1856 Collection (page 10)

The Dukes Nose; railway and Battery Hill; at 11 3/4 miles Date: 1856

The Dukes Nose; Battery Hill cutting; and Reversing Station Viaduct; at 11 1/2 miles Date: 1856

The Reversing Station Viaduct, Ghaut Road

The Reversing Station Viaduct; and Battery Hill cutting; at 11 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Battery Hill; cart-road to railway; the Concan and Campoolee Station 1, 800 ft below; at 11 miles Date: 1856

Viaduct, with temporary staging; mouth of Tunnel no 8 at 3 1

Shebee Hill; cart-road along railway; Concan below; Matheran Hill in the distance; at 10 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Shebee Hill; railway embankment over Nath Khind; scarp of great ravine; at 10 miles Date: 1856

Nath-ka-Doonghur; railway viaducts and mouth of Tunnel no 22; at 9 1/2 miles Date: 1856

The great ravine; Nath-ka-Doonghur Viaduct, from entrance to Tunnel no 22; at 9 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Railway retaining wall and vaulting arches; at 9 1/8 miles Date: 1856

Viaduct and walls below Nath-ka-Doonghur, looking down the incline; at 9 1/8 miles Date: 1856

Railway viaduct and retaining walls on rock escarpment, looking up to Khandalla; at 9 1/8 miles Date: 1856

Rock cutting, looking down towards Tunnel no 21; at 9 miles Date: 1856

Bridge and retaining wall on rock escarpment; at 8 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Railway and walls looking down the incline; at 8 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Viaduct no. 1; at 3 1 / 4 miles
Viaduct no.1; at 3 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Workmens huts; railway cuttings; great ravine; and Rajmuchee Forts; at 8 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Cuttings 42 and 43, from Tunnel 19, looking up the incline; at 8 miles Date: 1856

Tunnels 16 and 17, from Tunnel 18, looking down the incline; at 7 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Tunnels 17 and 18, from top of Tunnel 16, looking up the incline; at 7 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Village of Gambir Nath; workmens huts; Rajmuchee Forts; at 7 1/2 miles Date: 1856

Rock cutting in progress, from face of Tunnel no 15; at 7 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Khumnee Hill rock cutting, 58 ft deep; at 5 1/4 miles Date: 1856

Entrance to Khumnee Hill Tunnel; River Oolassa; at 5 miles Date: 1856

Mhow-ke-Mullee Viaduct, 169 ft high; at 4 3/4 miles Date: 1856

Mhow-ke-Mullee Viaduct and Soangiri Hill; at 4 3/4 miles Date: 1856

The Great Embankment near Telowlee

Foundation for 30 cwt steam hammer, plan, front elevation and details Date: 1856

Gymnastics display, Market Weighton Reformatory, Yorkshire
A gymnastics display by inmates of the Yorkshire Roman Catholic Reformatory for Boys at Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, opened in 1856

Entrance to Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire
A woman and a gardener at the arched entrance to Raglan Castle in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. The castle was ruined during the English Civil War

The Squires Daughter by J. Absolon
The Squires Daughter, Staffordshire, by J. Absolon, from the Beauties of England and Wales

The Standard Bearer by J. Gilbert
The Standard Bearer

A reaper by J. Absolon
A Worcestershire reaper, by J. Absolon, from the beauties of England and Wales

Workhouse Teachers Salary Receipt, Whitehaven
A receipt for the quarterly salary payment of twelve pounds and ten shillings. It is from the Whitehaven Union, signed by workhouse teacher William Benson on 24 December 1856

42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch)
Colour Sergeant of 42nd Highlanders (The Black Watch) (The Royal Highland Regiment) - wearing full battle order. He is wearing the double-breasted (short-lived) doublet

Royal Thames National Regatta, Putney, London
The Royal Thames National Regatta is held on the river at Putney. A steamer and boatloads of spectators at Putney Bridge. The start for the Gold Cup

Holborn Schools Band, Mitcham, Surrey
Boys band at Holborn Schools, High Street, Mitcham - originally established in 1856 in the grounds of Eagle House. The Schools provided accommodation

Holborn Schools, Mitcham, Surrey
Holborn Schools, High Street, Mitcham, Surrey - originally established in 1856 in the grounds of Eagle House. The Schools provided accommodation

Central London District Schools, Hanwell, Middlesex
Entrance lodge of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, Middlesex, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. A drinking fountain stands outside the gate

Casting Big Ben
Big Ben - casting the great bell for the Westminster clock

Whitehall Illuminated
The Admiralty illuminated in celebration of the triumphant conclusion of the war in the Crimea

General d Amade / Stamp
General ALBERT GERARD LEO D AMADE (1856 - 1941) French General during World War One

Gen Sir Archibald Hunter / Stamp
SIR ARCHIBALD HUNTER Military commander

General Rundle / Stamp
General SIR (HENRY MACLEOD) LESLIE RUNDLE (1856 - 1940) British Army General during World War I

Peace in the Strand
Londoners celebrate the victorious conclusion of the war in the Crimea by whooping it up in the Strand outside the premises of the Illustrated London News. Date: 1856

Sierra Leone Village
Scene in Sherbro village

Sierra Leone Market
Waterloo Market (presumably at Freetown ?)

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