Climbing Collection (page 12)

Climbing in New Zealand
Rock climbing in the New Zealand mountains. Date: early 1930s

Nursery Playground 1930S
Lots of children on a climbing frame in the playground of a London nursery. Date: early 1930s

Girl on Climbing Frame
This little girl has taken her hat off to demonstrate her climbing skills on an outdoor wooden climbing frame! Date: early 1930s

Sqn Ldr Bob Moore climbing into the cockpit of the proto?
Sqn Ldr Bob Moore climbing into the cockpit of the prototype Saab J29, 29001, for its first flight, 1 September 1948

Chinese men fooling about on a Paifang Gateway, China Date: circa 1920s

Arabian Street in Algiers, Algeria
Winding (and climbing, up some steps) Arabian Street in Algiers, Algeria, with a seemingly rather staged set of local types! Date: circa 1930s

One in a Million
This girl is One in a Million! Date: 1905

Lourdes, Frances - Funicular Railway - Viaduct du Pic du Jer Date: 1910s

Lourdes, Frances - Funicular Railway - Grand Jer Date: 1906

Kenyan boy scaling a tree trunk on the hunt for honey Date: 1930s

Rock climbing - Abseiling - Switzerland Date: 1920s

Zermatt, Switzerland - A street. Date: circa 1910

Curtiss P40 Warhawk Fighter Aircraft - WWII
Pilot getting into the cockpit of his RAF North American P-51 Mustang. It was first flown operationally by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter-bomber

Buried House, Sandy Banks, Bermuda
House buried by the shifting coastal sands - Sandy Banks, Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Spring, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people planting in a garden, tilling the soil, minding the lambs and gathering spring flowers

Eiffel Tower. tour of people climbing spiral staircase. eng. 1889 (Acc.No.7202) Date: 1889

Bradypus tridactylus, pale-throated three-toed sloth
Pale-throated three-toed sloths. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

Climbing out from the Drakensberg
The last hard pull, the two spans on one wagon, April 1869. Sketch 5 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Solanum dulcamara, climbing nightshade
Watercolour by Arthur Harry Church, 1908. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Aboriginal method of climbing trees
Drawing 75 from the Watling Collection titled Method of Climbing Trees by Port Jackson Painter, 1788-1797

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Plate 5 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Tamiasciurus douglasii, Douglas squirrel
Sciurus Longipilis, Long Haired Squirrel. Plate 27 from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Vol. 2, 1846, by John James Audubon (1785-1851) and John Bachman (1790-1874)

Lygodium volubile, climbing fern
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Ophioglossum scandens

Alpinism at the beggining of 20th c

Boys Climbing a Tree
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Boys Climbing a Tree. 1791-1792. Oil on canvas

Heho Valley - Central Burma - Over strangely treeless moors, climbing up from the Shan Plateau, wide, wide view that seemed like pictures of the African Veldt. Date: 1952

Okuyugawara - Japan - We walk a little way up the very steep road climbing up this canyon-like valley with houses tucked alongside. Date: 1952

Pixies mining a sponge cake
Pixie Pip and Pixies mining a sponge cake

Pandas climbing a tree

Teddies in Space and Climbing

Climbing Ski Slope 1931
A female skier makes her way up the slope, trudging through knee-deep snow. Date: 1931

Young woman protesting against licensing bill
A bill to licence drinking places meets with vigorous disapproval from a young woman in Kennington Road, London. She is so incensed that she climbs up a lamppost. Date: 1871

MFB (London) station ladder drill
Metropolitan firefighters taking part in ladder drill. Both large ladders are wheel escapes and the ladder on the right has an extension to give it additional height

Children climbing up a wheeled escape ladder

Firefighters using a wheeled ladder escape

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire
A firefighter climbing a 50 foot wheeled escape towards a colleague already in the burning warehouse. A hose line is lying on the ladder

LFB Southwark fire station and Brigade HQ, SE1
View of the headquarters building of the London Fire Brigade with an extended turntable ladder on the right. The site was developed in 1911 when the present Southwark fire station was opened

LCC-LFB - Junior firemen training scheme
The Junior Firemen was created in the latter days of the London County Council. Boys aged 16 to 17 were eligible to join the scheme

Mountain climbing pilgrims

Pilgrims climbing. Print shows pilgrims climbing toward a mountain cave filled with monks. Date 1834

Courtesan climbing stairs

German Organ Grinder with small monkey attracts a crowd of appreciative children (the girl in the foreground is celebrating her birthday), drawn by the music and the spectacle

Several people gathered at the base of the Great Pyramid, others climbing. Date between 1867 and 1899

Sea Scout climbing rigging
A Sea Scout climbing the rigging of a ship. circa 1920s

Hibiscus angulosus grandiflorus, yellow hibiscus flower, a climbing plant with yellow flowers. 1893

Childrens Playground - Bad Munster am Stein-Edernburg
Childrens Playground at Bad Munster am Stein-Ebernburg in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, district of Bad Kreuznach. Date: circa 1910s

Rock Climber
Rock climbing. Date: 1960s

Cairmgorms Summit
A family on the rocky summit of one of the Caingorm range of mountains, Scotland. Date: 1960s

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