Ditch Collection

British soldiers rescuing horse from ditch, Flanders, WW1
British soldiers trying to rescue a horse which has fallen into a ditch, blown by the force from a bursting shell, on the road to Reutel, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Menhir Section / Bossenno
A cross-section of a large menhir, close to the site of the Bossenno; a cluster of prehistoric barrows, and a Gallo-Roman villa

Malta / Valletta Bridge
Valletta: Porta Reale, gate and drawbridge over the ditch protecting the inner walls of the city Date: 1909

Oxford Castel C16th ?
Plan of the motte and bailey castle of William the Conqueror showing the ditch, surrounding houses & their gardens, the Session House & St Georges Tower & the keep

WW2, R. A. F. Messenger Pigeons
An illustration which shows a man of the Royal Air Force tending the the messenger pigeons. Bomber and reconnaissance aircrafts would carry pigeons in watertight containers

Cartoon, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by James Gillray. Depicting Napoleon (ironically in the role of John Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian) having to confront an array of problems

Capture of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, hiding in a ditch on 8 July 1685, having fled from the Battle of Sedgemoor two days earlier. Date: 1685

Jacobs Island
View of Folly ditch, Jacobs Island. Jacobs Island was a notorious slum in Bermondsey, London, in the 19th century, located on the south bank of the River Thames

Metropolitan railway and Fleet Ditch 1862
Engraving from the foot of Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, at its junction with Bagnigge Wells Road. of a portion of the works in progress for this vast undertaking. 1862

Signpost Lane, from British lines to German lines, WW1
Signpost Lane, which ran from the British lines, through the German lines into the village of Neuve Chapelle. This sketch was made from a ditch in No-Man s-Land during a reconnaissance for

Bleriot 71 four engined bomber, one of a series of similar aircraft produced by Bleriot from 1916. Early in its flight test program an incident during landing, on 15 May 1918

Hundred Years War, siege of town
Siege of a town. Date: circa 1380s

RUNNING AT WOOLWICH 1867
Running at Woolwich via a rather hazardous looking ditch. Date: 1867

Red Lion Tavern
Various aspects of the old Red Lion Tavern. Possibly dating from the mid-16th century, this rambling building stood in Chick Lane (also called West Street) near Saffron Hill in West Smithfield

Palaemonetes varians, ditch shrimp larva
Larva of the ditch shrimp in stage five of development, just prior to metamorphosis

British, with machine guns, take up a position in a ditch in
Photograph: British, with machine guns, take up a position in a ditch in France.In fact it shows men with a Vickers machine-gun in training

Boys paddling in a stream. circa 1938

London Trade Card - John Edwards, Coal Merchant, at the Old Collier and Cart, Fleet Ditch, near Holborn Bridge. 18th century

Nantes, France - Rue de la Fosse (Ditch Street). Date: circa 1910s

Tram Construction at Belfast, Body of Car Showing Framework, in Erecting Shop - a view of the wooden framework of the tram in a large indoor workplace

Digging an irrigation ditch, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Irrigation ditch and sugar cane field, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1935

Windmill and farm buildings. Date: circa 1930s

Thatched cottage near Dunster, Somerset
A pretty thatched cottage near Dunster, Somerset, with a woman and two children walking by. Date: circa 1950s

Serbian armoured car is ambushed
In southern Serbia, near Strumnitza, Two Serbian armoured vehicles are ambushed by Bulgarians. One vehicle escapes but the other runs off the road and is stranded in a ditch

British staff car avoids shell hole
A British Staff Car veers to one side to avoid a large shell hole in the middle of the road on which they are hurrying. Narrowly avoiding ending up in the roadside ditch

The Fleet ditch, from the Red Lion
The Fleet ditch, pictured from the Red Lion

Bonzos Grand National by George Studdy
Bonzos Grand National -- Bonzo, Chee-Kee, and Bonzos brethren hold a Grand National on their own. Some of them get rather wet in an open ditch

Biplane in a ditch
A biplane which has landed in a water-filled ditch

German tank at the side of a road, WWI
A World War One German tank in a shallow ditch at the side of a road at the end of the war, with a car passing alongside. Date: circa early 1920s

Two cars in a ditch
Two cars which have somehow fallen into a ditch. People look with curiosity, wondering how to get them out again

Bus in a ditch
A bus which has somehow fallen into a ditch. A group of boys stand around, wondering how to get it out again

Entrance to the Fleet Ditch, London. Now a fully subterranean river - its headwaters are two streams on Hampstead Heath. The impressive building is Bridewell Palace

Foxhunting Humour - In the action
" Hullo, old chap, you look as if you d had sport! In at the kill?" " Well, no. I was in at the ditch and in a the river. We can t expect to be in everywhere." Date: 1902

NFS (London Region) Southall horse rescue, WW2
Firefighters from K2Z Southall fire station area attempting to rescue a horse that fell into a deep, water filled ditch and was unable to get out unaided

Ditch of the Bastion du Mat. View of the earthworks showing spiked timbers, gabions, and openings to underground bomb shelters at the Bastion du Mat

Ditch of the Malakoff, battery gervais and rear of the redan. Print shows a view of the earthworks, gabions, and passageways at the Malakoff

Views of the new ditch, of the Columbia & Stanislaus River W

Migrant cotton pickers child who lives in a tent in the government camp instead of along the highway or in a ditch bank. Shafter Camp for migrants, California. Date 1938 Nov

7th Dragoon Guards - Taking the Water Jump. Date: circa 1910s

Ditching Tools
An impressive collection of ditching tools, leaning against a wall in Wales. Date: 1950s

Motor Accident, Cyprus
A motor car stuck in a ditch on the road from the port of Larnaca to Nikosia, Cyprus. The rough, narrow dirt tracks are really only fit to be used by traditional donkey carts. Date: 1930s

Roman Ditch
The outer ditch of the old encampment, said to be of Roman origin, on Badby Down, near Badby, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1960s

The Churchill Stone, an ancient standing stone in a ditch between Chipping Campden and the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, England. Date: BC

Childrens Tug O War
In this battle of the sexes, the girls seem to be winning - one of the boys has already fallen into the ditch and soon his companions will follow... Date: 1901

Incident with an American tank, western front, WW1
An incident with an American tank on the western front during the First World War. The tank appears to be stuck in a ditch or trench. Date: 1917-1918

British troops draining marshes, Salonika Front, WW1
British troops belonging to a Labour Battalion, trying to prevent malaria by draining marshes at Danbabali on the Salonika Front during the First World War. Date: 1917

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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