Vertigo Collection

Perranporth Rock Arch
The Rock Arch, an unusual formation, on the beach at Perranporth, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

The Barbarine - first climbed 1905 - Germany
The Barbarine - the best-known, free-standing rock formation in the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. The pinnacle is the symbol of Saxon Switzerland

High Tea above London
A young man defies gravity by perching on a pole on the roof of the new BBC Broadcasting House building and having a truely High Tea! Date: early 1930s

CLIMBING IS DANGEROUS
Pressed against a sheer rockface, buffeted by a howling gale, a climber gains a vivid insight into the narrow gap betwixt life and death. Date: late 19th century

Narrow gorge with precipitous walkway, Italy
Narrow gorge with precipitous walkway, Northern Italy (1 of 2) Date: circa 1920s

Music cover, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, song waltz, words by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee, performed by Shaw and Weston. 1934

TWO MEN UP LADDERS
Two sign guilders at work on a large commercial building in Berlin, Germany. The angle the picture was taken makes the perspective of the photograph appear distorted. Date: 1933

Woman saving child by walking narrow ledge
To save her child from fire, Madame Pauquelin of rue St Maur, Paris, walks a narrow ledge from her 5th floor apartment, which she could not have done in her normal state of consciousness. Date: 1906

View from the top of Bishop Rock lighthouse, Isles of Scilly, 160 feet above sea level

Italy. Lucca. Guinigi Tower. 14th century. Inside

Westminster Builders
Workmen on precarious scaffolding, building the new Westminster Bank buildings high above Throgmorton Street, London. Date: 6 February 1930

Vertigo sp. marsh whorl snails
No.14 V. antivertigo, No.15 V. moulinsiana, No.16 V. pygmaea, No.19 V. pusilla, No.20 V. anguistor, No.21 V. edentula. Plate 4 from The Collectors Manual of British Shells by L E Adams (1896)

Stephansdom, Vienna
View taken from the top of St. Stephens Cathedral (Stephansdom), Vienna, Austria, showing traffic and the bustling streets below. Date: 1930s

Lincoln from Catherdal
A fine view, looking westwards, from the main tower of Lincoln Cathedral, with the tops of its twin towers and the Castle Gateway below, Lincolnshire, England. Date: 1950s

View down from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Looking straight down from the top of the Eiffel Tower - not the best position for a photographer with vertigo! Date: circa 1910s

Housewives Stunt School
Housewife Teresa Vincent leaps from the first floor of a building onto cardboard boxes and mattresses 20 feet below. It makes a change from washing up, she explained. Date: 1960s

Climbing Factory Chimney
These brave men are climbing a huge factory chimney, risking life and limb in the process

Brooklyn Bridge 1876
In a boatswains chair, brave engineer Frank Farrington is the first person to cross the bridge. Suspended by a single cable, he raises his hat to the crowds 227 feet below

Wireless Mast
A man working on a radio mast in Berlin, Germany

Broadcasting House Japes
A young man defies gravity by perching on a pole on the roof of the new BBC Broadcasting House building!

Oiling a Crane Pulley
Two construction workers risking life and limb to oil the pulleys on top of a huge crane

Overcoming Vertigo
The would-be aviator should overcome sensations of vertigo by familiarising himself with the sight of terrestrial scenes observed from a height

Oiling Bridge Pulleys
This brave workman risks his life to oil one of the pulleys used to construct the new Lambeth Bridge, designed by George Humphreys, opened by George V in 1932

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