Shifting Collection

Railway train with rotary snow shifter. 1893

Elephant lifting wooden logs - Rangoon, Burma
circa 1910s

Marloes Sands, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Movement of the tide ebbing and flowing among the rocks at Marloes Sands, Pembrokeshire, Wales in winter. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Technological advances of Home Heating - from coal to gas
The Advantages offered by the advances in Home Heating systems, shifting from coal to gas - the housemaid sends the chimney sweep away as her new gas boiler makes no soot and saves work and worry

St Malo, Brittany, France (Emerald Coast)
Lightermen (and women) (" Garbarriers" ) - at St Malo, Brittany, France. Lightermen were workers who transferred goods between ships and quays

ARGYLL (1598-1661)
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, 1ST MARQUESS OF ARGYLL Scottish Statesman and Covenanter of shifting loyalties. Date: 1598 - 1661

Shifting their camp

A Campbell of Argyll
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, first marquis of ARGYLL Scottish statesman, covenanter, of shifting loyalties Date: 1598 - 1661

The language of the legs
The Language of the legs! - charting the development of a relationship through body language - from Timid to Ecstacy !

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

Clearing rubble from bombed buildings, London
Clearing rubble from bombed buildings in London during the Blitz - 1940

Passage Through the Desert
The shifting sands of the Egyptian desert

Football by the new electric light at Kennington Oval
Engraving showing spectators and players at a football match between the Wanderers and the Clapham Rovers illuminated by the new lighting system

Washing in a Trench
To begin with, trenches were built to last, with concrete washplaces and other amenities. Later, the constant shifting of the Front Line made this unrealistic

Culebra Cut Works
One of the massive steam shovels at Culebra : a machine like this is capable of shifting 8000 tons a day

Needle Ready to Travel
Engineers shifting the obelisk to a position parallel with the beach at Alexandria, Egypt

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