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Shipping on the Avon BB89_03975Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. A view looking towards the gorge and bridge showing the pier in the foreground and sailing and steam vessels on the Avon
Mallard steam train, Flying Scotsman service a062835MALLARD. View of the LNER Class A4 train during its time on the Flying Scotsman express passenger service between London and Edinburgh. A man in a trilby hat looks at the engine
Stonehenge ahead FL01500_02_003STONEHENGE, Amesbury, Wiltshire. A car drives past an a box towards Stonehenge. Photograph 1930, from the Ministry of Works Blue Album
King George V Dock a002109KING GEORGE V DOCK, Canning Town, London. Shipping in the dock with dock workers standing on the dockside in the foreground (mid 20th century)
Portishead Dock JEH_22046_048Portishead Dock, North Somerset. In 1860 a deep water dock was built to accomodate large ships that had difficulty reaching Bristol Harbour
Poodle a054086View of a car showing a poodle sitting in the drivers seat. Photographed by John Gay. Date range: 1946-1959
Central Railway Station, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1884. BL12764CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. A steam train passing through the station in 1884. Bedford Lemere
Clifton Suspension BridgeBrunels landmark bridge spanning the Avon Gorge, Bristol. IoE 379208
Bentley car and aircraft propellers a087923HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A Aircraft Hangar, London. A Bentley car parked on the runway in front of the British European Airways buildings at Heathrow Airport with the propellers of an aircraft visible
R101 at Cardington EPW029993R101 at Cardington, Bedfordshire, 1929. Built 1926-30 at the Royal Airship Works at Cardington, the final test flight was 1st October 1930
Henley-On-Thames GOM01_05_068_03Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire. The view towards Hart Street from Market Place showing cars parked in the foreground and the tower of St Marys Church in the distance
Downshire Hill, Hampstead a072760ST JOHNS CHURCH, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London. A street view looking north east along Downshire Hill towards the entrance front of St Johns Church
Taxi rank a061644LIVERPOOL STREET STATION, London. Taxi rank with black cabs at Liverpool Street railway station with the roof structure visible behind. John Gay. Date range: 1960-1972
Kingfisher steam train, Flying Scotsman service a062841KINGFISHER. View of the LNER Class A4 train during its time on the Flying Scotsman express passenger service between London and Edinburgh. Photographed by John Gay, 1948
Queens College, Oxford CC51_00352QUEENs COLLEGE, Oxford, Oxfordshire. A 1903 view looking west along the south arcade of the front quad with parked bicycles belonging to members of the college
Spaghetti Junction EAW220279Gravelly Hills Interchange, Birmingham. Junction 6 on the M6 motorway meets the A38 and A5127 in a complex known as " Spaghetti Junction"
Postman, Harnham, Salisbury OP04500HARNHAM, Salisbury, Wiltshire. View from the Old Mill at Harnham, looking across the water meadows towards Salisbury Cathedral with a postman pushing his bicycle along the Town Path in
RMS Olympic BL24990_021RMS OLYMPIC, White Star Line. View of the boat deck, looking aft, showing lifeboats and funnels. The Olympic was the first of a class of luxurious express transatlantic ocean liners
Smithfield Market BL22966_004SMITHFIELD MARKET, London. Smithfield has been the site of a market since the Middle Ages, originally selling horses, cattle and pigs
Bristol Airport JEH_22047_061Bristol Airport, Lulsgate Bottom, Somerset. This site was first used as a RAF relief landing ground in 1940. The aerodrome was converted and opened as a new airport for Bristol in 1957
Kings Cross Station a072950KINGs CROSS STATION, London. The front of steam locomotive engine No. 60006 (The Herring Gull, renamed the Sir Ralph Wedgewood on 6th January, 1944) standing at a platform in Kings Cross Station
Foxton LocksStaircase flight of 10 locks on the Grand Union Canal. Foxton, Leicestershire. IoE 191334
Denmark Hill StationA rare and unusually complete example of a Victorian suburban station. IoE 471474
Mobile midwifery med01_01_0490Queen Charlottes Maternity Hospital And Midwifery Training School, Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith And Fulham, Greater London. Midwives leaving the hospital on motorised bicycles carrying analgesia
Smithfield Market, Birmingham c. 1890s OP09004SMITHFIELD MARKET, Birmingham, West Midlands. A corner of Smithfield Market c.1890s. A steam tram travels down Moat Row towards Smithfield Street
Abel Beesley, University Waterman in 1901 CC71_00075FISHER ROW, Oxford, Oxfordshire. The waterman Abel Beesley on his punt full of bundles of rushes with old Pacey Bridge in the background. Photographed by Henry Taunt in 1901
Delph LocksA closely-spaced flight of narrow locks on the Stourbridge Canal. Known locally as " Nine Locks" although only eight now remain. IoE 217976
Severn BridgeGrade I listed First Severn Crossing carrying the M4. It was by far the longest span in England when it was built. Gloucestershire. IoE 479259
New Severn Bridge 29705_035New Severn Bridge, South Gloucestershire. Photographed in June 2015
Fitzalan Square OP13267Fitzalan Square, Sheffield. Horse-drawn taxis and electric trams photographed around 1900. Electric trams first started to run in Sheffield from 1899
Little Stoke Ferry CC72_01022CHOLSEY, Oxfordshire. The low flat ferry boat awaits the corn wagons that used to cross the River Thames at this point. There is also a passenger ferry moored alongside to transport people between
The Burford Bus CC57_00488BURFORD, Oxfordshire. A horse drawn bus " The Burford Bus" with passengers standing outside the Bull Hotel. Photographed by Henry Taunt (active 1860 - 1922)
Horse-drawn trams, Oxford c. 1905 CC73_01178HIGH STREET, Oxford, Oxfordshire. Two horse-drawn trams passing in the street with advertising panels attached to the roofs
Car lift at a multi-storey car park BL19998MITCHELL MOTORS COMPANY, 114 Wardour Street, Westminster, London. An early motor car, with a chauffeur in the drivers seat on a car lift
SS Massilia BL05099SS MASSILIA. The Massilia was built in Greenock in 1884 for the Australia service, carrying 154 passengers in first class and 75 in second class. She was broken up in Genoa, Italy 1903-4
Heston Aerodrome c. 1930s AFL03_aerofilms_c19981Heston Aerodrome, Hounslow, Middlesex. The control tower (centre) may have been the first purpose-built example and became the model for this class of building
Douglas DC-3 AFL03_aerofilms_b1222Douglas DC-3 airliner. Advertising image prepared by Aerofilms for a client showing rays of sunshine from behind a cloud.The DC-3 entered civilian service with American Airlines in 1936
Car ferry, Norfolk a98_09928Reedham ferry, Reedham, Norfolk. This small chain ferry is still the only vehicle crossing on the River Yare between Great Yarmouth and Norwich
Austin van and aircraft propellers a087965HEATHROW AIRPORT, B E A Aircraft Hangar, London. A view of an Austin van parked on the apron outside the British European Airways aircraft hangar at Heathrow Airport with the propellers of an
Piccadilly Circus Station a073198PICCADILLY CIRCUS STATION, London. Interior view of a platform on Piccadilly Circus underground station showing a train on the tracks to left and people walking to the exits in the distance
London Bridge Station a062719LONDON BRIDGE STATION, Southwark, London. A view looking across to a train standing beneath the decorative bargeboards of a platform roof at London Bridge Station. Date range:1960-1972. John Gay
Harlesden, London a071670HARLESDEN, Greater London. A street scene with a No. 220 bus at a bus stop by a London Underground station sign in Harlesden at night, people waiting and cars passing
Liverpool Street Station a061648LIVERPOOL STREET STATION. London. Detail of the front of a Jaguar car parked within the station and the station roof in the background. Date range 1960-1972. John Gay
Severn Bridge, BewdleyGrade I listed bridge by Thomas Telford. Worcestershire. IoE 156638
New Tyne BridgeOf historic interest as a forerunner of the larger Sydney Harbour bridge built by the same company. IoE 430244
Lime Street StationMain entrance to Liverpool Lime Street, one of the first stations to send mail by train. IoE 359020
Caen Hill Locks 29613_014Caen Hill Locks, Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes, Wiltshire, 2015
Caen Hill Locks 29613_012Caen Hill Locks, Kennet and Avon Canal, Devizes, Wiltshire, 2015
Widnes and Runcorn Transporter Bridge a98_05132The Widnes and Runcorn Transporter Bridge, Widnes, Halton, Cheshire. The transporter bridge was an unusual solution to moving vehicles across a busy shipping lane
Commuter Station, Palmers Green Station, 1914 BB92_20713Palmers Green Station, Aldermans Hill, Greater London. General view looking south-east towards the up platform of Palmers Green station, crowded with passengers. Photographed in 1914
York Railway Station 28272_029York Railway Station. Originally constructed in 1877 this is now one of the main hubs of the UK rail network
St Pancras Station 27537_029St Pancras Station, Camden, London. The Gilbert Scott Midland Grand Hotel provides a facade for the train shed of 1868. Beyond this is the flat-roofed extension built in 2007 to provide the terminus
Preston Bypass EAW073974Preston Bypass, Lancashire. Britains first motorway under construction, photographed in November 1958. It was opened by Harold MacMillan in December
Rover factory JLP01_01_045_32ROVER CAR COMPANY WORKS, LODE LANE, SOLIHULL, WEST MIDLANDS. An interior view of the Rover factory in Solihull, showing workers polishing Rover P4 series cars
Truck-mounted cranes JLP01_08_090873Grain Power Station, Grain, Isle of Grain, Medway, Kent. Three truck-mounted cranes hired from Elstree Plant lined up on the site of the Isle of Grain Power Station
Bargate, Southampton CC39_00436BARGATE, SOUTHAMPTON. Exterior view of the south face of the gate and the busy street. A horsedrawn cart is passing through the arch
A goat-drawn carriage SAM01 / 02 / 0239A goat-drawn carriage for children, somewhere in London. We don t know why, when or where the photograph was taken, nor the identities of the man and little girl
Victorian street scene CC97_01521Tottenham Court Road, London. A view looking down a busy Tottenham Court Road from Oxford Street with horse-drawn vehicles and people in the foreground
Cambridge Station OP25563Cambridge Station, Station Road, Cambridge. The Italianate entrance front photographed in the 1950s
King George V Dock EAW572435King George V Dock, London. Shows the original short runway for London City Airport.Photographed by Aerofilms Ltd in June 1989
Motorway junction JEH_22028_89Almondsbury, Bristol. At the Almondsbury Interchange (Junction 15 on the M5 and Junction 20 on the M4) the M4 is carried over the M5
Sandwich board men 1910 BL21037bWARDOUR STREET, London. A line of men standing outside Mitchell Motors Company (114 Wardour Street), wearing sandwich boards advertising United International Motors Ltd
Royal Train BL17842ROYAL TRAIN. The South Eastern and Chatham Railway Royal Train showing the exterior of the Royal saloon. The photograph was taken for the owners of this Royal Train
Mercedes Motor Showroom, 12 Saville Row BL19996_001MERCEDES MOTOR SHOWROOM, 12 Saville Row, Westminster, London. A Mercedes car parked in front of the Mercedes Showroom at number 12 Saville Row, London
Queen Victorias Royal Train BL17421_005THE ROYAL TRAIN. An interior view of the sitting room on Queen Victorias Royal Train. Victoria was the first monarch to use this mode of transport; her first journey took place on 13th June 1842
Heathrow Airport a073304HEATHROW AIRPORT, Greater London. A BOAC aircraft with boarding steps to left at Heathrow Airport. Photograph by John Gay in 1970
The launch of the RMS Aquitania BL22100_027RMS AQUITANIA. Launch, April 21st, 1913. The Aquitania was the third of the Cunard Line express ocean liners (after the Mauretania and Lusitania), and the last four-stack liner to be built
The Leas Lift, FolkestoneOnly the 3rd lift in England to be built operating by water balance. Folkestone, Kent. IoE 175454
Signal BoxGreat Northern Railway Signal Box, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. IoE 469273
Bridge over River WellandPicturesque view of the bridge at Market Deeping on the Lincolnshire / Cambridgeshire border. IoE 194497
Petrol Pumpc1935. Square steel petrol pump standing on chamfered and stepped concrete base. Oxton, Nottinghamshire. IoE 475079
Ouseburn ViaductRailway Viaduct. One of the earliest bridges constructed in Britain using the Wiebeking system of laminated wood. IoE 304882
a Boxa Telephone Box on A556, Cheshire. IoE 58578
Kings Cross Station 27537_030Kings Cross Station, Camden, London. View towards the 1852 facade fronting onto Euston Road. Photographed in September 2012
Tardebigge Flight 29447_035Part of Tardebigge Flight, Worcester and Birmingham Canal, Worcestershire. Photographed in June 2015
Stonehenge N080719STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. A line of cars pass Stonehenge travelling along the A303
Steam train dcm01_02_102Landscape near Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway, with an express steam train in the distance
Manouevring a concrete caisson JLP01_01_064_42TILBURY DOCKS, CHADWELL ST MARY, THURROCK, ESSEX. A view of the cooling water intake caisson for Coryton Oil Refinery leaving the lock at Tilbury Docks
Delivering a dragline excavator JLP01_08_001556NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. A Pickfords low loader transporting a W90 walking dragline excavator to Whitley Bay opencast coal site
M6 Junction 14 JLP01_08_065790M6 Motorway, Junction 14, M6, Creswell, Stafford, Staffordshire. A view looking south on the west side of the Stafford North junction (Junction 14)
Blyth coal staith a039506General view of the coal staith at Blyth Power Station, Bedlington, Northumberland. View from the north west, with the frame of a coal barge in the foreground
Blyth silos DP087765South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland. Looking east across the River Blyth towards the Alcan storage silos at North Blyth where the ship Arklow Wind is being loaded
Worcester Bridge AL2383_062_01Worcester Bridge, Worcester. View from the north-west looking across the River Severn towards Worcester Bridge and the Cathedral
Luton Airport JLP01_10_14028London Luton Airport, Luton, Bedfordshire, 1983. The entrance to the arrivals hall of the terminal building at Luton International Airport, viewed at night
