Cranes Collection (page 3)

Busy waterfront scene, Stockholm, Sweden, with the Katarina Elevator (passenger lift) after its 1936 rebuild. Date: circa 1938

HMS Vulcan Torpedo-boat in Dry Dock
HMS Vulcan was launched in 1889 as a cruiser and torpedo-boat depot ship. Visible at top of picture are the curved arms of the special cranes fitted for deploying torpedo boats. Date: 1896

Construction work at the Bank of England
Rebuilding of the Bank of England on Threadneedle Street. In the late 1920s much of John Soanes original building was knocked down and a new

Wharfs, docks and sheds, Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
Wharfs, docks and sheds, Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1920

View down Corporation Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. Date: circa 1905

Dunkirk, France - Guillain Lock, WW2
Dunkirk, France - Guillain Lock and Chamber of Commerce building, showing damage suffered during WW2. Date: 1940-1945

Pier at Manama, Bahrain, Persian Gulf
Pier at Manama, capital of Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s

Old Japanese Matchbox label with Whooping Cranes made in Osaka in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Demolition of London Bridge, London
Demolition of the 19th century London Bridge, which opened in 1831. The bridge was dismantled and sold to an American entrepreneur, Robert P McCulloch of McCulloch Oil, for US $2, 460, 000

Leonardesque models. Revolving cranes. 15th century. Models
Machine. Leonardes models. Revolving cranes. 15th century. The Science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. Italy

Reliefs depicting the flora and fauna along the Nile River. Wall of the Temple of Hatshepsut. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Deir El-Bahari. Egypt

Big Crane of Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan
An interesting wooden postcard featuring the Big Crane of the Mitsubishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, Japan Date: circa early 1910s

Bombay Docks
Dockyard cranes at Bombay (Mumbai), India. Date: circa 1930

Page from a catalogue toy trains and cars 1929
A seletion of British made wooden and polished aluminium trains, cars, vans and cranes. Products available from the Harrods catalogue toy department. Date: 1929

Chinese Embroidery 1913
A narrow fitting dress with bateau (boat) neckline made from an oriental (Chinese) fabric depicting cranes & flowers. She wears 2 long strings of beads. 1913

Buiding the Houses of P
The Hoisting-scaffold in operation during the construction of the Victoria Tower of the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Pugin. Date: 1850

Goods transporter at Manchester Station
An overhead transporter carries goods to the appropriate platform at Manchester Station. Date: 1892

Aerial view of the port, Casablanca, Morocco. circa 1930

Docks and mills, Puerto Galvan, Argentina, South America
Docks and flour mills and a railway terminal at Puerto Galvan, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1910

Artist at work on a canvas, Brixham Harbour, Devon
Artist at work on a canvas at Brixham Harbour, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Crane. Date: 1933

Pacific coast railway terminus, Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico
Pacific coast railway terminus and docks (part of the Tehuantepec National Railway), Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico. Date: circa 1907

View of a dockside with cranes. Date: circa 1920s

Harbour with fishing boats at low tide, and a ship in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Ship at a quayside. Date: circa 1920s

The Docks, Southampton, Hampshire, England. Showing Cranes Date: 1950s

Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire
The Great Bear (Great Western Pacific ) Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire, England. Great Western Railway Date: 1920s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, in construction
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

Queen Mary Ocean Liner work begins
Full Steam Ahead. John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534

South Africa - Port Elizabeth
Black and white image of harbour and cranes at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 6. Date: circa 1890s

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - pair dancing in snow (Grus japonensis)

Japanese / Red-Crowned / Manchurian CRANE - leaping (Grus japonensis)

JAPANESE / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - two in snow (Grus japonensis)

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-Crowned CRANE - courting dance (Grus japonensis). Japanese Crane

Whooping Crane (Grus americana )

Grey crowned-crane (Balearica regulorum)

DEMOISELLE CRANES - In flight, over mountains (Anthropoides virgo). Nepal

Demoiselle Cranes - in flight over Himalayas (Anthropoides virgo). Nepal. Migration

Demoiselle Cranes - feeding. India

HMS Birmingham, British light cruiser, seen here at Avonmouth Docks. Date: circa 1914

insert Date: 1936

Kleinhuningen, port on the Rhine, Basel, Switzerland
Kleinhuningen, a port on the River Rhine, Basel, Switzerland

LFB fireboat AFB2, River Thames, Pool of London
LFB fireboat AFB2 on the River Thames, Pool of London, with Tower Bridge in the distance

View of Tower Bridge, London, with the Tower in the distance on the far right

LFB Fireboat attending a fire at Colonial Wharf
A fireboat tackles a fire at Colonial Wharf. A typical big Thameside fire of the sort which the London fire Brigade had tackled over 100 years: Colonial Wharf, Wapping High Street, E1

Britain poster, Hull, The Docks, by Val Doone for The Travel Association. Date: circa 1938

Poster design, British and American shipping
Poster design, Britain and America have over two million tons more shipping today than in August 1942

Cargo ship with cranes. Date: 20th century

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