Moving Collection

William Heath Robinson drawing showing soldiers unaware of the camouflaged famous Stonehenge moving around in Wiltshire. Date: 1941

An infamous image of the Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster? A photograph taken by Mr R. K Wilson, a London surgeon, after noticing an object moving in Loch Ness

Churchill AVRE Tank in France; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank moving up to the front, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE tank was equipped with a Petard mortar

Goodbye, Old Man by Fortunino Matania
Colour print of the famous picture by Fortunino Matania showing a gunner saying farewell to his dying horse. The original was painted for the Blue Cross Fund to raise money for the charity during

The Cross Bearers, WW1 battlefield by Matania
British soldiers on a devastated battlefield rescuing a figure of Jesus Christ and his cross from a ruined church. Date: 1918

The Battle of the Roer Triangle; Second World War, 1945
Sketch showing the Allied Second Army crossing the Vloed Beek in Holland during a night attack on the 17th January 1945. On the left of the image one can see sappers constructing an improvised

Grenadier Guards at a sham fight (training), moving up to support the fighting line. 1896

Biba move to Kensington Church Street
A highly publicised moving day for the Biba boutique of Barbara Hulanicki as around 60 models and well-known sixties personalities help to move the shop from its original Abingdon Road location to

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament. 1959

John Logie Bairds experiment, showing how television transm
Sending pictures through the air. Bairds system of television transmits its wireless pictures. John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image by wireless, showing gradations of light and shade

Leaf-cutter ants carrying pieces of leaf
Leaf-cutter ants transporting neatly extracted pieces of leaf. These ants derive from the rainforests of Central and South America

Soviet Heavy Tank in Berlin; Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing a Soviet heavy tank moving through Berlin, with the Brandenburg Gate in the background, May 1945. Berlin fell to the Russian Army on 2nd May 1945

Gaumont Projector 1903
Gaumont projector, adaptable to both still and moving pictures, Date: 1903

Waiting in Trenches Wwi
British troops, including a corporal, wait in trenches near Arras for the barrage to lift before moving on

Burma (Myanmar) - Rangoon (Yangon) - Elephants
Elephant scenes from Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar (formerly Burma). The Elphants are being shipped onto a steamer and working/moving teak logs

Ubiquitous bulldozer by G. H. Davis
The ubiquitous bulldozer: a mechanical tool of peace becomes an important weapon during the Second World War. Date: 1944

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament photographed in motion. 1959

Randan Skiff
A RANDAN SKIFF, used on the Thames. Remarkably, it has three oars, which you might think would result in one side of the boat moving faster than the other

Advert for Parkins and Gotto electrical novelties 1906
Advertisement from 1906 for Parkins and Gotto, of Oxford Street, London, showing the wide range of electrical novelties, including a working model of the Metropolitan electric railway train with

British horse artillery in action or training, WW1
British horse artillery in action or training during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

A heavy gun battery moving uphill during the Balkan campaign
A French heavy-gun battery move up a steep hill during fighting with the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian border, October 1916

MOVE ON POLICE SATIRE
A cruel satire aimed at the Commissioners of Police, features a skeleton in a policemans uniform moving on a starving, homeless woman and her baby

ROBINSONS REMOVAL MEN
Employees of Robinsons Removals unload a lorry in Felpham, nr. Bognor, Sussex. Date: 1960s

McNabs tree transplanter, as used in Edinburgh
McNabs tree transplanter, as used by him in the Royal Scottish Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Date: circa 1850

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Scene Shifter. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

Shipping Shetland Ponies
Transporting a small herd of Shetland Ponies in a modest-sized sailing boat. Date: circa 1906

Mediumship / Satirical
THE PLEASURES OF HAT-MOVING To perform this scientific experiment, the experimenters must touch hands for 20 minutes or so

Newsie, ten years old. Going into a moving picture theatre with his papers. Location: Schenectady, New York (State). Date 1910 February

Removal Men and their vans
A pair of early motorised removal lorries and their teams of removal men - the company is P. W. Caswill of Acton Lane, Chiswick, London - they also offered warehousing

Allied Troops landing in Normandy; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing Allied troops and armour moving up one of the Normandy beaches, shortly after D-Day, 6th June 1944. At the top of the image a barrage balloon can be seen

Ww1 / Moving a Heavy Gun
British soldiers move a heavy gun up to the front by manpower, hauling it through the mud Date: 1914 - 1918

Ferry at Plymouth
Cars and even a Pickfords removal van, driving onto the Torpoint Ferry at Plymouth, Devon, England

Escalator Trials
A couple misunderstand the instructions for stepping off a new fangled moving staircase and land in an undignified heap on the floor of the underground station

Never-stop railway at British Empire Exhibition 1924
Diagram showing step-on, step-off method, where people walked slowly onto the moving carriage that went around the British Empire Exhibition, in Wembley, designed by William Yorath Lewis

Australia - Bullock teams carrying huge Karri logs (Eucalyptus diversicolor) - native to the wetter regions of Southwestern Western Australia. Date: circa 1910

La Piedra Movediza balancing rock, Tandil, Argentina
La Piedra Movediza was a balancing rock located in Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its weight was about 300 tons

Douglas A2D-1 Skyshark 125482. The third production aircraft of ten completed, 125482 was bailed to the Allison Engine Company for flight testing of turboprop engines at Edwards Air Force Base in

PUNKAH-WALLAH
A PUNKAH-WALLAH keeps the air moving while eleven servants wait on 8 or 9 British diners Date: circa 1840

The Sugarloaf Cable Car - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at night
The Sugarloaf Cable Car (Bondinho do Pao de Acucar) - a cableway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, moving between Praia Vermelha and the Sugarloaf Mountain

Moving UFO in the night sky over Hessdalen, Norway
Because of the long exposure time its not possible to say how much of the apparent shape of these Hessdalen lights is real, or due to movement

Moving a gun in the Flanders mud during the First World War

WW1 - Battle of Morval - Infantry moving forward on the front line near Ginchy - 25th September 1916

Battle of Ginchy, troops moving to attack near Ginchy on 9th September 1916

WW1 - Battle of Ginchy - Troops moving to the front line - 9th September, 1916

Lassie Come Home cinema projection slide 1943

Laurel and Hardy Babes in Toyland cinema projection slide 1934

Fred Astaire Eleanor Powell Broadway Melody cinema projection slide 1940

Rudy Vallee Barbara Lawrence Mother Knows Best cinema projection slide 1949

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