Lift Collection (page 4)

Valletta, Malta - View of the Grand Harbour from the Barrakka lift (which links the Grand Harbour to the Upper Barrakka Gardens and Valletta city centre)

HMS Marlborough - Lowering a 13. 5 inch shell into shell room
HMS Marlborough - Carefully lowering a 13.5 inch shell into the shell room. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

HMS Marlborough - 13. 5 inch shell being hoisted aboard
HMS Marlborough - 13.5 inch shell being hoisted aboard. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

HMS Marlborough - Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick
HMS Marlborough - Getting out the Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick (port side). HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

Myanmar - Yangon - Elephants moving timber Date: 1906

Big Crane of Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan
An interesting wooden postcard featuring the Big Crane of the Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan Date: circa early 1910s

Passenger transfer in port of Mollendo, Peru, South America
Passenger transfer system via crane in the port of Mollendo, Peru, South America. This was necessary because the Pacific swell was too great for normal methods. Date: circa 1910

Irish Strongman Paddy Kelly
Paddy Kelly from Dundalk, Ireland - he frequently sat full-grown people in the palm of his hand. Date: 1795

Paris Apartments
This apartment house in Paris has an engine in the basement which provides power for electric light, doorbells, telephones and a lift. Date: 1885

Advert for A. Attwood & Co. lifts and hoists 1889
Patentees and manufactures of self-sustaining lifts and hoists. 1889

Offering a Lift
A kind lady invites two soldiers into Bath with her, but they may get into hot water if they accept... Date: 1916

Maillots Kite
French experimenter Maillot demonstrates that a kite can be made which will lift a man off the ground. Date: 1886

General Strrike 1926: Request for lift
The official request that drivers of cars in which there was a spare seat should pick up any pedestrian who needed a lift was well responded to. May 1926

Sacramento, California, USA - Tower Bridge - a Vertical lift bridge across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento in Yolo County to the west. Date: circa mid 1930s

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - The 2nd Narrows Bridge
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - The Second Narrows Bridge - a vertical lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore Date: 1929

Stationery design, Hotel Britannia, Venice, Italy. circa 1890s

Scene in a timber yard, Devon
Scene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s

East India Import and Export Docks, London Date: circa 1850

Female lift attendant at a West End business, WW1
" Men must fight, and women must work." A woman lift attendant at a business in London in 1915. 1915

East Cliff Lift, Bournemouth, England
East Cliff Lift, Bournemouth, Dorset, England. Date: 1910s

Gigantic Crane, Devonport, Devon
Gigantic Crane, Devonport, Plymouth, near Stonehouse, Devon, England. Captioned: Devonports Gigantic Crane to lift 160 tons, tested 240 Date: 1910s

The Lift, Lynmouth, Devon, England. Date: 1910s

Cliff Lift & Fishermans Huts, Hastings, England
Cliff Lift & Fishermans Huts, Hastings, Sussex, England. Date: 1956

Mountain Railway (Elevador Do Monte - Hill Lift), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. Date: 1900s

The Cliff Lift, Lynmouth, Devon, England. Date: 1920s

The Cliff Lift, Folkestone, Kent, England. Date: 1920s

Chair lift on lawn Date: 1918

Dancing couple in fancy dress
A dancing couple in fancy dress -- the man is dressed as Harlequin. (3 of 4)

Leas in Folkstone
Folkestone Promenade Pier, over looking the cliff lift. 1909

Women War Work WW1 Lift Girl
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

War Work Women Lift Operator WW1. Shows a lady lift operator in smart uniform with caption, Buttons we can t live without. Date: circa 1918

Car in basement, Claverton Street, London SW1
LFB Special Service attempting to lift a car from a basement in Claverton Street, London SW1, on 24 July 1958. It was a difficult exercise, as the car kept getting caught on masonry, etc

Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936)

Dennis breakdown lorry, demonstrating wrong method
Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936), demonstrating the wrong method of lifting and towing the front axle

LFB Annual Review 1934, Exercise wearing breathing apparatus Date: 1934

LFB Annual Review 1934, Exercise carrying casualty Date: 1934

Student nurses practising three handed lift
Student nurses practising a three handed lift, supervised by a sub-officer of the fire prevention branch

I ll lift - this - dud - up - or - or - bust. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Firewomen, a rescue on an iron staircase, WW1
A firewoman demonstrating a rescue on an iron staircase using another lady as her prop. Business firms in the West End trained women in the Fire Brigade drill so they could take the place of male

Elephants moving timber, India. Date: circa 1890s

Planks of wood being lifted during transport. Date: 20th century

British soldiers on a light railway, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers being given a lift on a light railway on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Advert for De Bret beauty masks 1934
Flawless skin in 25 minutes. A modern beauty miracle! Applied simply and quickly. Whist on the face you can act with the utmost freedom of movement. It does not crack or cause any discomfort

Cliff lifts at Bournemouth, Dorset
View of the cliff lifts at the seaside resort of Bournemouth, Dorset

Pedal powered well
An engraving of a 1588 pedal powered well designed to use human strength to lift large quantities of underground stored water. Date: 1588

Stockholm, Sweden - Katarinahissen
The Katarina Elevator (Katarinahissen) - a passenger elevator in Stockholm connecting Slussen (Docks) to the heights of Sodermalm. The original elevator (pictured here) was constructed in 1881

OTIS TUFTS American inventor of the elevator (known as a lift in Britain) Date: 1804 - ?

LFB strength test for recruits
LFB strength test -- every recruit must carry a man of approximately his own weight 100 yards in one minute

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