Metres Collection (page 2)

Abu Simbel 1855
The colossal Speos of Athor, some 20 metres high, is depicted here pretty much as it was found by travellers in 1812

Wed at 800 Metres
WED AT 800 METRES At San Antonio, Texas, Walter Stone and Mary Shelton are married aboard an airship

A Girl Putter
A GIRL PUTTER Wearing a harness whose chain passes between her legs, a girl on all fours pulls a laden hutchie through a low gallery, for 100-200 metres

USA - Showing The Narrows St. John s
USA - Showing The Narrows St. Johns - Showing The Narrows St. John s. The Narrows, the only entrance to St. Johns Harbour, Newfoundland, is a narrow channel between the Southside and Signal hills

English Cathedrals - South Door Lichfield - Arched south door with statuary above. Part of Box 144 Boswell Collection - English Cathedrals The Cathedral is dedicated to St Chad and Saint Mary

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - Chinese Pavilion - Pagoda-type building - red tiled roof. Part of Box 119 Boswell collection. The exhibition of fine arts and new machinery was on a very large

Chapel Made of Salt
Miners in the salt mine at Wieliczka, Poland, carved this shrine, the Kinga Chapel, in the salt, 101 metres below ground. Successive generations worked on it for 70 years. Date: 17th century

Kinners Folding Plane
Folding monoplane designed by W B Kinner for Dr T C Young, chairman of the 1928 National Air Race Committee (USA) : the plane unfolds from 2.4 to 10.6 metres, and flies at 200 km/h Date: 1928

Diving Suit 1922
Diving suit designed for work on the Lusitania, sunk during World War One and lying at a depth of 80 metres Date: 1922

DIVERS AND LUSITANIA
American scientist/diver J D Craig descends to a depth of 80 metres to photograph the wreck of the Lusitania, torpedoed during World War One Date: 1922

Junkers G-38 on Ground
This huge passenger plane, with a wingspan of 45 metres, dwarfs the little two-seater beside it at Dessau : four privileged passengers sit in the wings, enjoying the view. Date: 1929

Henry Blacker, Giant
HENRY BLACKER of Cuckfield, 2.23 metres (7 feet four inches) tall Date: 1724 - ?

Switzerland - Fribourg, The Cathedral
Coloured lantern slide of the Fribourg Cathedral. The Gothic Cathedral of Saint Nicholas dominates the center of the medieval town of Fribourg

Visit to Madeira - The Janella Valley
Black and white lantern slide of The Janella Valley - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection. Ribeira da Janela is a civil parish (Portuguese)

Switzerland - Lauterbrunnen, the Staubbach
Coloured lantern slide of a view through the town of Lauterbrunnen. In the background is the Staubbach Falls. The waterfall drops about 300 metres from a hanging valley that ends in overhanging

Lord Burghley in the steeplechase at Stamford Bridge
400 metres hurdles gold medallist, Lord Burghley, at the water jump in the steeplechase at an athletics meeting at Stamford Bridge, shortly after his win at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games

Tommy Hampson collapsed after 800m win, 1932 Olympics
Thomas " Tommy" Hampson (1907 1965), British athlete, winner of the 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated Sporting

Stockholm Olympics 1912 - English Relay Team
The English 4 x 100 metres relay team who won gold medals at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912. From left to right: D. Jacobs, H. M. Macintosh, W. R. Applegarth and V. D Arcy

Italy Rome Piramide
Caius Cestius, a wealthy magistrate, built this tomb for himself in the Aurelian Wall near Porta San Paolo. It is 36 metres high and took 330 days to build. He died 12 BCE. Date: circa 1840

Athlete / Tavernari
The Italian runner TAVERNARI, who won another World Record at Budapest, Hungary, on 15 June, covering 500 metres in just 1 minute and 2/9ths of a second! Date: 1930s

Tallest Chimney in France at Roubaix (Nord) - 105m tall Date: circa 1910s

Gate of the Sun. 7th c. -12th c. BOLIVIA. Tiahuanaco
Gate of the Sun. 7th c.-12th c. BOLIVIA. Tiahuanaco. It is 4 metres wide and 2.75 metres high. Tihuanaco culture. Architecture

Ascension du 26 septembre 1876, 700 metres. Drawing shows Gaston and Albert Tissandier ascending in their balloon, Zenith. (Source: AG Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82). Date between 1876 and 1880

The Olympic Games - London, 1908
Scenes from the 1908 Olympic Games, held at Shepherds Bush stadium in London. 1. R. W. Rose (U.S.), winner of Putting the Weight, 46ft 7 1/2 in. 2. Gymnastic Team Competition - Swedish. 3. H

Jesse Owens (1913-1980)
Photograph of Jesse James Cleveland Owens, the US athlete, pictured with his Olympic oak-trees and medals, 1936. Owens won four gold medals at the the 1936 Berlin Olympics - the 100 metres

Brimham Rocks, rock formations on Brimham Moor, North Yorkshire, England. They are nearly 300 metres high. Date: 1930s

Reiff, winner of the 5, 000 metres, 1948 London Olympics
Belgian long-distance runner Reiff managed to snatch the lead from the Czech competitor Zatopek with three laps to go, to win the 5, 000 metres at 1984 London Olympic Games. Date: 1948

The final of the 100 Metres, 1948 London Olympics
A photo finish of the 100 metres final. Left to right: Harrison Dillard (no. 69, USA) came first, E. Macdonald Bailey (no. 35) was last, McCorquodale (no)

Lloyd B. Labeach sprinting, 1948 London Olympics
Sprinter Lloyd B. Labeach from Panama thrusts forward to win Heat 4 in the second round of the 100 Metres competition. His time was 10.5 seconds. Date: 1948

English Archers
English bowmen of the period of Edward IV : their bows - preferably of yew - were not less unbent than a mans height. A skilled bowman could reach 220 yards/metres. Date: 1482

Lake Lucerne with Jesuit church and Pilatus mountain
A view of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, with the Jesuit church in the foreground and the Pilatus mountain in the background (height 2132 metres). Date: circa 1940

Lake Lucerne with the Rigi mountain, Switzerland
A view of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, with the Rigi mountain in the background (height of 1800 metres). Date: circa 1940

AKRON ACCIDENT - 2
AKRON : the ship suddenly takes to the air, carrying three men with her : one saves himself by clinging to a rope, but his companions fall 200 metres to their deaths. Date: 1932

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

Cows on the slopes of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps
View of the Jungfrau, in the Swiss Alps. Its altitude is 4166 metres -- fortunately for the cows, they are slightly lower down the slopes. Date: circa 1956

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

1936 Berlin Olympics
A.J. Williams, American athelete, winner of the 400 metres race at the Berlin Olympic Games, Germany, in 1936

Germans taken by the French
Germans photographed in their trench by a French soldier from a distance of 15 metres. The Germans were asked if they would like to have their photograph taken

Restored figure of the Iguanodon
The Iguanodon, a large herbivore, which could grow up to 10 metres. It had numerous teeth enabling it to chew vegetation. Its powerful hind legs were ideal for escaping predators

Electric light at the Houses of Parliament
Two engravings from 1873 showing Zenobe Grammes electric light shining from Big Ben and the electric apparatus in the clock-tower

The Grasshopper
A cross-bow device, nicknamed, La Sauterelle or The Grasshopper, used by French soldiers to throw bombs twenty to eighty metres from the trenches

OLYMPICS / 1932 / MEN 100M
Finishing line of the mens 100 metres: 1st - Tolan, USA (10.3s) 2nd - Metcalfe, USA 3rd - Jonath, Germany

Olympics / 1932 / Decathlon
Decathlon: Charles (USA) placed 4th in the 100 metres

OLYMPICS / 1932 / MEN 800M
Thomas Hampson (Great Britain) wins the mens 800 metres

Sinai Peninsula
Sherm Moyah Ras Mohammed, on the Sinai Peninsula in northeast Egypt : mount Horeb is in the distance, 2400 metres high

Stone Putting - Olympic Games 1906
The Shot Put or Stone Putting showing N. Georgantas of Greece, the winner with a throw of 19.92 1/2 metres at the 1906 Athens Summer Olympics

The Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, Paris, November 1910
Photograph of the Flood-Scale on the Pont Neuf, showing the heights of various floods that had affected Paris between the 17th and 20th centuries

Sphinx at Memphis
A sphinx statue at Memphis in alabaster c.1567-1320 BC. 8 metres long and 4.25 metres tall

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