Huge Collection (page 13)

Cake stand for wedding of Duke and Duchess of Kent
A girl admires her reflection in the mirror like surface of a huge silver cake stand for one of th ecakes at the marriage of the Duke of Kent

Record-breaking cauliflower
A gigantic record-brealing cauliflower and the very proud gardener responsible for this remarkably-leaved vegetable! Date: circa 1894

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

Children with a huge snowball at Christmas
Three children with a huge snowball at Christmas, probably planning to make a snowman. early 20th century

Mingun Bell nr. Mandalay, Myanmar
The Mingun Bell located in Mingun, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. This early photograph was taken prior to the bell being re-hung in 1896. It fell from its support following earthquake damage

Launching a huge Japanese kite on a festival day, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Cutting Huge Logs
Two men operating a huge industrial chainsaw to cut equally huge felled tree trunks into logs. Date: 1950s

Two St Bernards in Snow
Two huge dogs, one Smooth Haired and one Rough, stand in snow on a mountain side hoping for someone to rescue, although they have no brandy. Date: 1919

Statues in the Frognerpark, Oslo, Norway
Statues by Gustav Vigeland in the Frognerpark (Frognerparken), in Oslo, Norway. The huge sculptures represent the various ages, moods and stages in human life. Date: circa 1957

St Nazaire Harbour
Harbour scene in the French port - huge cranes, and a steamer in the dry dock. Date: 1934

Circular Airport Project
A suggested central London overhead airport at Kings Cross showing aeroplanes landing on the runways of a huge wheel-shaped structure Date: 1931

Feu Follet (Richard)
The abbe Richard, in a French churchyard, is startled by a huge flame-like feu follet which reaches 3-4 metres in height, probably caused by a decomposing corpse Date: 2 July 1750

7 Wonders / Mausoleum / Mus
In 353 BC, Greek architects Satyros and Pythios were ordered to design & build a huge tomb for Mausolus of Caria, provincial ruler of the Persian Empire, by his wife

Statues and fountain in the Frognerpark, Oslo, Norway
Statues and a fountain by Gustav Vigeland in the Frognerpark (Frognerparken), in Oslo, Norway. The huge sculptures represent the various ages, moods and stages in human life. Date: circa 1957

Boys Big Bonfire / Photo
School boys stand proudly in front of their huge bonfire erected on a playing field. An eerily realistic guy stands atop the mound - or perhaps he is real? Date: 1920s

Santa & Punchbowl
" GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR !" A jolly, red-faced Father Christmas, smoking his long pipe and bearing a huge punchbowl full of hot punch. 1890s

Britannia and Eve magazine, March 1937
Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous, cheeky young lady wearing a red and white polka dot neck-tie, and a huge grin

Britannia and Eve magazine, August 1938
Front cover illustration featuring a beautiful brunette woman wearing a huge red hat and matching swimsuit

Print room at Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, London
Printing presses operated by workmen churn out copies of Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, one of the first mass market newspapers, with copies then bundled for despatch on a trolley

Little Edwardian girl in a huge hat, Mid Wales
A little Edwardian girl standing on a chair in a garden, Mid Wales, wearing a huge white hat, a white dress, and white socks and shoes. Her hair is in blond ringlets

S Teerwood. 6-wheeled car & trailer
A huge six-wheeled car and trailer drives through a Saharan desert

Mons Meg Cannon - Edinburgh Caste. A medieval weapon of mass destruction (!) made to the order of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy circa 1449 and sent as a gift to King James II of Scotland

Locomotive from Iran
Huge Iranian railway engine with double-tender

France, Medieval Market Hall at Dives-sur-Mer
Normandy, France, The Medieval Market Hall at Dives-sur-Mer

Mexico - Chapultepec, Mexico City - Giant Tree
Chapultepec, Mexico City - a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City. A special place for Mexicans throughout Mexican history

Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden (1882 - 1920) with Prince Bertil (1912 - 1997). She is wearing a simply fantastic hat of grandiose scale!

Road sweeper at work
A road sweeper sweeping dirt from the gutter, dwarfed by a huge curving brick wall. He probably works for the St Marylebone Borough Council in London

Cairo, Egypt - The Bazaars
The Bazaars - Cairo, Egypt

The Occupation of Egypt
A humouous postcard entitled The Occupation of Egypt - depicting two Egyptian men supporting a very rotund woman as she takes a ride on a donkey to see the Pyramids

Meknes, Morocco - Mosque close to the Mellah Gate
Mosque close to the Mellah Gate at Meknes, Morocco. It stands next to a spectacular palm tree!

El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria
A woman carrying a huge bundle of palm branches on her back in the suburb of El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria

Panoramic view of the Port of Chicago
Spectacular panoramic view of the lakeside Port of Chicago in 1902, showing the distinctive skyline and the huge sets of railway wagons in the foreground

Abu Simbel, Temple of Nefertaril, Egypt
Abu Simbel, entrance, Temple of Nefertaril, full-length close-up of figures. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Granite quarry, Aswan, Egypt
Granite quarry, Aswan, unfinished obelisk, 41.75 m = 137 ft, 1152 tons, cracked. If it had remained whole, it would have been the largest obelisk ever raised. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Wool Winding Machine - Patons & Baldwins
A woman worker in dark blue overalls operating and checking a huge wool-winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington

Operating a wool-winding machine
A woman operating and checking a huge wool winding machine at Patons & Baldwins factory at Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was one of the largest manufacturers of knitting yarn in the UK between

A Spooner Travelling oven
A immense Spooner Travelling Oven - with the dough for loaves of white bread entering the immense baking oven section of the machine

Feed the Guns Campaign - War Bonds
A Feed the Guns campaign week to attract the populace in Britain to buy War Bonds to help " End the War". Separate campaigns of special weeks were " led off " by spectacular

Installing an engine for a diesel locomotive
Three railway engineers install a large diesel engine onto the positioned wheel, axle and undercarriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

They Capture a huge Albatross
Sailors on the deck of a ship reel in an albatross; the large white bird had been enticed by the bait put on the end of the line

Antioch - Turkey - Large waterwheel
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Man with large telescope
A man in a flat cap sits and looks through an unfeasibly large telescope which appears to be installed in his back garden. Bet his wife was pleased about that purchase

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