Chimneys Collection (page 36)

Fen Mason Wasp (Odynerus simillimus) adult, taking prey to nest chamber, Sutton Fen RSPB Reserve, The Broads, Norfolk, England, July

Fen Mason Wasp (Odynerus simillimus) nest chimney, Sutton Fen RSPB Reserve, The Broads, Norfolk, England, July

Scene on the Aire and Calder Navigation, Leeds, Yorkshire showing shipping, warehousing and smoking chimneys in background. From History of the County of Yorks 1828. Hand-coloured engraving

Industrialisation c1925. Factory chimneys pouring out polluted smoke - Sheffield. Illustration

Birmingham viewed from the south showing smoking chimneys. Engraving c1860

Black Country near Bilston, Staffordshire, England, at night, showing glowing furnaces and chimneys belching smoke. Engraving from Staffordshire and Warwickshire Past

The Country Walk. Family from a mill town, whose chimneys are in background, taking a Sunday walk. Chromolithograph c1880

Group of typical early 20th century blast furnaces causing with smoking chimneys causing atmospheric pollution

One of the last climbing chimney sweeps carrying a mattock for scraping the inside of chimneys, a brush to sweep the loose soot, and sacks for bagging up soot

The countryside scarred by mining. A typical scene in the Northumberland and Durham mining districts of northern England. On the right of the picture is the top of an inclined plane for transporting

Steeplejack Ascends Tower
Washington, D.C.: January 28, 1937 A steeple jack makes his ascent via ten foot ladder sections to replace a broken lighening rod atop the 285 foot tall chimney at the Benning power plant

Steeplejacks Painting Chimney
Belfast, Ireland: c. 1923 Steeplejacks painting the Greeves Mill chimney, the tallest in Ireland at 220 feet

Cooling towers of coal-powered and 1, 300MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) powerstations, West Burton Powerstations, Nottinghamshire, England, January

Pulp factory with chimneys, Vallviks Works, Gastrikland, Norrland, Sweden, august

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Talnakh power station at night C018 / 2342
Electricity generation. View of the Talnakh-2 thermal power plant at night. Talnakh is part of the vast Norilsk metal ore field

Power station, Berlin, Germany C018 / 1796
Power station, Berlin. View over a combined heat and power (CHP) power station in Berlin Germany. Conventional power plants emit the heat created as a by-product of electricity generation into

Solvay Process Company factory, 1890s C014 / 0520
Solvay Process Company factory. In 1861, Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay patented a method for the production of sodium carbonate (soda) from ammonium carbonate and brine

Tokyo housing, Japan, 1890s C016 / 8990
Tokyo housing, Japan. Hand-coloured albumen print of housing in late 19th-century Tokyo, Japan. Image published in the 6-volume work Photographs of Japan

Industry in East London, 1908
Industry in East London, on the banks of a river. This drawing in charcoal dates from 1908, and is by the US artist Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)

Ratcliffe power station. The cooling towers of the Racliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station behind the Midland main line railway track. Photographed in Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Detergent factory
Proctor and Gamble detergent factory, West Thurrock, Essex, UK

Water filtration industry, 1893
Water filtration industry. 19th-century artwork of the water filtration works at Hamburg, Germany. Artwork from the 12th volume (second period of 1893)

Group of four grotesque chimneys on the roof of La Pedrera (Casa Mila), and roof window details on an apartment block designed by Antonio Gaudi, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Passeig de Gracia

Upper floor and roof chimneys of the apartment building designed by Antonio Gaudi, La Pedrera (Casa Mila), UNESCO World Heritage Site, Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona, Catalonya, Spain

Coal-fired powerstation, near Page, Arizona, U. S. A. may
Coal-fired powerstation, near Page, Arizona, U.S.A. may

Old cottages in Nutbourne, 1905
John Fletcher Collection West Sussex Record Office, Ref No: PH 26114/32

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" SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Milࠈ ouse or " The Quarry". Chimneys. Modernism. Architecture."

Herring gull (Larus argentatus) on chimney pots in city, Newcastle, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Aerial view of rooftops in an East European town
A picturesque aerial view of rooftops, possibly in a town in former Yugoslavia. Date: circa 1965

Aerial view of a street in an East European town
A picturesque aerial view of a narrow street, possibly in a town in former Yugoslavia. Date: circa 1965

View across roofs in an East European town
A picturesque and colourful view across the roofs of a town, possibly in former Yugoslavia. Date: circa 1965

View across roofs, Yugoslavia
A picturesque and colourful view across the roofs of a town in former Yugoslavia. Date: September 1965

USA, West Virginia, Winfield, John E. Amos Power Plant, a coal-fired electrical power plant, towers above home across Kanawha River

Harbor Seal - Hauled out on mudflats in front of power plant - Elkhorn Slough - CA
SE-1789 Harbor Seal - Hauled out on mudflats in front of power plant Elkhorn Slough - California Phoca vitulina Suzi Eszterhas contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Headstocks, Pleasley Colliery; Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Coastal erosion near chimney from old smelting works, near Jenny Browns Point, Silverdale, works near Jenny Browns Point, Silverdale, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, England, april

Ferguslie Thread Works of J & P Coats Ltd, Paisley, Scotland Date: circa 1920s

Richmond, Va. Chimneys standing in the burned district. Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Date 1865 April

Drawing of a cottage
A pencil drawing of a cottage, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1846

Poland - Kuznica - The courtyard of a fishermans house, with two smokeries for smoking fish Date: circa 1910s

French view of an English Gent in London
Spectacularly stereotypical French view of an English Gent in London, complete with plaid trousers, pith helmet, sinister expression (!) and a background of dark satanic mills!!! Date: 1901

Smoking Chimneys
Smoking factory chimneys... Date: 1930s

Advertisement for the Crescent Hotel, Buxton
An advertisement for the Crescent Hotel, Buxton, North Derbyshire: a first-class hotel with electric light in all rooms, and a new electric passenger lift. Date: 1913

The Moat, Kent, the seat of Lord Romney -- it appears to be located near Romney Marsh. Date: 1783

PRESTON, Lancashire
Distant view of Preston, Lancashire - a nice contrast between countryside and industrial development. Date: circa 1835

Pottery Kilns - Staffordshire Date: 1910s

Holy Cross Hospital
Holy Cross, or the Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, was founded between 1132 and 1136 by Henry de Blois and has become Britains oldest charitable institution. Date: 12th century

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