Supply Collection (page 19)

Antioch - Turkey - Large waterwheel
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

British front in France 1917
British troops with supplies on the battlefield in France on the British front during World War I in 1917

British supply tank 1917
A British supply tank, Kingston, going up to the trenches at Miraumont, Somme in France during World War I in 1917

Petrol can dump
A water filled petrol tin dump in Elvendinghe on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Water transportation - Baku, Azerbaijan
Water carriers - barrels mounted on mules transporting fresh water through the streets in Baku, Azerbaijan

Izmir - Aqueduct and Castle (Ephesus)
View toward the Roman Aqueduct and Castle at the site of the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey close to Izmir (Smyrna)

Sinking an Artesian Well, Union Workhouse, Aylsham, Norfolk
The firm of F.H. Buckingham sinking an artesian well at Aylsham Union workhouse in 1923. The workhouse, designed by William J Donthorn, was erected in 1848-9 at Aylsham

Waterwheel at Antioch
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

U. S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road
U.S. 81mm Mortar overlooking the Burma Road, Lashio, Burma - January / February, 1945. Japanese supply and communications lines were pounded during the battle for the strategic ground north of this

Making a jeep railroad - Burma
Making a jeep railroad. A supply line constructed by Indian engineers to run to Mandalay in readiness for expansion further south into Burma

The Nag Hammadi Barrage (Dam) - Egypt
Outlets of the Flushing Culverts in the dock - 22nd July 1928. Photograph from an album commemorating the opening of the Nag Hammadi Barrage (dam) in 1930

Manchester Ship Canal - Railway and warehouses
Manchester Ship Canal - Railway line and mulit-storey warehouses. The trade coming through the Ship Canal (often originating from Ireland)

Manchester Ship Canal - Butchered carcases awaiting distribu
A warehouse alongside the Manchester Ship Canal with rank upon rank of hanging beef caracasses awaiting transportation by train to London

Manchester Ship Canal - Beef Carcasses for London
A chalk scrawl on the wagon door records that 1000 beef carcasses were transported in these wagons from the offload on the Manchester Ship Canal down to final destination of Smithfield Market, London

Filling water jara at a well - Syris
Syria - Three chaps filling up large water jars at a well

Milkman with his Donkey - Sofia, Bulgaria

The Happy Bootcleaners
A British soldier has his boots polished by some jolly Egyptian bootblacks

Ayasofya, Istanbul - Fountain
Ablution Fountain in the courtyard in the heart of the Ayasofya Mosque Complex, Istanbul

Louis Greppo / Gill
Louis Greppo (1810-1888) exiled under the Second Empire, Mayor of the 4th arrondissement of Paris during the siege and effectively organizes the supply of food

Indian (Commonwealth) troops at Gallipoli during the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 - Headquarters Gully

Supply train 1916
French horse drawn supply train in Flanders on the French front during World War I in 1916

Traditional Egyptian water wheel
A traditional ox-powered Egyptain water wheel, used to draw up water from the Nile for irrigation

Egypt - Alexandria - Mahmoudieh Canal
Egypt - The Mahmoudieh Canal, the water highway between Alexandria and the River Nile

Egypt - Noontide rest in the Oasis

Egypt - Fresh Water Reservoirs - Port Said

Mexico - Water Carriers at Queretaro

Meat in storage, World War I
Meat in storage in the London docks on the runway from the ship during World War I

Tophane Cesmesi Fountain, Constantinople, Turkey
The Tophane Cesmesi Fountain - one of the most famous of the baroque street fountains in the city. Built in 1732 by Mahmut I. Has marble walls, covered by floral designs and arabesques

Grocery rations, World War I
Women making up grocery rations for soldiers during World War I

Loading supply ship, World War I
Loading a supply ship at the docks for transport overseas during World War I

Fountain Recef - Fez, Morocco

Large waterwheel at Antakya
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. One of the large waterwheels for which Antioch is famed

Royal Navy at Portland
Royal Navy vessels moored at Portland Harbour, Dorset

Khyber Pass - Afghanistan / Pakistan - Waterworks
The Khyber Pass - the mountain pass that links Pakistan and Afghanistan. Throughout history it has been an important trade route between Central Asia and South Asia and a strategic military location

Tito opens an RAF Duxford Air Display
Marshal Tito firing the Verey starting pistol to begin the RAF Air display at Duxford. On the left, in the bowler hat, is Lord De L Isle and Dudley, V.C, and on the extreme right is Duncan Sandys

Port Said - Water Carriers
A Water carrier fills up his water skin at a street standpipe in Port Said, Egypt

Duncan Sandys(1908-1987)
Duncan Sandys pictured here in 1951 when the Minister of Supply

British delegation to NATO, 1953
The British delegation to the NATO council: Mr. Anthony Eden(centre), at this time Foreign Minister, with (left) Lord Alexander, Minister of Defence, and right Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply

Duncan Sandys(1908-1987) in helicopter
Leaving Kuala Lumpar by helicopter to see operations in the Malayan Jungle: Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply. En route to his visit to Australia

Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system
Two Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level

Water supply to Cape Coast Castle, 1874
The water supply to Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British in the Gold Coast. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Egypt - River Nile - Water carriers fill their water skins
Slightly before Mr Evian, Mr Volvic and Mr Malvern took a firm grip on the market, this is how visitors to Egypt were supplied with fresh drinking water

The Pumping Engine for Trafalgar Square Fountains, London, 1
Engraving showing one of the pumping engines used to draw water, from deep underneath Trafalgar Square, to supply the fountains and nearby Government offices, 1845

Gennvilliers Sewageworks
View of irrigated market gardens at the Plaine de Gennevilliers near Paris

German Workers Re-erecting a Free Passage Sign, Berlin, 19
Photograph showing German workers re-erecting a Russian and German sign declaring Free Passage on the border between West Berlin and the Soviet Sector at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Interior of a Transport Airplane filled with coal, 1948
Photograph showing the interior of a Dakota airplane loaded with kitbags full of coal, destined for Berlin during the airlift of 1948

Unloading an airplane, Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1948
Photograph showing a generator set being unloaded from a York aircraft at Gatow Airport, during the Berlin Airlift, 1948. Between April 1948 and May 1949 Stalin, leader of the USSR

Royal Air Force York at Gatow Airport, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing a Royal Air Force York transport airplane, after landing at Gatow Airport, carrying the millionth ton of supplies during the Berlin Airlift of 1949

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