Channel Collection (page 14)

The Channel Islands - Rozel Harbour - Looking down on stone houses and I shaped quay. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands

The Channel Islands - Rozel Bay Cottage - People looking at red -roofed single storey building. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands

The Channel Islands - Bouley Bay Cottage - Cottages in foreground. cottage set among trees. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands

The Channel Islands - Bon Nuit Bay - Sandy Beach - Hotels and Houses on cliff top. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands. Date: circa 1900

The Channel Islands - Jersey Cow - Brown and White cow on Cliff Top. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands. Jersey cattle are a small breed of dairy cattle

Guernsey - St. Andrew at Les Vauxbelets - the worlds smallest consecrated church - 1st created in 1914 by Brother Deodat - the biggest tourist attraction on the island

Car driving off a cross-channel ferry. Date: early 1960s

Overnight cross-channel yacht race -- man on deck in waterproof clothing. 1965

Villandry cross-channel ferry at Dieppe, France, with a row of fishing boats in the foreground. Date: mid-1960s

Giant hovercraft under construction, Isle of Wight
Giant SRN4 hovercraft under construction, Isle of Wight, September 1967. The 100-ton vessel was designed to cross the English Channel in 20 minutes carrying 500 people, or 246 people and 30 cars

Man on the bridge of a cross-channel ferry. Date: early 1960s

Battle between Dutch and Spanish ships on the Haarlemmermeer
Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (1566-1640). Dutch painter. Battle between Dutch and Spanish ships on the Haarlemmermeer, 1629. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Typical houses. Amsterdam
Holland. Amsterdam. Typical houses in the area of Prinsengracht channel

Gran Canal. Venice. Italy
Italy. Venice. Gran Canal. Boats

Emporium. 575 B. C. Channeling. Catalonia. Spain
Emporium. 575 B.C. Channeling. Catalonia. Spain

Portrait of Agnes J Burke, writer, described as the prettiest of Paris correspondents, the social link between The Boulevard and Pall Mall. 1880

Chunnel Hopes & Fears
Britain is both hopeful and fearful about the Channel Tunnel... Date: 1882

View of English Workings
A general view of the English workings in St Margarets Bay, near Dover, Date: circa 1882

Gladstone Reluctant
Gladstone is unenthusiastic about Watkins project. Date: 1888

No to the Channel
Britannia says No to the Channel Tunnel initiative. Date: 1882

Thome De Gamond Cover
The title page of Thome de Gamonds tunnel proposal, inscribed by the author. Date: 1857

Channel Bridge 4
General view of the railway bridge project proposed by Schneider and Hersent, Date: 1889

Seasick passengers
The cabin of a Channel packet (between England and France); several passengers feeling very sorry for themselves, while a steward brings pots. Date: circa 1830

Overland Cross Channel
The mails cross the Channel from Boulogne to Folkestone - or Folkestone to Boulogne - by paddle steamer (which has a sail as well) Date: 1844

Overland, Folkestone
The arrival of the Indian mails is signalled at Folkestone, the Channel port linked by paddle-steamer with Boulogne Date: 1844

BLERIOT / ILZ / 1909
Louis Bleriot in the cockpit of his plane, at the time of his flight across the English Channel Date: 1909

Jersey / Victoria Pier
Jersey: Queen Victoria landing at Victoria Pier Date: 1846

Jersey / Mont Orgueil 1835
Jersey: Mont Orgeuil Date: circa 1835

Rescue Rafts
German rafts in the English Channel give downed airmen a hope of survival, so long as they come down near one Date: March 1941

Oil slick sighted by German Dornier Do 17 light bombers
Luftwaffe German Dornier Do 17 light bomber aircraft spot an oil slick in the British Channel which indicates the presence of a submarine - 1941

Balloon in Channel 1810
Sadler and Clayfields flight lands them in the Channel; fortunately the sea seems calm and look, theres a boat coming to rescue them ! Date: 1810

English Workings 1
English workings - the Abbots Cliff tunnel on the English coast where some of the preliminary experimental workings took place. Date: circa 1884

Guarding the Channel
Two German soldiers keep vigilant watch on the English Channel, making sure the Allies make no attempt to attack the French coast Date: March 1942

Jersey / Fort Regent
Moored ships at Fort Regent, St Helier, Jersey Date: 1870

Weapon / Anti-Aircraft Ww2
German anti-aircraft battery (probably on the French Channel coast) Date: 1940

Edward VII heads for Paris, c. 1890
Pleasure-seeking Edward VII (1841-1910), hurries across the Channel to Paris, where life is more amusing than in Britain under his mother Queen Victorias shadow. Date: 1890

Events / War / Anglo-Spanish
THE SPANISH ARMADA The fighting in the English Channel Date: July 1588

Armada / English Attack
THE SPANISH ARMADA The English attack the Spanish from the stern as they sail up-Channel towards Calais, where fireships will disperse them Date: July 1588

Sir Eward Watkin (ILN)
Sir Edward Watkin (1819 - 1901) engineer, railway promoter, chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company

Sir Edward Watkin (Photo)
Sir Edward Watkin (1819 - 1901) engineer, railway promoter, chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company 1889

The Proposed Channel Railway - a tunnel connecting England and France. 1862

Britannia decides against the Channel Tunnel 1882
Britannia decides against the Channel Tunnel. 1882

Steam Seine Boats going out by Charles Napier Hemy (1841-1917), engraved by E Schladitz (dates unknown). Date: 1884

Gertrude Ederle channel swim attempt with jazz band
Page from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News reporting on the channel swim attempt of American swimmer Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003)

Mrs Leeming hoping to become 1st woman to fly Channel
Mrs Leeming, hoping to become the first Englishwoman to cross the Channel in an aeroplane with Lieutenant Lawrence. Lawrence had made his first solo flight in the Blackburn at the end of January

Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - Mangues Channel (Canal). Date: circa 1920s

White bulldog puppy and Pammy on boat to Ostend
A white bulldog puppy and his mistress Pammy on a boat to Ostend. She feels seasick, and huddles up in her deckchair, while the dog sleeps below. Date: 1905

Queen of the Channel steamer
Queen of the Channel passenger steamer. Date: circa 1930s

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