Distance Collection (page 7)

Honeymoon couple and signpost at Lands End, Cornwall
Honeymoon couple posing by the famous signpost at Lands End, Cornwall, on 10 June 1985 -- Odessa, where the bride comes from, is 1594 miles away. Date: 1985

Wooded lane in West Sussex, England, with a figure in the far distance. circa 1966

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - Base of Eiffel Tower - Looking through base of tower to statue and buildings in distance. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to

Landing Stage, Liverpool - small ships in foreground - large ships right background Sheds on left and in distance. Part of Box 12 Boswell collection. Counties of England. Date: circa 1900

Arcadia Caf頡nd Bathing Place, Portrush
Arcadia Caf頡 nd Bathing Place, Portrush - an elevated view looking down on the Caf頡 nd beach, there are a lot of people sitting and walking and in the distance, off the Skerries

Lurig and Bridge Over R. Dall, Cushendall - a view of a footbridge over the river and Lurig in the distance. There are houses on the hill. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Cushendall)

Knock Road, Belfast - a view of a residential road to the Church, in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Woodvale Park, Belfast - a view of the park and pond with four boys in the foreground and a Church in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Dollys Brae, Castlewellan - a view of a long road going into the distance with a motor car and boy beside a building, taken closer to the building

Mill Bay, Kilkeel, Co. Down - a view of a beach and the Mournes in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Kilkeel). Date: circa early 1900s

Hill of Howth - a view from a beach to Howth hill in the distance. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Dublin; Dublin). Date: circa early 1900s

Fahan and Inch Island, Co. Donegal - a view looking down on a pier with paddle steamer alongside and the mountains in the distance. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Fahan)

Cavehill Rd, Belfast - a view along the Cavehill road with houses to the Cavehill in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Shaftesbury Park, Carrickfergus - an elevated view of the park and the clover pond. There are people and in the distance buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Carrickfergus)

Bank Heads, Larne - an elevated view showing promenade and swimming piers and Chaine memorial in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Larne). Date: circa early 1900s

Bray Head, Co Wicklow - a low view along the beach with beached rowing boats and people and buildings in the distance. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Wicklow: Bray). Date: circa early 1900s

Vinegar Hill, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford - a view across a river and buildings on the other side to a hill in the distance. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Wexford; Enniscorthy)

Fantastic Adventures - Dwellers of the Deep
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1942, featuring the story Dwellers of the Deep by Don Wilcox. Man in wet suit looks through a round window of a submarine

Lunar Landscape Demisun
A lunar landscape in half sunlight : the Earth in the distance is half in sunlight, half in darkness. Date: circa 1890

Mercedes Gleitze greased for Gibraltar swim
Open water long-distance swimmer Mercedes Gleitze greases herself in preparation for her Strait of Gibraltar attempted swim (she succeeded on her second attempt in 1928). Date: 1927

Mercedes Gleitze hauled from water on Gibraltar swim
Mercedes Gleitze, the British long distance open water swimmer, is hauled out of the water into a boat on her attempt to swim the Straits of Gibraltar from Tangier to Gibraltar. Date: 1927

Douglas Lowe winning 800m Olympic final in 1924
Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe (7 August 1902 30 March 1981) was a British double Olympic Games champion, winning gold medals in 1924 and 1928

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1934
Bear Brand crepe luxury stockings. " Hallo... long distance? oh, lo darling.. sweet of you to ring me.. you ll be be back for christmas... marvellous... what do I want?

France / Amiensl
General view of the town with the Somme in the foreground, the cathedral in the distance. Date: circa 1840

Aerial view of St Pauls and its neighbourhood - London
Aerial view of St Pauls and its neighbourhood with London Bridge in the distance, taken from a balloon at about 1, 500ft by Griffith Brewer on 22 May 1909

Junkers Ju86A1 D-AXEQ B�rg of Lufthansa
Junkers Ju86A1, D-AXEQ, Brg, of Lufthansa. Windowless, it had extra fuel tanks fitted in the fuselage and on 22-23 August 1936 it flew non-stop from Dessau to Bathurst, a distance of 3, 603 miles

Kokine Swimming Club - Rangoon - within walking distance of Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

Charles Rowell. The Celebrated Pedestrian. Born in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England, August 12th 1853. Height 6 ft. 5 ins. Weight 140 lbs. Winner of the Astley Belt

German Paris Gun in Krupp factory, WW1
The German Paris Gun (also known as the Emperor William Gun), a long-range seige gun designed and manufactured by Krupp, used towards the end of the First World War

Signpost at Bluff, South Island, New Zealand
The signpost at Stirling Point, Bluff, South Island, New Zealand, showing distances to major cities around the world. Bluff is the southernmost town in New Zealand

Children on an atmospheric country lane
A boy and girl walk down a misty country lane into the middle distance. The atmospheric mood is one of calm and serenity. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Largest Gorilla Ever
This huge ape, five feet five inches high, measures a distance of over eight feet from finger to finger; the largest ever captured at this time

Alhambra Gardens - Black and white view along anvenue- small house in distance Date: circa 1890s

French Railway Alphabet - J for Jalons (milestones or markers). 19th century

Burqos, from railway - Black and white view of town, cathedral spires in distance, man with apron right foreground (see also BEYBM : 2002.758) Date: circa 1890s

Drake by Louis N. Parker. For the revival. His Majestys Theatre is written on the front of the card and 1915 on the reverse, but the run ended on 11th November 1914

Marathon stilt walker at Lands End, Cornwall
Marathon stilt walker, Russell Fowler, at Lands End, Cornwall, after completing his Tamar Bridge to Lands End marathon walk. Date: circa 1980s

Long distance swimmers, St Ives, Cornwall
Long distance swimmers entering the sea at St Ives, Cornwall, smeared in grease. Date: circa 1980s

General view of Darjeeling, India, with the Himalayan mountain range in the distance. Date: circa 1905

David Moorcroft, British runner, in Cornwall
David Moorcroft (b.1953), British middle-distance and long-distance runner, signing autographs at a fun run in Penzance, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

A glimpse of the enemy Oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936), 1910 (c). An officer and a trooper of 16th Light Dragoons (or the Queen)

Great Pyramid of Giza in the distance, with visitors and cars waiting at the side of the road. Date: 1978

Line of cars in the distance
Row of cars in the distance at a traffic light in Buenos Aires, Argentina, surrounded by towering buildings Date: 1980

A narrow street on a Greek Island, with two bikes park to the left of the image and three people in the far distance. Date: 1978

Large boat in full view in the harbour on a Greek Island, against a pale sky, trees and houses in the distance. Date: 1978

People rowing at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Two men on a punt, with people rowing in the distance at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. circa 1970

Saint George Bay (Bay of Beirut), Lebanon
View of Saint George Bay, also known as Bay of Beirut (Beyrouth), from a route to the mountain town Dhour El Choueir in Mount Lebanon (Liban) Governate, Lebanon. Date: circa 1940

Sheep Grazing - Kensington Gardens, London - Albert Memorial
Sheep grazing in Kensington Gardens, London. The first ever Ha-Ha in the country acted as the dividing line between Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

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