Channel Collection

Kiss of the Oceans - Atlantic meets Pacific - Panama Canal
The Kiss of the Oceans - The Atlantic meets the Pacific due to the construction of The Panama Canal - A lovely allegorical card relating to this phenomenal engineering project

Cobham Air Routes Poster
Poster, Cobham Air Routes, offering flights to Guernsey in 2 hours. With a map of the south coast. 20th century

D-Day - Supplies pour ashore
A stunning panorama photograph of a French invasion beach with the channel waters thick with US military shipping, as reinforcements

Jersey Airways Poster
Poster, Jersey Airways Ltd, Regular Daily Services, Multi-Engined Air-Liners. Showing a De Havilland biplane with a map below. 20th century

Another Wash-out by W. Heath Robinson
Training at home for the cross Channel swim with a man swimming suspended from a window with watering cans. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Jersey Airways Poster
Jersey Airways Ltd poster, showing a passenger biplane flying from the south coast of Britain to Jersey. Listing duration and costs of flights from London and Portsmouth. 20th century

A Swimming Stroke of Genius
A simple device by which a cross channel swim may be rendered both easy and pleasant- not to mention luxurious. Please note

Map / Channel Islands 18C
Map of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and the Scilly Isles

Map - Guernsey
Map by M. F. Peck - Guernsey

Gorey Harbour, and Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, for Channel crossing
Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, with a car being loaded ready for a Channel crossing. Date: 1962

Poster advertising Boulogne sur Mer, France
Poster for French railways, advertising Boulogne sur Mer and its Casino

Advert for The Rolex Oyster waterproof wrist watch 1930
Jabez Wolffe timing Miss Micky West for forth-coming attempt on Channel records. The most accurate wrist watch in the World made waterproof. Date: 1930

Jersey, Corbiere Lighthouse by moonlight, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

A cunning stroke by William Heath Robinson
A clever but unsportsmanlike contrivance to increase buoyance and prevent fatigue among Channel swimmers. A useful inflatable idea to help long-distance swimmers by the gadget king

Franco-British Exhibition, London - Unity
Franco-British Exhibition, White City, Shepherds Bush, London - Unity. The main focus of the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908 was to celebrate the Entente Cordiale

La Corbiere Lighthouse, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands
View of La Corbiere Lighthouse, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s

Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, Channel Islands
View of Mont Orgueil Castle (Gorey Castle), Jersey, Channel Islands, with flowers in the foreground. Date: circa 1970s

Herm, Channel Islands, Blacksmiths Cottage, La Rosiere Steps
Blacksmiths Cottage and La Rosiere Steps at Herm (Haerme) - one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Date: circa 1930s

An Old Farm, Guernsey, Channel Islands Date: 1934

Harriet Quimby getting ready for flight 1912
Harriet Quimby (1875 1912), American airwoman and a movie screenwriter. In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilots certificate by the Aero Club of America

Emigrant Ship Leaving Belfast (1852). Wilson, James Glen 1827-1863. This painting, by a young artist from County Down, shows a departing ship, probably bound for America

Cargo ship Tresillian wrecked in storm, 1954
Cargo ship Tresillian of the Hain Steamship Co. (St Ives) lost on the night of 29th to 30th November 1954 in St Georges Channel near Ireland with heavy loss of life

Guernsey Airways Poster
Guernsey Airways Ltd, poster giving a stylised route map of flights from London and Southampton to Channel Islands, and Dinard on the French coast. 20th century

La Rocco Tower, Saint Ouens Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands
Distant view of La Rocco Tower, Saint Ouens Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, dating back to the late 18th century. Date: circa 1970s

Poster, Guernsey Airways, offering frequent services to and from the Channel Islands, with a map showing places and flight durations. circa 1936

Western Airways Ltd Poster
Poster, Norman Edgar Western Airways Ltd, Bristol to Cardiff Air Express, 15 minutes, 9 shillings and sixpence single fare

Western Airways Poster
Poster, Norman Edgar (Western Airways) Ltd, showing prices and times from Bristol to various destinations by Air Express Daily, including special day returns. 20th century

World War I recruitment poster
Poster produced by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee during World War I, depicting a typical British Tommy in uniform with bayonet fixed, calling across from France to England for more volunteers

Villers-sur-Mer poster
Travel poster from national railways for the French seaside resort of Villers-sur-Mer in northern France on the Channel coast advertising a beach for children on which they can build sandcastles

Spanish Armada Defeated
The Spanish Armada is defeated by the sailors of the English fleet in the Channel

Jersey, Gorey and the castle, Channel Island, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Poster advertising Commodore Cruises between Ramsgate Harbour, Clacton Pier, Guernsey and Sark

Hastings, Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach
Hastings, East Sussex - Lightning over the sea from the beach - June 6th, 1904. Date: 1904

HMS Exmouth - Royal Navy predreadnought battleship
HMS Exmouth - a Duncan class predreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. HMS Exmouth was launched in August 1901 and served as a flagship for various fleets including the Mediterranean Fleet

Dinner given by Alexander Duckham at the Savoy Hotel honouring Louis Ble

Cover design, Jersey Airways brochure
Cover design, Jersey Airways Ltd brochure. circa 1934

The Hotel and Church, Lundy Island, Bristol Channel Date: circa 1938

Jersey, Saint Aubins, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Opening of the Colchester Oyster Fishery
Ceremonial scene at the opening of the annual Colchester Oyster Fishery. On the first Friday of September the Mayor of Colchester, the Town Clerk

Poster for the London to Paris railway, with six regular departures every day and night between Victoria, Newhaven, Southampton, Le Havre, Dieppe, and the Gare St Lazare, Paris

Alderney Harbour
The founding of a harbour of refuge on the island of Alderney

Harbour / Belfast Opening
Opening of the New Channel, Belfast Harbour - the start of the procession

Captain Webb 1875
Captain Matthew WEBB is sustained with hot coffee during his first-ever Channel swim

Channel Isles Squid
Fishermen of Jersey, Channel Islands, desperately fight this giant squid, but two of them lose their lives in the battle

Jersey, Plemont Caves and Needle Rock, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

French travel poster
Travel poster for the French National Railways promoting routes between Paris and London by way of the French and British coasts

Victoria at Guernsey
Victoria arrives in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey

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