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A Spooner Travelling ovenA 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 BondsA 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 locomotiveThree railway engineers install a large diesel engine onto the positioned wheel, axle and undercarriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram
They Capture a huge AlbatrossSailors 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 waterwheelAntioch - 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 telescopeA 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
Waterwheel at AntiochAntioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed
Temple of Baal, Palmyra, SyriaA Temple, ruins at Palmyra, Syria. The most striking building in Palmyra is the huge temple of Ba al one of the most important religious building of the first century AD in the Middle East
Yemen - Hotel D Europe in Aden
Time for food at Boys Club 1931Lunch or possibly dinner is cooked on a open fire by the Boys Club group leader who smokes a pipe as he stirs the food. Today it looks like sausages
Gas-Driven CarA rather unsafe looking gas- driven Calcott car with a huge Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof drawfing the car itself. Owned by Lady Idina Wallace.Hope she didn t smoke
Titanic propeller shaft fittingA framed photograph of the RMS Titanic propeller shaft being fitted at the Harland and Woolf yard in Belfast in 1911
Gran pops nose is put out of joint by Lawson WoodNow that King Kong has appeared in London, this might happen to Gran pop (the wily orang utan created by artist, Lawson Wood) at any moment
A Fine Cactus in the desert at Phoenix, Arizona with a gentleman stood alongside to give even more sense of the giant scale of the plant!
Mato Grosso - Giant CactusMato Grosso, Brazil - Immense Giant Cactus
The Janisary Tree - Constantinople, TurkeyThe Janisaries Tree - Constantinople, Turkey. A tradition has grown up that this tree was planted at the founding of the Janisary order
Sudan - SandstormA sandstorm in the Sudanese desert - an immense cloud of sand rises up over the horizon and the buildings of the capital, Khartoum
Large waterwheel at AntakyaAntioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed
Over the Garden Wall by H. M. BatemanHumorous illustration by the artist H.M. Bateman showing neighbours in adjacent gardens simultaneously rolling their lawns
Red Riding Hood & SnowA small girl, perhaps Little Red Riding Hood, braves a blizzard under the protection of a huge, black umbrella
Imperial Palace, Tokyo, JapanOutside of Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan. The huge wall goes round the whole Palace grounds with a moat (inner moat) - there is a second or outer moat which is some further distance back
The Crowd at Greenwich for the passing of the Great EasternEngraving showing the scene at the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, as huge crowds assembled to watch I.K. Brunels steamship Great Eastern steam down the River Thames, 1859
Rev. William Booth addressing a multi-national audience, 190Illustration showing the Reverend William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, pictured at an imaginary gathering of a huge multi-national crowd
German V-2 Base at Watten; Second World War, 1944Photograph showing the huge concrete bunker of the German V-2 base at Watten, near St. Omer, France, 1944. This bunker was 300 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall
Podlington Airfield, Britain, 1945Drawing showing the huge deserted runway of Podlington airfield; formerly used by the US Eighth Air Force as a base for their raids on Germany, 1945
Union DemonstrationAt the Salle Pilodo, France, a huge gathering of workers demand the right to form unions like they have in England
Demo at WarsawA huge popular demonstration in the streets of Warsaw, at the end of World War One, in support of the Allies who, they hope, will at last give them independence
Lenin at CongressLenin addresses a huge crowd at the first All-Russian Congress
Lenin at MoscowLenin addresses a huge crowd at Moscow
Borneo / Chiefs DaughterThe youngest daughter of the Chief of Kenowit with huge earrings which have streched her earlobes
Gringoire Pate AdvertA gourmet tucks into a huge slab of Gringoires game pate, just one of their range of pates and conserves
Land-mine explosionPhotograph showing the upheaval of earth and debris as a land-mine explodes. A frequent characteristic of siege warfare, the landmine could destroy huge section of trenches
Passengers claiming luggage at Liverpool Railway Station, 18Engraving of the crowded Liverpool railway station, with children sitting on baggage in the foreground, and a huge luggage trolley holding hundreds of trunks in the background
Spanish to TenochtitlanThe Spanish Conquistadors advance through a mountain gorge to Tenochtitlan
Dr Syntax / Freemasons HalDr Syntax at Freemasons Hall
Aztec Sculptures RuinedThe Spanish destroy huge Aztec idol sculptures
Making Scythes / GrindingMaking scythes at Belbroughton, Worcestershire. Here the blades are being ground by hand on huge wheels
The Duval Restaurant, Paris, 1878Engraving of The Duval Restaurant at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. This restaurant was a huge wooden building, capable of seating several thousand diners. Date: 1878
Life on JupiterThe largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is 318 times as large as Earth, so perhaps supports a huge population which may surpass our civilisation in every way
Future RoadThe road of tomorrow may be a kind of track, along which huge bubbles will run, containing accomodation - a kind of super-caravan
The Zulu war. The Battle of Isandhlawana, January 22nd 1879The landscape of Isadhlwana, a rocky point terminating in a huge precipice about 1, 000 feet high, with Zulu forces suurounding the British troops on every side
Chicago Stockyards 12Carcases of meat hang from hooks in the huge refrigerated rooms of the Chicago Stockyards
Chicago Stockyards 11Joints of meat are stacked in huge refrigerated rooms at the Chicago Stockyards
Steam Delivery LorryThe steam lorry of W.V. Bowater and Sons, of 121 Queen Victoria Street, London, delivering huge rolls of paper which will be used for printing newpapers
Theatre Queue 1930SA huge crowd of theatre goers queueing outide the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England, which opened in 1932
Man Eaten by CrocodileTHE TENTYRITES AND THE ICHNEUMON A huge crocodile seizes a man in its jaws on the island of Tentyra
Madagascar MassacreMassacre of a huge number of people outside the town of Diego Suarez in northern Madagascar, possibly by the Portuguese. It would be nice to know more
Watermill in TurkeyHuge water wheel near Antakya (Antioch)