Calais Collection (page 5)

Howitzer beyond repair, Calais, France, WW1
A 4.5 inch Howitzer beyond repair at the Ordnance Depot, Calais, France, during the First World War. Date: 19 April 1917

William Lord Bergavenny
William Beauchamp, lord BERGAVENNY, a partisan of John of Gaunt, at one time Captain of Calais (the background to this picture) Date: - 1411

Richard Earl of Warwick
RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK Lieutenant-general of the Realm of France, governor of Normandy and Captain of Calais, fully armoured on the battlements of Warwick castle. Date: 1382 - 1439

ON GOLDEN ARROW FERRY
A smartly dressed couple stroll along the deck of the Golden Arrow ferry, connecting luxury trains between Dover and Calais. Date: 1947

Webb Near Calais (Iln)
Captain Webb just before reaching Calais, where he becomes the first person to swim the English Channel Date: 24 August 1875

Argument against Chunnel
An argument against the Channel Tunnel - being cooped up with a snoring Frenchman smelling of frogs legs and garlic for as long as it takes to pass from Calais to Dover ! Date: 1882

Eglise Notre Dame at Etaples, France
The Ancient Eglise Notre-Dame, Rue Notre-Dame, at Etaples (Pas de Calais), France

German pillbox WWI
Destroyed German pillbox near Lens in Pas de Calais, France, during World War I

Ablainzeville Church WWI
Destruction of Ablainzville Church, Pas de Calais, in France during World War I

Pas de Calais 1915
Tents at a British camp at Etaples, Pas de Calais on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1915

Jean Louis Ernest Camescasse / Gill
Jean Louis Ernest Camescasse (1838-1897) Lawyer, French politician, senator of the Pas-de-Calais

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The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Temporary station at Dover: the steamers prepare to start
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. After arriving in France however

Sea Legs; Twixt Calais And Dover
Two ladies sat on board a ship travelling from Calais and Dover. The weather is stormy causing a rough, uncomfortable journey and causing a saucy exposure of beautiful leg

Camp Du Drap D or
(anglicised as Field of the Cloth of Gold) - Henry VIII meets with Francois I near Calais to smooth out their differences : each seeks to out-impress the other

Anglo-French / Tournament
Anglo-French tournament at Saint-Inglevere, near Calais

Twin Steam-Ship Castalia, August 1875
Engraving of the twin-hulled, paddle steamer Castalia, leaving Dover for Calais, August 1875. Built in 1874 for the English Channel Steamship Company

Demo by French Workers
Demonstration by French mine workers passes through the Pas-de-Calais

France Calais
The ferry terminal in the days when we crossed the Channel in paddle-steamers. Date: 1889

GOLDEN ARROW BAR
A couple have a drink in the bar of the famous Golden Arrow train which took passengers from London to the Dover to Calais ferry to France

Hawkshaws Chunnel Prop
Sir John Hawkshaw proposes a tunnel beneath the seabed between Dover and Calais

Edward III at Calais
Edward III relieves Calais

Calais Plage & Casino
The plage at Calais seen from the sea : the Casino is in the background, beyond the beach huts, one of which is marked x by the sender of this card

Wwi / Arras Bombarded
Arras, an historic city in the Pas-de-Calais dept. of Northern France is bombarded. The cathedral, abbey of St Vst and city hall are all ruined

Atlantic Telegraph
sections of Atlantic and other cables: Dover-Calais 1851 first Atlantic 1857 second Atlantic 1865 Berlin-Halle 1876

Station at Calais
At Calais station, travellers from England transfer from boat to train or vice versa

LA Fleche D or
The Fleche d Or - the Golden Arrow - is a pullman express carrying travellers rapidly between Calais and Paris

Passengers on Platform
A group of rail passengers stand on a platform with their luggage before boarding the Golden Arrow luxury train from London-Dover-Calais

Channel Road Bridge between Calais and Dover

Cloth of Gold Meeting
Henry VIII and Francis I meet on the Field of the Cloth of Gold near Calais

Calais from the Air
Calais harbour seen from the air

Burghers of Calais
Edward III, besieging Calais, receives a deputatioon of six burghers headed by Eustache de Saint-Pierre, offering themselves as hostages : his wife pleads for them, too

Calais Recaptured
The duc de Guise re-captures Calais from the English : Mary Tudor will go to her grave with the name of the town written on her heart

WW1 / 1915 / AIR / AIRFIELD
German aviators at an airfield discuss their flight over Calais

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