Move Collection (page 3)

Barnardos Contrast Card advertising new Woodford Bridge H
Barnardos promotional postcard for the move from its East London premises to the new Boys Garden City home at Woodford Bridge, Essex. Date: circa 1912

WW1 - M1917 American tanks in action
WW1 - Two American M1917 tanks in action as they move towards, and plough through a forested terrain. Date: 1918

WW1 - The British transporting ammunition
WW1 - The British at work, transporting a a load of high calibers. The troops made and used small improvised railways to transport the ammunition more easily. Date: 1918

WW1 - Battle of Sari Bair - Heavy artillery advancement
WW1 - Battle of Sari Bair - The main operation started on 6th August 1915, with the intention of gaining a fresh landing north of Anzac at Suvla Bay

WW1 - Scene at a German HQ - Moving flags on a map Date: 1914

Pig farmer persuading a pig to move
A little persuasion required. A pig farmer tries to get his pig to move. Date: C.1890

Suffragette Toy Votes for Women. A suffragette with votes for women flag is pushed along by a policeman in this ingenious mechanical toy

Suffragette Little Girl and Policeman. Little Girl is told to move on by policeman as she tries to meet a government Minister. She appeals, somebody please move this horrid man! Date: circa 1908

Battalion commander explaining the next move
Battalion commander and his soldiers having a temporary rest in a derelict building while being instructed where their next move will be using a field map of the district. Date: 1917

Cooking as you go - Field kitchen on the move
Cooking as you go. A field kitchen in the move behind the column. Somewhere in Flanders. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

First attack of the Battle of Flanders
Second Battle of Flanders: Going methodically forward they took every trench and point they were set to take precisely as was appointed for them, until they arrived close up to the Steenbeek River

Elephants moving timber, India. Date: circa 1890s

Moving Cleopatras Needle, Egypt -- it was one of three which went to London, Paris and New York respectively during the 19th century. Date: circa 1870

People on ships deck playing a game
People on the deck of a ship, playing a game involving wooden models of racehorses, with a racecourse marked out in white

In the appalling, muddy conditions of Serbia, German motoris
Men and horses struggle to move heavy equipment through the mud, using ropes. A German staff car is stuck up to its axles. Date: 1916

Ballet Move / Plie
A ballerina performing a PLIE (pronounced Plee-ay ), which simply means a bend. The dancers arms during the plie are doing a Corps de bras in unison with the body. Date: 1930s

Woman in Scottish fancy dress poses for a studio photograph in mid fling. Date: circa 1930

We are Moving - Humorous Motoring postcard, showing a male driver getting rather over-excited at the wheel, courtesy of the amorous advances of his lady passenger

Design for a compound tandem machine with flappers mounted
Design for a compound tandem machine, with flappers mounted outboard of the fixed wings: flappers a move up, as BB move down. 1815. From Cayleys original notebook

Spain (1814). Move of the corpses of Luis Daoiz and Pedro Velarde (2nd May 1814), dead six years before facing up the napoleonic troops. Etching. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia

King Amadeo I of Savoy
Embarkation of King Amadeo I of Savoy (1845-1890), for Spain at La Spezia harbour. Luis Alvarez Catala (1836-1901). Oil on Canvas. Date: 1873

Arrival of Meat at Smithfield Meat Market, London, 1870
Engraving showing the arrival of meat at Smithfield Market, London, in 1870. The meat had just arrived by steam train (which can be seen in the background)

Firefighters playing chess during a break

1903 machine on the launching track at Big Kill Devil Hill, prior to the December 14th trial. Four men from the Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station helped move it from the shed to the hill

Sakhalin Island, Russia - Convicts at working moving timber
Russian Convicts on Sakhalin Island work to move timber on a basic railroad. A katorga (penal colony) was established by Russia on Sakhalin in 1857. Date: circa 1910s

Ballet Couple

Racial Types / Lapland
In summer Laplanders live in tents, moving from pasture to pasture with their reindeer. The reindeer move in vast herds, often many thousand strong. Date: 1930s

Entre Chats Six
A male ballet dancer demonstrates a entre chats six move. Literally translated as between six cats. He crosses and uncrosses 2 feet 3 times! Date: 1930s

Austrio-Hungarian troops in Romania, Eastern Front, WW1
Austro-Hungarian troops trying to dislodge heavy equipment out of the mud during their advance through Romania, on the Eastern Front, during the First World War. Date: 1917

American troops and tanks, near Boureuilles, France, WW1
American troops and tanks of the 326th Battalion, 311th Tank Center, moving up to a forward area near 35th Division headquarters, Boureuilles, north eastern France, during the First World War

Handley Page bomber with Clayton tractor, WW1
A Handley Page bomber with its wings folded, being moved into position for takeoff by a Clayton tractor on an airfield during the First World War. Date: 29 August 1918

Sea Scouts helping at 1948 Olympics
Sea Scouts assisting with the boats at Torquay during the 1948 Olympics. 1948

Coronation. Escort of Guards
The Escort of Brigade of Guards move off down Victoria Street. 1953

1888 Football Match
Two players move to head the football. Date: 1888

Book / Time Device
ZAGRIBUD (John Russell Fearn) The Time Device allows the hero and heroine - but also the villain ! - to move in a fourth dimension... Date: 1937

London Chess Club
Members of the City of London Chess Club playing a new game of chess, invented by Polish composer Ludomir Michal Rogowski. 81 (not 64) pieces and even a Dictator piece! Date: 3 October 1932

Peeler Move Traders On
A policeman moves on some female street traders who are selling fruit and vegetables. Date: circa 1830

British Troops Advance
British troops, wary of German snipers, move cautiously behind a ruined wall in St. Mauvieu, France. Date: 6 June 1944

Blondin tower, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of a Blondin tower at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. This is part of the high wire carriage system used to move the slate around

Blondin winder, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
A Blondin winder at work, at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. The Blondin is a high wire carriage system used to move the slate up or across

Blondin system, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of the Blondin high wire and truck at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Man reading the rules of the board game Frogger
A man reading the rules of the board game Frogger, which was based on the popular arcade and video game of the same name and was brought out by Milton Bradley in 1981

Madeira Barrels - Madeira, Portugal
Wine production on the island of Madeira is of utmost importance to the Islands economy. Prince Henry the Navigator probably introduced the first vines to Madeira during initial colonisation of

Lady Alexandra and Maud Duff
The daughters of Princess Louise of Wales, Duchess of Fife, Alexandra (1891-1959) and Maud (1893-1945) perched in a rather elaborate cane carriage

An incident with a car, Iran
A large number of people trying to move a car out of a ditch, somewhere in Iran

Circus on the move, c. 1888
Engraving showing a small group of circus performers on the move, with the circus packed into horse-drawn carts, heading for the next fair, c.1888

Parnell Expelled
Parnell is expelled from the House of Commons and arrested under the Coercion Act : in the lobbay, Dillon, Biggar and other supporters consider their next move

The Passage of the Sun at the South Pole, 1912
Illustration showing how shadows move with the passage of the Sun, if one is at the South Pole

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