Roads Collection (page 12)

Traffic Warden 1960S
An irate old lady gesticulates in frustration at a traffic warden, aggrieved at the parking fine he has just given her. A man takes a sneaky peek at them! Date: 1960s

Monitor / Merrimac / Beilch
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

American Rural Road
A citizen of Philadelphia drives his carriage along the rutted mud of an American country road - Hunting Park Avenue its grandly named ! Date: 1891

Roller (Hyde Park)
A massive Aveling & Porter roller astonishes the natives in Hyde Park, London Date: 1866

Man at a Road Sign
A walker contemplates the signpost, unable to decide whether to make for a meal at Middleton or settle for a snack at Straitford. Date: 1893

A Street in Pompeii
A sreet in Pompeii, with stepping stones allowing pedestrians to cross dry-shod and wheeled vehicles to pass between. Date: circa 1

Monitor & Merrimac
The Battle of Hampton Roads. The Confederates armoured frigate Merrimac destroyed many Federal vessels, but retreated following action with Monitor, a turret ship. Date: 8-9 March 1862

Hyde Pk Corner / 1825 / Col
A very busy scene at Hyde Park Corner - horse carriages, pedestrians and horse riders 1825

Royal Exchange / Chromo
A view of the exterior of The Royal Exchange showing people and horses and carts in the surrounding roads. Date: circa 1890

Lollipop Lady
A lollipop lady stands in the middle of a very quiet residential road to assist a group of schoolchildren to cross it. Date: early 1970s

Thaw in London
Effects of a thaw in the streets of London Date: 1865

Mograbi Opera House and Cinema - Tel Aviv, Israel - at the junction of Allenby and Ben Yehuda Streets - the centre of town in the 1920s

Monbulk Road, Australia
Car on the Monbulk Road, Victoria, Australia

The mechanical mule team, Los Angeles aqueduct. These caterpillars crawl across the desert wastes and over mountain roads about three miles an hour, drawing several tonnes of machinery and supplies

Montauk, Long Island
Sunrise Trail over Hither Hills, Montauk, Long Island, New York

S Teerwood. Picnic with touring car
A group of people make a roadside stop to enjoy a picnic whilst touring country roads in their car

S Teerwood. Driving in the 2-seater
A couple go for a drive in the country in their jaunty little open top two seater car

Roman road and Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy
A cobbled Roman road leading to the Forum Romanum, with the Arch of Titus in the distance, in Rome, Italy

HMS Yacht Britannia, flying the Royal Yacht Societys (RYS)Commodore flag - sailing out of Cowes Roads, Isle of Wight

Wartime Vauxhall Production
Military Bedford vehicles line the roads waiting for shipping from the Vauxhall Factory in Luton during World War II

WW2 - British troops landing on Sicily
The First day of the Invasion of Sicily. Here, the disembarked Highland division prepare beach roads. Large landing craft unload supplies by raft and human chain. Date: 10th July 1943

Postcard map of Lake Geneva
A postcard map showing Lake Geneva (Lac Leman), Switzerland, with an inset photograph of the lakeside town of Montreux

Car turning a hairpin bend
A motorist negotiates a tight hairpin corner on a rather vertiginous looking road

The Terraces - Monte Carlo with departing Steam Packet

Lone soldier guards crossroads in Delhi - Partition in India
A lone soldier defends the cross-roads near the entrance to the Parharganj Bazaar, scene of some of the heaviest rioting in Delhi and where great destruction had been done to Muslim property

Khyber Pass, Afghanistan - Straight Road
The straight road to Afghanistan - The Khyber Pass, North West Frontier Province

Casablanca - Morocco - View of the Harbour
View of the Harbour, Casablanca, Morocco with shipping lying off the ciast awaiting the given slot to moor up

The Bois de Boulogne and the Grande Armee
The Avenues of The Bois de Boulogne and the Grande Armee, Paris, France

Kensington Toll Gate, London, c. 1864
Engraving showing the Kensington turnpike toll gate in London, c.1864. After many years campaigning by Londoners, a large number of toll gates were removed from the citys roads in the early 1860 s

Elephant and Castle, London, 18th Century
Engraving showing the cross-roads at Elephant and Castle, South London, in the early 18th century. This picture, after Richardsons drawing, shows cattle being herded, horses

Allied truck watering Italian roads; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing an Allied truck employed in watering dusty Italian roads, 1944. The warning sign on the right-hand side gives the reason for the watering

French Town Street
A characteristic French small- town street : soldiers on manoeuvres ride through Lagny

Oedipus Tyrannus 5
left, a messenger : right, Oedipus, having blinded himself, embraces his children, before taking to the roads as a wanderer with his daughter Antigone

Basra under British Military Rule, 1916
Photograph showing locals repaving mud roads with stone and cement, under the gaze of a British Military Engineer, 1916

Repavement of the Strand
Illustration showing work in progress on the West side of Temple Bar. Workers are using heavy rammers to level the surface

Two Hikers Map Reading
Two female hikers on a coastal route stop and consult their map

The Civil War in America: naval engagement in Hampton Roads
The confederate iron-plated steamer Merrimac, running into the Federal sloop, Cumberland, from a sketch by T. Nast. This encounter had one important result; the Federals realised that wooden ships

Life on the Stars 6
Roads, cities, aerial communication - the inhabitants of the Rigel constellation may not resemble earthfolk, but their civilisation is similar

Future Road
The road of tomorrow may be a kind of track, along which huge bubbles will run, containing accomodation - a kind of super-caravan

London Traffic 1930S
A cycling salesman negotiates his way among the motor cars at Oxford Circus, central London

Dancing Roadmenders
A group of men, roadmenders, one of them playing a fiddle while the others dance and fool around in their lunch hour!

Timber roads on the battlefields near Verdun
Two French soldiers making their way along the log-tracks crossing the scarred landscape left by German shelling near Verdun

ENGLAND SIGN POST
An England signpost on the border with Scotland

Guildford By-Pass 1940S
An early photograph of Guildford By-Pass, Surrey, England, with virtually no traffic on it at all

Television in a private car, demonstrated to Radio Olympia v
Television in a private car; an experimental installation in a standard Vanguard saloon. The screen is not visible to the driver, thus avoiding distraction

Cats Eyes on Road
A Cats Eye road marking. Cats eyes were invented in 1933 by Percy Shaw of Yorkshire, England

Towaway Zone
Towaway zone in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Magazine Bins Boston
Bins offering give-away magazines on a street in central Boston

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