There's a fire every other minute helping the enemy

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ARTV01879
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 76.1 x 50.8 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Hepple, Robert Norman
National Fire Service
Johnson Riddle & Co
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

National Fire Service poster by Robert Norman Hepple published during the Second World War. The image depicts fire fighters attempting to douse an apartment building that is on fire with the title superimposed in white across the top of the image. Beneath this image is another one of a still-burning cigarette butt and the text ' YOU CAN"T BE TOO CAREFUL' in black. The poster urges the viewer to be aware of spot fires. On the verso is another poster with the same message but this time stylised bombs and cigarettes fall onto a burning city. A large blue stamp 'This side cancelled' covers the image.

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