Wire Collection (page 2)

Man standing on bridge in light and shade
A slightly surreal picture of a man standing alone on a bridge with shadows playing on his back and on the ground. Date: circa 1950s

Trench knife made from a barbed wire stanchion 1916
Trench knife made from barbed wire stanchion 1916 (c). This type of knife is also known as a French Nail. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Date: circa 1916

Korean War era - Commonwealth Sign - The 38th parallel north, which formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. Date: circa 1952

Korean War era - Speed Limit sign close to the 38th parallel north, which formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. Date: circa 1952

Early 1900s Burnley Tramways Overhead Wire Maintenance
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Burnley Corporation tram wire tower wagon, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Early 1900s Burnley Corporation Tram Wire Tower
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WW2 Soldier And New Zealander
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a soldier guarding the wire, while the right picture portrays a New Zealand military man holding his cane

Wire Haired Terrier Date: circa 1960s

Advertisement Model
A photograph showing a perculiar figure with wire limbs, used for advertisement purposes. Date: circa 1939

Wire- Haired Fox Terriers Date: 1931

Vietnam War - Patriotic Poster - Indomitable Vietnam
Vietnam War - Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Indomitable Vietnam - beauty and strength. Date: 2nd half of the 20th century

RMS Titanic - telegram from Marconi to Carpathia
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

RMS Titanic - Marconi portrait with Carpathia telegram
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

Dunlop tyres advert
Advert for Dunlop low pressure tyres, called the Dunlop balloon. They are advertised as a luxury tyre. Date: 1925

Dunlop wire wheel advert
An advert for Dunlop wire wheels. A new type of wheel for the time which had a unique locking system, they were seen as a safer option for motorcars. Date: 1912

The New Telpher Line at Glynde
The new Telpher line at Glynde, near Lewes, the seat of Lord Hampden (1814-1892), the Ex-Speaker of the House of Commons. His wife, Lady Hampden, is seen starting the first train

Wire-Haired Fox Terrier
A portrait of a wire-haired fox terrier, named Benholme Brocade. Date: 1933

The Great Blondini - walking the high wire above four lions
A slightly fanciful illustration of French tightrope walker Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet) (1824-1897) - walking the high wire above a pit of four large male lions. Date: circa 1850s

Grumman AA-1B Trainer G-BCIL (msn AA1B-0378), at RAF Woodvale in July 1977. Written off (damaged beyond repair) 14 June 1986 when crashed and overturned at Lambs Hillock, Ellon, Aberdeenshire

Dead soldier caught in wire after night raid, WW1
Dead German soldier caught in wire after a night raid on the Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918

NUS President Charles Clarke and three colleagues
NUS President Charles Clarke (standing, b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister)) with NUS executive colleagues, from left to right, Alastair Stewart (b)

Dead Russian Soldiers on Beach - Barbed Wire Barrier, Russia. WWI Date: 1910s

Dead Russian soldiers at Augustowo, WW1
The bodies of dead Russian soldiers caught in barbed wire at Augustowo (Augustow, Poland) on the eastern front during the First World War. Date: September-October 1914

An American lady with her wire-haired terrier amidst the leaves of the fall. Date: 1919

Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Weapon
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SOVIET MARINES & WIRE
Soviet Marines (known as The Black Death) in action, cutting wire Date: 1942 - 1945

Comic postcard, Drunken husband arrives home Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scene at a fun fair - Shut your eyes, you boys!! Date: 20th century

Tamondori, Kobe, street scene, Japan
19th century vintage photograph - Tamondori, stree scene in central Kobe, Japan, image c.1880 s

Coils of steel wire await processing in a factory. Date: circa 1930s

General Strike - Policeman riding with volunteer bus drivers. The barbed wire on the bonnet is to stop protestors damaging the engine. The strike lasted 9 days between 4th and 12th May, 1926

Pedestrians along the bund, Yokohama, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Barbed wire barricades in Belfast
Photograph of the Peace Wall - barbed wire barricades in Seaforde Street, Newtownards Road, Belfast. Date: 1920

WW1 - German protection trenches and a Fishermans House. Date: 1916

Prowse Point St Yvon Christmas Memorial Area with footballs
Prompted by the 100th Anniversaries of the battles of WW1, much interest in the Truces that took place beteen the enemies at Christmas 1914, particulary in this area

Young lad with a magnificent wooden toy car
Raymond, Aunt Bettys brother happily sat behind the wheel of his magnificent wooden toy car (possibly a pedal car). There is a mascot on the front of the bonnet in the form of a cat - a tin

Early radio crystal set, terrier puppy -- I don t seem to hear from you at Honiton. 1928

Newest turns at the London Hippodrome 1900
Newest turns at the London Hippodrome in October 1900 - Eugene Sandow, the famous strong man, Ghezzi the clown, the Sisters O Meers, the clever wire artists and M. Batty and his famous bear

Electric telegraph used in Crimean War, 1854
Electric telegraph used in the Crimean War, 1854. The plough for laying the wire. The wire is deposited by a subsoil plough in the ground

Meltham Mills 1851
Meltham Mills, near Huddersfield. Brooks family, Royal improved, patent cotton spinning mill. 1851

Cruet frames in wire and glass. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Superb sword hilt from the mid-16th century. Guard and pommel in black iron decorated with gold and silver figures, grip with mesh of gold wire in a feather pattern

Soapmaker cutting hardened soap with a copper
Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames

A metal worker using a wire-drawing machine to make thin wire. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Luftwaffe Radar Station Bunkers Douvres Normandy
This was not only a radar station but as it was on high ground it was a major defensive position with bunkers, barbed wire and minefields. The bunkers are often hidden by crops

Advert, J & E Overend, Wire Works, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for J & E Overend, Charing Cross Wire Works, North Street, Glasgow, Scotland, makers of wire products of every description. 1905

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