Builds Collection

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

Ovaltine Advert
Advertisement for Ovaltine which " builds up brain, nerve and body"

Solomons Temple
He builds a splendid temple at Jerusalem

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

SOLOMON BUILDS TEMPLE
He builds his temple

Construction of the Mont Blanc Tramway, France
Team of workers working on the construction of the Rogues line - Mont Blanc Tramway, France. Date: circa 1905

Construction of the Palacio Salvo - Montevideo, Uruguay - the scaffolding is bedecked with a wide variety of advertising hoardings and billboards. Date: 1928

Princess Elizabeth making a sandcastle at Craigweil House
" Our Little Princess" - Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) making a sandcastle at Craigweil House, Bognor Regis, West Sussex. Date: circa 1929

New NFS sub-fire station, Bushey District 34, WW2
With the longer lulls in enemy bombing following the Blitz on London, fire service personnel were put to more productive work in addition to their normal training and drills

Advert for Frys Cocoa - Mother prepares drinks 1912
Advertisement for Frys Cocoa - Mother prepares some cups of hot chocolate for her brood, occupied happily building a huge snowman in the garden. Date: 1912

Skyscraper Table Tower
A stuntman builds a tower of tables and chairs on the top of a New York skyscraper and perches himself at the top Date: 1926

Saint Guthlac
SAINT GUTHLAC Scenes from his life - he becomes a monk; he sails to Crowland; he builds his oratory; he is visited by king Aethelbald Date: 663 - 714

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Sandcastle with lack of barbed wire
Winston Churchill: " This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm!". Lady in deckchair watching her son build a sandcastle in a garden sandpit: " There

Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside
The Childrens Paradise Two little children building a sandcastle at the seaside. Date: circa 1890s

Girl making sandcastles at seaside
A young girl carries on building sandcastles as the sun sets on her day at the seaside. c. 1910

Building a new NFS fire station, Rudolph Road, Bushey, WW2
With the longer lulls in enemy bombing following the Blitz on London, fire service personnel were put to more productive work in addition to their normal training and drills

Teamwork builds ships. Poster showing men using a rivet gun. Date 1917

Advert for Glaxo baby food 1914
Glaxo the food that builds bonnie babies. Throughout the British Empire - babies that cannot be breast-fed are being reared on British made and British Owned

Chinese Carpenter building a house
A Chinese Carpenter building a house using traditional techniques. Date: circa 1910s

Napoleon Builds Canals
Napoleon inaugurates a construction programme to enhance Frances canal network. Date: circa 1802

Swedish Scouts building an altar in the forest. circa 1960s

1693 / Russian Fleet Built
Tsar Peter I builds his first fleet

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 2
Hedin builds a raft and 17 September 1899 he sets out for Yanghi-Koul, which he reaches on 7 December, meeting up wuith his supply caravan which has traveled by land

A very Modest Sandcastle
While a boy builds a sandcastle on the beach at Sandown, Isle of Wight, his sister watches somewhat disparagingly

Peter Builds Petersburg
Peter I, also known as Peter the Great, orders the building of St Petersburg

Amphion Builds Thebes
Amphion was so skilful a musician that he was able to build the city of Thebes, making the stones dance into place as he played

Moses Builds Tabernacle
He builds a Tabernacle to Gods specifications

Solomon Builds Temple
He supervises the construction of his temple

Marco Polo / His Fleet
Kublai Khan builds a fleet for the voyages of Marco Polo

Columbus / San Domingo
Columbus lands at San Domingo and builds Navidad Fort

Pescara Helicopter 1922
Argentinian designer Marchese Raul Pateras de Pescara builds several helicopters 1919 to 1924, tested in France : this 1922 model has four rotors to provide vertical lift

Solomons Temple Builds
Solomon receives gold from Ophir, sent by Hiram, king of Tyre, to help in the construction of his temple

Noah Builds (Nurnberg)
Noah builds his ark

Zugspitz Cable Railway
The cable railway up the Zugspitz is currently the worlds highest... until someone builds a higher one

St Zeno / I Morando
SAINT ZENO Africa-born bishop of Verona, author of a book about Marys virgin birth : he opposes the Arian heresy but builds a basilica

Boy / Card House
Don t breathe now... a boy concentrates as he builds a house of cards

Building the Argo
Argus builds the Argo in which Jason and the Argonauts will sail to Colchis to steal the Golden Fleece

Noah Builds the Ark
Having received a flood warning from God, Noah sets about the construction of an Ark in which he, and two of every living creature, can survive

Hadrians Travels
Hadrian travels his empire on foot, to ensure it is being properly governed, Britain is on his itinerary in 120, and he builds a wall to keep out hostile northern tribes

Stone Age Boatmaking
Stone Age man builds one of the first boats, using heated stones to hollow out a log

Building the Ark
Noah builds his Ark

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