Grid Collection

Battersea Power Station
Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, building began in 1933. It was the first of a series of very large electric generators set up in order to nationalize the grid

Monaco Grand Prix / 1969
Jackie Stewart, in a Matra- Ford (7), leads Chris Amons Ferrari (11) away from the grid at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix. Both failed to finish the race

London Map / Roman Period
Map showing Roman London (Londinium) with its grid of straight roads

St Laurence of Rome
Saint LAURENCE OF ROME depicted with the grid on which he will soon be martyred

National Electric Grid
Part of Britains National Grid, this is the sub-station at Yoker, near Glasgow, Scotland. The tower is 90 metres tall and carries the lines across the Clyde

Ufos / Michalak
At Falcon Lake, Manitoba, Stephen Michalak, a Pole, approaches a landed UFO and receives a grid-pattern of burns on his chest

Drainage Grid
A Needham Stockport drainage grid. 19th century

Tractor Ploughing
A tractor ploughing over autumn stubble beneath ominous electricity grid pylons on a farm in Suffolk, England

SZD Jantar 2 Standard 94, just about to launch from the grid at a UK gliding competition. Date: circa 1982

Electrical insulator factory
Factory producing ceramic insulators used in National Grid power transmission. Date: circa 1950s

Sea trout, brown trout, and fishing method
Sea trout, Salmo trutta trutta 96, brown trout, Salmo trutta fario 97, and trout fishing method using a wooden dam with nets and grids

Female Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, and fishing methods using nets and grills across a river during spawning season. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson from Gottlieb Tobias

Schleicher ASW19 EJR, on the launch grid at a gliding competition in the UK. Date: circa 1982

Schempp-Hirth Ventus ELG, at the grid of a gliding competition in the UK. Waiting for a launch before the competition aircraft launch. Date: circa 1982

Slingsby Skylark 3 AXL, at the grid of a gliding competition in the UK. Waiting for a launch before the competition starts. Date: circa 1982

Schleicher ASW20 EBX, on the launch grid at a gliding competition in the UK. Date: circa 1982

Schleicher ASW20 DTQ, on the launch grid at a gliding competition in the UK. Date: circa 1982

Glaser-Dirks DG-200 DTM, on the launch grid at a gliding competition in the UK. Date: circa 1982

Schleicher ASW17 26, on the grid at a gliding competition in the UK. This aircraft, owned by the Royal Air Force Gliding and Soaring Association (RAFGSA)

Grob G-104 Speed Astir 114, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, on the Grid at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition. Date: circa 1980

Glasflugel Mosquito I, single-seat 15m-class high-performance sailplane, on the Grid at Husbands Bosworth airfield during a UK National Gliding Competition

View of the East River Bridges, New York, USA
View from the top of the Woolworth Building looking toward the East River Bridges (The Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge), New York, USA. circa 1910s

ARTIST USING GRID
An artist uses a grid pattern to assist him in drawing a reclining model Date: 1525

London Map - Roman Period
Map showing Roman London (Londinium) with its grid of straight roads

Ufos / Michalak
Steven Michalak encounters a UFO at Falcon Lake, Canada. He investigates the craft, but receives a grid like burn to his chest

Background effects, SMB wallpaper sample book
A selection of background effects, with code numbers, in an SMB wallpaper sample book. Date: 1934

Didcot Power station
With the cooling towers pushing out lots of steam, the photographer captures a dramatic picture. Taken in the late 60s Date: late 1960s

Map and location of YMCA Hotel - Chicago, USA Date: circa 1930s

Beekeeping 1960S
A beekeeper wearing protective gloves, jacket, hat and veil removes the Queen Excluder grid from the Brood Box

Angiosperm pollen - Pollen of various angiosperm species. Watercolour by Franz Bauer, 1800-1833. Paper, watercolour. Botany Library

Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. Golden Gate. Wr
Czech Republic. Prague. St. Vitus Cathedral. Golden Gate. Grid. Wrought Iron. Detail. Hay harvesting

Holy henhouse. Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. La
Gothic art. Holy henhouse, carved stone cabin in the late Gothic, home to a cock and a hen in memory of the miracle occurred, according to tradition. Cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada

Wheat Field / Pylons
Harvest time in Kincardineshire, Scotland. A field of stooked wheat by the River Forth and the pylons which carry the National Grid across the river. Date: 1950s

Moroccan Window
Plants on the cool window sill of a dark room in Morocco, North Africa, a shady escape from the scorching sun outside. Date: 1930s

Guide to available moonlight during 1939
A diagram prepared for readers of The Sphere in order that they may know, at a glance, how much moonlight they will get on any particular evening of the period

Underground Stream Grid
A blonde rambler wearing Argyll socks looks at a grate near Priddy, Mendips, Somerset, England. Down this cleft vanishes an underground stream to Wookey Hole caves! Date: 1930s

Electricity plyon erected, 1933
Erecting the last pylon: hauling up a section of the 26, 265th steel cable tower built by the central electricity board to carry current all over Great Britain

Three women in outfits by Doeuillet
Three women wearing outfits by Doeuillet. On the left, a grey sleeveless tubular dress with scattered gold design, and red trim around neckline, hem and hips

Alexander the Great plans Alexandria
Alexander the Great laying out the city of Alexandria. Could it be Dinocrates, his architect, holding the plan? Date: 331BC

Three white kittens
Three cute white kittens on a bold white background, covered with a grid of thin black lines. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

California, Sacramento. General View of Sacramento
The beginnings of the City of Sacramento have been laid out in a grid, with wide avenues. The view is from the river, where sailing boats and a paddle steamer are at anchor

Map of New York 1789
A Plan of the City of New York

Evelyns Plan for London
Evelyns plan for rebuilding London after the Great Fire - proposing a classical grid system & a series of squares to replace the meandering mediaeval street pattern

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