Road Collection (page 20)

Two forms of transport on a London bridge -- a double decker bus on the left, a horse and cart on the right. The bus is on Route 33A, serving Sheen, Hammersmith, Kensington, Piccadilly Circus

Advert for Asprey selection of household items 1937
Selection of items from Asprey, Bond Street: Glass luminous World lamp, gentlemans pigskin compactus case with ivory fittings, miniature reproduction clock in walnut, brocade evening bag

Scorchers Progress - The Marble Arch - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress - The Marble Arch - Errant city cyclist causing havoc aid his fellow road-users, knocking over a man and his dog. An old take on a current issue! Date: 1904

Cliff Drive, Falmouth, Cornwall featuring the Falmouth Hotel, the first commercial hotel to be built in the town, in 1865. Date: circa 1907

Leny Road, Callander, Scotland
Leny Road (formerly known as the Main Road), Callander, Scotland - The card describes Callander as a tourist centre and health resort on the banks of the River Teith amid scenery made famous by Sir

Port-na-Craig Tearooms Pitlochry, Scotland
Port-na-Craig Tearooms, Ferry Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland. Still (wonderfully!) still open as a Tea House although they have also diversified into (gasp...) Modern European Cuisine!

Southsea, Palmerston Road. Date: 1909

LCC-LFB Bayswater fire station, West London
Replacing the former Bayswater fire station in Queens Mews, this station was opened in 1904 at 210 Queens Road (later renamed Queensway)

LCC-MFB Bethnal Green fire station, East London
Built and opened in 1899, Bethnal Green fire station was located at 51 Roman Road E2. The station was closed in 1969, replaced by a modern Bethnal Green fire station

LCC-MFB Kennington fire station, London SE11
Built by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the forerunner of the London County Council) and opened in 1870, Kennington fire station was located in Refrew Road, Lower Kennington

LCC-MFB Battersea sub-fire station, London SW8
Battersea sub-fire station, at 32 Battersea Park Road, one of only a few London stations not actually built as a fire station

LCC-LFB Tooting fire station, SW London
Built by the London County Council, Tooting fire station is located at 91 Trinity Road SW17 and remains operational today

LCC-LFB Motorised pump escape at Southwark HQ
The pump escape of No 1 station, the Brigade Headquarters fire station located at Southwark Bridge Road SE1. The adoption of motorised fire engines by the LFB would lead to a reduction in the number

Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

COLD CHRISTMAS SIGN
An amusing signpost for the villages of Much Hadham and Cold Christmas in Hertfordshire, England! Date: 1950s

Family of five on a motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece
A family of five on a Zundapp motorcycle in Rhodes, Greece

Holborn Union Infirmary, Highgate, London
The Holborn Union Infirmary, Archway Road, Highate, North London. A tram passes by. The infirmary, which was opened in 1879, was designed by Henry Saxon Snell

Femina - Dancehall in Berlin - nowadays, this is the Duke Ellington Hotel!

Melbourne - Victoria, Australia
Swanston Street (looking North) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Poplar Union Schools, Essex
Entrance gates of the Poplar Schools which were established in 1906 between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex, to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Laden Donkey owned by a Bakhtiari Tribesman, Iran - this lantern slide has the caption - A Bakhtiari Tribesmans Pantechnicon !

The West London Jewish Synagogue, 1872
Engraving showing the interior of the West London Jewish Synagogue in Upper Berkeley Street, near Edgware Road, London, 1872

Victorian Cyclists and Motorists on a Snowy Road
Illustration showing the scene on a British road in the winter, circa 1899. In the foreground cyclists, two on a tandem, can be seen

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, London Road, Derby
View of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary in London Road, Derby, with a statue of Florence Nightingale

WATER LANE
This is Water Lane in the village of Ospringe, Kent, where a stream flows down the centre of the road, usually about 30cm deep but varying with weather conditions

Reginalds Tower Waterford - view of the tower and other buildings from across the road, there are people and motor vehicles and horse vehicles

Stacking Mountain Turf on the Ballycastle Road - a view of a man and a boy stacking a large pile of turf. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballycastle). Date: circa early 1900s

Clifden and the Long Hole, Bangor - a view of the boats in the Long Hole with the houses of seacliff road in the background. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Bangor). Date: circa early 1900s

Durban, West Street
An electric tram ascends West Street, as seen from Beach Road : there is a bakery on the right Date: 1915

Welcome to my dream - Music Sheet Cover, words by Johnny Burke, music by Jimmy Van Heusen. Paramount Presents Road to Utopia starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour

The Villas - Shirehampton Road, Avonmouth, Bristol County
The Villas - Shirehampton Road, Avonmouth, Bristol, Bristol County, England. Date: 1910s

Cohens Full Cream Dairy van, Birmingham
Cohens Full Cream Dairy van, a Ford van shaped like a milk churn, Victoria, Birmingham. Date: circa 1920s

Jaipur, Rajastan, India - Pigeons on the street Date: circa 1905

Children playing in Church Road, Kingham
Children playing in the street - Church Road, Kingham, Oxfordshire Date: circa 1906

Market Square and Church Road, Lytham, Lancashire
Market Square and Church Road, Lytham (now Lytham St Annes), Lancashire Date: 1904

Canterbury Road, Unknown location, England. Date: 1920s

Old Houses, Bletchingley
Some of the fine old houses (although some could do with renewed rendering) at the corner of the road leading to Brewer Street, Bletchingley, Surrey. Date: 1930s

Regents Park Industrial School
A view of the Regents Park Industrial School, Regents Park Road, Primrose Hill, London. Date: 1910

LCC-LFB in Lord Mayors Show, City of London
London firefighters and Auxiliary firefighters with appliances taking part in the annual Lord Mayors Show through the City of London. A Bedford heavy pump unit with crew leads the LFB contingent

Dagenham Police station on Shafter Road

Strike action, with London trams at a standstill
The scene near the Elephant and Castle, London, with a continuous line of double-decker trams all heading in the direction of London Bridge during the 1911 strike. 1911

Starucca Vale and Viaduct Pennsylvania
Railway train from the N.Y. & Erie R.R. (New York and Erie Railroad) crossing Starucca Viaduct over Starucca Creek in Starucca Vale, Pennsylvania, America Date: ca. 1860

Ventimiglia, Italy - Via Cavour
Via Cavour, Ventimiglia, Italy in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia on the Mediterranean coast close to the border with France Date: 1904

American 43rd Balloon Company, western front, WW1
Men of the American 43rd Balloon Company on the road to Bertrange Farm on the western front during the First World War. Date: 1918

Gryon, Switzerland - A moonlit street. Gryon is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. Date: circa 1910s

Traffic lights in Oxford Street
The new traffic light system in operation in Oxford Street, London in 1931 with uncertain pedestrians still warily looking for oncoming traffic

Cowboys at HFBar Ranch, owner, Frank O Horton, Rock Creek Road, Saddlestring, Wyoming

Demonstration to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey
A group of people on a demonstration in the middle of a road, holding banners and placards, determined to keep Horley and Charlwood in Surrey

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