Escapes Collection (page 2)

Boy sitting in garden
A boy sits on a little stool in his beautiful garden, so engrossed in whittling a twig that he doesnt notice his bird escaping from its cage. c. 1910

LCC-LFB motorised pump-escape at Greenwich
LCC-London Fire Brigade motorised pump-escape at Greenwich, SE London. This fire engine also carried an in-built 60 gallon chemical extinguisher which fed through a hosereel

LCC-LFB solid tyre Turntable Ladder
LCC-London Fire Brigade solid tyre Turntable Ladder

LCC- MFB horse drawn escape cart and ladder drill
London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark SE1, with firefighters taking part in escape ladder drill, using an extension ladder to gain additional height

MFB (London) station ladder drill
Metropolitan firefighters taking part in ladder drill. Both large ladders are wheel escapes and the ladder on the right has an extension to give it additional height

London Fire Brigade appliances
London Fire Brigade wheeled escape vehicle (left) with a pump ladder vehicle (right) outside their station

LCC-MFB horse drawn wheeled escape cart
The newly developed horse drawn wheeled escape cart which allowed the escape ladder to be more easily slipped by the firefighters, thus shortening the time it took to rescue someone from a fire

Do spirits return? Houdini says no - and proves it 3 shows in one : magic, illusions, escapes, fraud mediums exposed. Date ca. 1909

Belgian Air Force 6
Remy van Lierde escapes to England May 1940, joins RAF and has many successes, notably shooting down V1 rockets, of which he destroys 38 flying a Hawker Tempest. Date: 1916+

Escaping Monkey / 1932
Reluctant to participate in monkey gland rejuvenation treatment, a monkey escapes onto the roof of a hospital in Prague and defies captors for an hour Date: 1932

Charles Escapes Scotland
The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart escapes by boat from Scotland. Date: 1746

The Peril of Queen Henrietta Maria
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, flees England to the safety of the continent. She hides with her supporters from Parliamentarian ships off the coast

Queen Henrietta Maria flees
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, escapes from England. She is sheltered by a bank from the Parliamentarian forces

Waldemar II Escapes
Waldemar II (known as the Victorious, but that was earlier in his career) is defeated at the battle of Bornhjoved but escapes helped by one of his men

Chateaubriand / Atala
ATALA - the heroine, a princess with a Christian mother (note the cross), takes pity on the captured warrior Chactas, frees him and escapes with him into the jungle

Whale Attacks Liner
Sixty whales attack a German liner Prinz Sigismund in the Atlantic, but it escapes them

Charles Flees Hampton Ct
Charles I escapes from Hampton Court to the Isle of Wight

Macduff Escapes
Macduff escapes Macbeth & flees to England

Goeben Warship
Powerful German battle-cruiser which easily outruns her British pursuers and escapes to Istanbul, where she is transferred to the Turkish navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim

Fire Escape, Boston
Fire escapes down the side of a building in downtown Boston. Date: 2000

Bull Escapes Novara 1907
An escaped bull causes havoc in a small town near Novara, Italy

Charles II Escapes
CHARLES II ESCAPES After the Royalists are defeated at Worcester on 3 September, Charles escapes by disguising himself as Jane Lanes maidservant

Mary Q Scots Escapes
Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle in a rowing boat

Charles and Jane Lane
CHARLES II ESCAPES After being defeated at Worcester, Charles escapes by disguising himself as Jane Lanes maidservant

Tom Thumb Escapes Mouth
He escapes from the millers mouth

Queen of Scots Escapes
Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle (vignette version)

Sweyn Tricked by Scots
The Scots drug and then attack their Viking invaders. The Viking leader Sweyn of Norway, however, escapes thanks to his two attendants

Eglon Murdered
The Moabite king Eglon is treacherously murdered by Ehud, one of the Judges of Israel, who escapes the kings guards

Napoleon Escapes
The Narrow Escape - an apocryphal story claims that Napoleon, during his Russian campaign, escaped from some Cossacks by jumping from a window into a pigsty

Charles / Flora Escape
Charles Edward Stuart escapes with the help of Flora MacDonald

Flight of Guy Carleton
Guy Carleton, British governor of Quebec, escapes capture by American troops who have taken Montreal as part of the Independence war by disguising himself as a fisherman

Boer War: Steyn Escapes
BOERS ESCAPE Riding at night, Steyn and De Wet escape to the Transvaal

Hanuman Burns Lanka
Ravana tries to punish the monkey god Hanuman (captured seeking Sita) by setting his tail alight. But Hanuman escapes & sets fire to Ravanas city, Lanka

Prisoner Escapes / Italy
Italian convicts escape from Finalmarina by tying sheets together and cutting through the mesh on the windows

Matilda Escapes / Smirke
Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, imprisoned by Stephen in Oxford Castle, escapes in white clothing over ice and snow to Wallingford, Oxon

Empress Matilda Escapes
Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, escapes from Oxford Castle on a snowy night where she has been imprisoned by Stephen

Man Escapes Fire C17Th
A man takes a running jump, flames licking his heels, as he makes a bid to return to a ship that awaits him below. His musket & pike lay on the ground

Bourbon Trial
Francois I suspects Charles, connetable de Bourbon, of treason, and confiscates his estates : Bourbon escapes and enters service of Carl V

Paul Escapes
Paul - now a convert to Christianity - escapes from Damascus where the priests are not very pleased by his change of heart

Otto II Escapes
Emperor Otto II escapes from hostile Greeks by swimming to his ship, after being disastrously thwarted in his attempt to assert his claim to southern Italy

Gorilla on the Attack
In the Congo, near Kitabi, farmer Pako sees his wife snatched by a gorilla, fails to save her but it treats her kindly till she escapes after two days

End of Atlantis
The end of Atlantis - a single vessel escapes the catastrophe

Cloelia escapes back to Rome by swimming the Tiber
Cloelia, given as a hostage to the Etruscan king, Lars Porsenna of Clusium, escapes back to Rome by swimming the Tiber, taking several other Roman girls with her

Charles Stuart escapes
Charles Edward Stuart is helped to escape by Flora Macdonald

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