Cranes Collection

Preston Docks, Lancashire
A wonderful photograph showing the Bardic Ferry unloading British Road Services trucks while docked at the quayside in Preston, Lancashire. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Wallsend, Tyneside
Houses and factories with cranes on the skyline in Wallsend, Tyneside

Blitz - Fire at Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe
Warehouses ablaze (the left wing of the No.8 warehouse) following the heavy enemy bombing raids on the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe

Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963

RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Lines
Cruise liner RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Lines. Date: circa 1960s

Shipyard Sunset
Sunset over the shipyards of the River Wear at Sunderland, Co Durham, England

Devonshire Dock - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Date: circa 1910s

London Docks 1930S
Barges, cranes and tramp steamers at the London Docks

Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia - Completed
A view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia - pictured shortly after construction had finished. The bridge was designed and built by Dorman Long and Co Ltd

Tower Bridge 1930S
A view of Tower Bridge, a bascule bridge, open to allow ships to sail down the Thames. Industrial view from beneath massive cranes

Blitz in London -- warehouses, Surrey Docks, WW2
Warehouses in a smoky atmosphere following heavy bombing raids on the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, SE London. This raid took place on 7 September 1940

London Life - The Busy Docks of the Port of London Date: circa 1940

Native vessels, Manama Pier, Bahrain, Persian Gulf
Native vessels by the pier at Manama, capital of Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s

2-4-2 Tank Engine Suspended by Cranes, Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Date: 1900s

The Landing Jetty - Port Elizabeth, South Africa Date: circa 1905

Three Cranes Inn pub York

A Lincolnshire Handicap by Heath Robinson
A race between cranes at the test ground of excavation specialists, Ruston-Bucyrus, who commissioned the ingenious Heath Robinson to draw a number of comical engineering drawings for a booklet

Embankment and River Thames, London
View of the Embankment and River Thames, London, on a misty day, with traffic crossing a bridge. circa 1940s

Liverpool Cathedral under construction from St. James Mount Date: circa 1908

Sunderland Docks
Industrial scene of ships docked at Sunderland in County Durham

Overhead cranes at Lockheed-Georgia move the first Lockh?
Overhead cranes at Lockheed-Georgia move the first Lockheed C-5A Galaxy upper forward fuselage to a new position

General Rawlinson and General Ironside, Archangel
General Sir Henry Rawlinson (1864-1925) (left) and Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) (right), British army officers, seen here with others on the quay at Archangel (Arkhangelsk)

Docklands development, London, England. A mass of cranes and jibs during construction work on tower block offices in the old docks Date: 1989

Fairey Firefly Being Loaded Onto Aircraft-Carrier Hms Glory (R62) at Iwakuni Docks, Southern Japan Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Faa During Korean War Date: 1951

Port Sunlight - barges laden with soap - early 1900s

Walney Bridge Barrow in Furness Edwardian period

Southampton Ocean Quay early 1900s

Folkestone Harbour, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Graf Zeppelin flying over the Port of Hamburg, Germany
A stunning real photographic postcard showing the Graf Zeppelin airship flying above the Kehrwiederspitze in the port of Hamburg, Germany

RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane
RMS Titanic - extremely rare Harland and Wolff linen backed scale drawing of the 150-200 ton 1- 80 scale floating crane, designed by Bertha Krupps and fabricated by Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG

Three famous Dockyards in Europe
Three dockyards in Europe, Germany, France and Austria building Dreadnoughts. The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The dockyards would allow the boats to

British Army, Light Refreshments, Heath Robinson
British Army, illustration by W Heath Robinson. Captioned Our Special Artist with The British Army: The Relay System for Conveying Light Refreshment to Advanced Posts'

City of Port Elizabeth at Royal Albert Dock, London
TMV City of Port Elizabeth loading at the Royal Albert Dock, London

Empress of Britain, Canadian Pacific liner
Canadian Pacific Liner, Empress of Britain in floodlight Date: 1936

Cranes in flight, Japanese painting Date: circa 1830

Industry Industrial Power Station 1960 1960s
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Foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland
A view of the turbine hall foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, showing the first reactor building in the background

Exterior of the Three Cranes, coffee tavern

Landing wines and spirits 1902
Unloading wine and spirit barrels from a ship. 1902

An inside view of a covered slip, with overhead travelling cranes at the Germania yard at Kiel, Germany. The ship being built is Battleship L'. Date: 1902

The Boiler shop (Water-tube boilers) at the Germania Shipyard, Kiel. Date: 1902

Dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c. 1890 s
19th century vintage photograph - steam driven dredger, dredging barge on the River Nile, Egypt, c.1890 s

The Pool of London with cranes
The Pool of London, view towards the Tower of London with cranes in the foreground. Date: circa 1930s

River Thames, Pool of London
View of the River Thames looking from The Pool of London towards Tower Bridge. Date: circa 1950s

Cranes and warehouses on the River Thames near Tower Bridge, London. Date: circa 1930s

City of Durban unloading cargo, Pool of London
The City of Durban passenger and refrigerated cargo ship having cargo moved onto barges in the Pool of London, River Thames. Date: circa 1950s

Barges moored on River Thames at Woolwich, SE London, at low tide. Date: circa 1960s

Gray Crowned Cranes at Nyeri, Kenya
circa 1910s

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