Blocks Collection

Advert for Shelley Vogue China 1931
Shelleys Vogue shape coffee set, usual in yellow and black overlapping block pattern. Advertisement for new catalogue with Shelley china tea, coffee, morning and dinner sets. Date: 1931

Southwark Military Hospital, Dulwich, South London
Ward blocks at Southwark Military Hospital which, during the First World War, was established in the St Saviours workhouse infirmary

Union Workhouse, Brighton, Sussex
Brighton Union workhouse on Race Hill, at Elm Grove in Brighton, Sussex, which opened in 1867. From 1915 to 1920 it was the Kitchener Indian Hospital and later became Brighton General Hospital

Hatter Circa 1850
A London hatmaker blocks a gentlemans top hat : the body of the hat is made from rabbit fur, covered with beaver fur, and shaped according to the fashion of the day

Council Flats, Sheffield
Boys play on a climbing frame outside blocks of council flats on the Parkhill Estate, Sheffield

La Hacienda, Hong Kong, China
La Hacienda, luxury apartments in Mount Kellett Road, Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1949

MODERN OFFICE BLOCKS
Modern office blocks, built in the London Wall area of the City of London, after the World War Two Blitz. Date: 1960s

British SE5A biplane on airfield, WW1
A British SE5A biplane, one of the main aeroplanes in use by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Seen here on an airfield, with crew. 1914-1918

Bedford, Street Scene
A road in the outskirts of Bedford showing modern blocks of flats. Date: 1964

New Tower Blocks Go Up
A striking impression of modern flats being constructed on a slum clearance site, the Woodside Development Plan, in Sheffield

Entrance at Troy (Ruins)
An entranceway through the Cyclopean walls of Gergis, Bournabashi at Troad (Troy/Hissarlik), the site of Ancient Troy excavated by Heinrich Schliemann

The Day After Christmas by Mark Symons
Cosy front room festooned with decorations and filled with Christmas toys. Date: 1931

Print Users Yearbook -- blue budgerigars
Print Users Yearbook -- two blue budgerigars sitting on a perch. Date: circa 1930s

West Derby Union, Liverpool - Alder Hey Hospital
Ward blocks at Alder Hey Hospital. The hospital was opened in 1915 by the West Derby Union, Liverpool. Originally used for chronic and bed-ridden case, it later became a childrens hospital

Examples of art on the RMS Queen Mary. At the top left are four statuettes carved from limewood blocks by Norman J Forrest, representing The Four Seasons, for the main tourist class staircase

Royal Playthings
An advertisement by F.Ad. Richter of Fenchurch Street, London for real stone building blocks, as played with by the Royal children

United Europe (1950S)
The flags of European nations are the building blocks from which the new Europe will be rebuilt, following World War Two

Chemstrand - White Woollen dress - Model Pattie Boyd
Client: Chemstrand - White Woollen dress - Model Pattie Boyd - Shoot: November 17, 1965. Date: 1965

Old railway track at Winsford, Cheshire
Bullhead rail on stone sleepers at Over & Wharton (Winsford, Cheshire) on the LNWR. Possibly a re-use of redundant tramway blocks? Date: 1905

Aerial view of Kansas City, Missouri, USA Date: circa 1930s

Broadway, Downtown and the Entrance to the Harbour, New York
View from the top of the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, New York, USA - Broadway, Downtown and the Entrance to the Harbour. circa 1910s

Docklands development, London, England. A mass of cranes and jibs during construction work on tower block offices in the old docks Date: 1989

Keel blocks, Thames Iron Works, London

Our Youngsters First Steps, Wartime Picture Book
An illustrated page for a wartime Tuck book, Our Youngsters First Steps Picture Book. The image shows a little boy playing with some blocks and animals. Date: circa 1940s

No Other Gift
A wartime children's short story illustration of a little boy playing with blocks and a toy truck, alongside his father. Date: circa 1940s

Salvation Army Labour Colon Hadleigh Essex Dormitory
Salvation, Army, Labour, Colon, Hadleigh, Essex, Dormitory, blocks, at, the, , 13797875

W. G. Briggs & Co. Ltd Advertisement
A promotional page for W. G. Briggs & Co. Ltd, an advertising company, showing a cluster of portrait photographs of varying types

Circular House Design
An architectural illustration with plans, for a round house, with blocks jutting out of three directions, situated in a countryside park setting. Date: early 1900s

Architectural Axonometric Perspective, Flats
An architectural axonometric drawing of designs for some residential flats, a commended submission for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Designed by architect R

Modernist Exhibition House, Bristol
A photograph of a modernist exhibition house in Bristol, designed in 1936, by architects Marcel Lajos Breuer and Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke. The walls are made from cotwold stone blocks

Modernist Cottage Blocks, Dartington Hall, Devon
This photograph shows a view of a block of three modernist cottages situated at Totnes, Devon in the Dartington Hall Estate, at a section named The Warren, designed in 1935

Hanover Gate Mansions, Regent's Park
An architectural drawing which proposes the erection of three blocks, each containing ten flats, now named Hanover Gate Mansions, it is situated at Park Road, Regent's Park

Japan - Geta Clog Maker
Geta Clog Maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

L. Ponsford & Co Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for L. Ponsford & Co, makers of printers blocks in half-tone and line, showing a girl, picking the pocket of a distracted man who is reading in a work building

Qantas Empire Airways, De Havilland Express aircraft Date: 1938

French Arc-en-Ciel or Rainbow Airliner, built by Couzinet Date: 1938

Panoramic View of Lower Manhattan and Bay, New York City, USA. View from the top of the Woolworth Building. Date: circa 1910s

The monks of Saint-Bernard clear snow after an avalanche blocks the pass and prevents access to their monastery Date: 1897

New Dwellings for workmen in East London 1894
New brick-work blocks of housing to provide accommodation for working people of the East-End of London. Date: 1894

Ice-cutting near Montreal, Canada
A party engaged in cutting ice into slabs in the winter months in frozen lakes near Montreal, Canada. In the background is the great bridge conveying the trans-continental line of the Canadian

Skyscrapers - Kansas City, USA. Date: circa 1910s

The Comedy Whirligigs Flora and Alberta in Twists and Twirls, Grand Theatre, Leeds Date: early 20th century

Looking East from the Woolworth Building, showing Brooklyn and Manhattan - New York City, USA. Date: circa 1920

Comic postcard, hen and suspicious cockerel Date: 20th century

A little girl grins for her photograph, alongside some toy building blocks. Date: 1945-1955

Trades in Regency England. Tin mines, bullocks and pipe smoking. Miner on a ladder with a bucket of tin ore in a Redruth tin mine 10, beef cattle on a Devonshire moor 11

Phyllis Barron and her hand-block printing on stuffs
Phyllis Barron seen cutting her own hand blocks for printing fabrics. After leaving the Slade School, she began designing patterns for cretonne printers

Method of moving a house in America, by elevating it on blocks of wood, before moving it to its new location. Date: 1842

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