Wharf Collection (page 10)

Chile - Taltal - The Bay and Harbour Date: circa 1910s

Erskine Wharf - Wheat Export Yard, Karachi, Pakistan (still India at this stage). Date: circa 1909

Interlaken - Ferryport and North Railway Station
Switzerland - Interlaken - Ferryport (Schiffstation) and North Railway Station (Nordbahnhof) Date: circa 1910s

Switzerland - Villeneuve, Lac Leman (Lake Geneva) - a steamer about to embark on a lake crossing Date: circa 1895

Star Ferry Wharf, Hong Kong Date: circa 1910s

The Quay - Izmir, Turkey
The Pathe Cinema with its emblem of a Cock. The building next the cinema is the Kramer Theatre - at Izmir, Turkey. circa 1910s

Hospital shelters at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, London
View of hospital shelters at South Wharf, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, south east London, where smallpox patients waited before being transported down the Thames to hospital ships moored at Long

Filling, weighing and packing tea, Bankside, London
Workers filling, weighing and packing chests of tea at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London. Date: circa 1902

Tea merchants cutting and mixing machine, London
Workers with a tea merchants cutting and mixing machine at Messrs Travers Wharf, Bankside, London

Port of Montevideo, Uruguay
Montevideo port and wharf

View of the Castle, with timber, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A distant view of the Castle from Old Bridge Street, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, with a pile of timber in the foreground

Slate used on office building, Slate Wharf, Caernarfon
Terracotta, yellow brick and Caernarfon slate used on an office building on Slate Wharf in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, North Wales

1844 poor relief work ticket
A ticket issued in 1844 by a Relieving Officer for the parish of St Mary, Islington, north London, directing the bearer to the stone yard on Wharf Road, City Basin

Italy - Naples - Strada del Molo (Wharf Street) with a view toward the New Castle (left) and raised in the distance, the Castle of Saint Elmo

Georgia - Tbilisi - The Raft Port
The Raft Port at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Boulogne-sur-mer - France
Marguet Bridge and the quays at Boulogne-sur-mer, France

Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - Adams Point
Croatia - Rijeka (Fiume) - Adamas Point - The Harbour. Photograph taken when this area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Cook Islands - Rarotonga Island - Pacific Ocean. The US Steamship Company of New Zealand Wharf with railway tracks leading out onto the jetty for easy unloading and moving of cargoes

Belgium - Antwerp - Working Dock Horses
Belgium - Antwerp - working horses on the dock. Here this horse team transport a set of barrels along the cobbled quayside streets

Wapping Docks
A large steamship moored against the quay at Wapping Docks. Pen & ink drawing (with watercolour wash) by Raymond Sheppard

The Wharf - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Mersin, Turkey
The harbour dock at Mersin, Turkey

The port at Bone, Algeria
Bone, Algeria. The Port

Panoramic view of the Port of Chicago
Spectacular panoramic view of the lakeside Port of Chicago in 1902, showing the distinctive skyline and the huge sets of railway wagons in the foreground

Ferry transporting railway wagons
A wonderful nightime photograph of the Suffolk Ferry departing Harwich with a load of railway wagons. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Steamer City of Philadelphia
City of Philadelphia Steamer, at Market Street Wharf and recreation pier, Chester, Pennsylvania Date: 1900s

Chatham Prison Riots - The Mess-house
The Mess-house at St Marys Convict Prison, Chatham - where a riot broke out in early March 1861

Harbour of Constantinople
General view of the Harbour of Constantinople, Turkey across the Golden Horn

Constantinople Ferryboat - Galata
The Ferryboat from Haydar Pasa at the Galata Dock/Station/Bridge at Constantinople, Turkey

Algeria - Algiers - The Waterfront
The waterfront of Algiers, Algeria, showing the elegant colonaded seafront, supporting the tramlines running along the front

Inner Harbour - gallipoli
The entrance to the inner harbour at Gallipoli

France - Awaiting transport to the New World
A large crowd of emigrants (likely to be Basque Breton fisherfolk) await their passage to the New World at Fecamp, possibly heading to Miquelon or Quebec

Fiume, Croatia - Free State Period
The new Italo-Yugoslav Quarter at Fiume/Rijeka. A location with a spectacularly varied past, under the control of many differing powers over the centuries

The Petrovski Quay at Baku, Azerbaijan

Morocco, Casablanca - The Port and Harbour
The port and harbour at Casablanca in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. The capital of the Greater Casablanca region

Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Wharf with a view of Queen Street and harbour buildings, Auckland, New Zealand

Pasaport Quay - Izmir (Smyrna)
The Pasaport Quay - Customs and Immigration House at the harbour of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Dalian, China - The Harbour and Railway Depot, during Japanese occupation. The settlement was occupied by the British in 1858, returned to the Chinese in the 1880s

Thames St Wharf
The German merchants wharf in Thames Street

Uskudar - Istanbul, Turkey. A scene very different form the Uskudar of today, where large ferries have replaced the smaller (more numerous) boats seen at this time

Casablanca - Morocco - View of the Harbour
View of the Harbour, Casablanca, Morocco with shipping lying off the ciast awaiting the given slot to moor up

View toward the Ok-Meydan across the Golden Horn
View toward Ok-Meydan across the Golden Horn, Constantinople, Turkey

Mozambique - Harbour Scenes - Maputo
Multi-view postcard showing scenes of Harbour / Port / Trade activity on the coast of Mazambique at Maputo. Formerly Lourenco Marques / Lourenzo Marques

The American Harbour in Kobe, Japan
The American Wharf in Kobe, Japan

Egyptian Port Scene
A fine photographic view of an Egyptian port with moored Battleships from the British Fleet in the background, a light train system on the dock and a group of foreign dignitaries awaiting their ship

Almeria, Spain - Embarkation of Eggs in barrels for export

Luzern - Switzerland
The harbourside market at Luzern, Switzerland

Rarotonga Island - Cook Islands - the landing wharf

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