Moving Collection (page 5)

Mrs Rachel Merry
Louisa Birt was the sister and colleague of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson. Rachel and her husband Joseph Merry superintended Macphersons Home of Industry for several years

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 - French artillery masked during the action
WW1 - A high caliber, artillery of the French Navy is moved and stowed away by a group of soldiers. They weapon is masked away during the action under a purposely-built camouflage tented area

Grave Digger at St Andrews Church by Grave of John Ruskin
Grave Digger at St Andrews Church by the Gravestone of John Ruskin, Coniston, The Lake District, near Ambleside/Windermere, Cumbria, England

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

WW1 - German troops on the Eastern Front - behind the lines - the arrival of a battalion (illustration caption in both German and Hungarian). Date: circa 1917

Home on a raft of logs - East Prussian Canal. Date: circa 1920s

Paris Universal Exhibition (Exposition Universelle) of 1900. View of the viaducts with the Trottoir Roulant (Moving walkway) named Rue de l Avenir and the Decauville Electric Railway

Switzerland - Berne. The Clock Tower
Coloured lantern slide of a view of the Clock Tower at Berne. One of the most famous sight is the Zytglogge (Bernese German for Time Bell ), an elaborate medieval clock tower with moving puppets

Graystone Bird, Bath
Hand coloured. Two women sitting in a rural area, looking out at a slow moving river.. Part of Box 365, Miscellaneous Part 1, Boswell collection. Date: circa 1900

Switzerland - Lucerne the Lion Monument
Coloured lantern slide of the Lion of Lucerne. Designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 182021 by Lukas Ahorn, the statue commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French

Msai moving with donkeys near lake Natron. Tanzania - Africa

Lilian Hicks Suffragette. Lilian Martha Hicks (1853-1924) portrait. Lilian Hicks Joined the W.S.P.U in the latter part of 1906, moving to the Womens Freedom League on its formation in November 1907

Tatler cover - Soldier at Gallipoli with grave
A moving front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring the silhouette of a soldier at Gallipoli visiting the grave of a fallen comrade who had gone west. Date: 1915

Chancing It, WW1 London bus with woman conductor
Illustration by Edmund Blampied showing a British soldier, possibly home on leave managing to just catch a moving bus presided over by a female bus conductor. Date: 1916

War Work at Westwood Works, Peterborough
Folio of 12 drawings showing War Work at Westwood Works, Peterborough, incorporating Perkins Engineers Limited and Joseph Baker and Sons Limited. Rudolph Ihlee, Neac, (1883-1968), Exhib. 1910-1955

British Troops moving up to the Front - Somme 1916, English School. Date: 1916

German battery under a searchlight, 1914
The searchlight in operation - a German battery thrown into relief by a searchlight of the Allied armies in the Aisne region of France. They make frantic efforts to escape the ghostly beam. Date: 1914

Family moving house, Japan

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

Christmas, 1914 - the silent toast
A moving illustration showing an older man raising a glass in quiet respect, his thoughts very much with the men fighting on the Western Front during the first Christmas of the Great War. Date: 1914

The Trench train, Victoria station, WW1
Moving scenes at Victoria railway station as British soldiers and officers, bound for the Front, bid farewell to their loved ones. 1915

Elephants moving timber, India. Date: circa 1890s

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

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

Zeppelin raid over London by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelin raid over London during World War One, with a sectional view of a Zeppelin, showing the curving flight of a bomb when dropped from a rapidly moving airship. Date: 1915

French troops moving up, Western Front, WW1
French troops moving up into action on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers moving forward, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers moving forward on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Gordon Highlanders in trench, Western Front, WW1
Gordon Highlanders cutting up rations in a reserve trench before moving up to the front line on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops moving in to attack, Western Front, WW1
British troops moving in to attack on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British Reserves on the Western Front, WW1
Supporting British troops move up to join the attack, near Ginchy during the Battle of Morval, 25th - 28th September 1916, part of the Battle of the Somme

British artillerymen sorting shells, Western Front, WW1
British artillerymen sorting shells in the snow on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British guns moving up to Front, WW1
Large British guns moving up to the Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Ford Motor Company Assembly Line Date: circa 1920

Inniskillings in transit
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are recalled to Europe to fight in World War One. Here photographed in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin) docks

James Sutton Removals
A removal van belonging to James Sutton Removals. Storage is also offered

Blurred image of child with hoop and stick
A blurred image of a child playing with a hoop and stick -- evidently moving along at speed!

French gunners positioning a heavy gun-carriage
French gunners moving a heavy gun-carriage into position near Verdun. 1916

Marey Photo
ETIENNE JULES MAREY French pioneer of the moving picture with his chronophotography. Photo 1901. Date: 1830 - 1904

WW1 - Advertisenent for French Byrrh Tonic Wine - Artillery moved to the front through difficult muddy conditions. Date: 1915

Full Speed Ahead
Having persuaded his lady friend to come for a ride, a little Dutch boys commands his wooden hobby horse to travel " Full Speed Ahead" ! (2/3) Date: circa 1920

WWI - Balkan Front - Fortified artillery post with French and Serbian gunners / artillerymen. Date: 1915

American troops in France - In Transit Date: circa 1917

Racing Illustrated - A doubtful starter - a seaside donkey is les than keen on taking a corpulent holidaymaker for a stroll across the sand... Date: circa 1903

The seducer - Amorous advances by a young Russian
The seducer - The amorous advances by a young Russian on a pretty girl with flowers in her hair. Date: circa 1902

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

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