Crane Collection

King Arthur asks the Lady of the Lake for the sword Excalibur, 1911. Artist: Walter Crane
King Arthur asks the Lady of the Lake for the sword Excalibur, 1911. Sir Baldwin and the stroke Dolorous. The sword Excalibur given by the Lady of the Lake promises to keep Arthur safe

Walter Cranes Garland
Walter Crane shows his political allegiance in this May Day design. The ribbon that holds the garland of flowers together bears the slogans of his creed

MAP: BRITISH EMPIRE, 1886. Map, 1886, of the British Empire by Walter Crane. The small insert shows, in red, the extent of the British territories in 1786

Spain, Barcelona. Sagrada Familia Cathedral, designed by Antoni Gaudi

The Workers May-Pole, design for a socialist poster
The Workers May-Pole, a design for a socialist poster, with a central allegorical figure, and banners and ribbons labelled with abstract ideas such as Leisure, Solidarity and Humanity. Date: 1894

The Tyne Bridge under construction, 27th February 1928 (b / w photo)
907790 The Tyne Bridge under construction, 27th February 1928 (b/w photo) by Geddie, James (1879-1944); Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums; eTyne & Wear Archives & Museums; British, out of copyright

Sunset view of River Clyde, Finnieston Crane, The Hydro and the Armadillo, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Red-crowned Crane - pair displaying, necks intertwined. In snow Hokkaido, Japan
WAT-8308 Red-crowned Crane - pair displaying, necks intertwined. In snow Hokkaido, Japan Grus japonensis M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Preston Docks, Lancashire
A wonderful photograph showing the Bardic Ferry unloading British Road Services trucks while docked at the quayside in Preston, Lancashire. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Vanitas Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass (oil on panel)
XIR136795 Vanitas Still Life with a Tulip, Skull and Hour-Glass (oil on panel) by Champaigne, Philippe de (1602-74); Musee de Tesse, Le Mans, France; French, out of copyright

The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain. The first theatre to be designed to incorporate a speaker system for sound

Three Japanese Geisha girls playing Go
Three Japanese Geisha girls in Kobe, Japan, playing the popular boardgame Go in their beautiful Kimonos

Gaudis Cathedral of La Sagrada Familia, still under construction, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

Polkanuggo Quarry, Stithians, Cornwall. 1903-1904
A general view of Polkanuggo Quarry with steam traction engine BETA No 483 and workers posing for the camera. The traction engine was made around June 1885 by John Fowler of Leeds

Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963

Sandhill cranes dancing on the Platte River near Kearney, Nebraska, USA

Prospect of Whitby CXP01_01_111
Prospect of Whitby, Wapping Wall, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, Greater London. The river elevation of the Prospect of Whitby pub seen from south-west on the riverbank at Wapping

River Clyde, shipbuilding industry in Glasgow, Scotland. May 1951

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Ireland, County Antrim, Belfast, Queens Island, Harland and Wolff cranes Samson and Goliath

Faerie Queene, c1900. Artist: Walter Crane
Faerie Queene, c1900. The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1553-1599), illustrated by Walter Crane (1845-1915). From Modern Pen Drawings: European and American, Edited by Charles Holme

HMS Thunderer at Dagenham, Essex
HMS Thunderer (launched 1911) was the third Orion-class battleship built for the Royal Navy and the last vessel to be constructed by Thames Ironworks

Aerial image of Centre Court and Number 1 Court, All-England Club (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club), Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

CRANE AND HORSEMAN. Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, attributed to William John Wilgus. Oil, c1835

Part of the tremendous stores of Stephen and Sons Ltd shipyard, Glasgow. This was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Govan in Glasgow, on the River Clyde. Circa, 1950s

RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Lines
Cruise liner RMS Queen Elizabeth, Cunard Lines. Date: circa 1960s

Devonshire Dock - Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria Date: circa 1910s

Building work on the widening of the Swanley Bridge in Kent. 1938

Road works at Swanley - widening the road. 1938

Cowens Sheldon & Co Ltd 15T breakdown crane No. 1
Built 1901. Changed to No.8 in 1910 and was stationed at Newton Abbot

Launch Of Prospero
The satellite Prospero X-3 is launched from the RaF test range in Woomera, South Australia, by a British Black Arrow carrier rocket, 28th October 1971

Felixstowe Beach from the pier with Container Port cranes in the distance, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

IRVING: SLEEPY HOLLOW. The headless horseman scares Ichabod Crane out of town. Wood engraving, American, 1876, for Washington Irvings The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1819

Glasgow City, 2010
Glasgow, Glasgow, LANARKSHIRE, SCOTLAND facing West. NCAP: RCAHMS Aerial Survey - 12/02/2010

West End, Glasgow, 1950
Kelvinside, Govan, LANARKSHIRE, SCOTLAND facing South East. NCAP: RAF: National Air Photograph Survey - 03/04/1950

Container port, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Footbridge at Saltford, c1900
Two steam cranes lifting the girders of a footbridge into place

Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis) pair in wetland, Oregon, USA
The sandhill crane is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to habitat like that at the Platte River

A nuclear submarine berthing at Devonport docks, Plymouth, Devon, 1980. The site has been established as a naval construction and refit yard since 1690

Red-crowned Crane - Courtship display - Kushiro Shitsugen National Park - Hokkaido - Japan - eastern Eurasia JPF40133
JPF-13530 Red-crowned Crane - Courtship display Kushiro Shitsugen National Park - Hokkaido - Japan - eastern Eurasia Grus japonensis Jean-Paul Ferrero Please note that prints are for personal display

Shipbuilding, Glasgow, Scotland, 6th March 1971. Face of Britain 1971 Feature

Burma (Myanmar) - Rangoon (Yangon) - Elephants
Elephant scenes from Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar (formerly Burma). The Elphants are being shipped onto a steamer and working/moving teak logs

Cranes on an apartment building site, Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Greater Sandhill Cranes - in winter, feeding in maize (corn) field. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
ROG-12021 Greater Sandhill Cranes - in winter, feeding in maize (corn) field. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA

Gaudi church architecture, La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalunya (Catalonia) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Common Crane - in flight over lake at sunrise. Nigula national park - Estonia
WAT-12543 Common Crane - in flight over lake at sunrise. Nigula national park - Estonia Grus grus M. Watson Please note that prints are personal display purposes only

Greater Sandhill Cranes - in flight, coming in to winter roost at sunset
ROG-12023 Greater Sandhill Cranes - in flight, coming in to winter roost at sunset. New Mexico, USA Grus canadensis Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Penny-Ice Man / Crane
The ice cream man sells penny licks to the children gathered around his cart

Lesser Sandhill Cranes - in flight - to roost at sunset - with Mount Diablo beyond. Central Valley, California
ROG-14187 Lesser Sandhill Cranes - in flight - to roost at sunset - with Mount Diablo beyond Central Valley, California, USA Grus canadensis Bob Gibbons Please note that prints are for personal

The Burj Dubai the worlds tallest building in Dubai
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Sandhill Crane, (Grus canadensis), Bosque del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA

Illustration of men working on construction site using cranes and cements mixers

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, 1922. Creator: Unknown
The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, 1922. The Eight Immortals are revered by Taoists and are a popular element of Chinese culture

0-6-4 crane tank locomotive, No 18, Steropes
Built 1901, withdrawn 1936

Ferguson TO20 tractors manufactured at Standard Motor Company, Coventry seen here being loaded on to waiting flatbed goods trucks for transportation to the docks. Circa 1950

Japanese crane (Grus japonensis) displaying, wings in heart shape, Hokkiado, Japan, February

Burrator Lake, Devon, August 1928
View of Burrator Reservoir, Devon, August 1928 showing the suspension bridge and dam. A small group of people are admiring the vista from the path

T & W Farmiloe Limited - Rochester Row, Westminster, London
The warehouses of T & W Farmiloe Limited - Rochester Row, Westminster, London. In 1914 the company were manufacturing of Lead, White Lead, Paint, Colour and Varnish, Glass

Eleven female cranes standing in dry reed bed, c. 1700-50 (ink and colours on paper)
BL12369 Eleven female cranes standing in dry reed bed, c.1700-50 (ink and colours on paper) by Korin, Ogata (1658-1716); British Museum, London

Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis) displaying in snow, Hokkiado, Japan, February

Arthur Draws the Sword from the Stone, 1911. Artist: Walter Crane
Arthur Draws the Sword form the Stone, 1911. The young Arthur pulls the sword from the stone to become King of England. Frontispiece of Stories of the Knights of the Round Table by Henry Gilbert

Blitz in London -- warehouses, Surrey Docks, WW2
Warehouses in a smoky atmosphere following heavy bombing raids on the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, SE London. This raid took place on 7 September 1940

Davison Newman & co, Creechurch Lane, London c.1920 (b/w photo)
XJF323043 Davison Newman & co, Creechurch Lane, London c.1920 (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

DEATH OF LINCOLN, 1865. Death bed of Lincoln. Lithograph, 1865

STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900). American writer

London Life - The Busy Docks of the Port of London Date: circa 1940

St Giles Cripplegate FF003274
The Church of St Giles and the Barbican Estate, City of London, 1962-'4. John Gay (1909-'99), cellulose acetate negative

Newport Docks
Discharging raw sugar at Alexandra Docks

0-6-4 crane tank locomotive, No 17, Cyclops
Built 1901, withdrawn 1936

Crossing a canal JLP01_08_084424
STAFFORDSHIRE. A sheet pile cofferdam being constructed across a canal on the route of the Barlaston pipeline, as a narrow boat passes by

Cranes building cranes JLP01_08_093073
Graythorp, Hartlepool. Two cranes on the quayside at Graythorp, lifting the foundation tub of a 509 Revolver crane. In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication

Dockers busy unloading cargo at Cardiff Docks, a port in southern Cardiff, Wales. 18th April 1939

Avio Airplane Ride, Tibidabo amusement park, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Black crowned-crane (Balearica pavonina) foraging in wetland area, Masai Mara, Kenya

Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), Australia

A GARLAND FOR MAY DAY, 1913. A Garland for May day [The Many Arguments for Socialism]. Drawing by Walter Crane, 1913

Advertisement for Crane petite boilers -- male model (Tony Gale) extending his hand. 1959

Four crew members enjoying a break, 1950
Four crew members of an engineers train enjoy a break near Glenfinnan on the West Highland extension line between Fort William and Mallaig, 13 August 1950

UK, England, London, Royal Victoria Dock, disused dock cranes

Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V Japanese

Newport Docks, 1950
S.S Lanarkshire loading material for Australia

Japanese (Red crowned) Cranes Grus japonensis pair calling Akan Hokkaido Japan winter

Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, south east London
The Great Crane at the Arsenal, Woolwich, south east London, used to lift sections of large guns

No 19 (C / D) Shops, c1930
No 19 C and D shops covered both carriage lifting and bogie repairs. 3 men can be seen in this image lift a frame onto a set of wheels with the help of an overhead crane

Great Crane at Woolwich Arsenal, in south east London, London, laying in marsh land between Greenwich and Gravesend. The majority of heavy guns for the Navy

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"Captivating Cranes: From Barcelona to Belfast" Majestic and towering, cranes grace the skyline of Spain's vibrant city, Barcelona, where the iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral stands as a testament to Antoni Gaudi's genius. Walter Crane's intricate map of the British Empire in 1886 takes us on a journey through time, showcasing the vastness and influence of this once mighty realm. In an artistic nod to social change, Crane's design for "The Workers May-Pole" poster captures the spirit of socialism with its powerful imagery. As sunset paints a breathtaking canvas over Glasgow's River Clyde, it illuminates not only Finnieston Crane but also The Hydro and Armadillo - symbols of architectural grandeur. A bird's-eye view reveals Centre Court and Number 1 Court at All-England Club; these hallowed grounds have witnessed countless tennis legends etching their names into history. Inspired by nature's beauty, Walter Crane weaves his garland masterpiece with delicate strokes that celebrate life and its ephemeral wonders. Vanitas Still Life by an unknown artist reminds us of life's fleeting nature as it juxtaposes a tulip in bloom with reminders of mortality - a skull and hourglass. Amidst Hokkaido's snowy landscape in Japan, red-crowned cranes enchant observers with their elegant dance; necks intertwined like eternal lovers against the wintry backdrop. Preston Docks in Lancashire stand as silent witnesses to centuries-old maritime trade routes that shaped local communities' livelihoods while connecting distant lands. Polkanuggo Quarry in Stithians transports us back to early 20th-century Cornwall when stone extraction fueled industrial growth while leaving behind awe-inspiring landscapes carved by man-made forces.