Suspended Collection

Another Wash-out by W. Heath Robinson
Training at home for the cross Channel swim with a man swimming suspended from a window with watering cans. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger

Houdini & Skyscraper
Suspended from the cornice of a New York skyscraper, he must somehow free himself of his chains and make his way to safety... will he do it ? Is this one trick too many ?

Making Butter, Armenia
Making butter in Arnebia using a suspended barrel to churn the milk

Manning (Photo 1890)
HENRY EDWARD MANNING cardinal, wearing his ecclesiastical robes with lots of lace, and a crucifix suspended from his neck

Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover, Derbyshire
Dennis Edward Skinner (b 1932), Labour politician, MP for Bolsover since 1970. Well known for his outspoken remarks in parliament, for which he has been suspended more than ten times

2-4-2 Tank Engine Suspended by Cranes, Rochdale, Lancashire, England. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Date: 1900s

Gloster SS19B, J9125, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel ?
Gloster SS19B, J9125, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel at the RAE Farnborough

Bristol Bulldog TM K3183 with Napier Rapier I engine
Bristol Bulldog TM, K3183, fitted with a Napier Rapier I engine, suspended in the 24ft wind tunnel at the RAE Farnborough

A German Zeppelins observation car photographed on display as part of a public exhibition of dirigible wreckage collected from across Britain

Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity
A lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity. In the early eighteenth century, Gray demonstrated that charges of electricity could be conducted by some materials

Wetterhorn Cable Car
The cable-car suspended aerial railway carries passengers up the Wetterhorn

Guildford Cathedral
The partially built Guildford Cathedral, Surrey, England, photographed during World War Two when the war suspended building works. Started in 1936, finally completed 1961

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

Body suspension festival of Mariatal or Chidi Mari, India
Festival of Mariatal, Churrack-Pooja, Carak Puja or Chidi Mari, near Pondicheri, India. Hindu devotees are suspended by hooks in the skin from long poles

United States Navy - Goodyear ZSG-3 airship K-120 (BuAer number 33512), based at Oakland Naval Air Station in California, being used as a recruitment billboard for the US Naval Reserve

Large and Lavish Gypsy Caravan and its owners (and dog) Date: 1905

Douglas D-588-2 Skyrocket number 3 37875
NACA - Douglas D-588-2 Skyrocket number 3 37875, suspended in the modified bomb bay of its launch aircraft, Boeing P2B-1S 84029 (msn, ex B-29-95-BW 45-21787), circa September 1950. Date: 1950

Pont Des Arts, Paris
An impasto painting of the Pont des Arts, a pedestrian bridge of Paris, which spans the river Seine. The bridge was constructed circa 1804, designed by architects and engineers

A Cornish Milkmaid
A portrait oil painting of a Cornish milkmaid, carrying a yoke, a bar in which two buckets are suspended by chains at each end, to be carried over the shoulders. Date: circa 1924

Electric Light Fixtures catalogue, Bowl Fittings. Date: 1922

Electric Light Fixtures catalogue, Electroliers, with a range of shades. Date: 1922

Costumes include: hood with liripipe, hose, short doublet or jerkin, tall crowned hats, hood-like headdresses, pouches suspended from belts, short gowns with full sleeves. Date: 15th century

Trapezist Makes Catch Date: 1950

Orbital Activity Demo

London Milkman
London characters: the MILKMAN goes from door to door, with two churns suspended by a yoke from his shoulders, from which he fills your pot on your doorstep. Date: circa 1870

17th century Water Carriers
Two water carriers carry their water in a heavy container suspended from a yoke. Date: 17th century

River Severn ferry sisters - 3
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

River Severn ferry sisters - 2
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

River Severn ferry sisters - 1
Sisters Annie James, 76, and Kath Evans, 72, on the passenger ferry which crosses the River Severn at Hampton Loade, Shropshire

Leduc 0. 11 Ramjet Suspended from a Crane
Leduc 0.11 Ramjet Suspended from a Crane Date: 1950s

Hamburg workhouse - punishment of inmates
An illustration of the punishment meted out to idle paupers at the Hamburg workhouse in 1777. Offenders were placed in a large basket suspended by a rope over the dining hall table while the more

Port Soderick - Isle of Man - a small hamlet to the south of Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man, once famed for its pleasure grounds and beach

Porters and their boss at Haydar Pasa Quay, transporting a very large and probably very heavy, block of stone, suspended on two long wooden poles

Hippodrome Race Track, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Date: circa 1910s

Tending a grave near Mametz Wood, August 1916. Lantern slide from a box of 80 lantern slides associated with the Western Front, 1916-1917. Lee Enfield rifles (SMLEs) stacked

Frances Lady Ducie
FRANCES lady DUCIE Aristocratic lady depicted toying with a lorgnette suspended round her neck by a necklace. Date: CIRCA 1840

Elberfeld Monorail
The suspended overhead street railway at Elberfeld-Barmen, Germany. When this photograph was taken, experts were predicting that buses and trams would be suspended too! Date: 1930s

French Nobles of C15Th
Fur-lined and edged houppelandes or gowns with hanging sleeves worn over doublets, a pouch or bag suspended from a belt & hats with burlets. Date: circa 1425

Mens Costume of C15Th
Various social classes from farmer to judge: hose, hood with tabs, pouch suspended from belt, piked pattens & shoes (cracowes), houppelande (gown) with hanging sleeves. Date: 1425

Parisian Water Carrier
A L EAU ! A Parisian water vendor carries two pails of water suspended from a shoulder- yoke. Date: circa 1815

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Suspension Bridge, Capilano Canyon (length 450ft, height 200ft). Date: 1929

Interior of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy. A Lenten sermon is being preached beneath the great curtain suspended above the pulpit during the season of Lent. Date: 1905

French Theatre -- Farce du Porteur d Eau
Farce du Porteur d Eau (Farce of the Water Carrier). A water carrier with two buckets suspended from a metal ring says how much he likes to see pretty girls as he walks along the street. Date: 1632

Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire
The Great Bear (Great Western Pacific ) Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire, England. Great Western Railway Date: 1920s

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, suspended
R.M.S. Queen Mary at the John Brown shipyard, December 1931. Work on the ship, then known as Cunard No. 534, had been suspended on 13th December 1931 as Cunard had run out of funds

Queen Mary Ocean Liner crisis stops work
Tragedy comes to Clydeside. On 10th December 1931, almost exactly a year after signing of the contract for the construction of Hull Number 534, know as Queen Mary Ocean Liner

Switzerland - Fribourg, The Suspended Bridge
Coloured lantern slide of a view across the Suspended Fribourg Bridge. Built in 1834 by Joseph Chaley, the iron wire bridge was temporarily the longest suspension bridge in the world

Paris, France - Les Grands boulevards et ses Jardins. Date: circa 1750

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