The Colossus of Rhodes Product:Greetings card Patients being taken on board

Patients being taken on board a hospital barge

The Mitre Tavern on the Paddington Canal

Two gentleman sitting on a busy Blackpool promenade in Lancashire

A street seller playing a trumpet-like instrument

The Colossus of Rhodes Product:Greetings card Patients being taken on boardThe Colossus of Rhodes, 18th century. The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a lighthouse in the form of a giant statue of the god Helios, marking the entrance to the harbour by holding a flaming torch in its hand. It was constructed in c292 280 BC. The statue broke off at the knees when a powerful earthquake struck Rhodes in 226 BC.