Orient Gallery

Clapton Orient FC football team 1936

Clapton Orient FC football team 1936. Back row: Oakley, Murray, Farrell, Searle (Captain), Herod. Third row: Proudfoot (Manager), Wells, Heinemann, Rossiter, Iceton, Watson, Hillam, Affleck, Brooks, Halsey (Secretary). Second row: White (Trainer), Banfield, Fisher, Hammond, Quinn, Crawford, Fletcher, Smith, Taylor, Wright (Assistant Trainer). Front row: McCombe, Mulraney, Miles, Codling. Date: 1936

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Ships of the P&O, Cunard, Orient, Union and Guion Lines, 188

Engravings of the steamships Lusitania, Khiva, Mexican, Australia, Arizona, Zambesi, Poonah, Nepaul, Ganges, Geelong, Rosetta, Umbria and Etruria (left to right, top to bottom). These ships, from the P&O, Cunard, Orient, Union and Guion Lines, were among 150 merchant vessels that the British Government could have taken over to act as Armed Cruisers in the event of a war with Russia

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Orient Express - Map of the Overland Route to Cairo

Eliminating the Mediterranean Voyage in the journey to Egypt - The Overland Route to Cairo. The Map of the overland route shows the train line through Western Europe through to Turkey and then through North Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. The map shows part of the railway between Tripoli (Lebanon) and Haifa (then Palestine) still uncompleted. Date: April 19 1928

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans