Clearance Collection

Playing a piano amid the destruction - The Blitz
One of the men working on debris clearance in London succeeded in wresting a tune from this battered piano - circa late 1940

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

New Tower Blocks Go Up
A striking impression of modern flats being constructed on a slum clearance site, the Woodside Development Plan, in Sheffield

Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR. 1A undergoing an engine change
Royal Air Force - A Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.1A of No.3 Squadron undergoing an engine change in the field, under the cover of an inflatable hide, during Exercise Heath Fir in Germany

War on Glasgow Slums - Letting Light and Air into dark places - With grass plots in broader streets: new and recent apartment houses built in Coplawhill, Glasgow. Date: 1926

Farmers in France cultivating the ground after World War One were finding unexploded projectiles. In this drawing you can see a operator with a telephone receiver (microphone)

LTV F-8FN Crusader 3 waiting for launch
Aeronavale - LTV F-8FN Crusader 3, waiting for clearance from the deck crew to approach the catapult for launch, from Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

LTV F-8FN Crusader cockpit close-up
Aeronavale - LTV F-8FN Crusader cockpit close-up, waiting for clearance from the deck crew to approach the catapult for launch, from Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

LTV F-8FN Crusaders 39, 17 and 35
Aeronavale - LTV F-8FN Crusaders 39, 17 and 35, waiting for clearance from the deck crew to approach the catapult for launch, from Foch or Clemenceau, during an operational cruise

Georges Van Damme in the cockpit of the Renard R. 35 airliner
Ex Warrant Officer Georges Van Damme sat in the cockpit of the ill-fated Renard R.35, a pressurised airliner developed in Belgium from 1936

In the bombing aftermath of World War II, the debris is cleared away by men in asbestos suits and now the men with the plungers can get to work. Date: 1939-1945

A forester cuts logs with a chain saw during tree felling opertations in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

House clearance auction in a garden, with items on tables, an auctioneer with a baton and a porter in an apron. Date: circa 1908

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1893
Various furniture item for sale clearance, available for Oetzmann & Co, in Hamstead Road, London. 1893

Advert for Oetzmann & Co. Victorian furniture 1900
Great clearance sale of Victorian furnuture, including drawing-room folding occasional chair, polished Chippendale mahogany, upholstered with art material. Inlaid mahogany drawing-room arm chair

Row of Terraced Houses
A row of old terraced houses, now demolished under the slum clearance scheme, in East London

Junkers Ju 523m -this version of the Luftwaffes standard transport being adapted for mine clearance duties

WW2 poster, Be quick in your clearance of goods inwards to stores -- make lightning speed with accuracy your motto. Date: 1940s

Mr Wells Coates
The architect, Mr. Wells Coates, founder of the Mars (Modern Architectural Research) group, originator of the flatlet, designer of public utility buildings, such as broadcasting studios

Re-development of St. Johns Wood area, London
Re-development of St. Johns Wood area in London during the 1930s. Workmen lay new cables and pipes to service the new blocks and apartments Date: 1930s

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Latest Type of Grab Crane
The latest type of grab crane clearing out a small pond on Hampstead Heath. A typically rickety and convoluted crane goes through the ridiculous process of clearing out a tiny pond on Hampstead

Market Reports illustrated - Game - Supply Strong. A Fair clearance was effected! A Butcher scares away his customers (a rather well-heeled family)

Snowplough clearing the Grande Rue at Morez, France
Snowplough (snowplow) clearing the Grande Rue at Morez, France - a commune of the Jura department in Franche-Comte in eastern France. Date: circa 1910s

Blitz in London -- clearance and repair of bomb damage in King Street, Hammersmith, West London

Woman and Liverpool derelict house
A woman points at a terraced house with boarded-up windows in Liverpool, possibly one of the buildings destined to be demolished in the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s. 1960

Clearing rubble from bombed buildings, London
Clearing rubble from bombed buildings in London during the Blitz - 1940

Damaged London Hospital - The Blitz
The Porters Lodge of a London Hospital wrecked by a German raiders bomb. Nobody was seriously hurt - circa late 1940

Atomic Forest Clearance
Forest Clearance by Means of Atomic Rays

Giant Bulldozers for Large- Scale Ground Clearance

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