Crossing Collection (#17)

Northampton Corporation Trams Crossing, England
Northampton Corporation Trams Crossing, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1920s

Main Street, Cononley, Yorkshire
Main Street, Cononley, Keighley, near Steeton, Yorkshire, England. Showing the Level Crossing with Midland Railway Locomotive Date: 1916

Moss Crossing Halt, Moss, Denbighshire
Moss Crossing Halt, Moss, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales. Great Western Railway Date: 1930s

Railway Station & Level Crossing, Shoot Hill, Shropshire
Railway Station & Level Crossing, Shoot Hill, Shrewsbury, near Ford, Shropshire, England. Date: 1940s

Public Garden subway entrance, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, showing pedestrians and tramcars. Date: circa 1906

Intercity Viaduct, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The Intercity Viaduct, crossing the Kansas River in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was built in 1907 for use by vehicles and pedestrians. It is now known as the Lewis and Clark Viaduct

WW1 - Extrication of the Belgian Army from Antwerp - a packed trainload of troops at Maldeghem on the railway between Ghent and Bruges

WW1 - Eastern Front - German Cavalry (Uhlans) attacking a Russian Baggage Convoy at a ford. Date: 1915

Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert
Rosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)

R. M. S. Queen Mary, record Atlantic crossing, by G. H. Davi
The ever-shortening Atlantic crossing: Epochs in its history; with a scale showing, graphically, the reduction from Columbuss seventy days to the Queen Mary in four days. 1936

Washingtons crossing of the Delaware River, 1776. Illustration published in the New York Mirror on September 24, 1842. Engraving

FORT, Jean Antoine Simeon (1793-1861). Napoleonic Wars. The French troops, led by Marshals Joachim Murat and Jean Lannes, crossing the Danube in Vienna to attack the Austrian troops (1805). Painting

South Africa - Vaal River
Black and white image of the Vaal River, South Africa, showing horse-drawn carriages crossing pont in foreground and Barkley Bridge in background

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Mule-team crossing drift
Black and white lantern Slide of Mule-team crossing Drift - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 45 Mule-team crossing drift Date: circa 1890s

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Coach crossing Limpopo
Black and white lantern Slide of Coach crossing Limpopo - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Diamond Jubilee - Colonial Permiers and Troops
Queen Victorias Jubilee Procession, London - Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Diamond Jubilee procession crossing London Bridge. Part of Box 260 Jubilee. Date: 1897

Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee - Horse Artillery
Queen Victorias Jubilee Procession, London - Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Diamond Jubilee procession crossing London Bridge. Part of Box 260 Jubilee. Date: 1897

Switzerland - Basel, Old Bridge and Three Kings Hotel
Coloured lantern slide depicting a view of the Three Kings Hotel, Basel. Old Bridge can be seen in the foreground, as can the River Rhine

Japan - Crossing a River by pole ferry boat
Black and white lantern slide showing Japanese women and children crossing a River by pole ferry boat Date: circa 1890s

Japan - Pontoon Bridge across a River
Black and white lantern slide showing a Pontoon Bridge across a River, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Burke and Wills Monument
Slide showing a black and white photograph of the Burke and Wills Monument in the city of Melbourne in Australia. The Burke and Wills Statue by Charles Summers is located on the corner of Collins

Wildebeest crossing river (Connochaetes taurinus). Ngorongoro - Tanzania - Africa

Spain - Bull Fighting - Sortie of the Quadrilla - from Lif
A black and white slide showing a bull fighting arena with a procession of men both walking and on horse back crossing it.. Slide number 366 in Box 148 entitled Spain Bull Fighting & Spanish Life

Spain - Bull Fighting - The procession of Bull Fighters - fr
A black and white slide showing a bull fighting arena with a procession of men both walking and on horse back crossing it.. Slide number 365 in Box 148 entitled Spain Bull Fighting & Spanish Life

Siberian Lemming - adult sniffs air prior to crossing a puddle (Lemmings can swim). (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

American battleship crossing Atlantic, WW1
An American battleship crossing the Atlantic to take part in the First World War. Date: circa 1918

Boy scouts on a rope bridge, Mauritius
Boy scouts crossing on a rope bridge, Mauritius

People crossing Tarr Steps, Exmoor, Somerset
Two men and two dogs crossing the Tarr Steps, a clapper bridge across the River Barle in Exmoor National Park, Somerset. 1966

Proposed Channel Tunnel, works at Sangatte
The works at Sangatte on the French coast for the proposed Channel Tunnel in 1876, described in The Graphic as, " this gigantic and long-talked of scheme, "

Projects for a road & rail link between Britain & France
A double page spread from The Illustrated London News demonstrating a number of rival proposals for building a road and rail link between France and Britain

Visitors to the Channel Tunnel works at Dover in 1882. 1. Going down in the Cage. 2. Arrival at the bottom of the shaft. 3. Swindon Junction (visitors enjoying a restorative glass of champagne!) 4

Proposed Channel bridge, 1889
Diagrams demonstrating a 24 mile long superstructure bridge to cross the Channel, proposed in 1889 as an alternative to the long-debated Channel Tunnel. The bridge was suggested by M

Norddorf auf Amrum, Amrum Island, North Germany
Norddorf auf Amrum, one of the oldest villages on Amrum Island, a North Frisian Island, part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Seen here with a train crossing the dunes

Procession crossing bridge, Odessa, Ukraine
A procession crossing the bridge in Odessa, Ukraine

The finish, Henley Royal Regatta
The finish, Henley-on-Thames Royal Regatta, early 1900s Date: earkly 1900s

Firefighters at Lyons Maid, Stamford Street, London
Firefighters and onlookers outside Lyons Maid Ltd in Stamford Street, Southwark, London SE1, on 24 April 1968. Date: 1968

French cavalry fording a river in Northern France, WW1
Two photographs showing how French cavalry cross an unbridged river on a march. The men are conveyed across on pontoon boats and when one horse is led across, the rest follow on behind. Date: 1915

Kingston scouts crossing river, Jamaica
Boys of No.1 Scout Troop, Kingston, Jamaica, crossing a river

French Tanks crossing German trenches. Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939)

1st Bellevue Scouts crossing watercourse
Boys of the 1st Bellevue Scout Troop of Johannesburg, South Africa, crossing a watercourse

Flanders: Crossing of Yser river barrier
The bridging of the Yser and Yser canal under fire, during the opening allied attack: Two of the British infantry and pack-horse bridges. Date: 1917

Traffic control for pedestrian crossings
Traffic control by light-ray : the first system of its kind. A new method of controlling road traffic by beams of light broken by pedestrian and vehicles

Retreat from Antwerp, October 1914
Retreat from Antwerp during and after bombardment by the German army; great exodus of the population into Holland, retirement of the Belgian army towards the west, 9th October 1914

First one-engined, eight-seater aeroplane
Airco 18, a new type of aeroplane carrying 18 passengers across-channel, London to Paris. The pilot, reversing previous practice, sits behind

First attack of the Battle of Flanders
Second Battle of Flanders: Going methodically forward they took every trench and point they were set to take precisely as was appointed for them, until they arrived close up to the Steenbeek River

Wartime ferrywoman, WW1
A wartime ferrywoman at work on an English tidal river, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Ponte Vecchio and River Arno, Florence, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Brunels Iron Railway Bridge, Chepstow, UK
Brunels Iron Railway Bridge over the River Wye at Chepstow, UK. Date: late 19th century

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