Rock Collection

William Smith Geological Map

Hush-A-Bye, Baby by Lawson Wood
A colour illustration by artist Lawson Wood showing a monkey using her tail to rock her baby to sleep

Ladram Bay near Sidmouth, Devon. Date: 1936

Sea or rock samphire, Crithmum maritimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Gibraltar poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Gibraltar Date: 1927-1933

Meat Loaf in concert
Meat Loaf - Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), American rock musician and Actor performing at the Penwith Rock Festival in 1983 (Chuck Berry)

Avro Shackleton MR2 WL751 overflying the Rock of Gibraltar
Avro Shackleton MR2, WL751, overflying the Rock of Gibralter

Geological Strata 19C
A schematic representation of geology and palaeontology

Geological map of Britain and Ireland
Fig 9 from Britain Before Man (1978), a Geological Museum publication

Rock N Roll Dance
Rock and roll enthusiasts, dressed in 1950s clothes, including DA hairstyles, Teddy Boy jackets and spotted dresses which swirl to reveal stocking-tops!

Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart of 10cc
Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart of the rock band 10cc, before an open air rock concert at Penwith, Cornwall. Date: 1983

Rock and roll dancing couple

Rock n Roll Dancing
Two young things in full 1950s attire, partake in a bit of Rock n Roll dancing

Dumbarton Castle 1880S
View of the Castle at Dumbarton

Sisyphus and his Stone
Sisyphys, father of Odysseus, for no known reason, is condemned to push a rock to the top of a mountain in Hell, which the demons push down again, and again, and again

Freddie Mercury and Queen recording music video, London
Freddie Mercury and Queen recording a video for Friends Will Be Friends, London Date: 1986

Code of Hammurabi. Babylonian art. Old Babylonian period. Relief on rock. Proc: IRAN. Susa

Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a gale
The Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a Force 8 gale. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

Rocker & Rock Chic
Rebellious teenagers on a motorbike in Charlwood, Surrey. They are wearing their leathers, and the girl is swigging a bottle of shandy!

Eric Burdon - English singer-songwriter
Eric Burdon (1941- ), English singer-songwriter best known as a member and vocalist of rock band the Animals and the funk band War. Date: 1966

Falco rusticolus, gyrfalcon
Plate 13 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

The Makapansgat Pebble
Three-million-year-old Makapansgat Pebble from South Africa. Perhaps the most ancient art object in the world. It is said to have been carried over a distance of four kilometers by Australopithecus

The Devils Chimney, a distintive natural rock formation on Leckhampton Hill, overlooking the road between Cheltenham and Birdlip, Gloucestershire, England. Date: late 1930s

Marsden Rock
Marden Rock, near South Shields, County Durham, England. Date: BC

Edinburgh Castle 1940S
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland. Built on a volcanic mass of rock known as Castle Rock, this fortress has proved itself to be one of the most impregnable in Scotland

Mermaid (Woodward)
A mermaid on a rock Date: 1907

Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland
View of Bell Rock Lighthouse, near Arbroath, Scotland. Bell Rock is also known as the Inchcape Rock (made famous by a poem by Robert Southey)

Roade Cutting, Roade, Northamptonshire. Date: 1839

Aerial view of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall
Aerial view of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, between Lands End and the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, with the landing pad visible at the top. Date: circa 1970s

Restaurant de la Reserve, Nice, France. Date: circa 1910s

Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Swithland, Leicestershire
Sketch of the granite (or syenite) district viewed from Swithland Old Slate Quarry, including Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Leicestershire

Precariously perched Studebaker Six - Yosemite
On June 10, 1916 photographer Arthur Clarence Pillsbury broke the driving time record from Oakland to Yosemite in his new Studebaker Six

Halong Bay, Quang Nin, Vietnam
View of Halong (or Ha Long) Bay, near Ha Long City (also known as Hong Gai), capital of Quang Nin Province, Vietnam. Ha Long Bay (meaning Descending Dragon Bay)

Polzeath Bay, Cornwall
19th century vintage photograph: Polzeath Bay, Cornwall. Polzeath; Cornish: Polsegh, is a small seaside resort village in the civil parish of St Minver in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Invergarry Castle in the Scottish Highlands - the seat of the Chiefs of the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, a powerful branch of the Clan Donald

Perch Rock Lighthouse - New Brighton Lighthouse
Liverpool - Rock Lighthouse New Brighton - Lighthouse and crowds. Part of Box 62 Boswell Collection - Liverpool. The New Brighton Lighthouse was originally known as Perch Rock Lighthouse

Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted
Prehistory. Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted horse. His head is drawn in the natural cut of the rock. On his back, a large red fish. Six black hands all around the horses

Aerial view of Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Isles of Scilly
Aerial view of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

USS Nevada, American battleship, Panama Canal
USS Nevada (BB36), American battleship, passing through Caillard Cut, Panama Canal, with a tug escort. Date: circa 1920

Meat Loaf in concert, Penwith, Cornwall
Meat Loaf in concert at the Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall. Date: 1983

Hotels on the clifftops, Sorrento, Italy. They include the Hotel Tramontano and the Hotel Tasso. A man sits on a rock below. Date: late 19th century

Geological unconformity on the river Jed. Plate 3 from Theory of the Earth (1795) Vol. 1, by James Hutton

Venus of Laussel. 25 mil. -18 mil. BC. Venus holding a horn. Upper Paleolithic. Solutrean. Relief on rock. FRANCE. Bordeaux. Mus饠 d Aquitaine (Aquitaine Museum). Proc: FRANCE. LOT-ET-GARONNE

San Bushmen rock painting, Lesotho, Southern Africa
A stunning rock painting near Hermon (now in Lesotho) drawn by San Bushmen, depicting the hunting of oxen and conflict between two rival tribes

Man at work, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A man at work, 150 feet up on the main face of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales

Empire Marketing Board poster - Gibraltar
Empire Marketing Board poster showing a family on the deck of a ship which is sailing close to the rock of Gibraltar

The Lobnitz Shipyard, Renfrew, Scotland, 1912
Photograph showing the Lobnitz yard at Renfrew on the River Clyde. The Lobnitz company was famous for its rock-cutters and dredgers

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