Channel Collection (page 3)

Jersey, coast from the Devils Hole, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Jersey, Portelet Bay, I, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. Date: 1989

John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands
John Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905

Jersey - Pontac
Jersey, Pontac - a train leaves the small local Railway Station

Creux Harbour on Sark, Channel Islands

Food being unloaded in the Channel Islands; Second World War
Photograph showing the unloading of crates of food in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 1945. After nearly five years of German occupation the civilian population of the islands had very little food

The Turbine Steamer Queen, 1903
Photograph of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companys turbine steamer Queen, during sea trials, June 1903. This vessel was announced to be the first turbine steamer to enter cross-Channel

Webb in Mid-Channel
Captain Webb nears the French coast in the first successful attempt to swim the English Channel

Jersey / Portelet Bay 1904
Jersey: Portelet Bay

Blanchard Flies Channel
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Channel Ferry 1882
Embarking on a channel steamer at Folkestone harbour

Brighton in 1789 (Beach)
Embarking from Brighthelmstone for Dieppe, part of a route from London to Paris advertised as ninety miles nearer than by way of Dover and Calais

Blanchard Channel Cross
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Napoleon at Boulogne
At Boulogne, he looks across the Channel and wishes there was a tunnel whereby he could invade England

Futuristic fast food stops on the Channel crossing
A futuristic scene showing fast food stops for aeroplane pilots on the Channel crossing

Map, South Wales coalfield. 1939

The Promenade, Havre-des-Pas, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

The Swimming Pool, Havre-des-Pas, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: 1960s

Mercedes Gleitze (1900-1981) - British professional swimmer. She was the first person to swim the Straits of Gibraltar and the first British woman to swim the English Channel

German rescue buoy in Channel by G. H. Davis
Rettungsboje -- nicknamed lobster pots by the RAF -- German rescue buoys anchored in the English Channel during the Second World War

Bray Dunes, near Dunkirk, during the evacuation, WW2
Members of the British Expeditionary Force at Bray Dunes, to the east of Dunkirk, northern France, during the evacuation, with men making their way into the water ready to embark onto vessels

Sunset off Dunkirk during the evacuation, WW2
Sunset off Dunkirk, on the northern French coast, during the evacuation, with Junkers dive-bombers attacking shipping, and a paddle steamer hit and beached

DUTCH MERCHANT VESSELS
Dutch West Indies Merchant Vessels. Date: early 17th century

WW1 - Return of the body of Heroine Nurse Edith Cavell into Dover Harbour on the R class destroyer HMS Rowena on 14th May 1919. Date: 1919

Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21
Channel Airways Bristol B-170 Freighter Mk 21 with a White, Sun-Proof, Louvered Box Called a Stevenson Screen in the Foreground Date: 1960

Guernsey early 1900s

Saint Aubin Jersey Victorian period

Rozel Bay Jersey Victorian period

Great Western Hotel Jersey Victorian period

Corbiere Lighthouse, Jersey, Victorian period

Steamboat Alert in Creux Harbour, Sark, Victorian period

Saint Sampson, Guernsey, Channel Islands - Victorian period

St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands - Victorian period

St. Peter Port Guernsey - Victorian period

Berthelot Street, Guernsey, the Channel Islands - Valentine's postcard 1934 Date: 1934

HMS Roxburgh - Devonshire-class armoured cruiser
HMS Roxburgh - one of six Devonshire-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy (1902). Date: 1908

Captain Matthew Webb (hand coloured photo)

St. Helier Harbour at night Jersey Victorian period Date: 19th century

St. Helier Harbour Jersey Victorian period Date: 19th century

Poster, Hamburg-American Line to New York, 8 days from Hamburg, 7 days from Channel Ports, by Hugo Koeke (B+) 33ins. x 23ins

St. Aubins Jersey Victorian period

Greve De Lecq Jersey Victorian period

St. Peter's Valley Jersey Victorian period

St. Peter Port High Street Guernsey early 1900s

St. Peter Port Clifton Steps Guernsey early 1900s

St. Helier Ring Street Jersey early 1900s

St. Helier Jersey early 1900s

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