Cleared Collection

The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham
Under the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876

Market Reports Illustrated - Unexpected fruit supply cleared
Market Reports Illustrated - Fruit, an unexpected supply was rapidly cleared! A fallen basket of apples is swiftly cleared up by lucky pedestrians! Date: circa 1905

Paris / Rebuilding 1868
Haussmanns Paris - the place Saint-Germain-des- Pres cleared to make way for the Rue de Rennes and the Boulevard Saint-Germain

Ticket booth in German underground station
Solitary lady in hat buying a ticket from a uniformed lady in the booth.Caption explains that it is a woman doing a man's job while the men are away at war. Cleared by Censor. Date: circa 1914

French spirit photographer Edouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) is cleared of evil fluids by a medium, before he takes a spirit photograph: he was convicted of fraud in 1874 Date: circa 1874

Jacobs Island
View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames

No. 3 Commando Memorial Plaque, Merville Battery
The taking of the Battery was the task of the 9th Parachute Battalion, and despite a complicated plan that went very wrong from the first jumps at 0020 hours on D-Day

Museum of Underwater Wrecks Port en Bessin
In 1970 Jaques Lemonchois was asked to clear war wrecks not cleared by the government. The results here include tanks, parts of aeroplanes and torpedos, plus films, photos and documents

Memorial Royal Netherlands Brigade St Come
The Dutch Princess Irene Brigade cleared this area inAugust 1944. On D Day the British 9 Parachute Battalion dropped around here

Greetings card in the shape of a red pillar box -- Cleared at Bed Time. circa 1890s

Ufos / Hessdalen
This flying saucer landed in the village of Hessdalen, but was snowed in by bad weather, and its occupants had to stay with the locals until the weather cleared Date: 1996

Snowdrifts in Calumet, Michigan, USA
Winter snowdrifts in Calumet, Michigan, USA Date: circa 1908

French Operations 1885
French operations in the Culebra cutting, where an enormous amount of rock and earth must be cleared; this Osgood excavator does a good job - but not good enough. Date: 1885

Swan day in Henley-on-Thames
Before the annual Royal Regatta the resident swans are cleared form the river to avoid accidents and injuries. They used to be collected in boats prior to a move. Date: early 1900s

A contractors Locomotive, removing cleared earth and rubble from the site of a new stretch of railway track. Date: circa 1904

Allied Forces activity in German territory, WW1
Two examples of Allied Forces activity in German territory during the early stages of the First World War. Above, debris from a German motor convoy

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

Berlin Riots & Kaiser
German workers, rioting in Berlin, are cleared away by the police to allow the passage of Kaiser Wilhelm who rides by with an armed escort. Date: 1892

Celebration outside St Pauls Cathedral, London
A celebration outside St Pauls Cathedral, City of London, on the evening of 3 May 1951, the opening day of the Festival of Britain

Dinosaur footprints found in the hills of Arizona
Petrified dinosaur footprints, cleared of lime deposits and full of water, in the snow capped hills of Arizona, a discovery made by Mr C. L Bernheimer

Coup: after Clearing
The boulevard Montmartre after troops supporting Napoleon have cleared the streets of Republicans and other dissidents

Coup: Streets Cleared
The boulevards after they have been cleared of insurgents by troops supporting Napoleon

Clearing Rubble
A domestic building site is cleared of rubble and wreckage by a mechanical digger and two haulage trucks

Egypt Sphinx
The Great Sphinx cleared of sand

Rail Accident Cleared
Accidents will happen in spite of the most elaborate precautions - and when they do, the wrecking crane is brought in to shift the wreckage and clear the line

Horse Guards 1804
Horse Guards Parade, after it had been cleared as a parade ground, much frequented by Londoners as a social venue

Horse Guards C18
The Old Horse Guards, seen from St James Park, before the new buildings were erected and the parade ground cleared

Hereward Vs Normans
HEREWARD THE WAKE How the Saxon hero Hereward cleared Bourne (Lincolnshire, England) of Frenchmen (Normans). The thick of the battle melee

Lapps Preached At
Gudstjenst i ett lappkapell - divine service in a Lapp chapel, seemingly in a private home, cleared for the purpose. Presumably Lutheran

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