Cable Collection

Metropolitan Police officers, Battle of Cable Street
Metropolitan Police officers attempt to dismantle a barricade set up by anti-fascist demonstrators in the East End of London

Poster, Chamonix and Mont Blanc, France Date: 1955

Cable Street demonstration 1936
Anti-fascist crowds, some giving the Communist clenched fist salute, gather round a tram in the East End of London. A very large crowd gathered to protest against the proposed march by Sir Oswald

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1926
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally

Melbourne Cable Tram and Driver
A Melbourne Cable tram (destination - North Fitzroy) and driver (in his uniform) - 1925

RAF Bomb-Aimer at his position; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing a Royal Air Force bomb-aimer at his position with the bomb release cable ready in his right hand, November 1943

A glider catapulted into the air

Chicago World Fair - Sky Ride
Chicago World Fair - The Sky Ride Date: 1933

Great Eastern
Laying the Atlantic Cable

Porthcurno Cable Station
Porthcurno cable terminal in Cornwall, built by the Falmouth Gibraltar Malta Telegraph company

Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Anglesey, North Wales
View of Cable Bay, Rhosneigr, Isle of Anglesey, North Wales. The underwater Atlantic telegraph came ashore here. Date: early 20th century

Map of British Empire showing international cable
Map of the British Empire (coloured red), showing the All-British international cable going round the world, enabling telegraphic communication. Date: circa 1902

HMS Monarch, British cable ship
The HMS Monarch, a British cable-laying ship. There were three cable ships of this name -- this is probably the third one, built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1916. Date: 20th century

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

Valentia, Cable Terminal
Valentia, western Ireland, at the time of the laying of the first cable

Wetterhorn Cable Car
The cable-car suspended aerial railway carries passengers up the Wetterhorn

Sugar Loaf Mountain and cable car, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sugar Loaf Mountain and a cable car, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. circa 1920

Cable laying, Houses of Parliament, London
Laying cables in the street outside the Houses of Parliament, Central London

Engineers laying a new electric cable at Croydon Airport in March 1935. Among the aircraft in the background are Boulton & Paul P71A, G-ACOX, Boadicea, of Imperial Airways; Short L17, G-ACJJ

Swiss Cable Cars
Piz Gloria, Schilthorn, Switzerland is the longest aerial cableway in the Swiss Alps and provides the most unimpeded panoramic mountain views

Fought to a Finish: A Remarkable Exploit on a Blazing Plane An illustration by Joseph Simpson of an incident described by Mr Boyd Cable (newspaper correspondent Ernest Andrew Ewart)

Finishing of the manufacture of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Completion of the Atlantic Telegraph cable as the last inch of cable passes through the machinery of Messrs Glass and Elliott at Morden Whard, East Greenwich

Cable Tram Vancouver
A crowded cable car in Dunedin, New Zealand. Note the pushchairs hanging off the front of the car

Raising the Great Bell for Westminster Clock-Tower 1858
Officially known as the Great Bell but better known as Big Ben, the huge bell fifteen tons in weight was on its side with not a spare inch either end

Dursey Island Cable Car and Pier, Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Republic of Ireland by J. Hinde

The Sugarloaf Cable Car - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at night
The Sugarloaf Cable Car (Bondinho do Pao de Acucar) - a cableway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, moving between Praia Vermelha and the Sugarloaf Mountain

Cable and Wireless Station. Lagos, Nigeria Date: circa 1930s

Aerial ride at Southport - early 1900s

Kasprowy Weirch Cable Car, Poland, early 1900s

Rope Tree, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies
Rope Tree (Rope Vine or Cable Creeper - Anodendron paniculatum), Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Date: circa 1907

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, column section from restaurant
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Section of a column from Titanic?s a la carte restaurant on B Deck. Fluted with a 1ins. gilt carved ribbon

Poster, winter sports in Austria Date: 1950

RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a silver cigar case of rectangular outline with rounded corners

RMS Titanic - gold stud recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a late Victorian 18 carat yellow gold round collar or dress stud

RMS Titanic - signet ring recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - an 18 carat gold and small old-cut diamond solitaire band/signet ring, slightly tapering (1/4ins)

RMS Titanic - CS Mackay-Bennett cable-laying ship
RMS Titanic - sepia press photograph of the CS Mackay-Bennett transatlantic cable-laying and cable repair ship which recovered most of the bodies of the victims of the Titanic sinking

Four photographs of a cable ship, R D Legate Archive, with handwritten notation on reverse

RMS Titanic - letter from Carl Zeidler of Toronto, Canada
RMS Titanic - letter dated 6 May 1912 relating to the loss of a cable on the Titanic, from Carl Zeidler, an explorer in Toronto, to Messrs Houston Bros, Vicksburg, Missouri, USA. Date: 1912

Lake George, New York State
Various views of Lake George, a pleasure resort in New York state, USA. We see the Lake from Rattlesnake Cable, Fort William Henry, as well as French Point, Ripley Point, Black Mountain

RMS Queen Mary, anchor cable
The anchor-cable of RMS Queen Mary with links two feet in length Date: 1930s

RMS Queen Mary, telephone engineer prior to launch
Telephone engineer working on RMS Queen Mary prior to launch Date: 1936

RMS Queen Mary, miles of protected cabling
RMS Queen Mary, some of the 4, 000 miles of protected cabling Date: 1930s

East River Bridge, New York City, USA
Five views of East River Bridge, New York City, USA Date: 1883

On Brooklyn Bridge
An etching showing a view of Manhattan, from Brooklyn Bridge, a hybrid cable suspension structure, which spans the East River of New York City, United States. Date: circa 1921

Poster, Weissfluh, Parsenn, Davos, Switzerland
Poster, Weissfluh 2820m, Parsenn 2660m, Davos, Switzerland Date: 1938

Poster, Parsenn Brama-Buel, Davos, Switzerland Date: 1956

Poster, PLM, Chamonix, Mont Blanc, France Date: 1935

Diver at work in sea diving suit Date: 1880

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