Beacon Collection (page 3)

WW1 - British field-artillery shelling a Turkish fort
WW1 - The British field-artillery advancement and shelling of one of the Turkish forts in Dardanelles. The narrow peninsula amongst the ranges of high hill or small mountains make it safe for

Robert Shaw Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863) Monument, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Depicting Shaw as commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

Suffragette Arson Hurst Park. Shows the destroyed Grand Stand at Hurst Park Racecourse, 8th June 1913, caused by an arson attack by militant suffragettes Kitty Marion (1871-1944) and Betty Giveen

Beacons of Silver Jubilee day 1935, by G. H. Davis
The great bonfire held in Hyde Park to celebrated the monarchs Silver Jubilee, which King George lit by pressing a button in Buckingham Palace, the first in a chain of 200 beacons. 1935

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Naval reservist on duty, Sidmouth beacon light, WW1
A fisherman who is a naval reservist on night duty under the Sidmouth beacon light in the early weeks of the First World War

Incline Railway, Mount Beacon, New York State, USA. Date: 1903

Celebrating the arrival of Princess Margaret Rose
Scenes celebrating the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Yorks second child, Princess Margaret Rose, born on 21st August 1930

British naval patrol ship at night, WW1
British naval patrol ship approaching a suspicious neutral at night during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Prescott home Boston
The home of William Hickling PRESCOTT in Beacon Street, Boston. Date: 1796 - 1859

Edwin Dennison Morgans home at Newport, Rhode Island
Beacon Rock - Commodore E. D. Morgans home at Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Edwin Dennison Morgan was titled The Greatest American Yachtsman. Defended the Americas Cup on a number of occasions

Saint Catherines Oratory - Isle of Wight, Hampshire - found on St Catherines Hill, overlooking Chale Bay. Formerly part of a small chapel and also used as a lighthouse. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for a Guiel Automobile
The first poster design from the French Car Manufacturer Delahaye. Date: 1899

Telephone Repairs Man
People You See. From Teddy Bear (14 November 1964)

WPA paintings by Yvonne Twining, Waldo Kaufer, Albert Gold, and Francis Colburn Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St. Boston

WPA paintings, Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St. Boston. Poster for exhibition of WPA paintings at the Federal Art Gallery, 50 Beacon St. Boston, Mass. Date 1936 or 1937

Newquay, Beacon Cove, Cornwall, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Church, Yes-Tor and Beacon, Okehampton, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Worcestershire Beacon, Malvern, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games 1948

Coastal view, St Georges, Grenada, West Indies
View of the coast near St George s, Grenada, West Indies. 1949

The Wright Memorial - Kill Devil Hills, USA
The Wright Memorial (by night) - on the principal dune of the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA. The site where The Wright Brothers undertook their first controlled

The Coronation Bonfire on St James Hill, Norwich
Coronation Bonfire on St James Hill, Norwich, Norfolk. This was a gift to the local populace from the Lord Mayor of Norwich and stood 30ft high and was 20ft in diameter at its base. 22nd June 1911

Malvern, Worcestershire

Old Lantern Tower, Iow
The Old Lantern Tower, St. Catherines Hill, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. It is a consecrated building, formerly used as a beacon for sailors. Date: 14th century

Grange Hill Beacon
Grange, Beacon, Grange Hill, Merseyside, England, a 60 feet high sandstone pillar erected by the Trustees of Liverpool Docks in 1841, as a navigational shipping guide. Date: 1950s

Blind man with guide dog crossing the road
A blind man with his guide dog crossing the road at a zebra crossing. Date: circa 1960s

Olympics opens, last of the touch bearers lights the beacon
At Wembley Stadium, London, John Mark British Athlete, the last of the touch bearers who had carried the living flame 2000 miles from Greece, lights the Olympic beacon

Closing ceremony of the 1948 London Olympic Games
An Epitaph to the Games in Sketch magazine. The photographs feature the lowered Olympic flag and extinguished beacon. Date: 1948

Festival of Britain - Radio Telescope - Shot Tower
The huge Radio Telescope, visible for miles, a futuristic lighthouse for projecting messages to the moon. It was actually the Shot Tower, an old London landmark

Last lap of the Olympic torch, 1948 London Olympics
John Mark, a British athlete, runs the last lap around Wembley Arena with the Olympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the 1948 London Olympic Games. Date: 29 July 1948

Beacon St. Boston
Beacon St. Beacon Street, Boston with horse drawn carriages

Public Gardens, Boston
Boston, New State House, Public Gardens, Beacon St. & etc. View down Commonwealth Avenue (?), Boston

Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, New State House, Public Gardens, Beacon St. & etc. View down Boyleston St.(?), Boston, Public Garden at right

Echo Mountain, California
Searchlight on Echo Mountain, California, America

Tram in Birmingham
A lovely photographic postcard depicting the number 39 tram rounding a corner in Birmingham, England. The upper level has an elegant front balcony. It is the 430th tram of the fleet!

Crystal Palace at Sydenham - The North Tower
The North Tower, Crystal Palace, Sydenham. The Tower survived the devastating fire of 1936, but was dynamited in 1941 as it proved too clear a guiding beacon for Luftwaffe air attacks on the city of

Charnwood Forest
Beacon Hill, in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire

Herefordshire Beacon
The Herefordshire Beacon

WHARFDALE
The patchwork quilt effect of Wharfdale, Yorkshire, England, as viewed from the top of Beamsley Beacon

Exmoor / Dunkery Beacon
Exmoor: Dunkery Beacon

Austrian Beacons 1909
A beacon lit by the Austrian forces fighting rebel forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina informs distant units that they are in trouble. Date: 1909

Traffic under Control
Traffic under control - an early form of Belisha beacon tells drivers to stop when its red, and the policemans outstretched arms tell you to do as the light tells you

Japanese Fishing 1933
Japanese fishing with beacons to attract the fish and cormorants to catch them Date: 1933

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