Steep Gallery

A heavy gun battery moving uphill during the Balkan campaign

A French heavy-gun battery move up a steep hill during fighting with the Bulgarian army on the Macedonian border, October 1916. The battery was part of the Allied army based at the Greek port of Salonika and required a team of sixteen horses to move the weapon up the sharp incline pictured

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Boy pushes his bicycle up a hill in Ebbw Vale, South Wales

A young boy pushes his bicycle up a steep hill in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. Behind is the Ebbw Vale steel works. This was closed by Corus in 2002, and redeveloped in a joint-partnership between Blaenau Gwent Council and the Welsh Government Date: 1988

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

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Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Mt Adams Inclined Railway

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - The Mount Adams Incline was a funicular, or inclined railway, located in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Mount Adams. Completed in 1872, it was the longest-running of the city's five inclines, closing in 1948 - sadly it has since been demolished. Date: 1929

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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