The life brigade man (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The life brigade man. Illustration for Home Words (1884).); © Look and Learn

The White Swans (chromolitho)
8675869 The White Swans (chromolitho) by Havers, Alice (1850-90); Private Collection; (add.info.: The White Swans)

Look everybody, isn't it splendid, he saved me from drowning (litho)
8663956 Look everybody, isn't it splendid, he saved me from drowning (litho) by Pont (Graham Laidler) (1908-40); Private Collection; (add.info.: "Look everybody, isn't it splendid)

The Sunken Yacht, Diving for Important Papers (engraving)
8672587 The Sunken Yacht, Diving for Important Papers (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Sunken Yacht, Diving for Important Papers)

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Stalles de la cathedrale de Verdun, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Le Jean-Baptiste de P.Dubois (Vic-sur-Aisne), 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Cloche de Carency, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Tete et fragments du Saint Tarcisius, de Falguiere (chateau de Gerbeviller), 1916

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Calvaire de Revigny, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Pieces diverses provenant d'Arras, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Statues de la chapelle du chateau de Tilloloy, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Vierge d'Albert, par Delaplanche, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII

L'Exposition des oeuvres d'art mutilees ou provenant des regions devastees; Fragments de sculpture de la cathedrale de Reims, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

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"Salvage: Preserving the Past, Protecting the Future" Ships figureheads over the gate at Castle's Shipbreaking Yard, Westminster, London, 1909: A testament to the artistry and history of maritime salvage. Major fire in Wandsworth Road, Clapham SW8: When disaster strikes, the London Salvage Corps is there to save lives and property. LFB and London Salvage Corps at a serious fire: The brave men who risk it all to salvage hope from the ashes. Ships in a Storm on a Rocky Coast, 1614-1618. Artist: Porcellis, Jan (1582 / 5-1632): Even amidst turbulent seas, salvagers navigate danger to recover what remains. Turn out more Scrap Metal - Turn out More Tanks poster: Mobilizing efforts for wartime salvage drives that unite communities towards victory. German Diver Goes Down: Exploring depths unknown for salvaging lost treasures or uncovering hidden secrets. Bomb damage and crater, Petherton Road, London WW2: Amidst destruction during war times; resilience rises as salvagers rebuild shattered lives. USS Maine 1911: Remembering tragic events like this remind us of our duty to preserve history through salvage efforts. The London Salvage Corps HQ at 40-42 Watling Street : A hub of expertise where dedicated professionals strategize ways to protect our city from disasters big and small London Salvage Corps at work with salvage sheets : Wrapping up remnants of catastrophe with care.