Iron Collection (page 11)

Leaping boy Pittenweem, Fife
A boy leaps across an alleyway between houses leading down to the sea at Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland. The shadow of one house falls on its neighbour

Cobbles and cloth cap - Saltaire, Yorks
A man in sports jacket and cloth cap walks across a wet cobbled street in Saltaire, Yorkshire, England. Sunday Times. Image first appeared in The Sunday Times c1990 Date: circa 1990

Little girl sitting by an aviary at a zoo. Date: circa 1960s

Airship Flying with Marking L48 and German Iron Cross

Gossips Bridle - The Brank - Lancaster Castle - Iron mask used to punish scolds (last used in 1826) - seen here mounted on Adrians Tower. Date: 1911

Flat Iron Building, New York, USA
Flat Iron Building, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York, USA. The first steel frame skyscraper built in the world. Date: 1913

Poker
Brass and wrought iron poker with a turned shaft featuring three knops and a ball knop at the top, part of a set of fire tools made in England c.1650-1700. Date: c.1650-1700

Mayo Gate and Iron Pillar, Delhi, India. circa 1910

Forth Railway Bridge over Firth of Forth, Scotland
Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland -- it opened in 1890. Date: circa 1960s

German ?egg? hand grenade, used during World War One, 1914-1918; cast iron egg shaped grenade, painted black, with small wire loop on top of ignitor. Date: 1914

Horse-drawn hackney carriage, Gibraltar. Date: circa 1920s

Stone staircase with wrought iron rail, France
External stone staircase with wrought iron handrails, France. circa 1966

A Scottish broch, reconstruction
Unique among prehistoric hillforts: a Scottish broch. Showing the intra-mural galleries: a restoration drawing, in section, of a typical broch

Holy Roman Emperor with costume items
Holy Roman Emperor (possibly based on Ferdinand I or Maximilian II) in full regalia at the centre, surrounded by costume items -- four crowns, a pair of gloves, a pair of sandals

Hardware Shop, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1920s

Information leaflet, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people
Information leaflet for Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. The patent medicine pills contained iron oxide and magnesium sulphate

Advertisement, Dr Williams pink pills for pale people. Mother weak from childhood. Son a victim of St Vitus Dance. The patent medicine pills contained iron oxide and magnesium sulphate

Spain. Aliseda Treasury. 7th century BC. Necklaces and earrings. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid

Prehistory. Finland. Pottery of the Iron Age
Prehistory. Finland. Europe. Pottery of the Iron Age. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Quadriga by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Brandenbur
Quadriga, chariot drawn by four horses driven by Victoria Goddess. Copy by the original of 1793, by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). Brandenburg Gate. Berlin. Germany

Metal Age. The gold bracteates. National Museum of Denmark
The gold bracteates. Flat, thin and single-sided gold medal worn as jewelry that was produced in Northern Europe predominantly during the Migration Period of the Germanic Iron Age

Urartu civilization. Bronze Sphinx. From Tushpa or Toprakkale. 7th century B.C. Turkey. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

American Screw Company s. United States. Engraving, 1884
American Screw Company s. Manufactory of patent Gimlet-Pointet Screws. United States. Engraving, 1884

Roman Art. Spain. Agricultural tools. Archeological Museum. Seville. Andalusia

Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools. Olympia
Greek Art. Greece. Iron tools of everyday use from the sanctuary of Olympia. Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Advert for Wright & Butler Limited petroleum stoves 1888
Wright & Butlers decorative patent cast iron petroleum domestic stoves with pierced foliate caps, cleanliness and convenience in filling

Paris, France - La Tour Eiffel, Otis Elevators. The Otis elevator in the Eiffel Tower, built by the American Elevator Company

Paris, France - Tour Eiffel, construction work. Date: 1889

8-shot service revolver - used by Austro-Hungarian army
Rast & Gasser of Wien, Model 1898, 8 mm. 8 shot, service revolver, Serial No. 175852. Used by the Austro-Hungarian army during World War One. Cross-hatched wooden grip with iron ring

Lighter made from stainless steel pocket watch, WW1
Lighter made from a stainless steel pocket watch, with the badge of the East Lancashire Regiment (Egypt) and steel German Hansa Cross. Trench Art

German propaganda postcard, Kaiser and eagle, WW1
German propaganda postcard, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II at the centre, with an eagle and two flags below, and German colonial soldiers above, during the First World War. Date: 1914

Two men constructing an Anderson shelter in a back garden at the start of the Second World War. Date: circa 1939

St. Ambrews Well, Crantock, near Newquay, Cornwall, England. This iron door with a carving of a mans face on it, covers the 10th century well, dedicated to St. Ambrew. Date: 10th century

Wrought iron gate in a garden with female model in the distance. 1959

Nephrite jade
A specimen of nephrite jade from New Zealand. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite (calcium magnesium iron silicate hydroxide)

Training Ship, Exmouth, Grays, Essex
Ships company on the TS Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the Thames off Grays, Essex. In 1903

Foundry workers, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
The moulders at Robert Warners Foundry, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in a group photo outside the moulding shop. The large gear wheels were used in the manufacture of water pumps for which the foundry

Hans-Joachim Haupt, German army officer, WW1
Hauptmann (Captain) Hans-Joachim Haupt (1876-1942), German army officer on the Western Front during the First World War. He rose to the rank of Major General during the Second World War

Gustav Krupp von Hohlen und Halbach
Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, nicknamed Taffi (1870-1950), who ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 to 1941

The Central Powers - Patriotic Postcard
The Central Powers in World War One. Austri-Hungary, Turkey and Germany. Soldiers from each country stand before their flags and join hands in a show of unity

New York / 5th Avenue 1906
New York: Fifth Avenue

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