Turret Collection (page 4)

Hotel Metropole, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA
Hotel Metropole, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, USA. Date: circa 1907

Palais du Franc, Bruges, Belgium
Palais du Franc (Brugse Vrije), with its distinctive turrets, Bruges, Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Town Hall, Malines (Mechelen), Belgium, dating back to the 14th century. Date: circa 1910

Town Hall, Hoogstraeten (Hoogstraten), Belgium, dating back to the 16th century. Date: circa 1910

Large American house, Dulce Domum, USA
Large American house with crenellated turret, described as Dulce Domum in a message on the back. Date: circa 1907

North American school or college building, USA
North American school or college building in collegiate gothic style, USA, with cars parked outside. Date: circa 1918

Large coastal mansion, hotel or villa, USA, with some interesting architectural features including a witch-hat turret. Date: circa 1910s

Harley Street from Cavendish Square, London
Harley Street viewed from Cavendish Square, London. Date: circa 1910

La Pintoresca Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA
La Pintoresca Hotel (originally The Painter Hotel), Pasadena, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Boston Bank building, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
Boston Bank building, Florida Street, financial district, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1925

Corner building, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America
Interesting architecture on the corner of Calle Maipu and Plaza San Martin (a park), Retiro district, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1905

Grand Ducal Palace, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Grand Ducal Palace and Chamber of Deputies, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Date: circa 1906

East Main Street, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
East Main Street (looking west), Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA, with the Hotel Montgomery on the left. Date: 1913

YMCA and Kenmore Hotel, Albany, New York State, USA
YMCA Building and the Kenmore Hotel, Albany, New York State, USA, with shops on the ground floor. Date: circa 1905

Winston Churchill in turret of Churchill tank, 1942
The Churchill, Britains new heavy infantry tank. So strongly armoured is the Churchill that it can be used as a pill-box, but it possesses a speed that is startling

Woodstock Inn, Woodstock, Vermont, USA. Date: circa 1935

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from ship
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918

Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane on HMS Tiger X turret
Sopwith 2F Camel fighter plane, designed for naval use. The first was completed and flying by March 1917. It had a nose-mounted Vickers gun and an overwing Lewis gun

Boulton Paul Defiant I fresh from final assembly The Defiant carried a heavy 4-gun turret, but no fixed forward firing armament leaving it ready prey to enemy fighters

Visit to Madeira - The Governors Palace
Black and white lantern slide of aGrand building with arch and circular turret. Intricate iron railing on balcony.. Part of Box 125, Madeira, part of Boswell collection. Slide number 46

Norway - Fjaerland - Mundal Hotel at 10. 30 pm
Lantern slide of Fjaerland Mundal Hotel at 10.30 pm - foundation of hotel on stone and the majority is wooden. Has a turret shape on one corner. Hotel is set next to a river

Cigarette box in the form of a tank, WW1
Cigarette box in the form of a tank, the sponsons to carry cigarettes and the turret to contain a box of matches. Trench Art

Tank manoeuvres controlled by radio-telephony by G. H. Davis
Annotated illustration showing a company-commander broadcasting his orders to his section-commanders by wireless. The tank in the foreground is seen cut away diagrammatically to show the driver

Robot guns for British aircraft by G. H. Davis
Robot guns for British aircraft: remotely-controlled turrets. Enabling one gunner to direct fire from numerous different positions

SAVA armoured car, WW1
A SAVA armoured car, used by the Belgian army during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 - Two armour plated army vehicles, labelled HMAC Silver Witch. Date: circa 1917

WW2 - Aircraft of the Free French Lorraine Squadron, Libya
WW2 - Blenheim Mk. IV Aircraft of the Free French Lorraine Squadron, Libya (RAF No. 342 Squadron). Date: circa 1943

Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France - Maison Pfister Date: circa 1910s

Chateau Miolans, Savoie department, France
The Chateau Miolans, close to St-Pierre-d Albigny, Savoie department, Rhone-Alpes region, France - Le Donjon (The Dungeon). Date: circa 1908

A mock-up of a Boulton Paul Type A Mk3 four-gun turret fitted immediately behind the cockpit of a Westland Lysander. This project was not proceeded with

The first prototype Westland Lysander, K6127, was rebuilt in 1940-41 with a Delanne-type tandem wing and a mock-up tail turret

Bristol Beaufighter V R2274
Bristol Beaufighter V, R2274, with four-gun Boulton Paul BPAI dorsal turret

Hugh Talbot Burgoyne
HUGH TALBOT BURGOYNE British naval commander who died when his turret- ship Captain foundered at sea, ensuring the safety of his crew at his own risk. Date: 1833 - 1820

LCC-LFB Fire at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
A serious fire occurred in this building belonging to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, SE London, during refurbishment of the roof

LCC-LFB fire in Kensington High Street, London W8
The aftermath of a roof and top floor fire in apartments at 1 Kensington High Street. A fire engine (pump) is set into a hydrant

James River, Va. Deck and turret of USS. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern). Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy - the Federal

Annexe built on Westminster Abbey for Edward VII coronation
The temporary annexe constructed outside Westminster Abbey for marshalling the coronation procession of King Edward VII in 1902

Wales / Montgomery
An impression of the town of Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales, viewed from the churchyard, with the clock on the turret of the Guildhall rising above the rooftops. Date: 1960s

Sopwith 1 Strutter biplane taking off from a ship, WW1
A Sopwith 1 Strutter biplane taking off from the gun turret platform of a ship during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1918

Wales / Llandudno
The lovely stretch of the West Shore, Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, Wales, as seen from the Great Orme. Date: 1950s

Laker Vyrnwy Tower
The Control Tower of the Great Dam of Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, started in 1881 to supply water to Liverpool and was offically opened in 1910. Date: 1950s

Fawsley Dower House
The ruins and tower of the Dower House, a former lodge in Fawsley Park, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 17th century

Men on HMS Tiger during the Battle of Jutland, WW1
Men on the Q turret of British battlecruiser HMS Tiger, after being hit during the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, during the First World War. Date: 31 May - 1 June 1916

Page from Aircraft of the Royal Air Force card album
Page from Aircraft of the Royal Air Force cigarette card album issued by John Player & Sons, featuring the Hawker Demon I (Turret) Fighter; the Hawker Fury Fighter; and the Hawker Hurricane Fighter

The Chapel Turret, Charterhouse, London Date: circa 1910s

Fashions 1884
Jacket bodice with dentate basques & plastron, pleated skirt & tunic; jacket body & waistcoat, small fur muff, flounce edged skirt, tunic draped in a polonaise. Date: 1884

Workers riveting a girder at a Sunderland shipyard
Workers riveting the centre girder of a turret vessel at Messrs Droxford & Sons, a shipyard in Sunderland

Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth Common, London
A view of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth Common, Surrey (now in south west London)

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