Chute Collection

Chateau de L Horizon - Riviera villa of Maxine Elliott
The Chateau L Horizon, the extensive and luxurious villa built at Golfe Juan on the French Rivera by American actress Maxine Elliott

John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon and Major Baden-Powell
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, left, and Major Baden-Powell at the Crystal Palace gliding chute, 13 June 1904. Date: 1904

Blackpool Pleasure Beach water chute

Water chute, Weston Super Mare Pier, early 1900s

WW2 British Bomber In Section
An illustration which shows a British bomber aircraft in section, giving a somewhat detailed view of components including gun turrets and leaflet chute. Date: 1941

Jumbo's joy in the hot weather: Elephants shooting the chute at the Franco-British Exhibition held at White City, London 1908 Date: 1908

Comic postcard, Water Chute, Edinburgh Exhibition - shooting the chute Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Last Boat on the Water Chute, Edinburgh Exhibition Date: 20th century

The Vine, Basingstoke, the seat of William John Chute. House reformed by Chaloner Chute from designs by Webb, Inigo Jones son in law

Stratton Park, Winchester, the seat of Sir Thomas Baring
Stratton Park, Winchester, the seat of the banker and slave owner Sir Thomas Baring. Neoclassical design by George Dance with Doric portico and gardens landscaped by Humphry Repton

Milon as Don Luis in Ines, ou La Chute d un Ministre, 1845
Milon as Don Luis in Ines, ou La Chute d un Ministre by Don Ramon de Navarrete, Theatre Royal de L Odeon, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor

People at a funfair, sliding down a chute

Thai paratroop trainee jump over Royal Air Force Sembawang
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 11: The paratrooper jumped out from the airplane door to Sembawang airport, Singapore. You can see runway at the downside

Thai paratroop trainee practising a treescape - parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 08:The training of take the chute out from the body while be strapped in a parachute in a tree

Thai paratroop trainee practising control of the parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 07:The practice of controlling the chute while floating in the air. -Signature

Satirical cartoon, The March of Intellect, showing a street scene with balloons in the sky above. 1828

Bournemouth Water Chute
Bathers at Bournemouth wait their turn for a go on the water chute

Earls Court Exhibition, London - The Chute Boat Ride
Chuting the chute at Earls Court Exhibition, London. The chute eventually takes passengers into the water. Date: circa 1904

Irish International Exhibition - The Water Chute ride
Irish (Dublin) International Exhibition - The Water Chute ride. Date: 1907

Irish International Exhibition - View from the Water Chute
Irish (Dublin) International Exhibition - View from the Water Chute. Date: 1907

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Wing the Airmans Wife. circa 1930s

Making Parachutes 1933
British parachutes being made to order for the Danish Air Force, who placed an order with the Irving Air Chute Company of Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. Date: 22 June 1933

Sir Trevor Chute
SIR TREVOR CHUTE Military in New Zealand. Date: 1816 - 1886

JOHN CHUTE English scholar, linguist, connoisseur and amateur architect - just the sort to be a friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole... Date: 1701 - 1776

Water chute. Copes Toy Models (The Country Fair) cigarette cards. Artist: William Henry Ellam Date: circa 1930

Article on opening of the Eagle Hut in Aldwych, 1917
Article in The Graphic, written by Margaret Chute, reporting on the opening of the Eagle YMCA Hut in Aldwych, London, which opened 3rd September 1917

St Peters Church, Heysham, Lancashire
St Peters Church, Heysham, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. Showing the water chute Date: 1900s

The Chutes, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Dover Coal Elevation
Men working on the travelling chute of the new coal elevation at Dover harbour, Kent, England. It will be able to shoot coal into boats, 500 tons per hour Date: 1932

Entertainments at Southport, Merseyside including Hiram Maxims " Captive Flying Machine" amusement ride (which opened in 1904), helter skelter lighthouse

Water Chutes at Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Lancashire
Blackpool Pleasure Beach - Lancashire - Thw Water Chutes Date: circa 1908

Mort de Pilatre de Rosier i. e. Rozier et de Romain. Tel quil
Mort de Pilatre de Rosier i.e. Rozier et de Romain. Tel quils onts etes trouves apres leurs chute. Print shows the death of balloonists Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier

La locomotion aerienne passive. Principes de la nature sur la chute reelle des corps, oppose aux lois scientifiques. Technical illustration shows 14 figures with various designs for parachutes

Allarme generale des habitants de Gonesse occasionee par la chute du ballon areostatique de Mr. de Mongolfier. Vue d optique shows the unmanned gas balloon, The Globe

Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bicycle parachute act in mid-air. Date c1896

Chute prochaine de la fille a Target. Print shows a hay wagon driven by a monk behind three horses, la Guerre, la Bangueroute et un Marie Jacobin, who are harassed by Jokais of the constitution

Man diving into an outdoor pool at a seaside resort
A man dives from a diving board into an outdoor pool at an unidentified seaside resort. Date: circa 1930s

Fire Drill at Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
A Fire Drill taking place at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. A long canvas escape chute is connected to a second-floor window

Union Workhouse, St Faiths, Norfolk
Fire drill at the St Faiths Union workhouse at Horsham St Faith near Norwich, Norfolk. Staff help one of the inmates down an escape chute from the first floor while a group of children stand below

A Brine Wave
The birth of the switch back and water chute idea - A man watches as his wife falls off a cliff into the sea on her deckchair

Taking the Plunge
A couple enjoy the water chute at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

SAFETY SAC
People trapped on upper floors escape from a blaze via a sac (chute) which they slide down head first to the sapeurs- pompiers waiting below

Water Chute / Earls Court
Water Chute at Earls Court

Water Shute, Sydenham
River Rapids water chute at Crystal Palace, Sydenham

Boytons Show / The Lake
Captain Boytons Worlds Water Show at Earls Court, London: the lake and island containing the 275 foot long water chute

Fire Escape Shute / 1884
Merryweathers fire-escape ladder and canvas chute, enabling persons to descend rapidly from a burning building

Fire Drill 1930S
All saved! The importance of learning a fire drill is fully realised by those in charge of Childrens Homes. Here waifs and strays practice using a sheet as a fire escape

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