Hoisted Collection

Roman Warship
A warship of Imperial Rome is rowed out of harbour with only a light sail hoisted

Nelson Statue
Londoners get a chance to admire the Nelson effigy at close quarters, before he is hoisted to the top of his column where only pigeons get close

Shipping wild animals in the London Docks
Animals of Messrs. Howe and Cushings menagerie being loaded at the London Docks

Santa Rings in Xmas
Santa Ringing in the air. A portly santa is hoisted into the air as he rings the church bells

Shakespeare character the Ghost of Hamlet's Father hoisted through a trap door with sound effects by beaters Date: 1843

Hoisting the Union Jack Flag on the Victoria Tower
When the Sovereign is in Houses of Parliament building the Royal Standard is flown, on Victoria Tower. Photograph showing two men hoisting the Union Jack flag. Date: 1906

Loading baggage onto a Channel steamer - the passengers watch with apprehension as their precious possessions are hoisted aboard... Date: 1897

Legendary Paul Bunyon Date: 1948

Saying Goodnight Date: 1948

Neither Sleet nor... Date: 1947
Neither Sleet nor.... Date: 1947

LONDON WAREHOUSES
Goods are loaded, unloaded and hoisted at Londons busy Pickle Herring Street warehouses Date: 1870

Chelson China cup and saucer - Britannia and Allied flags
Chelson China (New Chelsea Porcelain, Longton) cup and saucer

Dornier DoJ IIfBos Wal D-AGAT Boreas of Lufthansa
Dornier DoJ IIfBos Wal, D-AGAT, Boreas of Lufthansa, being hoisted on to the catapult of the Schwabenland

Camel being hoisted onto a ship, Aden
Camel being hoisted onto a ship, British colony of Aden (now in Yemen). Date: circa 1930s

Loading horses at Boulogne
Photograph: Loading horses at Boulogne. Shows a horse being hoisted by crane onto or off a ship while soldiers stand on the harbour

HMS Marlborough - 13. 5 inch shell being hoisted aboard
HMS Marlborough - 13.5 inch shell being hoisted aboard. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

A New Tooth - hoisting new gun into a destroyer, WWI
A new gun being hoisted by crane into a destroyer under refit during the First World War. 1918

Curtiss AB-3 of the USMC being hoisted aboard USS North Carolina, July 1916 (photo US Navy)

Blohm u Voss BV138C being hoisted into the water Used for long ranged overwater reconnaissance Became the scourge of Allied Arctic convoys

Annexation of the Gilbert Islands, situated in the West Pacific Ocean: " HMS Royalist commanded by Captain Davis

Crown Devon china mug with flags of the Allies
Crown Devon (S. Fielding & Co. Stoke on Trent) china mug. Transfer shows Britannia and the flags of the Allies with a Dove of Peace and the words Liberty, Justice, Truth, Honour

Munitions being loaded onto battleship, WW1
A dockyard scene during the First World War showing munitions being hoisted aboard a battleship. Date: 1915

The Foreign Cattle Market, Deptford, London, 1872
Interor of the Foreign Cattle Market at Deptford, London, in 1872. This image shows a number of sheep and cattle in the Central Shed of the market, with feeding troughs empty and hoisted up. 1872

Grand salute at Vera Cruz, from the American fleet and the Castle San Juan D Ulloa in honor of the American flag, which was hoisted over that city and castle, March 29th, 1847

County ensign hoisted, Battle of the Falkland Islands, WW1
The county ensign is hoisted on the main mast of HMS Kent at the start of the Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. Date: 8 December 1914

A convenient garage / W H Robinson
A convenient garage is hoisted down from a roadside position

How Father Christmas came to earth
Colour illustration by Harold Earnshaw (d.1937) showing Father Christmas floating in the sky, hoisted up by colourful balloons

Basra Captured Wwi
The Union Jack flag is hoisted in Basra, Mesopotamia, after its capture by Anglo-Indian forces on November 21, 1915

4000-lb Bomb being loaded into a Lancaster, Britain; Second
Photograph showing a 4000-lb Cookie bomb being loaded into an Avro Lancaster of the Royal Air Force, at an airfield somewhere in Britain, 1944

A Riding Lesson at Sangers Circus, 1884
Engraving showing a riding lesson taking place in the ring of Sangers Circus, February 1884. A would-be rider can be seen being hoisted onto a running horse, via a rotating winch

French soldiers hoisting an artillery shell
Photograph of a sixteen-inch shell being hoisted into position by French soldiers for loading into its gun. The caption described the weapon as the modern lord of battle

Three Baseball Fans Enjoy the Highs and Lows of the Game, 19
Cartoon showing three spectators at a Baseball match enjoying the feeling of success (top image) and the crushing sense of defeat (bottom image)

Preliminary Manoeuvres
A show girl, with skirts hoisted to reveal stocking tops, peeping through a stage curtain

Parisians at Sceaux: Dining in a Tree, 1872
Engraving showing wealthy Parisians enjoying dinner at Sceaux, with some dining in tree-houses; their food arriving in baskets hoisted up to them

St Hildas Colliery
In county Durham : the mined coal is hoisted above ground level, then the tubs slide down a gradient to be tipped into wagons which take it to the ships

Drying Naval Clothes
For sailors of the French navy, Tuesdays and Fridays are washing days : their clothing is hoisted above deck to dry

The Late Arrival
An American passenger, late for her transatlantic liner at Cherbourg, is taken by steamboat to join it, and hoisted aboard with a rope

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