Ropes Collection (page 2)

Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons in a boxing match

Captured Crocodile on the Banks of the River Nile, Egypt. Date: circa 1909

Salvage operations, sunken submarine M2
Salvage operations on the sunken submarine M2, September 1932. 1932

Georges Carpentier, French boxer
Georges Carpentier (1894-1975), French boxer. circa 1930s

Wine boat on the River Douro, Porto, northern Portugal
Rebello boat for transporting wine, on the River Douro in Porto, northern Portugal. circa 1908

William Pelham Bullivant, ropemaker
William Pelham Bullivant, Bullivant & Co, ropemaker and manufacturer of wire ropes. late 19th century

William Munton Bullivant, ropemaker
William Munton Bullivant, Bullivant & Co, ropemaker and manufacturer of wire ropes. late 19th century

Advertisement for the Mount Railway, Madeira
Advertisement for the Mount Railway Company of Madeira, offering excursions for tourists, with return passage between steamer and pier, toboggan or return by railway

Local men with tourist car in Funchal, Madeira
Local men with a tourist car in Funchal, Madeira, designed to entertain visitors by sliding down the steep slopes of the town. Date: circa 1910

PROTESTANTS ROASTED
Henri II orders Calvinist protestants to be hanged and burned, lowering them on ropes into the fire, pulling them up again, and so on, until they are well and truly roasted Date: 1558

Building a Brewery Date: 1941

Laying Pipe Date: 1948

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - At Mooring Mast
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (Deutsches Luftschiff Zeppelin #127; Registration: D-LZ 127) was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled

Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Carpentier v Beckett
Heavyweight Championship of Europe - Georges Carpentier vs. Joe Beckett - The knockout - French fighter Carpentier watching his fallen rival - 4th December, 1919 Date: 1919

INDIAN BUTTER CHURNERS
Indian men using a primitive wooden butter churner, the pole is twisted with ropes in a similar manner to a childs spinning top. Date: 1930s

MAN CLIMBS STEEPLY 1930S
Held tightly by safety ropes, a climber progresses up a sheer rockface. Date: 1930s

VICTORIAN GIRL SKIPPING
A girl skips, her brother watches with admiration Date: Late 1860s

GYMNASTICS, 1830S
French youths engaged in gymnastic exercises on ropes, ladders and bars Date: 1830s

Boys skipping with a skipping rope, France Date: circa 1770

Mountain Climbing - Alps - Chamonix, France. Date: 1920s

Fisherman walks up the beach - New Quay, Wales
A fisherman laden with coiled ropes walks up the beach after leaving his boat. New Quay, Wales Date: 1994

Flookborough shrimp trailers, Morecambe Bay
Flookborough, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria. Shrimp fishermens trailers with ropes and shrimp nets. The trailers are towed by tractors at low tide Date: 1993

Allied Observation Gas-Filled Draken Gas-Balloon Coming?
Allied Observation Gas-Filled Draken Gas-Balloon Coming Back to Earth on the Front in France During WW1 Date: 1910s

Cyanide Sid Cooper and Chris Adams, wrestlers
Cyanide (or Cry Baby) Sid Cooper and black belt Chris Adams, taking part in a professional wrestling bout in the open air, Penlee Park, Penzance, Cornwall. Adams gets a submission from Cooper

Rigging for sailing ships, 18th century.. Rigging for sailing ships, including cordage, bale slings, butt slings, can hook slings, ropes, blocks and pulleys, 18th century

Cyanide Sid Cooper, wrestler, talking to members of the crowd. Date: 1980s

The Drilling Frame by Heath Robinson
Another ingenious invention from Heath Robinson. With recruitment growing, and training a long, arduous process, this contraption is an excellent solution

Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs
Australian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903

Bukta scout clothing and equipment advert
Advertisement for Bukta, publisher of the Scoutannica catalogue featuring all conceivable clothing and equipment needed to be a fully fledged boy scout including tents

Anchor and seascape on a Christmas card
Anchor and seascape with anchor and rope on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1900s

Peaceful scene at Paignton Harbour, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Tibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on trail
Tibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on a narrow Himalayan Mountain trail by means of suspending two poles on ropes and man-handling the animal across. Date: 1907

Russian Royal Princess escaping on the HMS Marlborough
A number of surviving members of the Russian royal family escaped the country at the end of World War I (after the Revolution) from Yalta

Tallow-Chandler 1827
" The business of a tallow- chandler consists in making candles of suet or fat and in selling them after they are made". Date: 1827

Fisherman with large coley fish, St Ives, Cornwall
Fisherman with large coley fish or pollock, St Ives, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

LFB firefighters receiving knots and lines training in the HQ drill yard, 9 December 1958. Date: 1958

Working elephant with rider, India. Date: circa 1890s

Gathering headsail on board Hamburg at Cowes, IOW
Gathering a headsail on board the yacht Hamburg during the Regatta at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Formerly known as the Westward, this American schooner belonged to a syndicate of German yachtsmen

German observation balloon near Soissons, WW1
A German observation balloon about to ascend, near Soissons, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Herzogin Cecilie wrecked off Starhole Bay, Devon
The Herzogin Cecilie, a German four mast barque (Windjammer), named after German Crown Princess Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), on the rocks off Starhole (Starehole) Bay

Oh, well, she knows the ropes by Merlin Enabnit
Pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) wearing boxing gloves posed strategically across her chest. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Girls playing in Mary Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Girls playing round a lamppost in Mary Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Susi - on a swing. 1950s

Young cabin boy sailor sorting out ropes
Young cabin boy sailor tidies up the ropes on the deck of a large ship. Date: circa 1890s

Two boys bathing in the sea, Southwold, Suffolk
Two boys (Albert and Harold Auerbach) bathing in the sea at Southwold, Suffolk. 1905

White men pulling rope in Oman
Oman. White men pulling ropes. Man wearing white t-shirt with black printed playboy printed on. Date: 1976

Ballooning - A Cruise in the Clouds
Three men ballooning - A Cruise in the Clouds. One man checks an altimeter, another empties sand to lighten the balloon and gain height, and a third releases a pigeon. circa 1900

Advertisement for Maggy Rouff fashions, showing elegant women at a party on a yacht at night. 1929

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