Beam Collection

Coyne Helicopter / Ufo
Captain Lawrence J. Coyne, piloting a UH-1H helicopter observes a UFO at close quarters, the craft beaming a green light on the chopper near Mansfield, Ohio, USA

Landscape with a Stone Bridge, c. 1638, by Rembrandt (1606-1
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. Landscape with a Stone Bridge, c. 1638. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Ufos / Cattle Mutilation
Modern phenomena, whereby cattle are taken and mutilated by unknown entities. Strange surgical procedures are employed, baffling scientists

Diplodocus
Weighing around 20 tonnes & reaching up to 26 metres in length Diplodocus is one of the longest-known dinosaurs. It lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Upper Jurassic

Ufos / Gulf Breeze
Ed Walters goes out of his house to get a better view of a UFO, is zapped by a blue beam and lifted off the ground

Ruins d Ypres with wooden frame from a Cloth Hall beam
Ruins d Ypres 1918. Framed in a wooden frame with an inscribed plaque which reads This frame made from a piece of beam from the Cloth Hall, Ypres. Paul Mansard

First World War - Blackout cartoon postcard
Hoping to see more of you - mindful of the blackout enforced in London during World War one, this couple look forward to getting a better view of each other when their paths next cross

Roman Fire Engine / Pump
Roman fire engine, consisting of two double-cylindered force pumps worked by means of a rocking beam (now lost)

Train in snowsheds, Sierra Nevada mountains, USA
Train passing through snowsheds on the Southern Pacific line Ogden route, Sierra Nevada mountains, California, USA. Date: 1907

Two females handstands on beam

That Evening Star-Shell, by Bruce Bairnsfather
Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam Fall on my spirits troubled dream. Originally an amateur artist, Bairnsfathers cockney humour displayed in his view of the Front

Timing a Motor Cycle
Timing a motor cycle : when the machine crosses beams from photo-electric cella at the start and finish of the run, the time is measured. (In fact, the beam is invisible.)

Chippewa Magician
A magician of the Chippewa people attempts to destroy a girl by a beam of sunlight and the spirit of a fox

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Hall of Science. 1933

White Beam Tree

Magnetron Valve - Britain's Great Contribution to Radar. Date: 1946

The Chocolate Soldiers, Chumpie's Plan
A wartime children's story book illustration which shows Chumpie the trumpeter, of the Chocolate soldiers, using a large magnifying glass to empower a beam of sunlight towards the approaching

WW2 Christmas Card, The Optimist
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Optimist. The image shows a positive looking man inside his shelter as searchlights beam into the sky above ground. Date: circa 1940s

Great Hall, Coaching inn, Launois-sur-Vence, Ardennes
Great Hall with its wooden frame, at the coaching inn, built 1654, in Launois-sur-Vence, Ardennes, Grand Est, France. The inn provided food, accommodation

Barn, Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferte, Aube, France
Barn, with timber frame, formerly a lay brothers building, at the Abbaye de Clairvaux, or Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded 1115 by St Bernard, in Ville-sous-la-Ferte, Aube, Grand Est

Templar Commander's room, Commanderie templiere d'Avalleur
Templar Commander's room, altered in the 17th and 18th centuries, in the commanderie templiere d'Avalleur, or Templar commandery of Avalleur

Handley Page Hampden Bomber At Night
This coloured double page illustration shows a British Handley Page Hampden heavy bomber plane soaring through the night sky

Advert, Hudson's Extract of Soap, railway signalman shining a beam of light Date: 1888

Haymarket After Rain, 1915
An impression of Haymarket in the West End of London in the rain during the First World War, with shops and car headlights illuminating the scene

Wood beam plough made by Ransomes of Ipswich Date: 1844

Spain, province of Palencia, Becerril de Campos. Hermitage of San Juan. In the year 1771 it caught fire, losing the remaining remains of it over the years. Illustration by Letre

Eiffel Tower during Parisian International Exhibition 1900
This is a hold-to-light postcard. The beam from the top of the tower will illuminate when the card is held to the light. The Tower is in the middle of Exhibition buildings with a populated thoughfare

The Death of the Venerable Bede
In 733, Bede travelled to York, to visit Ecgbert, who was then bishop of York. The see of York was elevated to an archbishopric in 735

Japanese flower arrangement with plum in a vase on a beam. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Japanese flower arrangement with willow and daffodil, yanagi and suisen. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835

Interior of a traditional Russian loghouse or Izba, 18th century. Woman tending chickens in the living room, and a large brick oven in the rear

Interior of a house in Unalaska
Interior of an underground Aleut house in Unalaska, with women caring for children and weaving straw goods. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Sawing machine at Portsmouth naval harbour, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Old and New Lighthouses, Cape Henry, Virginia, USA
Old and New Lighthouses in the moonlight, Cape Henry, near Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Advert, Samson Barnett Mineral Water Machinist and Engineer
Advertisement for Samson Barnett, Mineral Water Machinist and Engineer. 1862

Train of the Canadian Railways

Polish poster for a film, The Mystery of Eternal Night. 1955

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - View from the observation platform of the Skyride, showing the Electrical Building in the foreground. 1933

Cartoon, Bulls Eye On Bobby
Cartoon, Bulls Eye on Bobby -- John Bull suspects police corruption. Date: 1877

LOADING A BIG BEAM
Loading a large beam of wood onto a cart. Date: circa 1810

JACK SHEPPARD
Jack Sheppard. The name on the beam Date: 1702 - 1724

VISION / CROSS / ANGELS
The vision of the cross covered with angels: Beamd on that cross; & pattern fails me now. (Canto XIV, lines 96-97) Date: First published: 1307-21?

Abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England
The abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. The mine is now renovated, owned by The National Trust and turned into a museum

Former tin miner in the abandoned Levant tin mine, near Pendeen, Cornwall, England. He leans on some of the derelict machinery

Barcelona, Spain at night from Tibidabo Mountain
Barcelona, Spain at night viewed from Tibidabo a mountain overlooking the city. Date: circa 1930s

Exposicion Internacional de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Date: 1929

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, USA. The Scintillator and Tower of Progress Date: 1915

WW2 - Germany - Bombed-out young girl with her doll Date: circa 1945

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