Build Collection

Dry Stone Walling
Two working class men in flat caps build a dry stone wall together at Galashiel, Selkirkshire, Scotland

The Building of the Tyne Bridge - Newcastle-upon-Tyne (4 / 4)
The Building of the Tyne Bridge - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - The spans reaching out from both sides of the river - 11th January 1928. Date: 1928

United States Naval Construction Battalions - Seabees We Build and Fight with all our might! Date: 1942

The Eddystone Lighthouse of 1698
Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse, built by Henry Winstanley in 1698, which was destroyed in a storm in 1703. Winstanley, a London merchant

Box Tunnel, Wilts
Isambard Kingdom Brunels famous Box Tunnel, Corsham, Wiltshire, took 5 years (1836- 41) to build. Two miles long, it was the longest railway tunnel in Europe when it opened

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps erect Nissen Huts
WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - erecting Nissen Huts in preparation for the arrival of the main body of the army - the caption notes that many men in the pioneer Corps fought in

The House That Jack Built, by G. Grenville Manton
A colour illustration portraying a sailor showing a little boy how to build a house of playing cards

The Building of the Tyne Bridge - Newcastle-upon-Tyne (3 / 4)
The Building of the Tyne Bridge - Newcastle-upon-Tyne - The spans supported by cables to each shore - 9th February 1928. Date: 1928

Allington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent
South view of Allington Castle, near Maidstone, Kent. It was built by St Stephen de Penchester -- in 1281 King Edward I gave him a licence to build a crenellated castle

London Bridge (New Version), words and music
London Bridge is broken down, ... My fair Lady! Build it up with penny loaves... iron and steel... silver and gold... etc

Vengeance of Poseidon
When Laomedon doesn t settle his bill for helping to build Troy, Poseidon devastates the city with a flood, and forces Laomedon to sacrifice his daughter to a sea monster

Building Panama canal, Railway Station, Lance
Vintage 19th century photograph: Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Coronation of King Charles III - May, 2023
Royal family supporters camping on the Mall ahead of the Coronation of King Charles III, in London, wearing red, white and blue patriotic clothing Date: 2023

Caricature of Harry Paulton and Johns Clarke, actors
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917) and Johns Clarke (1833-1899), actors -- The Two Dromios (of Ephesus and Syracuse respectively)

Chlamydera nuchalis, great bowerbird
Plate 30 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, Vol. 2 (1891-98)

Moscow has a Plan
MOSCOW HAS A PLAN - propaganda book by M Ilin describing the Soviet 5-year economic plan in glowing terms. We build in our country a new order

Five children building a snowman in a wood
Five Edwardian children building a snowman in a wood

Sopwith 2F1 Camel -seven aboard HMS Furious in build

Waterman (Petherick)
London characters: Once he offered the best way to cross the Thames but now every new bridge they build means less work for the THAMES WATERMAN. Still, its a nice uniform !

Build for your Navy! Enlist! Carpenters, machinists, electricians etc.. Poster encouraging skilled laborers to join the Seabees as part of the war effort. Date between 1941 and 1943

Jovanovich JOV-3 N9000H (msn 1). The Helicopter Engineering Research Corporation (HERC) of Pennsylvania was formed by former Piasecki engineers Drago Jovanovich

Comic postcard, Putting on weight at the seaside Date: 20th century

Building Panama canal, Excavator
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Excavator

Comic postcard, The beaver and the otter Date: circa 1918

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

Fowler Ploughing Engine team
Unidentified Fowler Ploughing Engine team. Ploughing engines worked as pairs and were usually consecutive build numbers and registration numbers. Date: 1959

Hand Grips Pliers Date: 1947

Building Huts - Rumbek, Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sudan. Date: circa 1909

Sportavia-Putzer SFS-31 Milan D-KORO (msn 6601), Sportavia who build the Fourniers in West Germany, collaborated with Scheibe to produce the SFS-31 Milan

White Star Line, RMS Titanic, Harland and Wolff date book
White Star Line, RMS Titanic. Extremely rare Harland and Wolff hardbound employees build/date book chronicling the history of the ships built at the yard

Harland and Wolff, scale profile drawing of ship
HARLAND & WOLFF: Scale profile drawing on oilcloth of TSS Dominion and Build No. 280 later Union Line?s RMS Norman. 46ins. 15ins

Harland and Wolff, scale profile drawing of TSS Dominion
HARLAND & WOLFF: Scale profile drawing on oilcloth of TSS Dominion and Build No. 280 later Union Line?s RMS Norman. 46ins. 15ins

Let me build a castle in the air and carry you off in a chariot fair - fairy and elves Date: circa 1920s

Cottage at West Chiltington
A photograph of a thatch cottage, a new build from the time of the photo, erected at West Chiltington, a village in Horsham, West Sussex. Date: circa 1929

The Red House, Upton
A drawing which shows the Red House, home of Pre-Raphaelite craftsman William Morris and his wife, Jane. When their couple got married in 1859, Morris commissioned his friend and architect

Cover design, Do it yourself, September 1967 - build a pool with a paint brush Date: 1967

Cover design, Do it yourself, March 1966 - dining room furniture you can build Date: 1966

Knaresborough Castle
A landscape oil painting of a series of woodlands with a foreground clearing, encapsulating a view of Knaresborough castle, looming in the background, in north Yorkshire

The Palace, Fontainbleau
A painting of the serene waters outside the Chteau de Fontainebleau, the palace was originally a medieval castle and served as residence for the French monarchs from Louis VII to Napoleon III

Building Panama canal, Dredger on Fox River
Vintage 19th century photograph: Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880's under the supervision of Ferdinand de

How Housing Shortage is Being Met 1920
At the end of First World War One almost 80% of Britains rented homes from private landlords. David Lloyd George was concerned by the standards of the housing

Construction of Lenin's mausoleum, Red Square
Vladimir Lenin was an exceptional revolutionary, adored by the majority of Russia, and regarded as being among the leading global intellectuals of the time

Construction of Lenin's Temporary Mausoleum
A temporary but elaborate wooden mausoleum was quickly built on Red Square in Moscow to hold Vladimir Lenin's Body following his death in 1924

Lenin's mausoleum, Construction, Red Square
The Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. Due to the exceptional public support he received whilst alive it was deemed fitting to honour him in

Comic postcard, Three children building sandcastle Date: 20th century

Building Panama canal, canal channel
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, Works train
Vintage 19th century photograph: Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, River Chagres
Vintage 19th century photograph: Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, Canal dredger
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canal dredger

Building Panama canal, Emperador
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Emperador

Building Panama canal, dredger
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, Canal basin, Colon
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canal basin, Colon

Building Panama canal, workers camp
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, Canal workings, railway
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canal workings, railway

Building Panama canal, railway line
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

Building Panama canal, Plaza Panama
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Plaza Panama

Building Panama canal, Camp buildings
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Camp buildings

Building Panama canal, Works at Emperador
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Works at Emperador

Building Panama canal, Canal workings
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canal workings

Building Panama canal, Railway track
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Railway track

Building Panama canal, Railway
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Railway

Building Panama canal, Canal basin
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Canal basin

Building Panama canal, Artisans houses
Vintage 19th century photograph: Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Artisans houses

Canal hospital buildings, Panama
Vintage 19th century photograph: Canal hospital buildings, Panama. Image relates to the first French led attempt to build the Panama canal in the 1880s under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps

St Katharines Hospital
St Katharines by the Tower (full name Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine by the Tower) was a medieval church and hospital next to the Tower of London

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

Women building the elevated railway in Tokyo, October 1904
Female labourors as they carry bricks for use in the construction of the elevated railway, Tokyo. The caption describes how women working in manual labour was not uncommon in Japan. Date: 1904

Poster, You can help to build me a plane, WW2. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any employment exchange for advice and full details. A job is waiting for you. 1940s

Construction of skyscraper, New York 1905
Cornice hands at work eighteen storeys from the street. Date: 1905

Thomas-Morse MB-3A AS68237
(Boeing) Thomas-Morse MB-3A AS68237 (msn 210). The first production MB-3A built by Boeing, who had won the Army contract to build 200 of the improved MB-3. Date: circa 1921

Bristol B. E. 10 Olympus Mk. 101
Bristol B.E.10 Olympus Mk.101 (Ministry of Supply designation Bol.1/2C). A more powerful version of the Olympus with a larger turbine, delivering11

Anti-nuclear demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London. One placard reads: Scrap Polaris, Build For Peace. The banner in the lower left belongs to the Hyde Park Diggers

Hauling Sandbags Date: 1941

Building a Brewery Date: 1941

Painter Coats Wall Date: 1941

Laying Pipe Date: 1948

Busy Day at the Beach Date: 1870

Railroad Mans Tools Date: 1949

Telephone Workers

Erector Set Date: 1915

St Pauls Cathedral in danger: why the Dean is opposing the tramway scheme. Sectional view from the south east showing the position of the waterline below the cathedral

Studio photograph 1870
A tough-looking Yorkshirewoman from Halifax poses in the photographers studio. Date: circa 1870s?

MAN ON RINGS
A gentleman exercises on the rings, others body-build in the background Date: 1901

Cartoon, Mr Briggss Pleasures of Housekeeping -- Irish labourers employed to build a house. Date: circa 1850

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