Metz Collection

LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladder
Lambeths (D61) turntable ladder at its base station, displayed in the Brigade headquarters drill yard. The hose line, when the TL is used as a water tower

General Rudolf von Metz entering Jaroslau, Poland, WW1
General Rudolf Wendelin Adolf Edler von Metz (1861-1943), Austro-Hungarian army officer. Seen here (centre) with others entering Jaroslau (Jaroslav)

Wilton House / Metz 1787
WILTON HOUSE, WILTSHIRE The seat of the Earl of Pembroke

France Metz
General view of Metz, the capital of Lorraine, situated at the confluence of the Moselle and Seille : the cathedral of Saint-Etienne dominates the town

Trojan's Pillar

Ruins of Athen Greece

Seraglio, Constantinople

CLOTAIRE I king of Soissons, then of Soissons & Metz, then of the Franks : he burnt his revolting son Chram to death Date: 497? - 561

Costumes of Count Ernst IV von Gleichen and his wives
Costumes of Count Ernst IV von Gleichen with his first wife Ingeborg and second wife Margaretha, 13th century. Graf Ernst von Gleichen. From the effigy in Erfurt cathedral

Anne Dussert as la Duchesse de Metz in La
Mlle. Anne Dussert as la Duchesse de Metz in La Dame des Belles Cousines by Louis Charles Achille d Artois, Theatre du Vaudeville, 1823. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Emperor & staff reconnoitring during the Franco-Prussian War
Above, an image of the Emperor and staff reconnoitring; below, the Emperors carriage at Metz. The artist, William Simpson, was arrested on suspicion of spying, for making this sketch. Date: 1870

Arrest of English correspondents at Metz during the Franco-Prussian war. 1870

LCC-LFB Leyland Metz 100 foot turntable ladder
Lambeths (D61) turntable ladder on display in a park. The hose line, when the TL is used as a water tower, is lying over the side of the extending ladders ready for use. Date: circa 1950s

AQUEDUCT NEAR METZ / 1835
The Roman aqueduct near Metz, France. Date: 1835

Alexandre Baudot - Malakoff Historical Clarion - Bugler
Mr. Jean Louis Alexandre Baudot (1834-1911), delegate of the Society of Combatants of Gravelotte and the Army of the Rhine, at the Commemorative Ceremony on August 16 at Mars-la-Tour

Gallo-Roman funerary stele with commercial scene. Roman art. Relief on rock. FRANCE. LORRAINE. MOSELLE. Metz. mus饠 de La Cour d Or Metz M鴲 opole

Germany. Aachen Cathedral. Palatine Chapel. Charlemagnes th
Throne of Charlemagne. C.800. Marble. West side of the upper gallery. Palatine Chapel. Aachen Cathedral. Germany

Charles V in the siege of Metz, 1552-1553. Engraving. SPAIN. ARAGON. Zaragoza. Academia General Militar (General Military Academy)

LCC-LFB Metz 100 foot turntable ladder at drills
A Metz-Leyland 85 foot turntable ladder at drill at the Headquarters station, Southwark SE1

Perpetual Motion Wheels
Perpetual motion machines of the overbalanced wheel type invented by Bernard Launy and Jeremie Metz; neither will work in practice however

Holy Roman Emperors Cloak with liner
Imperial cloak (mantle) with liner. A cloak is preserved In the Cathedral of St. Etienne in Metz that resembles in shape and ornamentation those worn by German and Byzantine emperors

Battle of Metz / 1870
The first battle near Metz, at Pange. Date: 1870

Aquaducts / Roman / 3 Design
The designs of three aquaducts - aqua claudia - campagna of Rome - Metz on the Moselle Date: circa 1650

Lychnis coronata
Watercolour on paper, 1777 by Getrude Metz (1746-1793). Held in the Library and Archives Date: 1777

WW1 - Allied Military Commanders at Metz, 8th December 1918 - Joffre, Foch, Douglas Haig, Pershing and Petain. Date: 1918

Indicating scale, Leyland Metz fire engine
Indicating scale on a Leyland Metz fire engine, showing the elevation and extension of the adjustable ladder

Leyland Metz fire engine with sliding ladder
Leyland Metz fire engine with adjustable sliding ladder

Controls of a Leyland Metz fire engine, WW2
Controls of a Leyland Metz TLP (turntable ladder pump) fire engine, showing extension and elevation dials, 3 November 1944. Date: 1944

French and German Jewish soldiers celebrating Yom Kippur
Kerchief printed in red and black with scene of French and German Jewish soldiers in the Franco-Prussian war celebrating Yom Kippur at an open air servicebefore Metz in 1870

Arctotis sp. South African daisy
Watercolour No. 52 by Gertrude Metz, 1777. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

GLC-LFB - Turntable Ladder at Plaistow
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

Head of a turntable ladder (TL) showing the TL monitor and the control handle operated by the firefighter at the top of the ladder

Todtenbrucke, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Middle Bridge, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Neys Memorial, Esplanade, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

German Gate, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Service on the Day of Atonement by the Israelite soldiers of the Army before Metz 1870. Date 1871

Francois Pilatre de Rozier, ne e Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort pres de Boulogne sur Mer le 15. juin 1785. Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier

Sidney R. Ellis presents golden voiced singer, Al. H. Wilson in his new play of picturesque Switzerland, Metz in the Alps new songs and yodels. Date c1906

Advertisement for Auguste Bonaz hair combs
Advertisement for Auguste Bonaz decorative hair combs, worn here on short bobbed hair. 1924

Germany / 1356 / Golden Bull
In a diet at Metz, Holy Roman Emperor Karl IV publishes his Golden Bull, regulating the procedure by which the kings of the Romans are elected Date: 12 December 1356

Amiens-Rouen Line 1917
Repair to the railway bridge over La Celle River at Pont de Metz (2 miles south west of Amiens) carried out by the 8th railway company of the royal engineers on the Amiens-Rouen Line in France

Metz in Dispute
The German princes agree that Metz should be French, but emperor Carl V disagrees : he tries to re-take it, but it is successfully defended by Francois de Guise

Franco-Prussian War. The Bridge at Corbeil, blown up by the F
In order to stop the Prussian advance the French troops destroyed strategically placed bridges. In early October 1870 the French were surrounded by the Prussians

Franco-Prussian War. First German Prisoners brought into Met
Bare headed Prussian soldiers are brought into Metz under guard of French soldiers dressed in bearskins and frogged and braided uniforms

Franco-Prussian War. The Military Triumph at Berlin: the Sed
Monuments in Berlin to the great German victories of the Franco-Prussian War at Sedan, Metz and Strasbourg

The Emperor starting for Metz; Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Illustration showing the Emperor Louis Napoleon, Empress Eugenie and the Prince Imperial leaving St Cloud, with their court, to head for the French Army headquarters at Metz; Franco-Prussian War, 1870

The Surrender of Metz; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1
Illustration showing Marshal Francois Bazaines Army marching out as prisoners of war at the surrender of Metz during the Franco-Prussian War

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