Ropes Collection

D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach
British and Canadian 3rd Division troops land at Juno Beach. D-Day began on June 6th, 1944 at 6:30am and was conducted in two assault phases - the air assault landing of allied troops followed by an

George Morris, the celebrated bell ringer, on 8 bells, 1863
George Morris, the celebrated bell ringer, playing on eight bells at once, in the steeple of St James Clerkenwell, London

A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn
Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a typically convoluted method of weeding a garden lawn. A man is hosted by ropes supported by a teepee configuration of poles worked by

Illustration, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- The building of Saltash Bridge. Date: 1935

Farmer and team of working horses plough a field
A team of two heavy horses plough a field, watched by a large crow and a pet springer spaniel. Watercolour painting by Malcom Greensmith Date: circa 1980

RNLI lifeboat Arab II at Harlyn Bay, St Merryn, Cornwall. Around 1908
The RNLI Lifeboat Arab II being towed across the sands at Harlyn Bay to be launched, followed by a mixed group of men, women and children

Jack Johnson in a boxing match
Jack Johnson (1878-1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, African-American world heavyweight champion boxer, 1908-1915, standing at the ropes in a boxing match with an unidentified opponent

Short Sunderland flying boat, WW2
Short Sunderland flying boat RBO, seen here being towed up a jetty. Date: circa 1940s

The Gymnasium - Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon
circa 1910s

Children playing in Milton Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Children playing in Milton Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland -- some are swinging on ropes round a lamppost, while others are riding in a go-cart. Date: 1969

British soldiers rescuing horse from ditch, Flanders, WW1
British soldiers trying to rescue a horse which has fallen into a ditch, blown by the force from a bursting shell, on the road to Reutel, Flanders, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

In the Old Belfry -- bellringers in action. 1893

Radio Station Tower at Tuckerton, NJ
Radio Station Tower at Tuckerton, New Jersey - 850 feet high Date: circa 1920s

Oil Tankers of the Manchester Oil Refinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Girls playing in Milton Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Two little girls playing in Milton Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, swinging on ropes round a lamppost. Date: 1969

Fish Pier, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts, New England, United States of America, North America

Ws Gilbert / Sambourne
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT English playwright and collaborator with Sullivan, satirised for his love of the sea and sailing

Dunure Fishing Ropes
Fishing ropes drying in a corner of the little harbour at Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, with its castle in the background. Date: 1950s

Two Persian women rocking a goatskin to churn milk. Date: circa 1900s

Jack Dempsey just before defeating Jess Willard in a boxing match

Retablissement du culte catholique, 1802, (1921). Creator: Thomas-Charles Naudet
Retablissement du culte catholique, 1802, (1921). The restoration of Catholic worship - First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge

LCC-LFB Vehicle and equipment workshops complex
The Headquarters complex at Lambeth SE1 had extensive vehicle and equipment workshops. Maintenance, repair and restoration work could be undertaken by highly skilled mechanics and craftsmen

Crippled but unconquered: The Belleisle at the Battle of Trafalgar
IL241955 Crippled but unconquered: The Belleisle at the Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805, from British Battles on Land and Sea edited by Sir Evelyn Wood (1838-1919)

Boldness of Alpine Drums (Colour Litho)
2778273 Boldness of Alpine Drums (Colour Litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Boldness of Alpine Drums)

Young people from fascist Italy (colour litho)
2783833 Young people from fascist Italy (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Young people from fascist Italy)

Introducing Georges Carpentier, 1921. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
Introducing Georges Carpentier, 1921

Follow your dream
Natalia Simongulashvili ( NATALIORION )

Firefighters receiving knots instruction

The Astrolabe in Pack-Ice, 9th February, 1838 (lithograph)
XJF1072636 The Astrolabe in Pack-Ice, 9th February, 1838 (lithograph) by Mayer, Auguste Etienne Francois (1805-90); Private Collection; French, out of copyright

Culty Sarks arrival as it moors alongside HMS Worcester on the River Thames off Greenhithe, Kent. 20 June 1938

Blessing the Bells of St. Pauls Cathedral, 1878
Engraving showing the ceremony held to bless the newly installed bells of St. Pauls Cathedral, London, in 1878. The image shows a group of clergy, kneeling in prayer, and the ringers

Damiatenbrug, Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
Damiatenbrug (Damiate Bridge), Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands. Date: circa 1910s

Snow scene outside a house on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Woman sliding down a zip-line, Storms River, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Africa

View out to sea from stone slipway at dawn, with lobster pots and ropes in foreground, Plokton, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

An ice climber scales a giant icicle in the valley of Crevoux, near Gap and Briancon, Ecrins Massif, western Alps, France

Domestic Cattle, Aberdeen Angus heifer, halter training by being tied to gate, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, november

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: preparing for the final attempt to grapple the lost cable, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: preparing for the final attempt to grapple the lost cable - from a sketch by our special artist, 1865

"The Building of the New Castle on the Tyne, 1080", from a picture by W. B. Scott, 1865. Engraving of a painting

Roundup
Joseph Opal

A men's gymnastic class
5312033 A men's gymnastic class; (add.info.: Woodcut engraving depicting a men's gymnastic class. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Methods of crossing rivers in the Andes
3740687 Methods of crossing rivers in the Andes; (add.info.: Engraving depicting methods used to cross the rivers in the Andes, Argentina. Dated 18th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

An early gymnastic class
3733836 An early gymnastic class.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting an early gymnastic class for boys. Equipment included: parallel bars, climbing poles and ropes)

Paris firemen on the rooftops trying to capture a balloon with its ropes entangled round chimney pots
545215 Paris firemen on the rooftops trying to capture a balloon with its ropes entangled round chimney pots and to rescue the aviator in the basket

Climbing Mt. McKinley, c.1900-23
1128869 Climbing Mt. McKinley, c.1900-23; Private Collection; (add.info.: Carpenter Collection)

Engraving after a Bas-relief depicting an Assyrian King superintending the removal of a colossal statue of a bull
5309093 Engraving after a Bas-relief depicting an Assyrian King superintending the removal of a colossal statue of a bull from the quarries to be set up in its final position; (add.info)

The support for ropes across field used to drag plough in ploughing with stationary steam engine
3732423 The support for ropes across field used to drag plough in ploughing with stationary steam engine; (add.info.: Engraving depicting the support for ropes across field used to drag plough in)

Young boy in a workshop helping a worker to make Rope Tobacco, 1841
3478708 Young boy in a workshop helping a worker to make Rope Tobacco, 1841; (add.info.: Young boy in a workshop helping a worker to make Rope Tobacco, 1841.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Gulliver held prisoner and tied hand, foot and hair by the people from Lilliput during his voyage there
2968367 Gulliver held prisoner and tied hand, foot and hair by the people from Lilliput during his voyage there. From Gullivers Travels by Dean Swift

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: taming a wild elephant, 1864. Engraving of a photograph...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Mode of capturing wild elephants in Ceylon: an elephant noosed, 1864. Engraving of a photograph...of the great elephant-catching expedition to a place called Ebbewellepittia...so as to afford

Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Embarking cattle at the port of Tamatave, Madagascar, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Lieutenant S. P. Oliver showing...the mode of putting cattle on shipboard in a port of Madagascar

Sortie de route 7
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA. David Senechal Photographie (polydactyle)

The place
Joaquin Guerola

Cadets "Tarzan"act. You d think these boys were sons of Tarzan
Cadets " Tarzan" act. You d think these boys were sons of Tarzan, the way they swarm up the netting to the tree tops. They are members of the 61st (Middlesex) a Cadets

Watermark painter Mr Arthur Hainis in one of Cardiffs dry docks painting marks on the Norwegian tanker Erling Borthen which is undergoing repairs. 1st March 1954

Members of the Newcastle East Federation of Townswomens Guilds turn back the pages of Northumbrian history on 21st March 1973, by turning up in period costume for the meeting of the 12 guilds

Samson and Delilah seated on a bed, Samson tearing apart the ropes binding his hands as soldiers look on from behind a curtain; from the series of 112 prints of the sacred history

Crossing Northumberland Strait by Ice Boat. These boats were operated in the Northumberland Strait during the 19th century and early 20th century

Hanging Montgolfier hot air balloon
Air Travel, Ballooning, Basket, Colour Image, Flying, Front View, Hanging, Hot Air Balloon, Illustration, Inventions, Montgolfier, Ropes, Single Object, Transport, Two People, Unknown Age

Gulliver captures the Blefuscudians ships, lantern slide, late 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Gulliver captures the Blefuscudians ships, lantern slide, late 19th century. They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other

Indian Native Doctors at Hampton Court Palace, June 1902. Date: 1902

Sikh Soldiers - 15th Regiment - at Hampton Court Palace Date: 1902

John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. Creator: Unknown
John Nevil Maskelyne performs a spirit cabinet illusion, c1910. How the tricks are performed - " A coach-horn or megaphone is useful for picking things up

Ropes on a historic windjammer in the port of Zingst, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Baltic Sea, Northern Germany, Germany

Detail of the ropes on the windjammer in the Bodden harbour of Zingst, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Baltic Sea, North Germany, Germany

Lifebuoy and ropes on the sailing ship Fridtjof Nansen (1919) in the port of Wismar, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Baltic Sea, Northern Germany, Germany

Stepped atrium JLP01_11_53205_19
VAUXHALL CROSS, ALBERT EMBANKMENT, VAUXHALL, LAMBETH, GREATER LONDON. A team of window fitters working on the installation of a stepped atrium on the northern side of Vauxhall Cross

Water Melon Seller, Cairo
A water melon seller with his laden donkey in a narrow Cairo street; baskets are lowered on ropes to collect slices of melon Date: 1912

Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs
Australian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903

Final Round
Devid Camerlynck

Ice Cliff Climbing-2
Ryu Shin Woo

Towards the top
Filipe P Neto

The Queen's Visit to Cherbourg - Piping Hands to Man Yards, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Queen's Visit to Cherbourg - Piping Hands to Man Yards, 1858. One of the most exciting and agreeable sights that takes place on a vessel of war...When the boatswain pipes to man yards

Accident at the Entry Lock of the East India Docks, Blackwall, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Accident at the Entry Lock of the East India Docks, Blackwall, [London], 1858. The vessels were the brig Ocean, of Shoreham, bound to Swansea, with a cargo of copper ore, and the collier brig Lustre

The Wreck of the Strathmore: taking the Survivors from the Island...1876. Creators: W. J. P. W. H. O
The Wreck of the Strathmore: taking the Survivors from the Island, from a sketch supplied by Mr. Spencer Joslen, 1876....the emigrant-ship Strathmore [was wrecked], in July last

The members of the fire companies drawing the Prince of Wales through Carleton... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The members of the fire companies drawing the Prince of Wales through Carleton, a suburb of St. John, New Brunswick, 1860. The future King Edward VII visits North America

Shipwreck, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Pierre-Jacques Volaire
Shipwreck, mid-late 18th century. Dramatic scene: survivors cling to rocks being battered by huge waves

Futamigaura, the Wedded Rocks, 1896. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
Futamigaura, the Wedded Rocks, 1896. Series: Sketches of Famous Places in Japan

Launch of the "Paramatta" Steam-ship at Blackwall on Monday week, 1858. Creator: Smyth
Launch of the "Paramatta" Steam-ship at Blackwall on Monday week, 1858. Paddle steam-ship, built by the Thames Iron and Shipbuilding Company

Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in India - Slinging Letter-bags across a Nullah in the Rainy Season, 1858....the contrivance in use...when the streams

Visit of the Boys of the Clyde training-ship Cumberland to H.M.S. Aurora, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Boys of the Clyde training-ship Cumberland to H.M.S. Aurora, 1876. Engraving from a sketch by Captain Grier. The little fellows seemed delighted at witnessing the manoeuvres of

Yacht Althea, deck, between 1907 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Yacht Althea, deck, between 1907 and 1915

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"Ropes: A Symbol of Strength, Resilience, and Unity" D-Day - British and Canadian troops landing - Juno Beach: Amidst the chaos of war, ropes served as lifelines for soldiers storming the beaches, ensuring their safe passage to victory. A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn: With nimble hands and sturdy ropes, gardeners effortlessly remove stubborn weeds from lush lawns, preserving the beauty of nature's tapestry. RNLI lifeboat Arab II at Harlyn Bay, St Merryn, Cornwall. Around 1908: Ropes tethered to lifeboats become beacons of hope in treacherous waters; brave souls risk their lives to save others amidst crashing waves. Illustration Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson: In whimsical illustrations by Robinson, ropes take on a playful role as they connect unlikely contraptions with hilarious results – showcasing the ingenuity of human imagination. Jack Johnson in a boxing match: As fists fly and sweat pours down his brow, Johnson skillfully maneuvers around the ring using rope-a-dope tactics – proving that strategy can triumph over sheer force alone. Short Sunderland flying boat WW2: Suspended mid-air by strong cables and ropes attached to its wingspan, this majestic aircraft soars through turbulent skies with grace and precision during World War II missions. George Morris on 8 bells in 1863: With rhythmic precision and practiced expertise, Morris pulls on multiple ropes simultaneously – orchestrating harmonious melodies that resonate through church towers across generations. Farmer and team of working horses plough a field: Harnessing the power of teamwork between man and beast is exemplified as farmers expertly guide their loyal horses using reins made from durable strands of rope – cultivating bountiful harvests year after year. The Gymnasium - Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon.