Crane Collection (page 4)

Mauritius - Port Louis - Port Quayside showing the Crane Date: circa 1909

Prince Albert lays foundation stone - Nautical School
May 1919 - prince Albert (later King George VI 1895-1952) lays the foundation stone for a new Nautical School at Poole, Dorset

The Naval Steelworks of Saint-Chamond, Loire, France
The Naval Steelworks (with drop hammer forges) of Saint-Chamond, France. The Compagnie des forges et acieries de la marine et dHomecourt (FAMH)

Ceres - Demeter Crane 1889
Ceres (Demeter), a symbol of harvest time. Date: 1906

Carried Away on Site
A man clings on for dear life as he is carried aloft on a building site, high above the rooftops. Date: 1915

Building Site Trauma
An awkward accident on a skyscraper building site: a man is carried aloft by a crane Date: 1915

HUMBER PULLMAN 1931
A Humber Pullman is about to be taken aboard a Channel ferry, raised by crane on a pallet. Date: 1931

CHILDREN SKIP / GLASGOW
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

SKIPPING / 1960S
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

CHILDREN PLAY / GLASGOW
Children playing in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

Mode Wheel Locks, Manchester, England. Date: circa 1920s

Liberty Men head off on shore leave aboard a Picket Boat. Date: circa 1910s

Leduc 0. 11 Ramjet Suspended from a Crane
Leduc 0.11 Ramjet Suspended from a Crane Date: 1950s

Airship Flying Past a Crane

Boeing 377 C-97 Stratocruiser
Airmen Working on the Pw R-4360 Engine of a Boeing 377 C-97 Stratocruiser During the Berlin Airlift at the Headquarters of the USAFe 85th Air Depot-Wing Date: 1949

Harbour Scene - Tanzania, East Africa. Date: 1927

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a crane made in Japan for the Chinese market Date: c. 1910s

Alice Rollins-Crane, American ethnologist, author, business owner, and miner well known for her work with the Apache Native Americans and her time in Alaska and the Yukon

Woman police officer in a London street, sticking a yellow label on a car windscreen, with a Metropolitan Police Vehicle Removal Unit lorry behind her

Construction of Torridge Bridge near Bideford, Devon
Construction of the Torridge Bridge near Bideford, Devon, carrying the A39. It opened in 1987. Date: circa 1987

Cover design, Floras Feast, a Masque of Flowers, with text and illustrations by Walter Crane. Date: 1895

RMS Queen Mary leaving Southampton for the last time
RMS Queen Mary, Cunard ocean liner, leaving Southampton for the last time, 31 October 1967. Date: 1967

Blitz in London -- Kennington Park Road, WW2
Blitz in London -- junction of Kennington Park Road and Harleyford Road, damaged by a high explosive bomb on 22 March 1944. Date: 1944

LCC-LFB 50 foot wheeled escape ladder in use
A wheeled escape ladder being used in the bridged position as a crane whilst LFB crews undertake a rescue, by line, from the basement area of a building under demolition

Tema Fishing Harbour, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa
Tema fishing harbour and docks, Ghana, Gold Coast, West Africa. Date: circa 1950

RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner at Southampton
RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner of the Cunard Line at Southampton, with tugs Formby and Kestrel. Date: circa 1940s

Shipbuilding at Belfast, the 200 Ton Floating Crane - a view of the large crane. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Manufacture of Naval Artillery - Krupp Works, Essen, Germany
Manufacture of Naval Artillery at the Krupp Works, Essen, Germany. Date: 1906

17th Century Crane
A 17th century crane, timber construction : the wheel enables it to be turned, for instance when loading a vessel from a dock. Date: 1690

Eiffel Tower being built 1888
Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, strated in January 1887 and finished in March 1889, here you can see workmen building parts of Eiffel Tower

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

Fishing boats on a beach. Date: circa 1920s

Numidian crane, demoiselle crane or dancing bird, Anthropoides virgo.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Cumbria
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Shipyard, The Docks, Barrow-in-Furness, near Walney Island, Cumbria, England. Showing the HMS Natal & Cantilever Crane Date: 1907

The Pool of London with ships and barges being loaded and unloaded with the distinctive outline of Tower Bridge in the distance. Date: circa 1920s

Sarus Crane - pair in wetland habitat (Indian population) (Grus antigone). Nepal

Millbank Tower under construction, London SW1
Millbank Tower under construction in March 1961, London SW1. Originally known as Vickers Tower, it was completed in 1963. It is located opposite LFB Headquarters. Date: 1961

Old Workhouse, Salisbury, Wiltshire
A view of the former Salisbury workhouse on Crane Street which closed in 1869. Date: 1881

Armstrong Whitworth crane
A hydraulic crane at the Armstrong Works, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, lifting 120 tons. Date: 1887

Shipping Rum - British Guiana (Guyana)
Shipping Rum (and sugar cane required in the production of rum) - British Guiana (the name of the British colony on the northern coast of South America, now the independent nation of Guyana)

Grus japonensis, red-crowned crane
Plate 61, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

A scrapyard for cars, St Erth, Cornwall
A scrapyard for cars at St Erth near Hayle in Cornwall. A crane is about to drop another car on the heap

Good King Arthur / Crane
Ye goode kinge Arthur... looking somewhat more sprightly than in Tennysons Idylls of the king !

Children watch a puppet show in Paris, France
Children watch a Theatre Amusant puppet show in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, France

Piers and boats, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Piers and boats in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1910

Bay and piers, Antofagasta, Chile, South America
Bay and piers in the port city of Antofagasta, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1905

Panorama of Valparaiso, Chile, South America, showing the harbour, ships, docks and city. Date: circa 1920

Scene at Leith Docks with ferry for Shetland Islands
Scene at Leith Docks with a ferry about to depart for the Shetland Islands. The photographers van is in the foreground, also waiting to be loaded on board. circa late 1950s

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