Drift Collection (page 2)

Drift over Molopo River, Mafeking, South Africa
Drift over the Molopo River at Mafeking (Mahikeng, Mafikeng), NW Province, South Africa, where a Boer attack took place in May 1900 towards the end of the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer

Clearing a snowdrift close to Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Snow Plough of the TCL&M ( Toledo (Port), Clinton, Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad), Michigan, USA near Traverse City. Date: circa 1908

Approach to a Japanese Shinto Shrine in the snow. Date: circa 1910s

Train Stopped by Snow
A night train stopped by snow - workers clear the drift by the lights from the locomotive. Date: 1854

South Africa / River Drift
South African scenery: a river drift or ford Date: 1905

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lions
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

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

Car in a snowdrift near Crediton, Devon
A car driving through the middle of a snowdrift near Crediton, Devon. The road has been cut through by a bulldozer. Date: 1963

Drifting derelict warship, Richelieu, by G. H. Davis
The drifting of the derelict French warship, Richelieu. While being towed from Toulon to Rotterdam, the ship broke loose from her tugs at Brest

Snow on a mountainside - Dolotimes. Italy
Immense drift of snow on a mountainside in the Dolotimes, Italy Date: circa 1930s

Barges on the River Thames, 1845
Engraving showing a number of barges on the River Thames, on the day of the Lord Mayor of Londons Show, 1845. The Stationers Companys barge may be seen at left, being rowed

Saint Pierre and Miquelon - After a heavy snowfall
Houses on Saint Pierre and Miquelon (a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near Canada) pictured after a heavy snowfall Date

Snowplough clearing the Grande Rue at Morez, France
Snowplough (snowplow) clearing the Grande Rue at Morez, France - a commune of the Jura department in Franche-Comte in eastern France. Date: circa 1910s

Pakistan - NWFP - Murree, Holy Trinity Church, Mall Road
Pakistan - NWFP - Murree - Holy Trinity Church located at Mall Road (built in 1857) in Winter Date: circa 1910s

Airspeed AS10 Oxford I L4539
Airspeed AS10 Oxford I, L4539, was fitted experimentally with McLaren drift correcting undercarriage

Entada sp. sea beans
Sea beans or drift seeds from vines and trees along tropical coasts and rainforests which drift along with ocean currents and wash up on beaches

Virgatosphinctes, ammonite
Shown here is an Ammonite fossil recovered from over 5000m above sea-level in the Himalaya region

An early snowplough tram in Montreal, Canada. This is the number 8 tram... Date: circa 1910

Bergensbanen Railway - Station at Myrdal
A snowplough train clears the tracks at Myrdal Station (Norwegian: Myrdal stasjon), located along the Bergensbanen railway line in Aurland municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Date: circa 1920s

Arctic Bear Hunter
An arctic bear hunter, on top of a mound of snow, searching for the body of the bear he has just shot through the skull. 1930s

Skiing by a Snowdrift
A blonde skier gingerly negotiates a large snow drift, hoping to avoid an avalanche! Date: 1930s

Lantern / Zulu / Heroes 1879
Heroes of Rorkes Drift: Smith-Dorrien, Bromhead, Dartnell and Chard Date: 1879

Gonville Bromhead
GONVILLE BROMHEAD Military : second-in-command at Rorkes Drift, (Zulu-British war, January 1879) when he won a VC : later in India where he died of typhoid. Date: 1845 - 1892

A Near Thing by William Heath Robinson
Humorous illustration showing two cars laden with trunks and Christmas parcels stuck in the snow while their two drivers pucker up for a kiss underneath some mistletoe

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

New design for train snow plough
A new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings

Train Blocked by Snow
Train passengers discover they are stuck in the snow during the storm of Tuesday 18th January 1881

Cars stuck in snow at Pease Pottage, 1963
A long line of cars stranded at Pease Pottage Hill on the London to Brighton road in deep snow during the ferocious winter of 1963

Jets to clear snow drifts in Wales in 1947
Men engaged in fitting jet units to the rear of a wagon on a snow encrusted stretch of line near Brecon, an ingenious way of clearing the disabling snow drifts preventing trains carrying coal

Bredhurst isolated by snow in 1947
An aerial view showing squads of men cutting their way through drifts to the village of Bredhurst which, although only four miles from Chatham in Kent

Experiment with jets to clear away snow in Wales, 1947
Jet engines or gas turbines, acting like blow lamps, eat their way through the snow as a truck advances down the railway line in the hills of South Wales

The Dutch Arctic Exploration Ship Willem Barents, 1878
Engraving of the schooner Willem Barents in the drift ice, during the Dutch Arctic Expedition of 1878. This expedition, commanded by Lieutenant de Bruyne, explored Jan Mayen Island, Spitzbergen

The Zulu war. Sketches at Rorkes Drift by Lieutenant H C Ha
Graves of Lieutenant Coghill and Melville who died trying to secure the colours of the 24th Regiment and were awarded posthumous Victoria Crosses

The Zulu war. The defence of Rorkes Drift, January 22nd 187
The scene of the action, where 3, 000 zulus attacked the tiny fort and hospital at Rorkes Drift. 140 British soldiers kept the Zulus at bay

Zulu war sketches by our special artist. Interior of the old
British soldiers surveying the damage to the old fort at Rorkes Drift, where 137 British soldiers held out against 3, 000 zulus at the beginning of the Zulu wars

The Zulu war. Portraits of officers
Portrait of Mr W A Dunne, Commissariat Department, defender of Rorkes Drift. 137 British soldiers held the fort at Rorkes Drift against a force of over 3, 000 Zulus

The Zulu war. Fort Helpmakaar. Field auction of the effects
Isandlwana was the scene of the British armys most humiliating defeat at the hands of the Zulus, slightly assuaged by the successful defence of Rorkes Drift later the same day, January 22nd 1879

The Zulu war. Graves of the 17 men who fell in the defence o
140 British soldiers defended the fort and hospital at Rorkes Drift from 3, 000 zulu warriors on the same day that the British suffered their heaviest defeat of the war at Isandhlwana

The Zulu war. Sketches at Rorkes Drift, by Lieutenant H C H
The Rev. Otto De Witts House, Rorkes Drift

Zulu war sketches by our special artist. Scene in the New Fo
The new Fort at Rorkes Drift, a scene of British bravery at the beginning of the Zulu wars

The Zulu war. Alls Well, Sketch in Bromheads Post, New
Zulu war sketches by an ILN special artist. Rorkes Drift was the scene of an heroic defence by the British in January 1879

Hunting in the Snow 2 / 2
ONE OF THE WRONG SORT Who goes out with hunters because it is the fashion " Confound the snow is not hunting bad enough without this..."

Dramatic Mountain Rescue
A dramatic mountain rescue

Train in Snowdrift 1866
Clearing the road through a snow-wreath on the Highland Railway, Scotland

WEGENER (1850 - 1930)
ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER German geophysicist & meteorologist whose theory of continental drift was accepted after initial rejection

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