The Song of the SirenTwo beautiful sirens sing their entrancing songs from their seats on some perilous rocks - their magic and beauty luring sailors to a terrible end... Date: 1932
Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with CooksCover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a West Country scene with people playing on a sandy beach, fishing nets and seagulls
Cushendall Bay and Lurig, Co. Antrim - a low level view over rocks to Lurig in the distance, in the middle distance are buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Cushendall)
Cow and Calf Rocks, Ilkley, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Skerryvore Lighthouse, west coast of ScotlandView of Skerryvore Lighthouse, off the west coast of Scotland, completed in 1844. Seen here with a typically rough sea
Mount Lavinia Hotel, Mount Lavinia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)Mount Lavinia Hotel and seashore, Hotel Road, Mount Lavinia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1920
Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Swithland, LeicestershireSketch of the granite (or syenite) district viewed from Swithland Old Slate Quarry, including Buddon Wood, Mountsorrel, Kinchley Hill and Brazil Wood, Leicestershire
Aerial view of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, off Lands End, CornwallAerial 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
Halong Bay, Quang Nin, VietnamView 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)
USS Nevada, American battleship, Panama CanalUSS Nevada (BB36), American battleship, passing through Caillard Cut, Panama Canal, with a tug escort. Date: circa 1920
Fontainebleau Forest - Three Mausoleum BouldersFontainebleau Forest - Barbizon, France - The Three Mausoleums. The Forest is popular location for the climbing activity of Bouldering - the sport climbing of rocks such as this. Date: circa 1908
Man at work, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North WalesA man at work, 150 feet up on the main face of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales
The Eddystone Lighthouse of 1698Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse, built by Henry Winstanley in 1698, which was destroyed in a storm in 1703. Winstanley, a London merchant
La Corbiere Lighthouse, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel IslandsView of La Corbiere Lighthouse, St Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s
The Cromdale wrecked at Bass Point, The Lizard, CornwallThe Cromdale, a fully rigged iron sailing barque, wrecked in heavy fog at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall, on 23 May 1913. Date: 1913
WW2 poster, Fairey Aviation Company. Date: 1940s
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
Illicit Whisky StillAn illicit still in Donegal (Ireland)
Barred Plymouth RocksBarred Plymouth Rock cock and hen
View along the shingle beach at Beer, East Devon. Date: 1960s
Sunset at Kynance Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s
The High Rocks, II. Tunbridge Wells, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Finland - Helsinki (Helsingfors) - view over the rocks toward the bay. Date: 1935
Italy - Naples - Palace of Donn AnnaVilla Donn Anna, Naples - The building is on the site of the so-called " Rocks of the Siren" and was originally called " La Villa Sirena"
Shire horses and dray at Lands End, CornwallShire horses and a dray at Lands End, Cornwall
Three turtles swimming underwater. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard
Oil Well at Chillingar, Iran. One of Irans largest oil fields, Chilingar was named after George V. Chilingar, one of the best-known petroleum geologists in the world
Irish sea serpent off Kilkee, IrelandA large and frightening sea monster seen by several people off the coast of Kilkee, Ireland. 1871
Royal Chattris, Orchha, IndiaThe Royal Chattris (14 cenotaphs or tombs carved out of stone) of former rulers, in Kanchana Ghat on the banks of the river Betwa at Orchha, Madhya Pradesh Province, India
Death of Elder PlinyGAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS In his eagerness to observe the eruption of Vesuvius, he approaches dangerously near and is killed by falling rocks, a martyr to science
Signpost at Lands End, Cornwall, giving the distance to John o Groats, New York and other distant places. circa 1980s
Cir Mohr from Glen Rosa, Isle of Arran, Scotland - Painted by artist Alexander Cameron for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon - Painted 1939 Date: 1939
Stern trawler Conqueror on rocks at Mousehole, CornwallStern trawler Conqueror on the rocks at Mousehole, Cornwall, December 1978. Date: 1978
Dent de Jaman and Rochers de Naye, Vaud, SwitzerlandThe village of Les Avants, with La Dent de Jaman and Les Rochers de Naye, Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, WW1Cartoon, The Dropped Pilot, twenty-four years after Tenniel. In Tenniels Dropping the Pilot cartoon of 1890 Kaiser Wilhelm II watches as Bismarck disembarks from the ship (of state)
Sinai, by Max Schmidt (1818-1901). Date: 1844
Freshwater Bay Arch and Stag Rocks, Isle of Wight, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Coastal scene with seagullsThree seagulls fly over a rocky coastline in the pale blue evening light. Airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Ship on the RocksA large sailing ship is hurled against the rocks by stormwaves : survivors cling to wreckage which the waves drive ashore
Polzeath Bay, Cornwall19th 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
The Immortal Hour, by Rutland Boughton, BirminghamThe Immortal Hour, music drama by Rutland Boughton from the play by Fiona MacLeod, produced by Barry V Jackson, at the Repertory Theatre, Station Street, Birmingham. circa 1921
Dunluce Castle and White Rocks of Portrush, Co. Antrim, N. IDunluce Castle and White Rocks of Portrush, Co. Antrim, N.I. by E. Nagele
Beachcomber, MarloesA beachcomber with his pet Jack Russell dog on the beach at Marloes, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. He carries an old plastic stool and a boat fender he has found on the beach
Bundoran from the Roguey Rocks - a panoramic view of Bundoran and the beach. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Bundoran). Date: circa early 1900s
Saint Etheldreda, Abbess of ElySaint Etheldreda (or Ethelthrith, or Aethelthryth), Abbess of Ely, daughter of King Anna of East Anglia. Seen here with two nuns, fleeing from her husband who wanted to consummate their marriage
Hezekiahs Tunnel, JerusalemHezekiahs Tunnel (Siloam Tunnel), Jerusalem, a subterranean channel cut through the rock, 533 metres long. It was designed as an aqueduct linking the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. Date: 1920s
Castle Rock in the Valley of Rocks, Lynton and Lynmouth, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900
Fort Jamrud, Peshawar, Khyber Pass, now PakistanVintage 19th century photograph, India - Fort Jamrud, Peshawar, Khyber Pass, now Pakistan