Southern Collection (page 34)

Double page spread in a diary for 22-27 November
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 22-27 November. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

GWR locomotive, Treffgarne, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Four railway workers with a Great Western Railway locomotive, Amesbury, at Treffgarne, Nant Y Coy, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Southmead Hospital, Bristol
Aerial view of Southmead Hospital, Bristol. The entrance is on Southmead Road at the bottom left of the picture. The buildings were originally erected in 1900-1902 as a workhouse for the Barton Regis

2nd Southern Hospital, Southmead, Bristol
Military Personnel and nursing staff at the 2nd Southern Hospital, Southmead, Bristol. The buildings were originally erected in 1900-1902 as a workhouse for the Barton Regis Union

Man and Woman of the Island of Tahuata (St Christian Island), the smallest of the Marquesas Islands, a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, in the southern Pacific Ocean

Man and Woman of the Jaggas People
Man and Woman of the Jaggas people of southern East Africa. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Man and Woman from the land of Natal. These people are likely Xhosa - speakers of Bantu languages living in south-east South Africa. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Savoyards - Swiss from Savoy. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Telephone Tower and Gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa

Primula Megaseifolia, a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family with pink flowers, native to Southern Turkey, seen here growing in a rocky setting

Wat Luang temple, Pakse, Laos
View of Wat Luang Buddhist temple in Pakse (or Pakxe), Champasak Province, southern Laos

Ruin of Wat Phou, Champasak, Laos
Ruin of the Wat Phou or Vat Phou, a Khmer temple complex in Champasak Province, southern Laos. The surviving structures date from the 11th to 13th centuries

Matelotes - France
A group of Matelotes (women of the French south coast), France in traditional costume (including round fan-shaped lace headscarves)

Luchon, France - Ox-drawn cart
Luchon, Pyrenees - southern France (famed for its thermal springs). Farmer with his ox-drawn cart and children

Lourdes, France - The Castle and the Gave
Lourdes, France - The Castle and the stream ( Gave )

General view of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
A general view of the central business district of Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, with a boat travelling across the harbour

Southern Croatian Man
Like the Hero - a southern Croatian man in traditional costume, albeit in very Albanian-style trousers

Statue of Cecil Rhodes - Cape Town, South Africa
Statue of Cecil John Rhodes (1853 - 1902) - Municipal Gardens - Cape Town, South Africa - " Your Hinterland is There"

Women of the Ouled-Nails resting, Algeria
Women of the Ouled-Nails resting and drinking tea. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing

Wambierzyce - Poland
Wambierzyce (Vamberic / Vamberice), the Silesian Jerusalem, is one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in southern Poland

Clarksville, Georgia
Street Scene in Clarksville, Georgia - July, 1888

Young people near Valtice, South Moravia
A group of young men and women out for a spin on their motor cycles, near the South Moravian town of Valtice (now in the Czech Republic). One of the men is wearing uniform

Biskra - Street of Ouled Nails
The houses of the Ouled Nails, Biskra, Algeria. The women of the Ouled-Nails earned money through belly dancing. The women are heavily made-up, going unveiled at all times and wear their hair up

Weaving - Southern Algeria
Southern Algeria - Sahara - Goubi Women from Kames weaving on a lightweight loom in the shade of a palm tree at an oasis

The houses of the Ouled Nails, Algeria
The houses of the Ouled Nails, Biskra, Algeria. The women of the Ouled-Nails earned money through belly dancing. The women are heavily made-up, going unveiled at all times and wear their hair up

Algeria - Camel Transport
A camel palanquin (covered litter), used to transport wives and children across the arid desert of southern Algeria, each with a central ventilation shaft

Ouled-Nahils, Algeria - Southern Algerian Woman
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Algerian Oasis - Biskra
An oasis close to Biskra in Algeria. Still waters and palm trees in the desert conjure up a romantic Northern Saharan scene. There is another oasis in the far distance

Sweetness of Doing Nothing
Il dolce far niente... In Italian, it means " the sweetness of doing nothing"... She is likely a woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive

Girl from Southern Algeria (Biskra)
A young girl from Biskra in Southern Algeria

Algeria - Date Market
A Date Market in the South of Algeria

Co-ordination of Transport Service in South Africa
The co-ordination of the transport services in South Africa - rail, road and air travel. A pictures priaisng the infrastructure advances of the Union of South African States

Summit of Hex River Pass - South African Railways
A classic feat of railway construction in South Africa - the summit of the Hex River Pass on the South African Railways

Aswan - Egypt. Elephantine Island
Elephantine Island is the largest of the Aswan area islands, and is one of the most ancient sites in Egypt, with artifacts dating to predynastic periods

The Port Campbell Steamship, presumably near Port Campbell, Victoria, on the southern coast of Australia. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Fur Traders Wife - Southern Russia
A Fur traders wife in fine attire standing alongside the results of her husbands work

Antalya - Turkish coastal town
Southern Turkish Mediterranean coastal resort of Antalya

The Houses of Parliament - Evening
A view toward the Houses of Parliament from the southern bank of the River Thames in London. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Mesembryanthemum (Midday Flowering) Tricolor, a flowering plant of the Aizoaceae family native to southern Africa with daisy-like petals in three different shades of pink

Lower Southern Hospital, Gore Farm, Dartford, Kent
The Lower Southern Hospital at Gore Farm, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War use as a military hospital. The hospital was set up in 1883 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for smallpox

Photograph of Hurstpierpoint locomotive nameplate
Photograph of a Hurstpierpoint Schools Class locomotive nameplate. A large number of these locomotives ran on the Southern Railway from 1930 onwards, and were named after nearby public schools

Swaziland, South Africa - Tenbe River - a landing place

South Africa - Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal
South Africa - The Moshudy Lenchwees Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal

3rd Southern Hospital, Cowley Road, Oxford
A view of the long driveway of the 3rd Southern General Hospital (Cowley Section), Oxford, a First World War military hospital. A soldier in uniform stands at the gate

Union Workhouse, Lewes, Sussex
The Lewes Union workhouse, erected in In 1868 on De Montfort Road, Lewes, Sussex. In 1902, after its closure as a workhouse

RMS Olympic, Queens Hotel Queenstown
Two items relating to the RMS Olympic luxury cruise liner. An information card for the Queens Hotel, Queenstown (on the southern coast of Ireland) boasts of redecoration

A Uyghur man smoking an elaborate pipe. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Turkic Man
A man from far Northern India or Southern China, displaying the highly Turkic facial morphology of the peoples of this region. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

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