Concrete Collection

Churchill AVRE Tank in France; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank moving up to the front, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE tank was equipped with a Petard mortar

Sports arena interior, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Interior of the Hershey sports arena, home of the Hershey Hockey Club (Hershey Bears), Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1937

Two bridges over the River Tamar, Devon and Cornwall
Two bridges over the River Tamar, connecting Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. On the left is the Royal Albert Bridge, a railway bridge designed by Brunel and completed in 1859

Pampulha Church, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Church of St Francis of Assisi at Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer in the organic modern style

Children doing handstands on a Balham street, SW London
Two children, a boy and a girl, doing handstands against a concrete wall on a Balham street, SW London. A smaller child watches them, backed into a corner. Date: circa 1961

Weirs Bridge, Enniskillen - a view of a steel and concrete bridge. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh; Enniskillen). Date: circa early 1900s

Children doing handstands on a Balham street, SW London
Two children, a boy and a girl, doing handstands against a concrete wall on a Balham street, SW London. A smaller child watches them, backed into a corner. Date: circa 1961

Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, were modelled on the Karl Marx Hof flats in Vienna, Austria. The steel frame and concrete clad buildings were demolished 1978 Date: built late 1930s

Concrete Transporter
A builder climbing into a ready-mix concrete transporter lorry

Blankenberge, Belgium - The Belgium Pier. Built in 1933 after an Art Deco design by architect Jules Soete. The concrete structure stretches 350m out into the North Sea. Date: circa 1930s

Tree of the Janissaries - Park by St Irene, Istanbul, Turkey
Tree of the Janissaries - in the park by Saint Irene (Hagia Irene or Hagia Eirene), is a Greek Eastern Orthodox church, Istanbul, Turkey. Located in the outer courtyard of Topkapi Palace. Date: 1930s

The Spit Bridge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Spit Bridge - a steel and concrete girder bridge with a bascule lift span across the Middle Harbour, northeast of the central business district in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

New Bridge over River Blackwater, Youghal, County Cork
New Bridge over the River Blackwater, Youghal, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Men at work with paving stones and bricks near docks, UK
Men at work in a storage area, surrounded by piles of paving stones and bricks near docks, somewhere in the UK. Date: circa 1910s

French Water Towers - Built in Reinforced Concrete
Three examples of French Water Towers in the modern style built in Reinforced Concrete by Demay Freres - Advertising card. The Architect for all three was Monsieur Maigrot of Paris. Date: circa 1910s

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

Plymouth Concrete Works, Victorian period

Modernist Seaside House, Frinton-On-Sea
A photograph of a modernist seaside house located at Frinton-On-Sea, the reinforced concrete structure was designed by architect Gilbert C. Roberts. Date: circa 1937

Concrete Modernist House
A photograph of a concrete modernist seaside house designed around 1935, by architect Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke. Date: circa 1937

Modernist Bungalow, Frinton-On-Sea
A photograph of a concrete seaside modernist bungalow situated at Frinton-On-Sea. Date: circa 1937

Residential Flats Architectural Competition Winner
A winning architectural design for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. This perspective shows a five storey reinforced concrete residential flat

Modernist House, Sydenham Hill
A pair of photographs showing different angles of a modernist house at Sydenham Hill, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton

Modernist House, Redhill, Surrey
A pair of photographs showing different elevations of a modernist house in Redhill, Surrey, designed in 1936 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks
A photograph of a modernist house located at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1936 by architect Rose Elisabeth Benjamin, built in reinforced concrete. Date: circa 1937

Modernist Bungalow, Whipsnade, Interior
A photograph of a hallway to a one storey modernist house in Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, designed in 1936 by architects Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin and Tecton. Built in pre-cast reinforced concrete

Modernist House, Farnham Common
A pair of photographs of a reinforced concrete modernist house at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Farnham Common, Interior
A photograph of an interior room belonging to a reinforced concrete modernist house at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton

Modernist Houses, Ruislip
These photographs show various angles of modernist semi-detached houses at Ruislip, west London, designed in 1935 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, High Street, Iver
A photograph of a modernist house situated in High Street, Iver, designed in 1936 by architect Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke, built in reinforced concrete. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Hampstead, Interior
A photograph of an interior top floor hallway to a modernist house at Hampstead, designed in 1936 by architect Edwin Maxwell Fry, built in reinforced concrete frame and panel walls

Modernist House, Chalfront, St. Giles. Interiors
Some photographs of some room interiors to a modernist house constructed in reinforced concrete, located at Chalfront, St

Modernist House, Hampstead
A photograph of a modernist house at Hampstead, designed in 1936 by architect Edwin Maxwell Fry, built in reinforced concrete frame and panel walls

Modernist Houses, Plumstead
A photograph which shows a row of four speculatively built modernist houses in monolithic reinforced concrete, located in Plumstead

Modernist House, Chalfront, St. Giles
A photograph of a modernist house constructed in reinforced concrete, located at Chalfront, St. Giles, designed in 1935 by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Ivan Chermayeff. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Wentworth
A photograph of a modernist house situated at Wentworth, Surrey, designed in 1937 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, Rugby, Warwickshire
A pair of photographs showing different angles of a modernist house in Rugby, Warwickshire, designed in 1934 by architect Serge Ivan Chermayeff

Modernist House, Bromley
A photograph of a modernist concrete house at Bromley, designed in 1935 by architects Godfrey Samuel and Valentine Harding. This angle shows the north-west face. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House In Church Street, Chelsea
A photograph of a modernist house situated in Church Street, Chelsea, designed in 1936, by architects Walter Adolph Georg Gropius and Edwin Maxwell Fry

Concrete German Gun Emplacement
An artwork showing a German gun enplacement stood in a rather desolate area. Date: circa 1918

Cunard ceramics, stoneware jar, MV Molliette
Cunard ceramics - rare stoneware jar relating to the MV Molliette, Britain's first concrete ship

Concrete bridge across the Clyde in Glasgow. The bridges built here was the second concrete bridge in the world, and first in the UK. The first image showing the extensive amount of scaffolding

New Buildings: a Yacht Club and a Car Park
Two examples of recent modern buildings. A clubhouse for the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch. And an underground car park at Hastings, capable of holding up to 1000 cars

Mulberry Harbour Remains Arromaches Normandy
The extraordinary idea of floating concrete harbours across the Channel is said to have been that of Winston Churchill. There were two of them but the one at Omaha Beach was destroyed by a storm

British soldiers on field telephones, WW1
British soldiers on field telephones in a concrete dugout, transmitting orders for battery ranges, Western Front, First World War. 1914-1918

Building workers laying concrete, City of London
Building workers laying concrete on a building site in the City of London. Date: circa 1950s

Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Roman Catholic Church - Amlwch, Angelsey, North Wales. It was built in the 1930s to a design by an Italian architect, Giuseppe Rinvolucri

The Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. Date: 1960s

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