Barricades Collection

Belfast riots, August 1920
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News, reporting on rioting in Belfast that began on the night of the 23rd August, and continued for a week

Barricades 1588
THE WARS OF RELIGION The Ligue Catholique organises the Day of Barricades in Paris, with street fighting between the opposing parties

Barricade in the Rue St Martin 1848
Barricade in the Rue St Martin, Paris, France, 1848. One of the barricades constructed by the revolutionaries. 1848

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Legionnaires in the front of the Sierra chopping pines and filling sandbags to make barricades against the enemy aviation

Fighting at the Barricades; Paris Commune 1871
A bowed but resigned officer caught behind the lines, in effect Between two fires, during fighting between the French Army and the Paris Commune, 1871

MINISTER OF WAR
Charles Delescluze, minister of war : a veteran revolutionary, he will meet his death on the last of the barricades on 25 May. Date: March-May 1871

NEW ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS
After the death of archbishop Affre on the barricades, the new archbishop of Paris tours the city, endeavouring to bring peace. Date: July 1848

Barbed wire barricades in Belfast
Photograph of the Peace Wall - barbed wire barricades in Seaforde Street, Newtownards Road, Belfast. Date: 1920

Putting up flood barricades, Bermondsey, London
Putting up sandbags as flood barricades in Rotherhithe Street, Bermondsey, London. 1928

Concrete barricades at Findon, West Sussex during World War II Date: June 1940

Communards defending the Elysee Palace; Paris Commune 1871
Communards defending barricades near the Elysee Palace, during fighting with the Versailles Governments troops, Paris, 1871. Date: 1871

FRANCE / 1830 / BARRICADES
Parisian rebels defend barricades at the Rue St Honore, on the corner of Rue du Coq Date: 1830

LOUIS-NAPOLEONS COUP
Barricades at Faubourg St Martin, Paris, during Louis- Napoleons coup. Date: 3 December 1851

Riots in Paris, 1870
Citizens fleeing from the barricade they have erected out of overturned carriages as troops pour over the top during pre-Commune riots in Paris Date: May 1870

WW2 - Liberation of Paris - The Barricades
WW2 - Barricades, Liberation of Paris. " Man the barricades!" This cry which rang out on Monday, August 21st, 1944. Date: 1944

L illustration page, 1 - 8 July 1848
A page from the 1 - 8 July 1848 issue of the French journal L illustration, which reported at length on the recent uprising in Paris, the June Days

Paris St Maur barricade 1848
The barricades in Rue Saint-Maur, in the Popincourt quarter of Paris, on 25th June before the attack by the troops of General Lamorici貥 Date: 25 June 1848

Battles of the Lys 1918
A picquet of the 10th Queens (41st Division) behind a wire block on a road at St. Jean during the Battle of Lys on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918

The Edge of the American Sector, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Paris Barricades
Barricade in the boulevard Montmartre, Paris, erected in the course of the rioting

WWII - Barricade in the Cite District - Liberation of Paris
" Man the barricades!" This cry which rang out on Monday, August 21st, 1944. This absolutely terrific photograph shows the men manning a barricade in the Cite District manned by some suave

Barricades, Frankfurt
Storming the barricade in Dongesgasse, Frankfurt Date: September 1848

Michael O Leary, Irish Guards, in Great War Deeds, WW1
Lance-Corporal Michael O Leary of the Irish Guards, practically capturing the enemys position by himself and saving a British company by charging barricades

French soldiers remove barricade
French soldiers remove a barricade to allow the entry of French cavalry into a Belgian town. The barricades had been erected to impede and delay German Uhlan raiding parties. Date: August 1914

Paving a French Street
French paveurs at work, paving a street with stone blocks, useful for street demonstrations or building barricades. Date: circa 1845

Barricade - Rue Royale, Nantes - June, 1903
The Events of 14th June 1903 - Barricade at the junction of Rue Royale and Rue Ogee, Nantes, France. This was in response to fears of violence between clerical and anti-clerical groups. Date: 1903

WW2 - Paris Liberation - The Taking of the Military School Date: 1945

WW2 - Paris Liberation - The barricades Date: 1945

Spain. Revolution of 1854. General San Miguel visiting the people in the barricades of Madrid. Litography

Barricades in the Faubourg du Temple; Franco-Prussian War, 1
Illustration showing barricades in the Faubourg du Temple during 1870; civil unrest was destabilising Paris, even as the Prussian army was beginning its attack against France. Date: 1870

Street Barricades
The Communards erect barricades throughout Paris to hamper the assaults of government forces : they are scenes of bitter fighting. Date: April 1871

Polish Nationalists / 1921
Polish nationalists man the barricades in Upper Silesia during another coup under Korfanty Date: May 1921

German troops WWI
German troops near Antwerp during World War I

Battle of Bailleul 1918
Middlesex soldiers holding a street barricade in Bailleul just before the fall of the town on the Western Front in France during World War I in April 1918 (One of the Battles of the Lys)

Tank in barbed wire 1917
A tank crossing through barbed wire defences at Wailly in France during World War I in October 1917

Easter Rising / Barricade
O.P.S troops man barricades in the streets of Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916

Manning Barricades 3
A quiet moment at one of the barricades constructed by the insurgents in the streets of Paris

Manning Barricades 4
Storming a barricade : the government troops of general Lamoriciere charge the barricade at the Petit Pont, leading to La Cite

Riots in Brussels - 1
Barricades in the streets of Brussels as the Belgians seek independence from Holland

Riots in Brussels - 2
Barricades in the streets of Brussels as the Belgians seek independence from Holland

Manning Barricades 2
Insurgents man the barricades in the streets of Paris

Building Barricades
The insurgents build barricades in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Paris, just as they did in 1830 and in the earlier revolution

Riots in Brussels - 3
Manning the barricades in the streets of Brussels as the Belgians seek independence from Holland

Paris Barricade C17
The Parisians passion for building barricades dates from long before the Revolution : this barricade at the Porte Saint-Antoine is shown in a print of 1648

Manning Barricades 5
The government troops of general Lamoriciere charge the barricade in the rue Mazagran, at the Porte Saint- Denis, Paris

Street fighting in the Rue de Rivoli; Paris Commune, 1871
Illustration showing street fighting, in the Rue de Rivoli, between French Government troops and Paris Communards, 1871. Barricades can be seen at each end of the street

The First Shell to land in Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Illustration showing a street scene with men and women at the barricades, houses destroyed and glass broken in the window panes; Franco-Prussian War

The Barricades at Trone, Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1
Panoramic scene of Paris and the barricades at Trone, with soldiers patrolling and citizens going about their business. One French soldier can be seen showing off his war trophy

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