Steep Gallery

The Holloway, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Scene in Gloucester Terrace, The Holloway, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, decorated with flags and bunting to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII. The houses belonged to the Great Western Railway (and before that to the South Wales Railway)

© Mary Evans / Roger Worsley Archive

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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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Tram on Madeira Walk, Ramsgate, Kent

Tram on Madeira Walk (operated by The Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways and Lighting Company), Ramsgate, Kent with view outward the Harbour. On 3 August 1905, car 41, during a routine descent of the precipitous, and adverse camber leading down Madeira Walk hill into Ramsgate harbour, suddenly careered out of control, jumping the tracks, causing it to crash straight through the railings, so that it then dropped over the 30 feet (9.1 m) cliff edge adjacent, causing injury to the driver. Date: circa 1908

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection