Covered Collection (page 5)

Livorno, Tuscany, Italy - The Market, the Equestrian monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II by Augusto Rivalta (1892), Piazza Unita d Italia

Arezzo, Italy - Loggia designed by Giorgio Vasari
Arezzo, Italy - The Loggia (a covered exterior gallery) on the North Side of the Piazza Grande, designed by Giorgio Vasari. Date: circa 1910s

Guadeloupe - Pointe-a-Pitre - Marketplace
Outdoor market at Pointe-a-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre, in Guadeloupe, a French-governed archipelago in the Caribbean. Date: circa 1910s

Le Faou - La Place - Les Halles
Le Faouet, Brittany, France - La Place - Les Halles (Covered Market) - sadly no longer standing (although the rest of the buildings are unchanged to this day). Date: circa 1902

Ranikhet, India - The Bazar (Covered Market)
Ranikhet a hill station and cantonment town in Almora district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand - The Bazar (Covered Market). Date: 1910s

Dalways Bawn, Carrickfergus - a view along the side of a large ivy covered mansion. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Carrickfergus). Date: circa early 1900s

Shankill Castle, Co. Dublin - a view of the derelict and ivy covered castle, beside a large house, with a small boy in the foreground. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Dublin: Shankill)

BEDROOM 1930S / 1940S
A typical 1930s or 1940s bedroom, with twin beds covered in shiny quilted bedspreads, picture rail and blue tiled Art Deco style fireplace. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

UFO sighting at Hessdalen, Norway
In Norways long-drawn-out winter twilight, it is possible to photograph a UFO even in near-darkness, thus enabling its position to be estimated, and so its size and velocity

Pattern 1796, Light Cavalry Officers sword, 15th Hussars.Blade is curved and fullered with engraved decoration in the linear style typical of the period, the decoration includes floral designs

Dead Italian soldiers, Tolmin, Slovenia, WW1
Dead Italian soldiers with their faces covered up, at Tolmin (Tolmino), Slovenia, near the border with north eastern Italy, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Ouled Nails Woman in Covered Camel Palanquin
An Ouled Nails woman in Southern Algeria, showing her very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - The Bazar Date: circa 1920s

Manchester Street / 1950S
Figures hurry by the imposing form of an old school building in Manchester; the corner shop is covered with adverts for Lyons Tea and confectionery Date: circa 1955

A camel palanquin (covered litter), used to transport wives and children across the arid desert of southern Algeria, each with a central ventilation shaft. This picture is from Bousaada

Boys Club, mud bath, 1935
Two boys from a Boys Club, on the beach doing what boys do best; getting covered head to toe in mud

Winter scene with three birds flying over a field
A winter scene in the countryside with three birds (partridges or pheasants) flying low over a snow-covered field

Light above a hill at Hessdalen, Norway
One of the clearest photos taken of the Hessdalen lights, catching it as it moves just above the horizon beyond the snow-covered valley

Rail on Ice 1904
Railway tracks are laid over ice-covered Lake Baikal, and short trains cross carrying troops to the battlefront of the war with Japan

Bicycle covered in flowers on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Cutter Cove, Brunswick Peninsula, Chile, South America
Bay of Cutter Cove, a copper mining area on the Brunswick Peninsula south of Punta Arenas, Chile, South America. With two men working from a boat, and a narrow gauge railway track. Date: circa 1910

Beerenberg (Bear Mountain), Jan Mayen Island
Beerenberg is a stratovolcano which forms the northeastern end of the Norwegian island of Jan Mayen and is a part of Kingdom of Norway. It was used as a whaling base by the Dutch

Uzbekistan - Margilan, Fergana region - Skull cap sellers - note the women are completely covered. Date: circa 1910

The Singel Bridge at the Paleisstraat in Amsterdam, 1896-189
George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923). Dutch painter. The Singel Bridge at the Paleisstraat in Amsterdam, 1896-1898, Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Balawat gates. Reconstruction of the palace gates of Shalmaneser III (858-854 BC). Cedar wood and covered with bronze bands. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Dinner Ware with Crests, Monograms, Plate 15
Dinner Ware with Crests, Monograms, masonic devices, regimental, hotel, etc, Plate 15, showing plain and patterned plates, with a tureen and covered serving dishes. Date: circa 1880s

Piazza Navona Fountain
The Four Rivers fountain by Bernini in Piazza Navona; the figure of the Nile is shown with a covered head as the source of the Nile was unknown in Europe at this time Date: 1927

Officers sword, 51st Foot, 1809 (c); blade is curved, flat backed, unfullered with a spear point, and is double edged for the last 10 in; steel stirrup guard; steel hilt mounts

The Cloister, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Date: circa 1908

Dusseldorf Exhibition 1902 was a major national exhibition on an area by the Rhine which covered over 130 acres and had vast numbers of exhibits to showcase German industry

Rome, Italy - Capuchin Monks Campo Santo
Black and white. A crypt in which the walls are completely covered in human skulls. In addition there are three skeletons dressed in monks clothes attached to the wall in a standing position

Pine taiga - forest with forest floor covered in lichens; typical in the basin of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; spring. Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia;

Royal Navy men in Malta, WW1
Royal Navy men in Malta during the First World War. They are standing on a fire tender made by J Stone of Deptford, SE London. One person is in fancy dress, with their face covered, holding a fan

Fire at the Balham Covered Retail Market - 1953
Six-Pump Fire at the Balham Covered Retail Market, 31 Bedford Hill (on junction with Shipka Road), Balham, London 8th May 1953. Date: 1953

A miniature British Brodie helmet with laurel leaves
A miniature British Brodie helmet covered with laurel leaves, engraved Ypres on the rim. Signed J. Smit. Trench Art

Model of artillery piece, WW1
Model of an artillery piece, the barrel made out of different sized bullets on a wooden carriage with spoked wooden wheels covered with brass. Trench Art

Operation Mincemeat - possessions of Major Martin
Personal possessions of Major William Martin, found when his body was washed ashore in Spain on 30th April 1943 carrying sensitive documents

Tunisia - Tunis - The Light Souk, selling lanterns, chandeliers, lighting fittings etc Date: circa 1910s

Damascus, Syria - General Panoramic View including the long line of the Al-Hamidiyeh Bazar Souk (Covered market) which runs for 422m through the centre of the city. Date: circa 1910s

Dal Lake, Kashmir, India - Shikara Boat
The shikara, a type of Indian wooden boat shown here on Dal Lake and found on many other water bodies of Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Date: circa 1910s

Berastagi, Sumatra, Indonesia - traditional public seating areas (in the centre of a roadway) - captioned on this card as a Council Chamber Date: 1935

Aleppo, Syria - Entrance to the Cotton Market (Souk). Date: circa 1910s

Democratic Republic of Congo - Stanleyville - La Lowa Market
Democratic Republic of Congo (at this point the Belgian Congo) - Orientale Province - Stanleyville (now Kisangani) - La Lowa Covered Market - Villa Regina, run by the Belgian S. C. E. Barman Company

Coronation of Prince Faisal as King of Syria
Damascus, Syria - celebrations on the occasion of the coronation of Prince Faisal as King of Syria - a rein that only lasted 4 months! Date: 1920

Kapellbrucke covered Bridge, Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland
Interior of the famous Kapellbrucke (Chapel Bridge) covered Bridge, Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland. Two thirds of its interior paintings were tragically lost in a fire in 1993. Date: circa 1910s

Blue tits perched on a wheel on a cutout Christmas card
Four blue tits perched on a snow-covered wheel on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Winter conditions in the Yser country. A scene on the snow-covered road leading to the rear. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

LCC-LFB Brompton fire station, Kensington
Located at 18 South Parade, station A3 (later A6) Brompton was built in 1892. The escape ladder, covered in canvas, is on the station forecourt

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