Abandoned Collection (page 5)

Ladys - slipper Orchid - flowering wild - plants grows in clusters due to mostly vegetative reproduction - side of an abandoned road in Scots Pine forest (Cypripedium calceolus )

Lady Slipper - flowering wild - plants grows in clusters due to mostly vegetative reproduction - side of an abandoned road in Scots Pine forest (Cypripedium calceolus )

Caspian Sea Shore - near Krasnovodsk - a view from an abandoned lighthouse. Turkmenistan. April

Pollution - abandoned docks and rusting barges - bay of Krasnovodsk town. Caspian sea shore - oil refinery and oil storage on another side of the bay - Turkmenistan. April

Ermine with prey (lemming) in abandoned winter hut (a typical habitat for ermines) (Mustela erminea). near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Typical species along the Kara Sea coast. Summer, August

Abandoned hut of a forest keeper on river Negustyah bank (typical siberian log hut). tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Reconstruction in the Outer Hebrides by Heath Robinson, WW1
Settling a Scottish soldier on the land. A lone Scottish soldier is left alone on a tiny island with a barrel of turnip seed at the end of First World War. Date: 1919

A derelict ship discovered, 1873
An abandoned ship, encountered by HMS Immortalite in 1873. The ship was the Margaret Pollock, and was later sunk. Date: 1873

A derelict ship discovered, 1856
An abandoned ship drifting across the sea, as discovered by the Reine Hortense near Greenland in 1856. Date: 1856

Somme troops keep in reserve counter attack WWI
During battles of the Somme troops which had taken part in an attack were withdrawn from the front line as soon as possible and kept in reserve for counter attacks

Abandoned German trench, Western Front, WW1
An abandoned German trench on the Western Front in France during World War One, showing damage to corrugated iron from British firepower. Date: circa 1916

Old German trench near Pozieres, Western Front, WW1
An old German trench near Pozieres on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Abandoned German howitzer, Western Front, WW1
An abandoned German howitzer found during the British advance on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

El Agheilas defence positions by G. H. Davis
El Agheilas powerful defence positions abandoned by Rommel. A contour map of the El Agheila area in North Africa from which Rommel was driven out by Montgomery during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Brighton / Chain Pier 1896
Brighton Chain Pier, photographed just before the it was washed away by a gale in December 1896. 1896

British soldiers find bath in abandoned German dugout, WW1
British soldiers find a bathtub in an abandoned German dugout on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

German tank at the side of a road, WWI
A World War One German tank in a shallow ditch at the side of a road at the end of the war, with a car passing alongside. Date: circa early 1920s

Paradise this Way
Someone has abandoned their motorbike, having seen the sign pointing to Paradise and legged it! Date: 1950s

Johnsons Plane Crash
The aeroplane of AMY JOHNSON and husband JAMES MOLLISON, abandoned where it crashed, Bridgeport, U.S.A. during an attempt to fly from Wales to New York. Date: 23 July 1933

Marguerite Roberval
MARGUERITE ROBERVAL Unfortunate French girl abandoned on an island off Canada coast until rescued 1545 after two years : read full story in source below. Date: CIRCA 1542

Rolando Marchelli
ROLANDO MARCHELLI Italian artist from Genova, who abandoned art for commerce. Date: 1664 - 1751

Aleksandra Kollonai
ALEKSANDRA MIKHAILOVICH KOLLONAI (nee Domontovich) Russian aristocrat who joined Bolsheviks, feminist, career diplomat : abandoned her conventional marriage. Date: 1872 - 1952

John Morley MP trips over Charles Frederic Hamond MP
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

A sad tale of a family torn apart - Siberia, Russia
A sad tale of a family torn apart by the oppressive actions of the Tsarist military, Siberia, Russia. In this second card

WW1 - Victory in Paris - Mound of Captured German Guns with a French Cock on top on the Champs Elysees - 14th July 1919. Date: 1919

Steeple at Saint-Leger, Alpes-Maritimes, France
The Steeple (ruins of an ancient abbey) of Saint-Leger close to Saint-Valery-en-Caux, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France- bereft of its main

The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bust
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911

Ruins of St Marys Church, Reculver, Herne Bay, Kent
Ruins of the medieval St Marys Church, Reculver, Herne Bay, Kent. The wanton demolition and destruction of this " shrine of early Christendom" begun in the early 19th century. Date: 1800

Focke-Wulf Fw190A-5 abandoned prior to the occupation of Monte Corvino aerodrome near Naples by an advance party from the RAF. 11 September 1944

MYANMAR. PEGU. Bago. Figue of Buddha in an abandoned pagoda

Kokine Valley Road - Rangoon

on train to Sin Taung - Kalaw
On train to Sin Taung - Kalaw - Water buffalo ploughing. Much of the upland type of farming is responsible for the prevalent erosion = jungle burned back, top soil farmed away in rice, corn

Hansek and Gretel
The wife persists and the family treks back into the forest. Hansel leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home

Abandoned brick factory, not far from Jackson, Ohio. Date 1936 Apr

Wife of unemployed coal miner, suffering from TB, living in old company store. Abandoned mining town of Marine, West Virginia. (See 50110-D)J. Date 1938 Sept

War trophies -- German gas alarm bells, WW1
War trophies captured by the Allies during the First World War -- five alarm bells used to warn of gas attacks, taken from captured or abandoned German trenches. Date: 1914-1918

Ravensworth Castle
The ruins of Ravensworth Castle, home of the Fitzhugh family. Built out of sandstone, the castle was used as a quarry by the locals. Abandoned 16th century

Minsmere Chapel
The ruins of Eastbridge Chapel, Minsmere, Suffolk, England. Once a Premonstratensian church, probably abandoned due to vulnerability to the sea. Date: late 12th century

Baby Abandoned / 1841
A mother abandoning her child. She places the baby into a tour and sisters of the convent will receive it on the other side. Date: 1841

Condemned Slums
Condemned slum terraced houses in the North of England, abandoned and boarded up, ready for demolition. Date: 1960s

Three American soldiers near St Mihiel, France, WW1
Three American soldiers using an abandoned German field telephone near St Mihiel, north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 1918

Debris on Nablus-Tul Keram Road, Palestine, WW1
Debris after bombing on the Nablus-Tul Keram Road, Palestine, including enemy transport and artillery, during the First World War. Date: 19 September 1918

Ruined windmill - Madingley, Cambridge
Lovely photograph of a ruined windmill at Madingley, Cambridge Date: circa 1910s

Beaufort - Luxembourg - Castle ruins. The oldest part of the castle dates from the early 11th Century. It was a small square-shaped fortress on a massive rock

Belgium - WWI - Remains of The Druid tank on the St Julien Poelcapelle Road Date: circa 1917

The Babes in the Wood by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

City of the Dead - North Ossetia
The large necropolis ( City of the Dead ) near the Ossetian settlement/village of Dargavs in the Caucasus region of North Ossetia (The Russian Repubic of North Ossetia) (14th century)

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