2-691-514 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Raising the Drawbridge of the Castle', c1934. Illustration showing the drawbridge worked by means of a pivoted beam with a counterweight, and the portcullis which could be raised and lowered by winding the chain with a windlass. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume One, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]