Highest Collection (page 3)

Snowdon Summit - Mountain Railway
The easiest way to the summit of Snowdon, Waless highest mountain, is to take the mountain railway. There are hotels when you get there. Date: 1906

Skyscrapers of New York City, New York, USA. Featured are: The Empire State Buiilding, The RCA Buiding in the Rockefeller Centre and the Chrysler Building. Date: circa 1930s

O E Simmonds view of the Temple of Athena Nike
O.E. Simmonds view of the Temple of Athena Nike (highest stucture on the RHS) and the Propylaea at the Acropolis, Athens

1934 single-seater Maserati
The 1934 single-seater Maserati with 2.9 litre straight-eight engine represented (together with the corresponding Alfa Romeo)

The man highest up

Highest Viaduct on the Kalka-Shimla Railway
The Highest Viaduct on the Kalka-Shimla Railway - a narrow gauge railway in North-West India travelling along a mostly mountainous route. Date: circa 1910s

Snow in June on Scafell Pike, Cumberland, the highest mountain in England. Date: 1950s

Cattle & Brecon Beacons
Cattle grazing against the background of the Brecon Beacons, the highest mountains in South Wales. Date: 1960s

Eizan Cable car - Japan
Eizan Cable car - the highest Cable car in Japan. Date: circa 1910s

The Exit - The Lift, Marseille, France
Marseille, France - The exit of the Ascenseurs (lifts) leading up to the Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica. This ornate Neo-Byzantine church is situated at the highest natural point in Marseille

Snowdon Mountain Rly
The easiest way to the summit of Snowdon, Waless highest mountain, is to take the mountain railway. There are hotels when you get there. Date: 1908

Dodman Point Cross
Dodman Point, the highest granite cross in Cornwall, England, erected to honour the men of Cornwall who are spreading the (Christian) Gospel worldwide. Date: 1930s

Rudston Monolith, a 25 foot high standing stone, in Rudston churchyard, Yorkshire, England, the highest of its kind in Britain. Date: BC

Mount Everest
A view from Darjeeling of the Himalayan mountain range including, to the right, Deodhunga. Following observations by James Nicolson, and subsequent calculations by Andrew Waugh

Austrian Panorama
This panoramic composite photo shows the three highest roads in Austria: The Gesaeuse Road, Styria (left), Glossglockner (centre), The Pack Road (Styria -Carinthia), right. Date: 1930s

St Martins Church Tower, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
View of the Tower of the medieval St Martins Church in Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Building began in 1389 and took over 100 years -- the tower alone took 55 years to build

Interior, St Martins Church, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Gothic interior of the medieval St Martins Church in Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Building began in 1389 and took over 100 years -- the tower alone took 55 years to build

Flight Sub Lieut Warneford VC recipient 8 / Stamp
REGINALD ALEXANDER JOHN WARNEFORD, VC (1891 - 1915) Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) officer who received the Victoria Cross

Lieut Woolley VC recipient 5 / Stamp
GEOFFREY HAROLD WOOLLEY VC OBE MC (1892 - 1968) The first Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest

Lieut Commander Holbrook VC recipient 7 / Stamp
NORMAN DOUGLAS HOLBROOK VC (1888 - 1976) Royal Navy officer who won the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British

Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1884-1954), as a member of the Borussia Corps of Bonn University in about 1904

Camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. The soldiers are pictured here ready to fire the rocket from its framework

War photography - two soldiers with camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. Two soldiers are pictured here about to load the rocket into its framework before it is positioned ready to fire

R E Foster - Cricketer
R E Foster (Tip Foster) - Cricketer for Worcestershire and England. Foster held the record for the highest individual match score with 287

The Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, Paris, November 1910
Photograph of the Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, showing the heights of various floods that had affected Paris between the 17th and 20th centuries

England / Shaftesbury
Looking down Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorsets highest town. On the right is the Abbey Wall and part of the Old Town Wall. King Canute died here on 12 November 1035

Two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew
Development of high speed railway travel; two drivers in the cab of the Saint Bartholomew. On its initial run the locomotive arrived into Paddington three minutes early

Atlas Becomes Mountain
Perseus, using the head of the gorgon Medusa as his weapon, changes Atlas, king of Mauretania, into a mountain which is still the highest region of Morocco

The Marriage Auction
THE MARRIAGE AUCTION Aristocratic families sell off their eligible daughters to the highest bidder

Nepal Kanchenjunga
The Chola Pass, with Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, first climbed in 1955

Argentina Aconcagua
Distant view of Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Andes and indeed in the Western hemisphere : it was first climbed in 1897

Venezuela Naiguata
Distant view of the Pico Naiguata, the highest point in the Cordillera de la Costa. Date: 1872

Peru Lake Titicaca
View of the worlds highest large navigable lake and the peak of Sorata, seen from Achahache

Firefighters Ladder
French sapeurs-pompiers use a long ladder to reach the highest floors of a burning building

Cambridge Uni Wrangler
The Senior Wrangler - he who has obtained the highest place in the mathematical tripos - is presented to the Vice Chancellor

High Bridge Germany
The bridge which carries the rail from Solingen to Remscheid will be the highest in the German rail system when it is completed

Zugspitz Cable Railway
The cable railway up the Zugspitz is currently the worlds highest... until someone builds a higher one

Railway on Snowdon
A spectacular ascent in this railway car carries you to the summit of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales

Group of Sumo Wrestlers
A group of burly sumo wrestlers with their oiled hair in top knots & the Yokozuna (highest ranked wrestlers in the sumo hierarchy), at the front

Windsor Castle
The Round Tower, or the Middle Ward, of Windsor Castle, built in the form of an amphitheatre on the highest point of the castle mount. The castle was built by William the Conqueror

Louvre, 18th Century
Perspective view of the Academie Royale of painting and sculpture in the Louvre - even with the ladder provided, visitors would have difficulty inspecting the highest items

Adelaide Hall / Beaute
ADELAIDE HALL American born, British adopted. One of the highest earning entertainers of the 1940s. First black star to be given a long term BBC contract

Hamster (Bewick)
mus cricetus This is not the golden hamster of Syria, which we love to keep in cages : but Bewick says it well deserves our highest admiration

Legion D honneur Offices
The offices of the Legion d Honneur (Legion of Honour), the highest order of merit by the French government for outstanding achievements in civil of military life

Iguanodon in Paris St
If an IGUANODON were to appear in the streets of Paris, it would reach to the highest balconies

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