Alighting Collection

Gatwick Airport
Passengers alighting from a British United Airways (BUA) plane at London Gatwick Airport, England and it is refuelled at the same time

Balloon descending into Bristol Channel
A balloon descending into the water of the Bristol Channel, near Watermouth. The passengers were Sadler and Clayfield, who ascended from Bristol. 24 September 1810

Open-top Bus
Illustration of passengers alighting from an open-top London bus. Date: 1932

Bathing Machine
Portrait of a young Edwardian lady gingerly alighting from a bathing machine into the sea. Date: 1905

Alighting from a coach
A young girl in Regency costume being escorted from her coach by a young suitor with a tricorn hat. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1905

Poster, Lookout for the Platform, WW2
Poster, Lookout for the Platform -- before alighting in the blackout, make sure the train is in the station, make sure you are on the platform side of the train. 1941

Charles Stewart Rolls (1877 - 1910), Welsh motoring and aviation pioneer. Co-founded of the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm with Henry Royce

Albatros WRE. 1 16 amphibian monoplane
Albatros WRE.1 16 amphibian monoplane at Bodensee. The third RE.1 monoplane, powered by a 100PS Mercedes D.I, 6-cylinder in-line engine, was fitted with floats to make it amphibious

Bird and Roses Cake Date: 1935

Alighting from Carriage Date: 1950

Vintage Car (possibly a 1911 Humber), Denbighshire
Vintage Car (awaiting identification - possibly a 1911 Humber), near Abergele, Denbighshire, Wales. Showing Lord Methuen alighting his Landaulet Date: 1913

Prince Edward of Wales, 1931
Prince Edward of Wales (future Edward VIII) photographed alighting from a ship on 11th February 1931. Later, Edward would become known as the Duke of Windsor

Bea Comet 4B Aeroplane
Passengers alighting from a British European Airways (BEA) Comet 4B plane at London Heathrow Airport, England. Date: 1960s

Landing in London
Passengers alighting from a B.E.A. aeroplane which has just landed at London (now London Heathrow) Airport, Middlesex, England. Date: 1960s

Christmas Greeting card featuring garden moths
Christmas Greeting card featuring three white garden moths alighting on a twig. Date: circa 1910s

A Beardmore-built Sopwith Pup during the fifth alighting trials aboard HMS Furious

Supermarine S6 alighting in 1929. Date: 1929

Typical alighting gear

Queen Elizabeth stepping out of a car, LFB Lambeth HQ
Review by Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth of firewomen at the Lambeth Headquarters of the London Fire Brigade

Charing Cross Pier 1950S
A busy scene at Charing Cross Pier, Victoria Embankment, London, showing tourists enbarking on or alighting from boat trips up and down the River Thames, London

Alighting & Boarding
Do not attempt to board or alight from a vehicle in motion... many a man has lost his life in attempting to save a second in this manner

Alighting from Car
Do not alight from a car on the traffic side

West Looe 1950S
West Looe, seen from East Looe, Cornwall, which in medieval times were two towns on opposite banks of the River Looe, which are now joined by a bridge

Paddington Passengers
Passengers boarding and alighting from a train at Platform 1 of Paddington Station, London

Leaving a Plane 1960S
Passengers alighting from a BEA Bristol Britannia aeroplane, watched by friends and relatives

Allied Troops Land
Allied troops alighting from their landing craft, some with bicycles, onto the beaches of Normandy, France. A tank of the 50th Division is in the background

Futuristic pilot leaving his airship by parachute
A futuristic scene showing a pilot leaving his airship by parachute

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