Floating Collection (page 8)

Fun Seaside Transport - Bubble Boating. This postcard was presented as an award for correct dictation in 1931! Date: late 1920s

The Floating Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
The Floating Bridge across the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1838

Hohensalzburg Castle in the mist - Salzburg, Austria
A spectacularly atmospheric shot of Hohensalzburg Castle peeking out from the surrounding mist/low cloud - Salzburg, Austria. Date: circa 1950s

Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape Chamber
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s

H M Dockyard - Bermuda
HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majestys Dockyard) - the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War. Date: circa 1905

Bermuda - Island from Spanish Point - Dry Dock Date: circa 1907

H M Dockyard, Bermuda - A Floating Dock Date: circa 1910s

H M Dockyard, Ireland Island, Bermuda. HMD Bermuda (Her/His Majestys Dockyard) - the principal base of the Royal Navy in the Western Atlantic between American independence and the Cold War

Design for ephemera with mermaid
Design for ephemera, Rottmans Silver Stencil Series, with a mermaid. Silver Studio. 1895

Leafhopper bug in Dominican amber
Leafhopper bug Hemiptera:Homoptera:Cicadellidae, trapped in Dominican amber with a dryinid wasp sac attached to its head. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Floating Dock, Bermuda 1873
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Floating dock, Bermuda and Mt. Eclipse 1873

Uintacrinus, stemless crinoid
A black and white photograph of a stemless crinoid, which dates from the Cretaceous. Crinoids have five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disc

Mallacoota insignis
Amphipod from the Indian Ocean

Pinus sylvestris, scots pine
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a pollen grain from a scots pine. Note the air bladders that help it to float through the air (x 1500 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Picture of the novel
" VERNE, Jules (1828-1905). Picture of the novel " From the Earth to the Moon" (1865). The members of the nave floating because of the weightlessness. Litography."

Floating bazaar - Thailand - Water bazaar and repairs to river walls Date: 1952

floating island Chiang - Inle Lake
Floating island Chiang - Inle Lake - Chiang looking top heavy on soggy patches of land. Date: 1952

floating island villages - Inle Lake
Floating island villages - Inle Lake - The floating islands of the lake dwellers, clear green rectangles of the bamboo rafts growing out from the shore like algae

The Duke Who Was Fat. From Once Upon a Time no. 40

LCC-LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe, SE London

LFB Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe
London firemen at hose cart drill, Fire Station D, Floating Platform Wharf, Rotherhithe

London Fire Brigade HQ and Lambeth river fire station
The iconic LFB Headquarters building and the original river station on its floating pontoon. The fireboat tender can be seen on the right as it moves up river towards Vauxhall Bridge

Women floating in the air by the use of parasols with large butterflies attached, and wings on their shoes, gazed at from the ground by men with lorgnettes and telescopes. circa 18th century

Floating world beauties in a parody of three classic plays. Print shows a woman playing a small stringed instrument (like a biwa) with a large bow. Date between 1820 and 1823

A view representing the application of John P. Taylors floating explosive battery. Date 1851

Captive balloon with clock face and bell, floating above the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Date between 1880 and 1900

Sidelights of the Lido by Gilbert Rumbold
Artists impression of some aspects of life at the Lido in Venice during the 1920s, showing smart society attending fashion fetes, wearing period costume designed by Brunelleschi

Boy operating pedal-driven drum raft
A boy operating a pedal-driven drum raft at Longridge Water Activities Centre, watched by a number of spectators. circa 1960s

Boys paddling a crate, Longridge Centre

Silhouette of a woman with a parasol

Manin swimming pool
The hot summer 1943. A man takes a refreshing bath in the swimming pool. Date: 24th July 1943

Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock
The enormous floating dock at the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard at Kobe, Japan. The liner Hakozaki Maru SS (pictured being finished in the dock)

Galati, Romania - Military Marine Arsenal
The Military Marine Arsenal and the floating docks at Galti, Romania - the largest seaport on the Danube. Date: circa 1903

Floating Dock at Galati
A view of the battleship Elisabeta in a floating dock at Galati, Romania - the largest seaport on the River Danube. The handwritten message states that the cards recipient will recognise the dock

Floating Bridge, Cowes, Isle of Wight Date: 1910

Aesthetic Dancer

Nautical Film Crew
A floating menagerie and strange crew, docked at Catalina, Canada, whilst filming a movie. Date: 1930s

Bathers pose for photo at saltair, Utah, USA
Bathers prepare to take a jump into the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA Date: circa 1920s

Bathers in the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA
Bathers floating in the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA Date: circa 1904

View from the deck of a ship, WW1
View from the deck of a ship during the First World War, with sailors looking at something floating in the water. Date: 1914-1918

Italian submarine stranded near Tagliamento River
Italian submarine no.10 stranded near the mouth of the Tagliamento River, north east Italy. Date: 20th century

Japanese Gardens, Japan British Exhibition, London
Garden of the Floating Isle in the Japanese Gardens, Japan British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. Date: 1910

Swedish scouts and upturned sailing boat
Two Swedish Scouts awaiting rescue from their overturned light sailing boat enjoy a refreshing bottle of pop in the middle of the lake

Abstract design with various shapes
An abstract design with various shapes, including an empty set of shelves and a red brick wall floating in the air

Spa / Germany / Leuk / C18Th
At the healing waters in Leuk, where people were provided with floating chess boards and writing tables due to the long periods of time spent in the water Date: Eighteenth century

Galahad and Sword
He draws the sword from the floating stone - which only the best knight in the world could do

Double page spread in a diary for 5-10 September
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 5-10 September. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

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