Cement Collection

Mixing treated asbestos fibre, Heath Robinson machine
Efficient plant for the successful mixing of treated asbestos fibre with cement. A drawing done by William Heath Robinson for Turners Asbestos Cement Co

Patent double action grinder for asbestos by Heath Robinson
A patent double-action grinder for mashing asbestos fibre - a drawing done for Turners Asbestos Cement Co by William Heath Robinson, renowned for his machines and convoluted contraptions. Date: c.1925

Lyme Regis
The Lower Jurassic cliffs incorporating Lower Lias and Charmouth Mudstone rocks, Charmouth, Dorset, UK

Workmen with Early Cement Mixer, Unknown Location, England. Date: 1920s

Concrete Transporter
A builder climbing into a ready-mix concrete transporter lorry

Turner's Asbestos Cement Advertisement
A humorous advertisement illustration for Turner's Asbestos Cement Co. showing a quarry scene both above and below ground

Architectural Drawing, Residential Flats
An architectural drawing which shows an aerial view from the south, of some residential flats, the design was submitted in a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd

Architectural Axonometric Perspective, Flats
An architectural axonometric drawing of designs for some residential flats, a commended submission for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Designed by architect R

Axonometric Residential Flats Design
An architectural axonometric drawing of designs for some residential flats, a commended submission for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd

Architectural Perspective Of Residential Flats
This architectural perspective design placed second in a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. The flats were designed by architects A. P. Lloyd and E. W

Architectural Flats Illustration
A front cover architectural illustration of a block of flats, to a report on a competition for designs of five-storey flats, organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Date: circa 1930s

Residential Flats Architectural Competition Winner
A winning architectural design for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. This perspective shows a five storey reinforced concrete residential flat

Modernist House At Frinton-On-Sea
A photograph of a cement render and distimper finished modernist house, one of twenty speculatively built seaside houses to form a large development at Frinton-On-Sea, Essex, designed in 1935

View of the River Thames at Canning Town, London
The River Thames with sailing barge viewed from Canning Town, East London. Date: circa 1930s

Plymax cross-section, plywood board from Venesta Limited
Photograph of a Plymax cross-section, a plywood board trademarked by Venesta Limited. The boards are covered on one side or both sides with metal sheets

Advert for H. W Johns, asbestos materials for roofing 1875
Company based in New York, advertising asbestos roofing, used in roof coating, cement, paint, boiling felt and steam packing. 1875

Anti-nuclear demonstrators at North Pickenham
Members and supporters of the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War crouching in front of a lorry leaving a rocket base at North Pickenham, near Swaffham

The buildings and smoking tower of a cement works in Great Britain. Date: 1950s

A cement factory at Grays, Essex, England, seen from the River Thames at high tide in the evening. Date: 1950s

Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
The Floor of Fame at Graumans Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, USA Date: 1941

Four men with trowels and cement on boards, USA
Four men with trowels and cement on boards, outside a log cabin, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Dental advert, Pure Vegetable Cement
Dental advert, James Penneys Pure Vegetable Cement, for stopping tender teeth. 1874

Asbestos logo from Asbestos company letterhead
Asbestos logo from the letterhead of Asbestos Cement Building Products Ltd, Asbestos House, Southwark Street, London SE1. 1920

Letterhead, Asbestos Cement Building Products Ltd, Asbestos House, Southwark Street, London SE1. 1920

Road worker with cement and wheelbarrow
Road worker in a residential street with spade, cement and wheelbarrow. Date: 1970s

Construction worker relaxes against bags of cement, Eccles
A construction worker relaxes against bags of Ribble Cement at a building site in Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, Kent
The Chalk Pit Guard Room. A post at the cement works at Creek Cliffe, near the village of Cliffe on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, dated 29.12.15. 21017 Private P. J

Cement Works Chimney
Study of a cement works chimney. Date: 1960s

Essex Cement Factory
Industrial England - the towers of a cement factory in Grays, Essex. Date: 1950s

Aslan Cement Factory, Izmit, Kocaeli, Turkey Date: circa 1935

Corals on cement blocks GBR Expedition 1928-1929

Puddingstone is a conglomerate or mixture of different, irregular sized grains and pebbles held together by a finer matrix

Sandstone is formed by loose grains of quartz compacted and cemented together

Shwemedaw Pagoda - Pegu - Shwemedaw Pagoda - In the course of foundation reinforcement and rebuilding, relics have been found dating back to 10th Century

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Laying cement. Fathers newly laid cement path is ruined by the pet dog

The Bricklayer
People You See: The Bricklayer. From Teddy Bear (2 May 1964)

Jews making mosaics - Syria
Jews making Mosaic patterns in Syria. The tessera are being cut by a craftsman with a handsaw, while his young assistant mixes the suitable cementing adhesive

Dublin Easter Rising - May, 1916
Dublin Easter Rising - view behind the barricade - British troops under fire on Talbot Street, holding a barricade against a rebel charge - May 1916

Local men mixing cement in Kashgar, western China. One of the men is standing on top of the mixture and pouring water into it from a jar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

A C Critchley
Alfred Cecil Critchley O.B.E (1890-1963), greyhound racing pioneer and aviation administrator. Critchley was responsible for introducing greyhound racing to Britain in 1926 with the building of a

Basra under British Military Rule, 1916
Photograph showing locals repaving mud roads with stone and cement, under the gaze of a British Military Engineer, 1916

Point de Galle Lighthouse, Ceylon, 1847
Engraving of a lighthouse intended for the Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The lighthouse was built out of cast-iron plates, secured by nuts, bolts and iron cement

Crystal Palce / Brick Beam
3 diagrams showing the tests undertaken to establish which material, Roman or Portland cement, would provide the stronger hollow bricks for use in the exhibition beams

Royal Review at Aldershot
Edward VII (1841-1910) accompanied by King Alfonso of Spain on horseback at a Royal Review at Aldershot in 1905. Edward was a renowned diplomat

Mixing Concrete
Workmen mixing concrete in a cement mixer. The cement and sand are put into a hod, which the travels up rails and is tipped into the revolving mixer

Cement Factory
Sterns portland cement works at Funkenwalde, near Stettin

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