Building Collection (page 22)

Exeter Change by Charles Robinson
A visit to the menagerie at Exeter Change, one of the many picturesque buildings in the Strand destroyed by road widening in 1830. Built on the site of St

Architects proposed front elevation, IMechE HQ, Storeys Gate, 1896 1896

Aerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, London
Aerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London, showing all the main buildings and other venues of interest. Date: May 1951

Morris / Merton Abbey
WILLIAM MORRIS English writer/artists workshop at Merton Abbey, Surrey Date: 1834 - 1896

Shipyard Apprentice
Apprentice at Swan Hunters Yard, Tyneside. Date: 1950s

DeLara Cigar Factory, New York
Building, DeLara Cigar factory, 382 South Street. DeLara Cigar factory at 382 South Street; sign advertising building for sale visible

Amesbury Union workhouse, Wiltshire
A distant view of Amesbury, Wiltshire, with the Union workhouse on the left, designed by William Bonython Moffatt, and built on South Mill Hill in 1837. It was demolished in 1967

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

Union Workhouse, Newent, Gloucestershire
The entrance to the union workhouse at Newent, Gloucestershire

Main building, Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
General view of the main building of the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. The school opened in 1870 to house workhouse children from the two unions

Prisoner of War Camp, Handforth, Cheshire
A coloured illustration of the First World War prisoner of war/ internment camp at Handforth in Cheshire. The picture is captioned Kriegsgefangenen Lager -- German for POW camp

Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society, London
View from the balcony of the Lawrence Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society, Central London, with an exhibition taking place

The little house at Arrah
The fortified house at Arrah, refuge for a small party of British officers and 50 sikh soldiers during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Downing Street sectional drawing
A cut-away illustration of No. 10 Downing Street: the quiet backwater from which great men have ruled a great empire. 10 Downing Street from the garden front with Nos 11 and 12 at right

Union Workhouse, Bakewell, Derbyshire
Bakewell Union workhouse. The porter and two other men stand at the entrance, while another stands at the left near a wheelbarrow

Wallingford Union Childrens Cottage Homes, Berkshire
The Wallingford Unions cottage homes on Wantage Road, Wallingford, Berkshire. Cottage homes were established by some poor law authorities to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Strand Union Workhouse, Edmonton, North London
The Strand Unions workhouse at Edmonton, North London, opened in 1870. The Strand Union was located in Central London

Poplar Union Schools, Brentwood, Essex
In 1906, the Poplar Union (East London) established a Schools site located between Shenfield and Hutton, near Brentwood, Essex

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

Union Workhouse, Easthampstead, Berkshire
A distant view of the Easthampstead Union workhouse, Berkshire, opened in about 1836, in buildings adapted from former almshouses

Culebra Cut viewed from Observation Platform, Y.M.C.A. Building, Culebra, Panama Canal

Lower lock under construction, looking South, Miraflores, Panama Canal

Memorial at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
View of the Memorial of Suke Baatar (Mongolias national hero in the struggle for independence, Damdin Sukhbaatar, 1893-1923) in Sukhbaatar Square, with the Cultural Centre in the background

Police group on Coronation Day, 1911
A group of policemen pose for their photograph outside Hammersmith Police Station, west London, to commemorate the Coronation of King George V

Pitmans School, Southampton Row, London - School Building of the famous Secretarial School, teaching secretarial skills such as shorthand and typing

Conference table, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
View of the conference table in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Archaeological Museum with sculpture, Odessa, Ukraine
View of the Archaeological Museum in Odessa, Ukraine, with a Laocoon sculpture in front (a copy -- the original is in the Vatican Museum, Rome). The museum was founded in 1825

Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden
View of Drottningholm Palace and part of the Park, in Stockholm County, Uppland, Sweden, with a fountain in the foreground

Conference table and photos, Livadia Palace, Yalta, Ukraine
View of a conference table, and two photos on the walls, in the Livadia (Livadija) Palace, Yalta, Ukraine, where the historic February 1945 meeting took place between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta, Ukraine
View of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Yalta, Ukraine. It was built in 1902

Orebro Castle, Narke, Sweden
View of the medieval Orebro Castle in the city of Orebro, Narke, Sweden. Dating from the 13th century, it was expanded during the reign of the royal family Vasa

Sun Life Building and St James Cathedral, Montreal, Canada

Canary Islands - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Palamas - the principal city on Gran Canarai, one of the Cnary Islands, a Spanish Municipality. The Plaza Sta. Ana during the exit of a procession

Post Office at Algeria
Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria - the Post Office - with beautiful under-roof (and between-door) tiled decoration

Poster advertising ANA flights to Brisbane, Queensland
Poster advertising Australian National Airways flights to Brisbane, Queensland

Swindon & Highworth Union Workhouse, Swindon, Wiltshire
The Swindon and Highworth Union workhouse on Highworth Road, at Stratton St Margaret near Swindon, Wiltshire. The building, opened in 1846, later became St Margarets Hospital

Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Leeds
A very early photograph of the Moral and Industrial Training Schools, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The Schools were erected in 1846-48 by the Leeds Board of Guardians to house

Ecclesall Bierlow Workhouse, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
An unusual view from the doorstep of the Ecclesall Bierlow Union workhouse at Nether Edge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The building on the opposite side of the street was used as the Unions offices

Tooting Military Hospital, Tooting Graveney, Surrey
The Tooting Military Hospital operated during World War One in a building on Church Lane, Tooting Graveney, Surrey, formerly St Josephs Roman Catholic college

Birmingham Union Cottage Homes, Marston Green, Warwickshire
A girl stands in front of one of the childrens cottage homes at Marston Green in Warwickshire, to the east of Birmingham. The homes were opened by the Birmingham Poor Law Authorities in 1879 to house

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Banstead, Surrey
Aerial view of Beechholme childrens home, Banstead, Surrey, originally established in 1876 as the Kensington and Chelsea District School to house pauper children away from the workhouse

White Star to New York
Poster for the White Star Line to New York featuring the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Britannic and Titanic) in New York harbour with the Woolworth Building in the background

Cathedral - Siota - Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands - Interior of the Siota Cathedral on Small Nggela Island

Entrance to the Suez Canal at Port Said
Port Said - Harbour and entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt

Village of Moveen during the 1840 s
A landscape view of the village of Moveen during the forced evictions of the 1840 s. Dwellings, some of them without a roof, appear without human habitation

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

HALFWAY HOUSE TOLL
This striking-looking building, known as the Halfway House, is an old Tollhouse and a well-known landmark on the Bath Road (A4) between Hungerford and Newbury

Native American Blankets
Six blankets made by Navaho weavers using traditional techniques, from the collection in the Indian Building in Albuquerque, New Mexico

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