Improvements Collection (#2)

Work at the Embankment, London 1868
Workmen improving the public stretch of road alone the River Thames, 70 to 100 feet in width and stretching from Westminster to Blackfriars more than a mile and a-half in length

Building a Cofferdam, Thames Embankment Improvements 1866
Cutting of piles which formed a cofferdam, during the Thames Embankment improvements of 1866. Date: 1866

Sale of Hyde Park Turnpike
Hyde Park corner, between Piccadilly and Knightbridge, considerably narrowed the entrance into Piccadilly at the western end; and its removal was a great improvement

Construction Thames Embankment near Arunel Street 1866
Metropolitan improvements of Thames Embankment which extends from Waterloo Bridge to the east side of the Temple Gardens, a length of 1970 ft

Progress on Thames Embankment 1866
Progress on Thames Embankment, near Arundel Street, London. Date: 1866

Paviors at work, England 1867
While his mate uses a small pick to fit the paving stones in place, this pavior rams them tight with a massive paving hammer. Date: 1867

REGENTS PARK 1863
A group of fashionable people enjoy the garden improvements in the park Date: 1863

Cartoons, Improving landscapes
Cartoons, Improving Landscapes, with the addition of smoky chimney-stacks, gas towers, soap factories and drainage pipes. Date: 1880

Progress on Thames Embankment 1865
View from Westminster Bridge, of the progress on Thames Embankment. Date: 1865

Food adulteration, 1845
London improvements : adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845

Lunatic Asylum humour - Upside down wheelbarrow
Visitor to Dottieville Lunatic Asylum which is undergoing structural improvements (to harmless lunatic who is extremely busy wheeling a barrow upside down)

Manor or country house garden, with workers. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Frontispiece. Date: 1739

Granpop does a bit of plumbing by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood depicting his orang utan character, Gran pop embarking on a bit of plumbing by trying to fashion a shower (perhaps)

Proposed extensions of transport links into London 1919
Diagram showing a map of London and the movement of commuters by different travel means from Greater to Central London, and the proposed extensions of transport links

William Cowper-Temple 3
WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER, later COWPER-TEMPLE, later Baron MOUNT-TEMPLE : statesman, who carried out many useful reforms and improvements. Date: 1811 - 1888

William Cowper-Temple 2
WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER, later COWPER-TEMPLE, later Baron MOUNT-TEMPLE : statesman, who carried out many useful reforms and improvements. Date: 1811 - 1888

Improvements to the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, London. At this site had been a duck pond into which the Ranelagh sewer periodically discharged its contents

Paris, France - Palais de l Elysee. Date: 1856

Hanover Terrace
One of the Metropolitan Improvements in Regents Park Date: 1827

Finsbury Square
The Temple of the Muses, the publishing house which, inter alia, publishes Shepherds Metropolitan Improvements from which this print is taken. Date: 1828

Richard Roberts, Engineer
RICHARD ROBERTS mechanician and engineer, made improvements to textile machinery. Date: 1789 - 1864

Green-house. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Plate III. Date: 1739

Regents Park, London, 1863
Engraving showing a number of Victorian Londoners strolling in the gardens of Regents Park, London, in 1863. This image was published in the Illustrated London News to illustrate the improvements

Washington, D. C. with projected improvements
Washington, D.C. with projected improvements. Print showing bird s-eye view of Washington, D.C. with proposed Washington Monument. Date c1852

Titanic - Need for Searchlights on Ocean Racers
Page from The Sphere demonstrating how searchlights on fast ocean passenger liners might have avoided the Titanic disaster. Date: 1912

The Bressey Traffic Report, 1938: future predictions
Traffic improvements in London in the style of some already carried out in American cities: 1. A parking deck in Trafalgar Square. 2. A depressed road crossing at Hyde Park. 3

John Baron Blaquiere
JOHN baron de BLAQUIERE statesman who spent most of his career in Ireland : he carried out many improvements in the city of Dublin. Date: 1732 - 1812

Granpop decorates his tree house by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang-utan character created by Lawson Wood, happily painting patterns on his new roof tree

Cannon Street, London, 1852
Engraving showing Cannon Street, London, during the 1852 improvements to the thoroughfare

New Coventry Street, London, 1845
Engraving showing New Coventry Street, London, in 1845 after a number of improvements had taken place in the area

Enlarging a Room / Leech
Enlarging a room - a tableau representing further improvements in Mr Briggs house - destruction of the wall which separates the parlour from the passage

Prince of Wales opening the new wards of Charing Cross Hospi
Established in 1831, this picture shows the opening ceremony after improvements made to the hospital in 1877. The alterations cost approximately 13, 000 and took just over a year to complete"

Staites patent electric light apparatus
Engraving of Edward Staites patent electric light apparatus, exhibited at the Hanover Square Rooms, London in 1848. The light used a weight-driven mechanism

Grammes dynamo-electrical machine
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869

Buckingham Palace 1843
The Palace, with Nashs improvements completed, seen from St Jamess Park, with the Marble Arch which stood before it from 1827 to 1851

Buckingham Palace 1839
The Palace, with Nashs improvements completed, seen from St Jamess Park, with the Marble Arch which stood before it from 1827 to 1851

Buckingham House 1830S
The Garden Front of the Kings Palace, at Pimlico after Nash had effected his improvements

Cow of an Art Critic
A discerning cow, unimpressed with an artists amateurish dawbs, makes some improvements with her tongue. The artist, who has been walking with his lady friend rushes back

Bewick - Tees Sheep
This is the old or unimproved Tees-water sheep, before the improvements begun by Mr Bakewell

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