Steep Collection (page 7)

Georgia, Tbilisi - Old Tramway
Tramway in Tsitsishvili (now Baratashvili) Street, Tbilisi, Georgia. Date: circa 1910s

Figures by a River, by Giosafatto Alfieri. Date: 1807

Horse-drawn tramway on steep descent

St. Helena, looking out to sea, c. 1870
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Distant view across valley, c. 1870

View from Kipling Pagoda - Moulmein - The site has been occupied by a pagoda since 700AD. Gold pagoda under repair. Wide terraces with dipping roofed steps leading down the steep hill

Zion National Park - Utah

Okuyugawara - Japan - We walk a little way up the very steep road climbing up this canyon-like valley with houses tucked alongside. Date: 1952

Big Horn Mountains - Wyoming - Across to the Big Horn Mountains and a steep climb up through canyon to Granite Pass and the high windy plateaus across the summit. Date: 1952

Buffalo Bill Dam - Wyoming - A wonderful big structure which slopes and holds back tons of blue-green water of Shoshone Reservoir. A big power plant is a ways below it

Henrik Ibsen / Oslo Home
HENRIK IBSEN Childhood home at Oslo of the Norwegian dramatist Date: 1828 - 1906

Scottish Highland Valley
See Scotland by Western SMT Coach Tours - Scottish highland valley by Stevens. circa 1960s

A steep climb, Tyrol, Austro-Hungary. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Wilbur gliding down steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Date 1902 Oct. 10

Santa Maria de Montserrat - a Benedictine abbey located in the Montserrat mountain, in Monistrol de Montserrat, in Catalonia, Spain nr. Barcelona. Date: circa 1910s

Street in Riva on the banks of Lake Garda Date: circa 1910s

Schafbergbahn - Austrian Mountain Railway
Schafbergbahn Cog-wheel railway up the slopes of the Schafberg in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Date: circa 1910s

Dambovicioara Gorge, Romania
The Dambovicioara Gorge, near Podu Dambovitei, Wallachia, Romania, site of the Dambovicioara River - a tributary of the Dambovita River

Lynmouth, Devon - Countisbury Hill
Lynmouth, Devon on the edge of Exmoor, south west England - the steep slopes of Countisbury Hill. The Victorians named the area Little Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette, A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss -- silhouette showing three stones rolling down a cliff face by the sea

Murren Mountain Funicular Railway - Switzerland. The original Lauterbrunnen-Murren Mountain Railway opened in 1891 - it connects Lauterbrunnen with traffic-free Murren. 1902

Syracuse, Italy - Ear of Dionysius
Syracuse, Italy (Siracusa) - This card shows an artificial cave, 65 m long and 23 m high, which was given the name of The Ear of Dionysius by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, when in 1586

Amalfi Coastline, Italy - The Grand Marina at Amalfi Date: circa 1930s

View of the Devils Bridge near Aberystwyth, Wales
View of the Devils Bridge (Pontarfynach), spanning the Mynach river, a popular tourist attraction in the village of Ceredigion, near Aberystwyth, Wales

Artillery team on Macedonian Front, WW1
An artillery team with horse-drawn transport taking a bank on the Macedonian Front, near the Struma River, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

Gold Hill, Shaftesbury
The famous Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset. On the left is the ancient wall enclosing the Abbey ruins. A man in a raincoat walks down, demonstrating its steepness. Date: 1950s

The Mont Blanc Railway - Panorama
The Mont Blanc Railway, Mont Blanc, France - Panorama, taken close to Col de Voza Date: 1932

Ascending Skiers
A group of skiers climbing a hill on their skis. Date: 1930s

Runaway Skier
A runaway skier slices through the snow on a very steep incline! Date: 1930s

RECORDERs STEPS
The Recorders Steps, Chester City Wall, Chester, England, were built in the early 1700s by the City Recorder, Roger Comberbach, to allow access to his house. Date: early 18th century

Milton Abbey Turf Steps
This grass slope is probably the most remarkable in England, consisting of 111 green steps, leading up to a Saxon chapel, at Milton Abbas, Dorset. Date: 1950s

Lady Motorists 1930
Female motorists enjoying a drive in the British countryside. Note the steep hill 1 in 7 sign. Date: 1930

Quiraing Rock
The Quiraing Road, Isle of Skye, Scotland. This is the steep, winding road that comes down from the moorland road from Uig to Staffin, taken from below Quiraing rock. Date: 1950s

Clovelly, North Devon
The High Street in Clovelly, North Devon, a picturesque English fishing village: a cobbled pathway descends precipitously to the sea passing terraced cottages Date: 1950s

Orta San Giulio - Italy - Strada al Sacro Monte ( Road to the Sacred Mountain ). Sacro Monte, is a site of pilgrimage and in 2003 was inserted by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. Date: 1910

The Fast Denver Ltd. Locomotive climbing Soldier Summit
The Fast Denver Ltd. climbing Soldier Summit, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA Date: circa 1910s

Christmas. 2 boys on a sledge. Artist: Anon. 2 boys on sledge hurtling down a steep icy slope Date: circa 1906

Switzerland - Wassen Viaduct Date: circa 1903

Swiss Rack Railway at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland. The line ascends Mount Rigi from Arth-Goldau and Vitznau and is operated by the Rigi-Bahnen

Tank climbing a steep slope, Lincoln, WW1
A " Mother" tank climbing a steep slope at Burton Park, Lincoln, during the First World War. Date: January 1916

Funicular railway - Santiago, Chile
The Lower Station for the funicular railway running up the steep slope of the San Cristobal Hill, Santiago, Chile. The hill was named by the Spanish conquistadors for St Christopher

Stepcote Hill, Exeter, Devon
Stepcote Hill - the ancient West Entrance to the City of Exeter, Devon. Date: circa 1930s

American Scouts pulling a sledge
A group of American Boy Scouts dragging a sledge up a steep snow-covered hill in a forest. circa 1950s

Cycling in Lakeland If you cycle in Lakeland you ll find on the whole its a mixture of pushing and losing control !! circa 1920s

Clovelly / Devon 1904
Clovelly, North Devon: the main street Date: 1904

Coach Going down Hill
A mail coach descends a hill. Date: circa 1835

Derbyshire Climbing
Two climbers make their way up a steep rockface. Date: 1950s

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

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