Channel Collection (page 15)

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

WW1 - German aircraft views the English Navy - North Sea
WW1 - A German illustration of a battle in the North Sea showing a German aircraft beating-off the English Navy. Three enemy merchant-vessels are being destroyed

Supermarine Channel landing

Channel-billed cuckoo and chestnut-breasted malkoha
Crested honey-buzzard, Pernis ptilorhynchus, and white-tailed hawk, Buteo albicaudatus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

Mercedes Gleitze attempting to swim English Channel
Mercedes Gleitze, the London typist, attempting to swim the English Channel; the swimmer in the water, with boats occupied by expert witnesses. Date: 1927

Steam Ships Pembroke & Reindeer, St Peter Port, Channel Isla
Steam Ships Pembroke & Reindeer, St Peter Port, near Guernsey, Channel Islands, England. Date: 1923

Battleship HMS Nelson (28), Channel Islands, England. Sark, Herm & Jethou in background Date: 1940s

Paddle Steamer Balmoral, . Taken mid-Channel Date: 1940s

La Seigneurie, Sark, Channel Islands, England. Date: 1920s

The Harbour & Mont Orgueil Castle, Gorey, Channel Islands
The Harbour & Mont Orgueil Castle, Gorey, Jersey, near La Ville-es-Renauds, Channel Islands, England. Date: 1920s

Moulin Natural Arch, Port du Moulin, Channel Islands
Moulin Natural Arch, Port du Moulin, Sark, Channel Islands, England. Date: 1920s

Vice-Admiral Rt Hon Lord Charles Beresford KCB KCVO, England. Commanding the Channel Fleet Date: 1906

Town & Harbour, St Aubin, Jersey
Town & Harbour, St Aubin, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1900s

WW2 - German Military Underground Hospital
World War 2 Entrance Corridor, German Military Underground Hospital/Hohlgangsanlage 9, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1940s

Pension Marina, Havre des Pas, St Helier, Channel Islands
Pension Marina, Havre des Pas, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1900s

A Guernsey Lieutenant with Cannon, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1900s

Lord Charles Beresford - Commander of the Channel Fleet, England. Date: 1910s

Weigh Bridge & West Park, St Helier, Channel Islands
Weigh Bridge & West Park, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1920s

Tapping a Rubber Tree Date: circa 1920s

WWI Poster, Come lad, slip across and help
Come Lad, slip across and help. Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster 1916, making light of the real dangers of war. Date: 1916

MILESI, Alessandro. Wedding at Venice
MILESI, Alessandro (1856-1945). Wedding at Venice. 1897. Oil on canvas. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna (National Gallery of Modern Art)

Civitatis Orbis Terrarum. Paris
BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. Paris (1572). Volume I. Etching. SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. Salamanca. Salamanca University Library

Atlas Novus. Europe, 17th c Venice
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Europa recens descripta. Map of Europe printed in Amsterdam ca. 1633. Detail of the city of Venice. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA

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