Area Collection (page 11)

Concorde under construction, Toulouse, France
Concorde 001 under construction in the main assembly area at the St. Martin plant of Sud-Aviation, Toulouse, France. Date: 1967

Syria. Aleppo. Overview of ancient souks area. Late afternoon. Near East. Photo before Syrian civil war

Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs. Anonymous, 18th century. Aft
Abbey of Port-Royal des Champs. Female Cistercian Monastery diffuser of Jansenism. Gouache on parchment glued wood. Anonymous, 18th century. After an engraving of Magdeleine Horthemels (1686-1767)

Old Port area, Bizerte (Bizerta), Tunisia, North Africa
Scene in the Old Port area, Bizerte (Bizerta), Tunisia, North Africa, with boats on the water. Date: circa 1930

View of Aston Abbots, in the Whaddon Chase Hunt area, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1936

View from Blunsdon, VWH (Cricklade) Hunt area, Wiltshire
View from Blunsdon, in the Vale of the White Horse (Cricklade) Hunt area, Wiltshire. Date: 1936

Weedon Bushes, Grafton Hunt area, Northants
View of the landscape around Weedon Bushes, a covert in the Grafton Hunt area of Northamptonshire. Date: 1936

Manton Gorse, Cottesmore Hunt area, near Oakham
View of Manton Gorse, a covert in the Cottesmore Hunt area, near Oakham, Leicestershire. Date: 1936

Fine Timbered House, Audenshaw - Droylsden Area, Lancashire
Fine Timbered House, Thought to be in the Audenshaw/Droylsden Area, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Sign reads GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY - THREE MINUTES WALK TO FAIRFIELD STATION Date: 1900s

Dusseldorf Exhibition 1902 was a major national exhibition on an area by the Rhine which covered over 130 acres and had vast numbers of exhibits to showcase German industry

Group of children on waste ground, Balham, SW London
A group of children on waste ground in Balham, SW London. The girl standing up seems to be giving a speech or singing a song. Date: circa 1961

HERRERA, Antonio de (1559-1625). General History of the Deeds of the Castilians on the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea Known As the West Indies. 1601 - 1615

Somerset Levels, Somerset
The Somerset Levels, a sparsely populated coastal plain and wetland area of central Somerset, running south from the Mendip Hills to the Blackdown Hills

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Tanganyika Plateau
Black and white lantern Slide of Tanganyika Plateau - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, Britrish South Africa. Boswell Collection

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Coach crossing Umtali river
Black and white lantern Slide of Coach crossing Umtali river - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Japan - the Foreign settlement of Kobe
Lantern slide of the Foreign settlement of Kob鮠 When Kobe port was opened in 1868 after two centuries of isolation policy by the country

Old cottages - Black and white lantern slide. Row of small houses.. Part of Box 399. Boswell collection. Date: circa 1900

Times War Atlas - WWI maps
The Times War Atlas. The atlas contains the following loose maps - 1) Map of the North Sea. 2) Map of the frontiers of France. 3) Map of the North Eastern Theatre of War. 4) Map of the Balkans

Map of the Black Sea and the Crimea, 1854
Engraving of a map of the area around the Black Sea with the borders between Turkey and Russia, showing the disputed Crimea region. Date: 1854

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Coke Production Area
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Coke Production Area. Date: circa 1910s

Aucklands advance from its battalion headquarters
This drawing relates to an incident on the 14th/15th September 1916 and is described in a book entitled A Saga of the Sword by Austin F. Britten, published by Arrowsmith, London 1928

Goldie Leigh Childrens Cottage Homes, Bostall Woods, Plumst
Entrance to the Woolwich Unions Goldie Leigh cottage homes at Bostall Heath, Plumstead, erected in 1899 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

London Fire Brigade control room at headquarters. Officers work at computer stations to coordinate fire and rescue operations

LCC-LFB Auxiliary Fire Service vehicles, WW2
AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) vehicles. The onset of WW2 brought about a vast expansion of the London Fire Brigade to deal with the anticipated enemy bombing of London

Breakdown lorry lifting car from basement area
The breakdown lorry, from Lambeth fire station being deployed to raise a car from the basement area after it crashed through the railings

Combined Civil Defence exercise, WW2
Civil defence rescue workers carrying a casualty from the exercise site. A policewoman and a nurse are with the rescue team

1930s Poor housing at Blaina, Monmouthshire
A woman and her small child stand outside a single-storey cottage at Blaina in South Wales. Industry in the area was centred on coal-mining and the local tinplate works and suffered great poverty

Horses moving artillery, Becourt Wood, France, WW1
Horses moving artillery into the forward area at Becourt Wood, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Coatbridge miners houses, Lanarkshire
A deserted street of single-storey miners cottages at Coatbridge, a mining and iron-producing area to the east of Glasgow. Date: circa 1936

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

Frying Pan Alley, East End of London
A view of Frying Pan Alley, a narrow thoroughfare in the Spitalfields area of Londons East End

Leman Street, Whitechapel, East London
A view down Leman Street towards the docks in the Whitechapel area of Londons East End. A few horse-drawn vehicles can be seen. Tramlines run down the centre of the road

Gipsy family inside a bender tent, Surrey
A roadside gipsy family inside a bender (a tent like a wigwam, made out of sack and other materials), in the Newdigate area of Surrey

Fleet of German Commercial Barges; Second World War, c. 1940
Photograph showing a fleet of German commercial river barges anchored in the Ruhr area, c.1940. These barges were usually used for the transport of goods along Germanys rivers and canals

Gold in the Land of the Nile. Map of Egypt showing the Areas
Map showing mining activity in Egypt, with the area owned by the Nile Valley Company shaded

Map of Smith Sound and Greenland, 1875
Engraving showing a map of Smith Sound and Greenland, as it was known in May 1875. Much of the map is erroneous or missing in detail

Italian Immigrant Boy
An Italian boy, smartly dressed in a hat and long cloak, an immigrant to Britain, living in the Saffron Hill, area of London, EC1

Italian Father / Daughter
A proud Italian father with his pretty daughter, immigrants to Britain, living in the Italian community area of Saffron Hill, near Farringdon, London EC1

Back to Back Slums
Typical Victorian back to back slum houses, with tiny back yards, Bath Street area of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. Scheduled for demolition under Town Planning

Hillside village, Bromo district, East Java, Indonesia
Hillside village in the Bromo district of the Tengger mountains, East Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1900

Two piglets in a wooded area, one of them sniffing at (or rubbing its head on) a tree trunk. Date: circa 1960s

Portolan atlas by Joan Martines (1556-1590). Detail South
Portolan atlas of the world by Joan Martines (1556-1590). Messina, 1587. Detail of South America. Atlantic Coast. National Library. Madrid. Spain

Portolan atlas by Joan Martines (1556-1590). West Coast
Portolan atlas of the world by Joan Martines (1556-1590). West Coast of the African Continent. Messina, 1587. National Library. Madrid. Spain

Reindeer Herd, Finse, Hordaland County, Norway
Reindeer herd at Finse, a mountain village area on the shore of the lake Finsevatnet in Ulvik municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. Date: circa 1910s

Portolan atlas by Joan Martines (1556-1590). Messina
Portolan atlas of the world by Joan Martines (1556-1590). Messina, 1587. National Library. Madrid. Spain

Soldiers undergoing Northern Ireland training
One of 17 photographs of soldiers undergoing Northern Ireland training at the Cinque Ports Training Area, Hythe, 1977. From a collection of photographs assembled for use in Col Robin McNish?s

Mission house at Neder Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden
Mission house at Neder Kalix (Nederkalix, Lower Kalix), Norrbotten, Sweden, with people on a grassy area. Date: circa 1910s

View of Sodergatan, Malmo, Sweden
View of Sodergatan (South Street), on the corner with Kyrkogatan (Church Street) in the main shopping area of Malmo, Sweden. Date: circa 1905

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