Transported Collection

Tolpuddle Martyrs / 1834
Four of the six Tolpuddle Martyrs, transported to Australia for forming a Trade Union

The Gate of Calais. Etching by William Hogarth (1697-1764)
William Hogarth (1697-1764). British artist, engraver, illustrator and satirical painter. The Gate of Calais. Etching by Hogarth. Engraving. The Iberian Illustration, 1888. Colored

Holy House of Loreto
The house of Mary, mother of Jesus, is miraculously transported from Nazareth, first to Tersate, then to Loreto in Italy, where it remains to this day

Swans in a punt at Henley
A punt load of swans, and two cygnets, about to be transported higher up the River Thames for their safety, in preparation for the annual Henley Regatta in early July

Wwi / German Troops / Train
German troops are transported to the front by train

NWFP - Khyber Pass - Supplies taken to Fort Maud - situated exactly halfway from India (as was then) to Afghanistan. Date: circa 1910

Thessaloniki, Greece, artillery piece under Arch of Galerius
WW1 - Thessaloniki, Greece - an artillery piece is transported by two horses beneath the 4th century Triumphal Arch of Galerius, part of the Rotunda Complex. Date: 1918

Picnic in the Country
A party of three with dog enjoy a picnic in the countryside, having been transported there by their new Ford Anglia car

Indian Elephant in London Zoo 1896
Jung Perchard the Indian elephant was presented to Prince of Wales (Edward VII), during the shooting expeditions in Indian twenty years before in 1876

Fortune flying through the sky on the wheel
Fortune, sprinkling a cornucopia of money and flowers on the lucky, is transported across the clouds atop the Wheel of Fortune.... Date: circa 1902

Swans in Transit
Swans in a boat, being transported from the River Thames to safer waters, during Henley Regatta time. Date: 1960s

Whisky / 1890 Transport
Whisky barrels are transported from distillery to railway station by steam traction engine

Taking aboard the first Empire Air Mail (Great Britain to South Africa) to be transported by Imperial Airways S23 C-Class flying boat, G-ADVE, Centurion, Southampton, 29 June 1937

Bermuda Ireland Island
Ireland Island fortifications and dockyards in Bermuda, showing transported convicts arriving to serve their penance

New Motor Service the G.W.R. 1904
Pubic bus service that was being adopted by all great railway companies, to connect the railway stations. The new motor bus shown in the photograph, from the G.W.R

The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Act I, scene II. Prospero: And to my state grew stranger, being transported and rapt in secret studies. Illustration by Edmund Dulac. Date: 1908

Cleopatra's Needle in Alexandria, Egypt, prior to being transported to London, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Spain, Andalusia. Lifeboat with boxer rope-launcher device
Spain, Andalusia, Cadiz. Lifeboat with boxer rope-launcher device, ready to be thrown into the water

HMS Pegasus - ex HMS Ark Royal
HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938

Advertising postcard for Owbridges Lung Tonic - India
Advertising postcard for Owbridges Lung Tonic ( A Royal Cure for Coughs and Colds ) showing cases of the magical medicine being transported by two elephants in India. Date: circa 1900s

Junkers G24 (G23?), S-aA?. Unloading bullion to the ap?
Junkers G24 (G23?), S-aA?. Unloading bullion to the approximate value of $48, 000, 000 which was transported from Germany to Croydon as payment from Germany to Britain under the Dawes Plan, July 1925

A German Taube aeroplane being transported by road, probably during WW1

HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal)
Royal Navy - HMS Pegasus (ex HMS Ark Royal) at A Spithead re in 1938

Car transported across the Lufira River, Lubumbashi, Congo
A car (an Austin) being transported by raft/rope ferry across the Lufira River, a tributary of the Lualaba River near Lubumbashi (Elisabethville, Elisabethstad)

A Smart European Missionary Woman transported in a Doolie, a simple stretcher on poles for carrying a passenger - Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1903

Athletes and Sculptures
Athletes posing, and being rendered in the form of sculpture

Chinese Schoolgirls transported on a wheelbarrow, China - the driver must be very strong! Date: circa 1920s

Lockheed S-3A Viking 159387
United States Navy - Lockheed S-3A Viking 159387 (msn 394A-1023, unit code NS, call-sign 207'), of VS-29, at Naval Air Station North Island, in San Diego Bay

Victoria's funeral, placing coffin Victoria Station
Queen Victoria's funeral: Before the procession through London

The new Great Bell manufactured by Messrs Tayor, travelling from Loughborough, Leicestershire for St Paul's Cathedral, London. Date: 1882

Necessity the mother of invention: an incident during the cabmens strike. A gentleman is conveyed in the barrow of a coalman while his wife has to hitch a lift on his head. Date: 1853

The ascent of Mont Blanc made easy: a suggestion to the followers of Mr Albert Smith

Convoy of diamonds, Brazil, South America
A convoy of diamonds in Brazil, South America -- the diamonds were transported from Tijuco (Diamantina) in the state of Minas Gerais to Rio de Janeiro. Date: 1842

King George V in Daimler ambulance, 1929
King George V transported from Buckingham Palace in a Daimler ambulance. 1929

Visitors to the Guinness brewery
Visitors to the extensive Guinness Brewery are transported for convenience on a small railway train. circa 1900

Horses at sea, using slings WWI
Thousands of war horses were bought from all over Britain to serve with British Forces in World War One. They were used to carry supplies and ammunition, transport the wounded and to pull guns

Tallman-Pfalz D. XII N43C
Tallman-Pfalz D.XII N43C (msn 1). An original D.XII, thought to be 1511/18, transported to the USA after the armistice and restored to flying condition by Frank Tallman in the 1950s. Date: circa 1957

Mitsubishi A6M7 Reisen (msn 23186, allied reporting name Zeke), on display at Willow Grove Naval Air Station ca1957

Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain
(ex Armee de l Air) - Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain 92449 (msn 12251, call-sign FA ) at Le Bourget Airport on display with the Musee de l air et de l espace in July 1982

United States Navy - McDonnell F-4J Phantom 153773
United States Navy - McDonnell F-4J-28-MC Phantom 153773 (msn 1759, base code AC, call-sign 110 ) of VF-31 from USS Saratoga, visiting USS Nimitz

United States Air Force - Bell P-59B Airacomet 44-22650
United States Air Force - Bell P-59B-1-BE Airacomet 44-22650 (msn 27-58) at Wright-Patterson AFB. 30 October 1944 :taken on strength by USaF, (delivered prior to contract cancellation)

Short SC. 1 XG905
Short SC.1 XG905, the second SC.1, on the tether rig at Belfast for initial tethered flight tests

German troops being transported in short luggage vans from which boards had been broken away in order to allow of ventilation and an outlook

Exterior and interior of Prince Ranjitsinhjis portable shooting-box, which could be despatched by rail to any given point in the jungle on a trolley by oxen or by elephants. 1907

Norman Fleet 1100 Date: 1100

Giant Street Organ, London 1846
Street scene, with a horse-drawn locomotive Brummagem organ drawing a crowd of adults and children, London, 1846

RIDING TO GUILLOTINE
The last wagon-load of victims are transported to the guillotine - despite the objections of the populace. Date: circa 1794

PLANTS TRANSPORTED / 1860
A variety of plants being transported from Holland to France by steam barge using the network of canals Date: 1860

CHILDREN MALTREATED
Children from German-occupied France, transported to Holland, travel without food, in unheated carriages, family photos and other possessions taken from them Date: March 1917

QUARRY TRAM, PORTLAND
PORTLAND Large stones transported by rail on trolleys winched from the quarry Date: circa 1850

QUARRYING AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Dorset. Large stones quarried and transported by rail Date: 1830s

Women prisoners transported to Cayenne
At Toulon, young female prisoners embark for Cayenne, having chosen marriage in the colonies rather than a prison sentence. Date: 1866

The ferry at Aston, near Henley-on-Thames
All manner of livestock transported across the River Thames. the site of the ferry can still be clearly identified to this day. Date: early 20th century

Bomb dropping apparatus of German Aviators 1915
German avaitors in The Roland biplane bomber

RMS Lapland - silk postcard with Hands Across the Sea. The Lapland was the liner that transported most of the Titanic's surviving crew back to England

Slovak Jews Transported
Jews from the interior of Slovakia, mostly minor industrialists, are transported to the Hungarian frontier after being discovered by the Hinkla Guard Date: circa 1939

Rickshaw Japan 19C
A Japanese mother and her daughter are transported by two rickshaw boys. Date: late 19th century

German howitzer transported by tractor, WW1
A German camouflage-painted howitzer, with several gunners, being transported by tractor along a road on the Western Front towards the end of the First World War

MINE WORKINGS / 1880 S
The workings of a mine, showing miners at the coal face and the coal being transported by pony

Japanese women transported by rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s

Smallpox patient arriving at Long Reach, near Dartford
A smallpox patient arriving at Long Reach, near Dartford. Patients were transported by river ambulance from London then transferred to the hospital buildings via a tram. Date: circa 1900

Entrance to an Anthracite Coal Mine
No.2 Slope - Entrance to an Anthracite Coal Mine, Pennsylvania, USA - the miners are shown on a gun boat, descending by an inclined slope into the mine. Date: circa 1910s

Children transported to school by wheelbarrow - China. Date: circa 1909

George Barrington
GEORGE BARRINGTON (1755 - 1804) Irish pickpocket, transported to Australia where he rose to become an official, and took to writing. Here, in court. Date: circa 1790

Lift for troops on leave at London train station, WW1
A party of soldiers on leave are conveyed to their destination station by a member of the Motor Transport Volunteers on arrival in London during the First World War

Suffragette, To My Valentine

British ammunition transported by mules, WW1
British field gun ammunition transported by mules during wet weather on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Allocation of heavy bombers by G. H. Davis
The transport problems that would arise were heavy bombers switched from Britain to the Middle East during the Second World War

Ground defence against enemy air attacks, WW1
Examples of ground defence against enemy air attacks during the First World War

Train Transporting Typhoid Sufferers
A Russian train being used as a temporary hospital specialising in treatment for patients suffering from Typhoid fever. Date: 1920

Russian Locomotive transported by road
View of a bridge over which a locomotive is being pulled by fourteen horses to be delivered to the Orlovsko-Kitebskaya line. Crowds of people have gathered in the snow to watch it go by. Date: 1867

A captured gun being transported 1916
A German position gun captured during the battle of the Somme, by the French army passing through French reserve lines, drawn by ten horses ridden by helmeted and cloaked French artillery drivers

George Mealmaker
GEORGE MEALMAKER Scottish radical, transported to Australia where he set up a successful weaving establishment and obtained his pardon. Date: 1768 - 1808

Japanese Woman with paper umbrella transported by Rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s

Yams & Canes taken to market - Constant Spring Road, Jamaica
Yams taken to market by women (baskets carried on the head) along with canes transported by a solitary donkey - Constant Spring Road, Jamaica Date: circa 1910s

WW1 - German soldiers on a train on their way to the front
German soldiers on a train on their way to the front in Germany. On the train are inscribed messages showing enthusiasm of the departing soldiers. Date: circa 1915

Christian Missionary travelling by Alaskan Reindeer sled
Christian Missionary being transported by Alaskan Reindeer sled. Date: circa 1909

Mules loaded onto a train - Selcuk, Turkey (Under the Ottoman Empire, it was known as Ayasoluk - or Ayassoulook as written here!) Date: 1908

The first Thor missile for the RAF was transported from Lakenheath to Feltwell, Norfolk, on 19 September 1958

Bell X-1A being transported by road

The Tolpuddle Martyrs
Tolpuddle, Dorset, England. In this cottage in 1834, six agricultural labourers held trade union meetings over poor pay, which led them being transported to Australia. Date: 1834

Mules carry children in pannier seats
Women and children carried in pannier seating on a mule - Iran Date: 1913

Wartime poster, conservation of wheat for war effort
Wartime poster recommending the conservation of wheat. Think!! For every 100, 000 tons of wheat saved by economy 28, 000 troops can be rationed and transported from America. Eat one loaf a week less

Japanese howitzers
Japanese 11-inch howitzers loaded on railway trucks ready to be transported to a forward area

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