Isolated Collection

Marie Curie
Born in Poland in 1867, after receiving her secondary education she worked as a governess for eight years. Marie moved to Paris and read Physics at the Sorbonne

Spooky Night Scene
A rather eerie night scene, showing a deserted, foggy street by lamplight and a forboding tree looming ominously above

Loch Callater, Braemar, Scotland Date: circa 1910s

Palace of the Emperor Tiberius, Capri, Italy
View of the Palace, the Villa Jovis, on the isle of Capri, where the Roman Emperor Tiberius spent the last years of his life (reconstruction). Date: 27-37

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage with Barn Owl
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. A landing barn owl has been added to the border framing the scene

Man and boy, Timsgarry Post Office, Isle of Lewis
A man and a boy stand at the door of the rustic Timsgarry Post Office, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Meteorite in Antarctica
A large meteorite found in the MacAlpine Hills, Antarctica in 1988

WW2 Entertainment Centre
An illustration which shows a young woman in a blue dress performing for some WW2 soldiers, possibly at an isolated outpost or service centre. Date: circa 1941

Nameless and Friendless by Emily Mary Osborn
Engraving after the painting by Emily Mary Osborn, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857 and subsequently at the 1862 International Exhibition

Leper woman at entrance of hut, Siberia. 1893

Small stone wall and turf hut, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, used by crofters daughters for tending sheep and cattle during the summer. 1940

Crofters home, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
Crofters home built of stone with a thatched roof on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, March 1940. 1940

Cuernavaca, Mexico - El Calvario (The Calvary)
The Calvary of Cuernavaca, Mexico on Avenida Morelos Sur. The first building (only one of two pictured here), is known as The Spire (El Calvario) and is a dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe

DEVON POSTMAN 1938
At Hartland Quay, Devon, at 16 miles (the furthest in England) from the nearest railway station, the postman delivers the afternoon, and only daily mail. Date: 1938

Cartoon, An Exit Speech (Gladstone)
Cartoon, An Exit Speech -- Gladstone is isolated and unpopular in his arguments over the Irish Question. Date: 1886

YORKSHIRE FARMHOUSE
Idyllic farmhouse at Thornton- le-Dale, Yorkshire, with hay ricks on carts and hens running around freely. Date: circa 1950

Cruggleton Church, near Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. Walled and partly hidden by trees, the kirk is situated in the middle of a field and still has no electricity

Peak District, Derbyshire, stone barn
Peak District, Derbyshire. Stone barn and dry stone walls in summer. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Ufos / Moreno Ranch
An isolated ranch at Trancas, Tucuman, is the focus of UFO activity, seemingly hostile : other witnesses testified to six discs, illuminating the ground with their searchlights Date: 21 October 1963

Cottage on fire, Exminster, Devon
Fire-fighting on behalf of the Dawlish (Devon) County Fire Service: a fireman hoses down a burning thatched cottage at Exminster. Date: 1960s

Rus-Jap War / Manchuria
At the Isolated Tree in Manchuria, Russian infantry mount an attack Date: October 1904

Rolls Royce Corniche 1981 Convertible
The Mulliner Park Ward Rolls Royce Corniche 1981 2 door drop head convertible Date: 1981

Japan - the Foreign settlement of Kobe
Lantern slide of the Foreign settlement of Kob鮠 When Kobe port was opened in 1868 after two centuries of isolation policy by the country

Girl of the Toda Tribe - Nilgiri plateau, India
Girl of the Toda Tribe, a small pastoral community living on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in southern India. The Toda traditionally live in settlements consisting of three to seven of these small

Bleasdale Reformatory, Garstang, Lancashire
A view of the North Lancashire Reformatory for Boys at Bleasdale, near Garstang, Lancashire which opened in 1857. Reformatories could house convicted juvenile offenders aged under 16 for a period of

Spooky Street
A night scene on the kind of spooky street which would make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck

Agricultural tools. 18th-19th centuries. Hungary
Different agricultural tools used in isolated farms, called Tanya. 18th-19th centuries. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest. Hungary

Greece. Zakynthos Island. Navagio Beach. Ionian Islands

Egypt. Oasis. Engraving by Brend Amour in 1882

Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado, USA
A narrow gap between two sandstone masses forms the entrance to the Garden of the Gods, near Manitou, Colorado. The Garden contains strangely shaped isolated rocks of all shapes and sizes

Yuri Gagarin Statue
Statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first space cosmonaut, given by the Russian Space Agency to Great Britain

Captain James Cook
British Admiralty memorial statue of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) who made maps of Newfoundland before his 3 journies on the Endeavour to the Pacific where he discovered Australia

Tutankhamen Funeral Mask
Profile of the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun inlaid with lapis lazuli. Cairo Museum collection

Toda man, southern India
A Toda man, belonging to a small pastoral community living on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in southern India. Date: circa 1890s

Group of Toda men, southern India
Group of Toda men, belonging to a small pastoral community living on the isolated Nilgiri plateau in southern India. Date: circa 1890s

Susannite on Caledonite
4mm crystal of susannite (carbonate) in a mass of caledonite (suplhate). Specimen from the Roughton Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria

Mite in baltic amber
A mite trapped in Baltic amber dating from the Upper Eocene period, about 35 million years ago

Paris Sainte Chapelle
Surrounded by law courts and government departments, the Sainte-Chapelle is hard to see as an isolated building. Date: circa 1904

Stack Rocks
The Stack Rocks, St. Govans Head, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. These two masses of isolated limestone are surviving fragments of the original cliff line. Date: BC

English Country Winter
A snowy winter scene in Upper High Street, Harpole, Northamptonshire, with a tractor and trailer laden with food for cattle. Date: 1960s

Mont St Michel, Normandy, France (1 / 6)
Mont St Michel, Normandy, France - high tide with a rough sea Date: circa 1930s

Building in the mountains, Kashgar, China
An isolated building in the mountains of Kashgar, western China

Winter sunrise over isolated cottage
The weak yellow light of the winter sun rising over a desolate snowy scene surrounding a solitary farmhouse. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A Visit to the Alpini
A lone Italian Alpini soldier, staked out on the top of a precarious mountain is so isolated, nobody has managed to get to him to tell him the war is over

Pembridge Church
The octagonal detached bellfry of Pembridge Church, Hertfordshire, isolated so that the vibrations of the bell ringing do not rock the foundations of the church

Autumn Shadows
Autumn shadows from railings across a lonely walled walkway

Snowy London
A businessman with his briefcase walks alone across a Trafalgar Square in the dirty snow

Cottage on Fire
Fire-fighting on behalf of the Dawlish (Devon) County Fire Service : A fireman hoses down a burning cottage

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