Crane Collection (page 5)

Tema Fishing Harbour, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
Tema fishing harbour and docks, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1950

RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner at Southampton
RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner of the Cunard Line at Southampton, with tugs Formby and Kestrel. Date: circa 1940s

Shipbuilding at Belfast, the 200 Ton Floating Crane - a view of the large crane. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Manufacture of Naval Artillery - Krupp Works, Essen, Germany
Manufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906

17th Century Crane
A 17th century crane, timber construction : the wheel enables it to be turned, for instance when loading a vessel from a dock. Date: 1690

Eiffel Tower being built 1888
Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, strated in January 1887 and finished in March 1889, here you can see workmen building parts of Eiffel Tower

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

Fishing boats on a beach. Date: circa 1920s

Numidian crane, demoiselle crane or dancing bird, Anthropoides virgo.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Cumbria
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Barrow-in-Furness, near Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Showing the HMS Natal & Cantilever Crane Date: 1907

The Pool of London with ships and barges being loaded and unloaded with the distinctive outline of Tower Bridge in the distance. Date: circa 1920s

Sarus Crane - pair in wetland habitat (Indian population) (Grus antigone). Nepal

Millbank Tower under construction, London SW1
Millbank Tower under construction in March 1961, London SW1. Originally known as Vickers Tower, it was completed in 1963. It is located opposite LFB Headquarters. Date: 1961

Old Workhouse, Salisbury, Wiltshire
A view of the former Salisbury workhouse on Crane Street which closed in 1869. Date: 1881

Armstrong Whitworth crane
A hydraulic crane at the Armstrong Works, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, lifting 120 tons. Date: 1887

Shipping Rum - British Guiana (Guyana)
Shipping Rum (and sugar cane required in the production of rum) - British Guiana (the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana)

Grus japonensis, red-crowned crane
Plate 61, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

A scrapyard for cars, St Erth, Cornwall
A scrapyard for cars at St Erth near Hayle in Cornwall. A crane is about to drop another car on the heap

Good King Arthur / Crane
Ye goode kinge Arthur... looking somewhat more sprightly than in Tennysons Idylls of the king !

Children watch a puppet show in Paris, France
Children watch a Theatre Amusant puppet show in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France

Piers and boats, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Piers and boats in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1910

Bay and piers, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Bay and piers in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1905

Panorama of Valparaiso, Chile, South America, showing the harbour, ships, docks and city. Date: circa 1920

Scene at Leith Docks with ferry for Shetland Islands
Scene at Leith Docks with a ferry about to depart for the Shetland Islands. The photographers van is in the foreground, also waiting to be loaded on board. circa late 1950s

Camel being hoisted onto a ship, Aden
Camel being hoisted onto a ship, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1930s

Wharf at Cotonou, French Dahomey, West Africa
Wharf at the port of Cotonou, French Dahomey, West Africa. Date: circa 1907

Busy waterfront scene, Stockholm, Sweden, with the Katarina Elevator (passenger lift) after its 1936 rebuild. Date: circa 1938

Construction work at the Bank of England
Rebuilding of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street. In the late 1920s much of John Soanes original building was knocked down and a new

Loading horses at Boulogne
Photograph: Loading horses at Boulogne. Shows a horse being hoisted by crane onto or off a ship while soldiers stand on the harbour

Wharfs, docks and sheds, Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
Wharfs, docks and sheds, Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1920

Communist China - shipbuilding yard
Communist China - a shipbuilding yard with two ships ready for launching, decorated with red and yellow bunting. This was seen as a new era for China during the Cultural Revolution. circa late 1960s

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