Bricks Collection (page 2)

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Little bit of Overtime
The concept of overtime, that is working beyond ones contracted hours, became formalised just before WW2. This little bricklayer has another interpretation of the phrase

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

The Building Squad of the N. F. S
The Building Squad of the N.F.S. (National Fire Service) - building a control room for the Fire Station. Many members of the N.F.S

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

Clarice Mayne, popular stage actress and considered one of the finest principle boys in the pantomime business, pictured laying the first brick of the Karsino

Gold bricks on display, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada
Gold bricks on display from the Klondike gold rush, Bank of British North America, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada. Date: late 1890s

Entrance to Loading Dock, Pilkington Ltd, North London
Entrance to Loading Dock, Pilkington Brothers Limited, Shepherdess Walk, North London, fitted with one Kinnear rolling metal shutter. Date: circa 1930s

Thames barge unloading bricks, Kingston-upon-Thames
Thames barge unloading bricks at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. 1938

Advert, Lotts Toy Building Bricks - Market Hall
Advert, Lotts Toy Building Bricks of artificial stone - Market Hall. 1918

At the Toy Shop - People You See. From Teddy Bear (23 December 1967). Original artwork loaned for scanning by the Illustration Art Gallery. Date: 1967

Porcelain manufacturers 1843
Workers carefully place seggars or saggars for firing in the biscuit kiln at the Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester. 1843

A firefighter in action on a wheeled ladder escape. Date: circa 1900s

Building bricks - Young children playing with building bricks. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1930

Christmas card in the shape of a lighthouse with a sailing ship depicted on it. Date: circa 1890s

SOCIAL / LONDON GOING OUT
A satire on the expansion of London: London going out of Town - or - The March of Bricks & Mortar Date: 1829

CHILDREN THROW BRICKS
Children in a deserted Liverpool street throw bricks and rubble Date: 1960s

Bottle oven repair, Potteries
A pipe-smoking workman at work high on scaffolding on a bottle oven at the Glastone Pottery, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. First published The Times Date: 1989

Tozeur, Tunisia - The Railway Station
Tozeur, south west Tunisia - The Railway Station Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Germany - Bombed-out young girl with her doll Date: circa 1945

Boys build mountain at school, Seaford, East Sussex
Boys build a pyramid-shaped mountain at their school in Seaford, East Sussex, in order to learn how to rock climb. Date: circa 1960s

Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA
A chef at work in the Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, specialising in lobsters, steaks, fish and chops broiled over the coals of the old forges. 1941

Man in a bath chair
An elderly man in a bath chair at his front door, with a young man about to take him for an outing

Wilmington Long Man
The Wilmington Long Man (or giant), cut in the chalk on the South Downs, between Lewes and Eastbourne. This figure is about 230 feet high and was reset in bricks in 1874. Date: 1950s

Workhouse dining hall, Oliver Twist film, 1948
A workhouse dining hall interior, from the 1948 film of Oliver Twist, directed by David Lean. The religious mottos reminded the inmates that due gratitude was in order for the care they were receiving

Making bricks Date: circa 1900s

Girl in church on a Christmas and New Year card
Little girl in church with a hymn book on a Christmas and New Year card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Ornate church door on a Christmas and New Year card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Tabby cats and kittens on a cutout greetings card, using a step ladder to climb a wall. Date: circa 1890s

Girl and boy on a cutout New Year card with alphabet bricks. Date: circa 1890s

Khami Ruins, Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Khami Ruins, a ruined city near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Date: circa 1920

Lady on 1950s scooter circa 1950s

Find the Fault card No. 24 -- fireplace. circa 1930s

St. Sebastian Gate or Ancient Porta Appia. Rome. Italy
Roman Art. Porta S. Sebastiano (St. Sebastians Gate) or Ancient Porta Appia. I was built within Aurelians wall (271-275 AD.). It houses the Wall Museum (Museum della Mura). Rome. Italy. Europe

Music Cover, Cat on Hot Bricks
Music cover, Cat on Hot Bricks, a Rollicking Rag for Piano by Ezra Read. 1922

Children drinking Ovaltine
Two young girls drinking their Ovaltine while playing with their toy bricks. Artist: Phyllis Cooper Date: 1933

Scene in the High Street, Exeter, Devon
Scene in the High Street of Exeter, Devon, on a sunny day, with buses, cars and pedestrians. Date: circa 1960s

Modern shopping precinct in Exeter, Devon, on a sunny day. Date: circa 1960s

Boy climbing drainpipe on a Balham house, SW London
A boy climbing the drainpipe of a house in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station, WW2
Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station in the City damaged by bombing, 16 April 1941. The words dangerous wall have been chalked up. Date: 1941

Walls Ice Cream cart
A classic Stop Me And Buy One hand-pushed cart selling Walls Ice Cream. The vendor serves a little girl who stands on a tree stump to look into the cart and choose her favourite flavour

Bombed Bath - St. Andrews Church Damaged
The centre of Bath, the view from Julian Road showing bomb damage to St. Andrews Church (left) after a German air raid - circa August 1940"

Tarot Card 16 - La Maison Dieu (The Tower)

Mission Station under construction, Chididi, Nyasaland, British Central Africa (now Malawi). Date: circa 1910s

Great Zimbabwe Ancient Ruins, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Great Zimbabwe Ancient Ruins, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), a ruined city in the south-east of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo

Spain. Medina del Campo. Castle of the La Mota
Spain. Castile-Leon. Medina del Campo. Castle of the La Mota. Reconstructed medieval fortress. Gothic military architecture with Moorish elements. Outside view

Greetings card, Never look on the Dark Side -- a black cat and a white cat sitting on a wall in the moonlight. circa 1905

School of Arts and Crafts, Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
School of Arts and Crafts, Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1920

Child in period costume
Young child in period costume eating an apple, his toy gun on the ground in front of him. circa 1967

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