Lifting Collection (page 4)

Hamburg, Germany - view of the harbour. Date: circa 1930s

Pieters Hill, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa
Harts Hill and Pieters Hill, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa, location of battles during February 1900 which led to the lifting of the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War (1899-1902)

Tugela River, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa
Eagles Nest and Tugela River from Pieters Hill, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa, location of Pieters Hill Battle, 27 February 1900

Tugela Heights, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa
Tugela (Thukela) Heights, Colenso, Natal Province, South Africa, location of a battle, 14-27 February 1900 which led to the lifting of the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War (1899-1902)

Big heavy machine in Oman
Oman. Big heavy machine lifting. Man standing next to machine guiding driver. Date: 1976

Egypt, Africa - A Sakia, used for irrigation. Date: 1910s

Roger and Andre - Floor Acrobats Date: circa 1930s

Danzig, Germany - warehouses in the harbour
Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) - warehouses in the harbour. Date: circa 1920s

Phyllis Dare - Edwardian Singer and Actress
Miss Phyllis Dare (1890-1975) - Edwardian Singer and Actress, aged 16. Date: 1906

Danzig, Germany - harbour
View of the harbour at Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland). circa 1920s

Three frogs weightlifting on a German postcard
Three frogs weightlifting in the gym on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 - With the W. A. A. F. - Barrage Balloon Fabric Workers
WW2 - With the W.A.A.F. - Barrage Balloon Fabric Workers Date: circa 1942

WW1 - Theft of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris by a Zeppelin ! Date: circa 1916

HMS Pegasus alongside HMS Marlborough recovering seaplane
HMS Pegasus alongside HMS Marlborough recovering her seaplane (detailed on this card as " Her small child" !). HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy

HMS Marlborough - Lowering a 13. 5 inch shell into shell room
HMS Marlborough - Carefully lowering a 13.5 inch shell into the shell room. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

HMS Marlborough - Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick
HMS Marlborough - Getting out the Admirals Barge on the Main Derrick (port side). HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

A group of young people having fun at the seaside
When the Heart is Young - a wonderfully free, natural and modern photograph of a group of young men and women having fun at the British seaside

Removal of horse trough in Eastbourne, Sussex
Removal of a horse trough on a street in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1962

China - Traditional Mandarins litter carried by porters
China - A traditional litter for a Chinese Mandarin carried by three porters Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Yangon - Elephants moving timber Date: 1906

Travelling chair - Japan Date: circa 1901

Passenger transfer in port of Mollendo, Peru, South America
Passenger transfer system via crane in the port of Mollendo, Peru, South America. This was necessary because the Pacific swell was too great for normal methods. Date: circa 1910

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Strong the Weight Lifters Wife. circa 1930s

Irish Strongman Paddy Kelly
Paddy Kelly from Dundalk, Ireland - he frequently sat full-grown people in the palm of his hand. Date: 1795

Loading an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
Loading a stretcher into an ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Several men, including service personnel and a civilian are assisting lifting a stretcher holding a patient into the top

Organ Grinder (Petherick
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland

Father Swings Daughter
A father swings his young daughter up into the air. Date: 15 April 1966

Christmas / Tree Dug Up
Lifting the tree Date: 1851

Paranormal: William S. Marriott simulates table lifting
The British magician William S. Marriott exposes the practices of fraudulent spiritual mediums: Marriott demonstrates the art of table-lifting

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - The 2nd Narrows Bridge
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - The Second Narrows Bridge - a vertical lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore Date: 1929

Vertical lifting bridge at Boskoop, Netherlands
Vertical lifting bridge (Hefbrug) on the Gouwe River at the town of Boskoop, Netherlands. Date: circa 1940

Scene in a timber yard, Devon
Scene in a timber yard in Devon, with a man standing on a pile of tree trunks, and another tree trunk being lifted above him. In the foreground are piles of cut planks. Date: circa 1960s

Subsidance Work, Northwich, England
Subsidance Work, Northwich, Cheshire, England. Caption: Street Lifting and Shoplifting in Northwich Owing to Subsidence. Date: 1910s

Sunday Work in the Tunnel of a Great Main Line, Matania
Labour and railway efficiency: Renewing the Permanent Way of a Great Main Line. Sunday work in the tunnel of a great main line outside London - gangs of navvies relaying the permanent way. Date: 1914

Dancing couple in fancy dress
A dancing couple in fancy dress -- the man is dressed as Harlequin. (3 of 4)

Shipping wheat, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Car in basement, Claverton Street, London SW1
LFB Special Service attempting to lift a car from a basement in Claverton Street, London SW1, on 24 July 1958. It was a difficult exercise, as the car kept getting caught on masonry, etc

Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936)

Dennis breakdown lorry, demonstrating wrong method
Firefighters operating a Dennis breakdown lorry (commissioned at HQ on 3 April 1936), demonstrating the wrong method of lifting and towing the front axle

LFB Annual Review 1934, Exercise carrying casualty Date: 1934

Student nurses practising three handed lift
Student nurses practising a three handed lift, supervised by a sub-officer of the fire prevention branch

Dri-ped advertisement with WaC women, WW1
Advertisement for Dri-Ped waterproof leather footwear with an illustration depicting a group of women of the Womens Army Auxiliary Corps loading a cargo of Dri-Ped boxes at the docks. Date: 1918

Statue arriving at Baden Powell House, London
A statue of Lord Baden Powell, founder of the scouting movement, arriving at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London, being lifted off a lorry by a crane

Statue outside Baden Powell House, London
A statue of Lord Baden Powell, founder of the scouting movement, being eased into place on a plinth outside Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened in 1961

Women working land in Cley, Norfolk, WW1
Women sent by the Womens Political Union to a farm at Cley, Norfolk for training in farm work during the First World War. Date: 1916

Land girl in Lincolnshire, WW1
A lady worker raising a sack of wheat to be carried to a wagon during the First World War. Date: 1916

Firewomen, a rescue on an iron staircase, WW1
A firewoman demonstrating a rescue on an iron staircase using another lady as her prop. Business firms in the West End trained women in the Fire Brigade drill so they could take the place of male

Elephants moving timber, India. Date: circa 1890s

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