Miles Collection (page 13)

Extension of South Western railway to Waterloo Bridge
Extension of the South Western railway, from Nine Elms to Waterloo, a distance of just over two miles. The construction cost 800000"

Congo railway, station at Matadi
Station at Matadi, forming part of the new Congo railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool. The railway took nine years to complete, and in the first five years only 25 miles of track was constructed

Malcolm Campbell and Blue Bird II
Photograph showing Malcolm Campbell next to his Blue Bird II after breaking the world land speed record of 245.736 mph (over four miles a minute)

Malcolm Campbell setting new world land speed record
Photograph showing Malcolm Campbell in his Blue Bird II setting the new world land speed record of 245.736 miles an hour, at Daytona beach, Florida

Marconis wireless telephone
A wireless telephone transmitter and receiver from 1919 produced by the Marconi Company, capable of transmitting speech two thousand miles from Ireland to Nova Scotia

Who will first drive two miles a minute? Motor driver Resta
Illustration showing the driver Resta covering a half-mile in 17.372 seconds (or at a speed of 103.615 miles an hour) at Brooklands

Willington Church, Beds
Willington Church and King Henry VIIIs stables, some four miles East of Bedford. Dedicated to St. Lawrence, the church contains old monuments to the Gostwicke family

Welbeck Abbey Motor Race
The first automobile race in England at Welbeck Abbey: the start. The fastest car attained a pace of 42 miles/hour

How many miles to Barley Bridge? words and music
How many miles to Barley Bridge? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle light? Yes, and back again

GEORGE HUDSON (1800-71)
GEORGE HUDSON English financier. Invested inheritance in railways and eventually controlled over 1000 miles of railroad. Lost fortune due to corruption

Mcclintock / Franklin
McClintock in Fox discovers Franklins remains and the fate of the Franklin expedition. They also revealed about 800 miles of hitherto unknown coast. Date: 1857-59

Lightship at the Nore
Sail 47 miles down the Thames from London Bridge and you will run onto a sandbank unless you watch out for the Nore lightship which guards the estuary

Thomas Rose / Miles Falcon
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Rose and his Miles Falcon, in which he won the Kings Cup in 1935

Macgregor / Miles Hawk Maj
Malcolm MacGregor, New Zealand aviator, and his Miles Hawk Major

Cathcart-Jones / Miles Hk
Lieutenant Owen Cathcart- Jones, British aviator, and his Miles Hawk Trainer: he made many long-distance flights

Manchester / Cotton Mills
Manchester: cotton mills, Miles Platting

Gal-Roman Ceiling / Carnac
A reconstruction of the elaborate ceiling of Gallo- Roman villa at Bossemo, an ancient site 2 miles to the east of Carnac

Robinson Downs Zeppelin
Zeppelin L21 falls from the sky after being attacked by Lieutenant Robinson; this image was based on an account by an eyewitness 20 miles away

WELLMANs AMERICA - 2
Newspaperman Walter Wellman designs America to cross the Atlantic, but the project has to be abandoned after 100 miles due to bad weather, the crew are rescued by a steamer

WELLMANs AMERICA - 1
Newspaperman Walter Wellman designs America to cross the Atlantic, but the project has to be abandoned after 100 miles due to bad weather, the crew are rescued by a steamer

Bible Accessible
Miles Coverdale translates the Bible into english, so for the first time it is accessible to the common woman and man

Boy in Electric Toy Car
In France, millionaires children, such as the son of Comte de la Taulp, drive tiny electric cars. They cost 35 pounds and can run 35 miles without need of re-charging

Enrico Forlaninis Boat
The superb hydrofoil boat of Enrico Forlanini, travelling at 40 miles an hour over the waters of Lake Maggiore. Alexander Graham Bell rode on Forlaninis boat here in 1911`

Festival Radio Telescope
The huge " Radio Telescope", visible for miles, a futuristic lighthouse for projecting messages to the moon. It was actually the Shot Tower, an old London landmark

China / Shau-Chew
The city of SHAU-CHEW 100 miles north of CANTON. A city on a river with a mountainous hinterland. A tower has been built upon a small island

Cheltenham Flyer 1935
The driver of the Cheltenham Flyer oils its wheels. It was one of the fastest trains of the day covering the 77 miles between Swindon and Paddington in 65 minutes

Australian Railway
The railway which connects Kalgoorlie (West) with Port Augusta (South), through the Nullarbor Plain, Australia, runs 330 miles without a curve. Built between 1925 and 1930

Haus Surenbergs C18Th
Moated mansion 27 miles north of Munster. Bought in the 18th century by Carl van Zuydtwyck, a Dutch aristocrat and is still lived in by his descendants

Licking River Kentucky
Twenty miles up the Licking. A view down river looking towards two log cabins

Lindbergh Silk Souvenir
Commemorative souvenir, woven on silk, of Lindberghs flight from New York to Paris, the first non-stop transatlantic flight (3625 miles - 5834 km)

Suppressing the Sioux
General Miles leads a cavalry column against the Sioux, who are staging a rebellion on account of supposed grievances against the kindly and benevolent government

Poe and Friends
EDGAR ALLAN POE American writer (on the right) with friends from the University of Virginia, Miles George and Thomas Goode Tucker, probably taken about 1840

Birds / Robin
(Erithacus rubecula) in a suburban garden not a hundred miles from our Library

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