Mile Collection (page 4)

Gold prospectors on the way to Coolgardie, Australia
Gold prospectors on the hundred-mile journey to Coolgardie in Western Australia, some with carts, others pushing wheelbarrows. Date: 1850s

Finish of the Thousand Miles Trial in 1900
The finish of the Thousand Miles Trial which ended on 12 May 1900 in Whitehall, London. The first car in the row is a 12 h.p. Panhard driven by Charles Rolls who is seated at the wheel

Barnardos Copperfield Road Ragged Schools, Mile End
The Ragged Schools run by Thomas Barnardos East End Juvenile Mission in Mile End, East London. Date: circa 1877

North Cray Roadside milestone - Black and white lantern slide. North Cray Milestone on grass verge. Showing 4 miles to Farningham and 1 mile to Foots Cray.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection

Firefighters in action in Commercial Road, East London
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at business premises, 81/85 Commercial Road, East London, 18 June 1957. The first floor, a large tailors workshop

Wooden box with Ruhleben Internment Camp coat of arms
Inlaid wooden box inscribed with the Ruhleben Internment Camp coat of arms on lid, together with the Camp motto Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)

Daily Mail coloured map of part of the Western Front
Daily Mail coloured print of a map of part of the Western Front from Bethune and La Bassee in the North to Albert and Peronne in the South with Arras in the centre of the map

Lady Drogheda, The Flying Countess
Lady Droghedas Official Air Services Exhibition at the Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, 1-19 November 1917. Date: 1917

Railway construction in France, Western Front, WW1
Broad gauge railway construction on the Western Front in France during World War One. Progress was made at a rate of one mile per day. Date: circa 1916

Zeppelin airship flights by night, by G. H. Davis
The possibilities of Zeppelin airship flights by night. Showing a 360 mile route from Heligoland to Selby, and an inset map with various routes marked

Mass production of aircraft by G. H. Davis
Potentialities of mass production of flying boats as troop carriers and heavy freighter airplanes during the Second World War

Miracle Mile, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA
Miracle Mile, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Runners and starting pistol at Fenner s
Runners at the start of the mile race at Fenner s, in an athletics competition between the English A.A.A team and the past and present athletes of Cambridge University. The race was won by R. S

Festival of Empire exhibition, 1911
The Empire at the Palace: a one-and-a-half mile worlds tour. The Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace (held from May to October 1911), featured the All-Red route

Spring Garden, Stepney
Pleasure Garden at the Mile End Road, Stepney, which lasted from 1702 till about 1764. Date: early 18th century

Mile End Road
The Tavern in the Mile End Road, east London. Date: circa 1895

London Milestone
A tall stone milestone on the famous Bath Road (The A4), England : 1 mile to Hungerford, 8 miles to Newbury, 64 miles to London. Date: 1940s

Miss Mitfords Home
The home of Mary Russell Mitford at Three Mile Cross, three miles from Reading, Berkshire. Date: 1843

Charing Cross Shoeblack
A one-legged shoeblack at Charing Cross Station yard. In 1914, within a 3 mile radius of here, there were 1000 shoeblacks, but less than 40 when this picture was taken. Date: early 1950s

The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail prize
The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail 1, 000 prize for the first flight of one mile in a closed circuit by a British pilot in an all-British in September 1909. Horace Short is on the right

Blitzen Benz record-breaker - painting by Andrew McGeachy
The Blitzen Benz car, built in Mannheim by Benz & Cie running a full speed. At Brooklands on November 9, 1909, at the Brooklands circuit at Weybridge, Surrey

Lady Droghedas Official Air Services Exhibition - Paintings
Photographic reproduction of paintings by contemporary artists at Lady Droghedas Official Air Services Exhibition at the Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, 1-19 November 1917

Zeppelin parts at Lady Droghedas Official Air Services Exhibition at the Peoples Palace, Mile End Road, 1-19 November 1917

The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail 1000
The Short Biplane No2 which won the Daily Mail 1, 000 prize for the first flight of one mile in a closed circuit by a British pilot in an all-British in September 1909. Horace Short is on the right

J T C Moore-Brabazon winning the Daily Mail 1000 prize
J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon winning the Daily Mail 1, 000 prize for the first flight of one mile in a closed circuit by a British pilot in an all-British aeroplane in the Short Biplane No2 at Leysdown in

A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely Huntingdonshire
A line up of Avro Lancaster Is at Gravely, Huntingdonshire. These aircraft from No35 (Madras) Squadron had just returned from a 15, 000 mile goodwill tour of the USA

Sir Malcolm Campbell: 301. 13 mph for one mile
Sir Malcolm Campbell: 301.13 mph for one mile

Full speed on the ten mile circuit
At full speed on the ten mile circuit; travelling at 150 mph, even faster than the plane flying above

ZOLA, mile (1840-1902)

Mile End Scandal - Guardians in Court
In 190, builder James Calcutt was convicted of fraud after regularly overcharging the Mile End Old Town Board of Guardians for work he had carried out

Mile End Scandal - Three Crowns Public House
In 1907, builder James Calcutt was convicted of fraud after regularly overcharging the Mile End Old Town Board of Guardians for work he had carried out

Mile End Old Town Workhouse, London
Previously part of the Stepney Union, Mile End Old Town became an independent Poor Law Hamlet in 1857. The following year, work began on its new workhouse located on Bancroft Road

Mile End Scandal - James Calcutts premises
In 190, builder James Calcutt was convicted of fraud after regularly overcharging the Mile End Old Town Board of Guardians for work he had carried out. This is a view of his business premises

LCC-LFB Serious fire at Peoples Palace, Stepney
The aftermath of a fire at the Peoples Palace Amusement Centre, Mile End Road, Stepney, East London. Here the camera catches a lighter moment as a firefighter poses alongside a statue of Queen

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry (HLL) at Lambeth HQ
Lee Greens (C49) hose laying lorry on display in Lambeth headquarters station drill yard. The 3.5 inch hose is stored in such a way that the mile of hose carried can be fed from the rear of

Centreville and Black Douglas: Centreville Course L. I. July
Centreville and Black Douglas: Centreville Course L.I. July

Celebrated pacing mare Pocahontas, driven by James McMann esq: Peforming her wonderful feat of pacing a mile in the unprecedented time of 2

Celebrated trotting horse John Stewart as he appeared on the twentieth mile: In his great match against time over the fashion course L.I. Tuesday Sept. 22nd 1868

Pacing horse Billy Boyce of St. Louis: as he appeared at Buffalo N.Y. Aug 1st 1868 pacing the last half mile in the second heat in 1 minute 5 1/4 seconds

Sontag and Flora Temple: at the Hale mile pole in 1: 13
Sontag and Flora Temple: at the Hale mile pole in 1:13!!. Date c1855

Railway, the last mile, Snowdon, Wales. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The racing King Salvator, mile record, 1: 35 1 / 2: by Prince C
The racing King Salvator, mile record, 1:35 1/2: by Prince Charlie, dam Salina by Lexington. Date c1891

James Hammill, and Walter Brown, in their great five mile rowing match for $4000 & the championship of America: at Newburg Bay, Hudson River, N.Y. Sept. 9th 1867. Date c1867

A view of the great Cohoes Falls, on the Mohawk River, the fall about seventy feet, the river near a quarter mile broad Vue de la grande cataracte de Cohoes, sur la riviere des Mohawks

Trapper Boy, Turkey Knob Mine, Macdonald, W. Va. Boy had to stoop on account of low roof, photo taken more than a mile inside the mine. Witness E. N. Clopper. Location: MacDonald, West Virginia

Closeup view of the Wright brothers tent at Kitty Hawk, a half mile from Captain Tates home. Date 1900

A mile a minute. Date c1891

Scenery near Hawridge, Buckinghamshire
Sketch of the countryside about a quarter of a mile from Hawridge Church towards Chesham, Buckinghamshire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell

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