Ditch Collection (page 2)

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

Latham / Antoinette
The Antoinette monoplane, designed by Levavasseur, in which English aviator Hubert Latham twice tries to fly the English Channel, being forced to ditch on both occasions. Date: July 1909

Battle of Festubert 1915
German first line trenches with shells bursting in the distance. The ditch between the British and German lines was at some point 15 feet wide

An incident with a car, Iran
A large number of people trying to move a car out of a ditch, somewhere in Iran

A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890
Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine

Royal Graves Vandalised
Hatred of the ancien regime is carried to extremes when vandals break into the crypt at Saint-Denis, take the royal corpses from their coffins and throw them in a common ditch

Valette and Envoy
La Valette, Grand Master of the Hospitallers, shows the Turkish envoy a ditch and says thats the only part of Malta the besiegers will obtain. Below, view of Malta

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Pigeon Used in Crash
During World War One, a British flying-boat is forced to ditch in the sea : a homing pigeon is released to summon help

Ireland / Cartoon 1893
HOME RULE : ULSTER LAST DITCH Cartoon showing Gladstone as the Pilgrim walking the Home Rule wall around the Irish Nationalist Bog

Hadrians W / Sewingshields
The approach to Sewingshields milecastle along Hadrians Wall, 2km east of Housesteads fort. The wall, and southern vallum ditch system can clearly be seen

Vallum at down Hill
A view of the vallum at Down Hill. The Vallum was a mound and ditch system, lying directly behing Hadrians Wall. It acted as a mechanism for people-control

Vallum on Hadrians Wall
The fosse ditch of the vallum system at Limestone Bank. The vallum lay behind the main stucture of Hadrians wall, and acted as a people-control structure, not as a defence

Merry Wives / Falstaff / A3
Sir John Falstaff thrown into the muddy ditch close by the Thames side Act III

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