Isles Collection

Map of the Isle of Bute (colour litho)
XCF285177 Map of the Isle of Bute (colour litho) by English School; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

WW2 Poster -- Map of the British Army
A Map of the British Army with Battle Honours, Military Achievements and Regimental Badges, first published in 1944 by HM Forces Savings Committee

Viking Britain Map
A map of the British Isles (including Ireland) during the time of the Vikings

Geological map of the British Islands. 1941

Scilly Isles
A map of the Scilly Isles, circa 1639. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Map / Channel Islands 18C
Map of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark and the Scilly Isles

WWI Poster, Is your home here? Defend it
Is your home here? Defend it! Parliamentary Recruiting Committee poster with a map showing the different regiments and HQs where men can enlist. Date: 1916

Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a gale
The Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a Force 8 gale. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

Aerial view of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall
Aerial view of Wolf Rock Lighthouse, between Lands End and the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, with the landing pad visible at the top. Date: circa 1970s

Scilly Isles, Tresco Abbey, old arches, Cornwall, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Wreck Chart of the British Isles For 1868
Chart showing the positions of all 2131 vessels wrecked around the British Isles during 1868, compiled from the Board of Trade records

Clan Macdonald
Clan MACDONALD OF THE ISLES clad in a coat of chain-mail, the chieftain with an angry look gives orders for some miscreant to be punished

Aerial view of Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Isles of Scilly
Aerial view of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

Shetland knitter, Shetland Islands, Scotland. She is knitting as she walks along with a bulky load on her back. Date: late 19th century

Western Airways Poster
Poster, Norman Edgar (Western Airways) Ltd, showing prices and times from Bristol to various destinations by Air Express Daily, including special day returns. 20th century

Poster, Britons! Your Country Needs You

Isle of Bute - Rothesay, The West Esplanade
Isle of Bute (west coast of Scotland) - Rothesay, The West Esplanade

Domestic Cattle, Galloway cows and calf, standing in coastal pasture, Bride, Isle of Man, August

Harbour Street - Kirkwall, Orkney Islands Date: circa 1910s

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Fishing and pleasure boats moored in harbour, looking towards Tresco, Town Beach, Hugh Town, St. Mary s, Isles of Scilly, England, september

Fly fishing, Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) catch with rod and fly box, on machair loch, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, September

Falkland Isles Battle
BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS The light cruiser Kent sinks the German cruiser Nurnberg

Channel Isles Squid
Fishermen of Jersey, Channel Islands, desperately fight this giant squid, but two of them lose their lives in the battle

Summer Holidays in the British Isles
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing an English seaside resort, with a sandy beach, sailing boats on the sea, a pier and a blue sky

View of rocks on beach and clifftop castle at sunset, Culzean Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland, june

Shetland Islands - Cutting a peat bank
A Crofter cutting a peat bank on The Shetland Islands, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

Royal Air Force BAC Jet Provost T. 4 XP551
Royal Air Force Central Flying School Jet Provost T.4 XP551 ar RAF Little Rissington (then the highest operational airfield in the British Isles) Date: 1960s

Town crier, St Marys, Scilly Isles
The local town crier, Wilfred Tonkin, on St Mary s, Scilly Isles. Seen here announcing the fact that the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has taken up residence in his holiday bungalow

Map, Britain -- Spearhead of Attack, WW2. Date: 1940s

Queen Elizabeth II at Iona
The first reigning monarch to set foot on Iona for nearly a thousand years, Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Sir Charles Maclean is followed by Prince Philip

Rua da Calheta, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores
Rua da Calheta in the city of Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1908

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England, Hampshire, Portsmouth, Portchester Castle showing the Norman 12th Century Tower and 14th Century Keep within the Roman 3rd Century Saxon Shore Fort

Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland
Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Fort William, Scotland Date: 1908

Peel Castle, West Quay, Isle of Man
Peel Castle, West Quay, Peel, Isle of Man, British Isles. Date: 1910s

Cupecoy Beach, Saint Martin, French Antilles
A long exposure of Cupecoy Beach coastal surf taken after sunset at twilight. Saint-Martin is one of five island dependencies of Guadeloupe. Situated in the French Antilles (French West Indies)

View of sandy beach connecting St. Ninians Isle to Bigton, Mainland, Shetland Islands, Scotland, May

Lerwick - Shetland Islands - from the south Date: circa 1910s

The Bishop Rock Lighthouse, Scilly Isles, 1858
Engraving of the Bishop Rock lighthouse, off the Scilly Isles, October 1858. The lighthouse was built between 1851 and 1858, to a design by Mr

United Kingdom, England, London, Camden Town. Canal barges next to Camden Market

Stresa, Lake Maggiore, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy. Flowers in bloom on the lake front with Borromean islands in the background

Quayside at Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland
Quayside at Lerwick, main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, with fishing boats. Date: 1960s

Unloading sheep in harbour, Shetland, Scotland
Unloading sheep in the harbour, Shetland, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Bishop Rock Lighthouse - Helicopter Pad at top

Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) pale phase, adult, standing on seaweed covered rocks, Noss, Shetland Islands, Scotland, June

Bay of small Isles on the Isle of Jura, looking north, with rainbow arcing from the mainland on the left over Knockrome.low tide

View of sea loch and mountain peaks, viewed from Beinn Sgaillinish, Loch Tarbert, Paps of Jura, Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Mavis Grind, Shetland Islands - both the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are visible in one hot! Date: circa 1910s

View of boat on beach and moored in bay at sunrise, Porth Green, Old Grimsby, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, England, september

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) adult, with sandeels and seaweed in beak, standing on rock, Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, july

Flannan Isles Lighthouse
Artists impression of the Flannan Isles lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides where three lighthouse keepers mysteriously disappeared without trace in December 1900

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Tombolo connecting St Ninian's Isle with Shetland mainland, Scotland, Great Britain (Large format sizes available). Date: 15/04/2010

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Two climbers on top of the old man Hoy, backlighted, Orkney islands, Scotland. (Large format sizes available) Date: 15/10/2009

Gloster Meteor T. 7 WA669 27
Royal Air Force - Gloster Meteor T.7 WA669 27, of the Central flying School, at RAF Little Rissington, on 1 August 1970. (RAF Little Rissington is the highest active airfield in the British Isles)

View of Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores
Embankment and view of the city of Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1908

The Battle Of Jersey (colour litho)
3093499 The Battle Of Jersey (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Battle Of Jersey. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

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Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Crovie, One time fishing village seen from cliff top. Row of cottages at foot of steep hillside overlooking coast and stone jetty

Charles and Diana, St Marys, Isles of Scilly
Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, on a visit to St Mary s, Isles of Scilly, with a crowd of spectators lining the street

Timber Shipwreck, Scilly Isles, Cornwall, England. Date: 1910s

Bonne Nuit Bay, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1920s

Rough Sea in Lerwick Harbour, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Date: circa 1910s

Shipping Shetland Ponies
Transporting a small herd of Shetland Ponies in a modest-sized sailing boat. Date: circa 1906

Scotland, Shetland Isles - Castle at Scalloway
The ruins of the Castle at Scalloway, Scotland - Shetland Isles

Factors governing an invasion by G. H. Davis
The situation of Britain face to face with a German north-west Europe: factors governing an invasion during the Second World War

The Flag of Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

View of coastal village, Jura Hotel, Jura Distillery, Lodge, Cooperage, Jura Stores and Jura Hall, Craighouse, Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

View of coastline with whirlpools in narrow strait, looking towards Isle of Scarba, Gulf of Corryvreckan, Isle of Jura, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata) adult, summer plumage, swimming on loch, Shetland Islands, Scotland, June

View of pebble beach and sea cliffs, Funzie Bay, Fetlar, Shetland Islands, Scotland

Black-browed Albatross (Diomedea melanophoris) adult pair, courtship preening, close-up of heads, Falkland Islands

Lear / Nonsense / Isles
There was on Old Man of the Isles, whose face was pervaded with smiles; He sung high dum diddle, and played on the fiddle, that amiable Man of the Isles

The Old Man of Hoy, a curious cliff formation on the west coast of the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Isles, Scotland

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A view of South Stack lighthouse

Northumberland, England; Hadrians Wall

St. Marys Island, Northumberland, England; St. Marys Lighthouse
The Lighthouse, completed in 1898 on a hazardous coast for shipping, remained operational until 1984 when it was superseded by modern navigational techniques

Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) whitecoat pup, resting on wrack covered beach, Orkney, Scotland, November

Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a West Country scene with people playing on a sandy beach, fishing nets and seagulls

View of sea loch with sheep grazing near shore, Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, August

View across farmland towards mountain, viewed from Port Soderick towards Snaefell, Isle of Man, August

Falklands Shipwrecks on Falkland beach

A shower passing over Loch Morar in Scotland looking towards Rhum
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Map of Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean. Date: circa 1920

I love Kos Letters at the Harbour, Kos Town, Kos Island, Dodecanese, Greece

United Kingdom, England, Berkshire, Windsor. The battlements of the palace of Windsor Castle showing the Norman round tower keep with the Royal Standard flag flying

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"Exploring the Isles: A Journey through History, Nature, and Resilience" Unfolding history on a WW2 poster: Map of the British Army's strategic isles. Tracing our roots back to Viking Britain with an ancient map of their conquests. Battling against nature's fury at Bishop Rock Lighthouse during a relentless gale. Discovering tranquility amidst the Scilly Isles' breathtaking landscapes and seascapes. Unlocking Earth's secrets with a geological map showcasing the diverse British Islands. Navigating through time with an 18th-century Channel Islands map as our guide. Marveling at the majestic Wolf Rock Lighthouse from above, guarding Cornwall's coast. Immersing in Clan Macdonald's rich heritage that echoes across these storied isles. Reflecting on sacrifice and duty through a poignant WWI poster - "Is your home here? Defend it. " Stepping into Tresco Abbey's old arches, where whispers of Cornwall's past still linger. Witnessing resilience personified at Bishop Rock Lighthouse amidst the Isles of Scilly. Embracing coastal serenity as domestic cattle graze peacefully on Isle of Man’s Bride. Embark on this captivating journey through these remarkable isles; each holds its own tale waiting to be discovered – tales etched by war, shaped by Vikings, guarded by lighthouses, and nurtured by nature’s beauty.