Bricks Collection (page 5)

Blitz in London -- Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, WW2
Blitz in London -- damage to a wall caused by a land mine falling on Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, London, on 15 October 1940. Date: 1940

Blitz in London -- public shelter, Fieldgate Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- men clearing up after a direct hit on a public shelter in Fieldgate Street, East London, on 5 September 1940. Date: 1940

Winston Churchill at bomb site, Tufton Street, WW2
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, inspecting damage caused by a flying bomb at Tufton Street, Westminster, 1 July 1944. On the back of the photograph are the words: Not passed by censor. Date: 1944

Laying the foundation stone, Baden Powell House, London
Scene during the laying of the foundation stone for the new Baden Powell House in Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The site was acquired in 1956, and Ralph Tubbs was appointed architect

Street scene, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

Bonzo Quite Agrees! by George Studdy
Bonzo Quite Agrees! He falls into a hole in the road, which confirms that the maintenance work is necessary. Date: 1923

British soldiers keeping warm, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers keeping warm round an oven on the Western Front during World War One. Tins of food are being heated up ready for their meal. Date: circa 1916

Ruined brickwork in Le Barque, Western Front, WW1
A close-up of ruined brickwork in Le Barque, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1917

British soldiers breaking down German strong point, WW1
British soldiers breaking down a German strong point on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

My Skyscraper by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy plays with his building bricks. Date: 1944

Ground defence against enemy air attacks, WW1
Examples of ground defence against enemy air attacks during the First World War. Showing bomb-dropping by hand from an aeroplane, an aeroplane being transported on a military motor

British soldiers at work, Western Front, France, WW1
British soldiers at work on the Western Front in France during World War One. They are army navvies, recycling bricks from a ruined building to construct roads. Date: circa 1917

Man at work on a country road
A man at work on a country road, with a section of piping resting on raised bricks

China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Village Community
China - Mule-powered Rotary grain mill - Rural village Community Date: circa 1910s

Belfort, France - The Miotte Tower
Belfort, France - The Medieval Miotte Tower (La Tour de la Miotte) - photographed in 1870/1871 (subsequently restored) Date: circa 1871

Belgrade, Serbia - Damage to houses on Knez Mihailova Street
WW1 - Belgrade, Serbia - Damage from shells fired by Austrian Monitor Boats on the Danube and Sava River - July/August 1914 to houses on Knez Mihailova Street or Prince Mihailo Street

Making Mud Bricks, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Bermuda - Post Office and Sessions House
Bermuda, a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean - the Post Office and Sessions House. Date: circa 1908

Shwemedaw Pagoda - Pegu - Shwemedaw Pagoda - In the course of foundation reinforcement and rebuilding, relics have been found dating back to 10th Century

The Bricklayer
People You See: The Bricklayer. From Teddy Bear (2 May 1964)

Building a new NFS fire station, Rudolph Road, Bushey, WW2
With the longer lulls in enemy bombing following the Blitz on London, fire service personnel were put to more productive work in addition to their normal training and drills

NFS sub-station with external baking oven in yard, WW2
NFS cooks using a brick-built baking oven in the yard of a sub-station

Brickyard, 1871

Pavilion Perusson, exhibit of bricks, enamels, terre-cotta and ceramics, for M. Perusson and Desfontaines, architect T. Ferret, located near the base of Eiffel Tower, Paris Exposition, 1889. Date 1889

Saving a baby from flooded building, South Wales
A baby is handed to safety after houses were swept away when heavy rains hit the Aberdare area of South Wales. circa 1911

Rain causes house to collapse, Cwmbula, Wales
Rain caused the side of a house to collapse at Cwmbula near Swansea, Wales. People in bed found themselves hanging out over a 25 foot drop and had to be helped down with ladders

Ox Cart - Lake Como, Italy
A substantial ox cart on the banks of Lake Como, Italy. The wagon is transporting rocks Date: circa 1910s

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Rabat, Morocco - Oudayas Point Date: circa 1910s

Collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice
The dramatic results of the collapse of the Campanile in St Marks Square, Venice, Italy on 14th July 1902 Date: 1902

Illustration, Wishes, showing a little girl and a little boy imagining what it would be like to grow whiskers and have curly hair. 1885

Tope of Maunikyaula, Afghanistan
Tope of Maunikyaula. A tope is the Hindi word for a stupa or a structure where Buddhist relics are kept. 1815

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

British artillerymen outside a dugout, Western Front, WW1
British artillerymen outside a dugout, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. They are surrounded by debris from damaged buildings. Date: 1914-1918

London Blitz 1941
A mother smiles with her children amid the ruins of a typical working class home, following a bombing raid overnight and in the early morning on 20th March 1941. Date: March 1941

Kilns from 18th Century
Examples of 18th century kilns for bricks, tiles and plaster. Date: Circa 1760

The Lane at Aldenham House, Hertfordshire
Part of the gardens known as The Lane, at Aldenham House, near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. A wrought iron gate opens onto a pathway between tall hedges

Railway bridge construction, Great Western Railway
A railway bridge under construction somewhere on the Great Western Railway network, possibly at Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire

Edwardian workman on his front doorstep, Pembrokeshire
A middle-aged Edwardian workman, standing on the front doorstep of his newly built house, somewhere in Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Traction engine, Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, South Wales
A large traction engine with a smoking funnel transports a load of stone from the station, along Victoria Place, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Smiling toddler leaning against a table
A smiling toddler leaning against a hexagonal table with various items on it -- a tin, a bowl, two building bricks and an ashtray. A furry rug is on the floor

Building a Castle by Susan Beatrice Pearse
Two children sit contentedly and construct a castle from building blocks

Vagrants sleeping rough in London
A group of vagrants sleeping rough under an archway in front of some large gates, somewhere in London

Brickmaking in Kashgar, western China
People making bricks in Kashgar, western China

The Red Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus), Berlin, Germany
View of the Red Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus) in Berlin, Germany, with the Neptune fountain in the foreground. It was built between 1861 and 1869 in north Italian high renaissance style

Housebreaking Gommecourt 1917
Soldiers demolishing a house recycling bricks in the ruins of Gommecourt on the British Front in France during World War I in March 1917

Brickworks by the harbour at Baku, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan - Transporting bricks
An Azerbaijani builders merchant with his horse-drawn wagon filled with red bricks

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