Towers Collection (#17)

Panoramic view of the Port of Chicago
Spectacular panoramic view of the lakeside Port of Chicago in 1902, showing the distinctive skyline and the huge sets of railway wagons in the foreground

The Sforza Tower - Milan, Italy, part of the Castello Sforzesco. In the 14th Century a huge defensive castle was built by Galeazzo Visconti II

Muscat, Oman - Mirani Fort
Mirani Fort, Muscat, Oman

Muscat, Oman - Fort Jalali
Fort Jalali, Muscat, Oman

Copenhagen - Demark - Frederiksborg Palace
Frederiksborg castle is a castle in Hillerod, Denmark. It was built as a royal residence for King Christian IV, and is now known as The Museum of National History

Salonica - Yedi-Kule Fortress - Greece
The Fortress of the Seven Towers ( Yedi-Kule) - Salonica, Greece

The Rumeli Hisari - Constantinople
View toward the Rumeli Hisari, a Fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus. Built by Mehmet II 1451-1452 prior to his conquering of Constantinople. The castle was completed in 4 months

The Ancient Walls of Baku - Azerbaijan

The Hippodrome, New York - hosting (twice daily) Andresonville and a Yankee Circus on Mars featuring a cast of thousands!

Northern Gateway - Great Wall of China. A Chinese postcard, posted from Kobe, Japan to Kensington, London from a tourist on a cruise aboard the Franconia Steam liner

A fine Hilltop Palace - Madhya Pradesh - India
An imposing hilltop fortified palace in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Fortress - Madhya Pradesh - India
The imposing walls of a large Fortress (or fortified Palace compound) in the Madhya Pradesh Province of India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Prang Sam Yod, Thailand
Prang Sam Yod, Lopburi, Thailand. This massive stone sanctuary was founded in the thirteenth century by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII

Amatlan, Mexico - oil fields
Mexico - Amatlan - a major oil-producing area of the country

Egypt - The Citadel
A line of wonderful old taxi cabs parked below the imposing fortifications of the Cairo Citadel

Egypt - Fresh Water Reservoirs - Port Said

Rabat, Morocco
A view over the rooftops at Rabat, Morocco

Constantinople - Rumeli Hisari
View toward the Rumeli Hisari, a Fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus. Built by Mehmet II 1451-1452 prior to his conquering of Constantinople. The castle was completed in 4 months

Agra, India - The Jewel Box Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daulah built between 1622 - 1628

Walls of Constantinople close to the Adrinople Gate

Hungary - Szeged. In the background is The Votive Church of Our Lady of Hungary, completed in 1930

Montenegro - Perast
View of the attractive town of Perast, Montenegro. Venice owned the city between 1420 and 1797. Perast was part of the Venetian Albania

Alton Towers, Staffordshire : the seat of the earl of Shrewsbury : ruined, it was restored by Pugin

Constantinople - Golden Gate, Yedikule
The Golden Gate, Yedikule - set in the seven towers, partly Byzantine structure and part Turkish a walled enclosure. Not used as a castle but two of the towers served as prisons

Constantinople - The Seven Towers with a view over an orchard

Construction of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, 1849
Engraving showing the basket ferry and temporary towers built prior to the construction of a Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, USA, 1849

Toll Towers Utrecht
The city of Utrecht levies tolls on passing water-traffic : one of the towers which overlooked the waterways

Italy San Gimignano
Although legend attributes the high towers of the town to family rivalries, in fact they served a practical purpose to hang and dry the safron-dyed cloth produced locally

Marlborough House, London, 1936
Photograph showing Marlborough House, with the personal standard of Queen Mary flying over it (left of image), London, 1936

Mount Erebus, Antarctica, 1903
Photograph showing Mount Erebus, the 13, 200 foot volcano, that towers over Ross Island, Antarctica. This picture was taken during the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04

Pisa Leaning Tower
Leaning tower of Pisa, Italy

Tower at Sou-Tcheou-Fou
Leaning pagoda of Sou-Tcheou- Fou, near Shanghai : as is customary with Chinese pagodas, it is covered with porcelain

Modena Leaning Tower
Leaning tower of Modena, Italy - La Ghirlandina

Venice Leaning Tower
Leaning tower of San Stefano, Venezia, Italy. Due to the instability of Venices foundations, there are many leaning towers in the city

Zaragoza Leaning Tower
Leaning tower of Zaragoza, Spain, destroyed in 1887 because a wealthy citizen declared that it shaded his house

Fingest Church
St. Bartholomews Church, Fingest, Buckinghamshire, England, which has one of the finest Norman towers in England and has a rare double saddleback roof

Power Station
An industrial landscape in Britain, showing power plant with cooling towers in the background

The Rotor Ship Buckau, 1924
Photograph of the experimental Rotor ship Buckau, on sea trials, 1924. Anton Flettner equipped the 680 ton schooner, Buckau, with two rotating cylindrical towers to test his Flettner rudder

Key Buildings 1850 / World
A comparative view of the principle buildings of the World in 1850 including the High Level Bridge - St Peters Rome - The Great Pyramid - The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing

Exeter Cathedral
The West Front end of Exeter Cathedral. The early 12th century Norman towers were retained by Bishop Bronescombe whose rebuilding began in 1270 and took over a century

Blackpool Tower, Lancashire, and a crowded beach
View of Blackpool Tower, Lancashire, and a crowded beach below

The Kremlin Reflected
The towers of the Kremlin are reflected in the waters of the Moskva River

Italy / San Gimignano 1913
San Gimignano: distant view, showing the many towers

Ornamental Chimneys 1850
A selection of towers and chimneys with unusual architectural details

Siege of Rhodes 304 Bc
SIEGE OF RHODES Demetrius Poliorcetes of Macedon fails to take Rhodes, despite these floating towers and galleries, and a settlement is negotiated

Round Tower, Clonmacnoise
CLONMACNOISE The churchyard, showing the two Round Towers, and a celtic cross

Leaning Towers / Bologna
The Asinelli Tower (l) and Garisenda Tower (r) with their distinctive lean caused by subsidence of soil and foundation. Both towers were built in the 12th century

Martello Tower
Spithead Fort is one of the Martello Towers built in 1804 as a defence against the anticipated French invasion of England. They are retained as coastal defences

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