Roads Collection (page 5)

Djakarta Chinese Quarter
A street in the Chinese quarter of Djakarta. Date: 1881

CITY SHOPPING STREET
A tram will bring you to the shops in Liverpools Lord Street, where my great-aunts doubtless came for their important shopping. Date: circa 1908

PROVINCIAL SHOPPING ST
A solitary cart is the only traffic in this characteristic provincial shopping street - this is the High Street at Littlehampton, Sussex. Date: 1905

Suburban Street London
A street in Londons inner suburbs - West End Lane, Hampstead. Date: circa 1905

COACH, CARRIAGE ALDGATE
A coach, a carriage and a horseman at Aldgate, London. Date: 1830

Quiet London Street
A quiet London street in a well-to-do area : the house facing us is Warwick House, residence of the ill-fated Princess Charlotte of Wales. Date: 1811

JUMPING A TOLLGATE
Eccentric English John Mytton (1796-1834) attempts to drive his carriage over a tollgate much to the annoyance of the toll-keeper & doubtless his passenger. Date: 1820s

London Map - Roman Period
Map showing Roman London (Londinium) with its grid of straight roads

Cross Paris Street - 1815
An elegantly dressed Parisienne raises her skirts as she crosses a Paris street with its flowing gutter Date: circa 1815

ABBEVILLE STREET SCENE
The rue du Puit-a-la-Chaine at Abbeville, France, where the uneven pave seem to have caused a coach to lose a wheel outside one of the shops that line the street Date: 1821

WHITEHALL 1875
A very busy street scene in Whitehall, London Date: 1875

Hyde park turnpike
The turnpike at Hyde Park Corner, London Date: 1792

Piccadilly Circus, London 1866
Piccadilly Circus, London on the morning of Derby Day Date: 1866

Vertical Photograph of Bombs Dropping During WW1 Aerial-?
Vertical Photograph of Bombs Dropping During WW1 Aerial-Photography at 6Pm on 3Rd June 1918 Date: 1918

Cumbernauld New Town, Scotland - Housing & Town Centre
Cumbernauld New Town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland - Housing & Town Centre. Cumbernauld is the clearest example of a modernist new town vision in the UK. Date: circa 1969

WW2 - Map of China, Korea, Formosa and the southern part of
Map of China, Korea, Formosa and the southern part of Japan, 27 Mar 1944. Compiled and drawn in the Branch of Research and Analysis, oss

House of Ferdinand de Lesseps in Ismailia, Egypt
House of Ferdinand de Lesseps (left) with carriage in front of the gate in Ismailia, a city in north-eastern Egypt. De Lesseps was the creator of the Suez Canal Company which constructed

Aerial view of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Persian Gulf. Date: circa 1950s

Kings Hotel, Boksburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Kings Hotel, on the banks of the lake, Boksburg, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

Midan el Tahrir (Tahrir Square), Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1965

Aerial map view of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, with roads and place names. circa 1910

Tanzania - Mbeya suburb near border with Zambia. road for Sumbawanga - Tanzania - Africa

Eritrea - The old road from Asmara to Massawa - Built by Italians during colonialism. Africa

Aerial view, Hollebeke, West Flanders, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view of Hollebeke, near Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, on 28 December 1917, a front line area with snow on the ground. The crossroads with canal and railway can be seen

Street life in Dakar, Senegal
Life in a rural street in Dakar, the capital of Senegal (then French West Africa). Date: circa 1906

Rue de Thiong in Dakar, Senegal
Rue de Thiong in Dakar, the capital of Senegal (then French West Africa). Date: circa 1910s

Road to the palace of Isma il Pasha in Ismailia, Egypt
Road to the residential palace of Isma il Pasha in Ismailia, a city in north-eastern Egypt. Isma il Pasha, also known as Ismail the Magnificent, was the third Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879

Grand Hotel in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt
Person walking on a road while two goats follow behind in front of the Grand Hotel in Aswan (Assuan), south of Egypt. Date: 1943

Bridges over Nahr al-Kalb (El Kelb), Lebanon
Railway and road bridges at Nahr al-Kalb (El Kelb) estuary, Lebanon. Nahr al-Kalb (meaning dog river ) runs from Mount Lebanon near Beirut to the Mediterranean Sea. Date: circa 1910

Road making on Praslin Island, Seychelles
Road making on Praslin Island, part of Dr N P Jewells remit in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912-1914

Luipardsvlei, Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
Luipaardsvlei (Luipardsvlei), a suburb of Krugersdorp, a gold mining town in Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. Date: circa 1905

A road in the south of the Oasis, Laghouat
People walk down a road in the south of the Oasis, Laghouat Date: circa 1910s

New Extended Gatwick Airport, South London 1958
Illustration by George Horace Davis, showing the transport links by road and railway to the new extended international Gatwick airport, and the 7000ft long runway with reflective lights

Advertisement, Surrey Machinist Co, Blackman Street, London, depicting a pennyfarthing bicycle. 1883

Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Birmingham
Advertisement, C G Bonehill, Belmont Row, Birmingham, Guns and Rifles. 1890s

Aerial view, Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA
Aerial view over Modesto Junior College, Modesto, Stanislaus County, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Aerial view of Marion, Ohio, USA, including a planned new town called Vernon Heights. Date: 1922

Valley - Seen from the old road from Asmara to Massawa, built by Italians during colonialism. Eritrea - Africa

Prince Albert as a midshipman in the Royal Navy
H.R.H. Prince Albert, the second son of King George V, and himself later King George VI (1895-1952), as an officer of the Collingwood of the First Battle Squadron

Man in a Horse-Drawn Cart
A 19th century man with a top hat on riding a horse drawn cart through a lane. The man has come out of a part of the road which is surrounded by trees

The Gentle Art of Excavating - a specially designed skimmer
The beginning of a garden suburb. Excavating a new road with a specially designed skimmer, a typically rickety contraption from the inventive mind of gadget king, William Heath Robinson. Date: c.1938

Old Chester Road
The Old Chester Road, now a very modern one, Bebbington, Wirral, Merseyside, England. Date: 1950s

V1 (flying bomb) attack in Poplar, East London, WW2
In June 1944 the first flying bombs were launched against London, and between 2 and 3 August 107 flying bombs hit London targets

Highwaymen punished
A new plan is proposed fo the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads. Date: 18th Century

Frost in London, 19th century
A touch of frost in London brings chaos to the streets, with horses slipping on the icy surfaces. Date: 1865

Snow blocked road in Kent, 1963
A snow plough bulldozes its way through deep snow on Westerham Hill in Kent on a road that had been impassable for days during the very cold conditions of the winter of 1963

The Battle in Susteren; Second World War, 1945
Sketch showing a battle between British infantry (in buildings on right) and German tanks (on left) in the town of Susteren, Holland, 1945

Advertisement for a Rudge Coventry Rotary Tandem Tricycle, 1
Advertisement showing the Coventry Rotary Tandem, built by D. Rudge & Co. of Coventry, 1885. An example of this machine, it was claimed, had travelled over 230 miles on roads with 2 inches of mud

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