Collapsed Collection

Farrows Bank Ltd. - The Peoples Bank - 1 Cheapside, London. In setting up the bank, Thomas Farrow wished not only that unsuspecting people in need of money to tide them over a period of temporary

Queen Victoria travelling over the Tay bridge
Queen Victoria crossing the Tay Bridge, Dundee. Later that year the Tay bridge collapsed while a train was crossing resulting in the deaths of 75 people

His Masters Vice
Bonzo asleep with his head in a glass after helping himself to the Masters drinks supply. Date: circa 1922

Platform of Post Office (St. Paul s) Underground Station
Central Line Series. A smart lady, exhausted messenger boy and down-on-his-luck punter seated on a bench on the platform of St

LFB and the Blitz - Queen Victoria Street
The moment that an unsupported front wall of a building, severely damaged by fire, dramatically collapsed into the street

Spanish Bullfighting Series (10 / 12)
Spanish Bullfighting Series. The matador has removed his sword and the bull has collapsed. Date: 1913

Hayes winning the Marathon Race. Olympic Games, London 1908
Photograph of John Hayes, American athlete, in the final leg of the marathon race at the London Olympic Games in 1908. Dorando Pietri of Italy collapsed after entering the stadium ahead of the pack

Collapsed house in Swedenborg Square, Stepney
Gazing at the ruins of their home, which collapsed soon after they fled - tenants of a house in Stepney. The house was typical of much of old housing in London

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Tragedy of the Marathon Race... London Olympics 1908
Front cover from The Graphic. Dorando Pietri of Italy collapsed after entering the stadium ahead of the pack during the 1908 London Olympics

Tattooing - Drunk Tattooist has got carried away
Tattooing - Drunk Tattooist (Professor Smith) has got carried away... " Its taking you a long time to write I love Annie !" Date: circa 1920s

Gerhardt Cycleplane
Men Inspecting Crashed Gerhardt Cycleplane with Hangars Behind Date: 1920s

Volta Tower, Finedon, Northamptonshire - folly
Volta Tower, Finedon, Northamptonshire, folly built in 1865 collapsed in 1951 - Thomas E. Pope photo postcard c. 1910 Date: circa 1910

Collapsed railway viaduct in Penistone, February 2nd 1916

Subsidence of Railway Tunnel at Guildford, showing collapsed tunnel and buildings, with onlookers top left. From the section, Small Talk'. Date: 1895

Shop Wrecked By Car
Wreckage to a corner shop in Thornton Heath, caused by a four-seater saloon car. The car had swerved to avoid children playing in the road. Nobody was seriously hurt. Date: 1931

Knavesborough
A pencil drawing of Knavesborough, a market town in north Yorkshire, with its 24.5 metre high gritstone viaduct. Upon nearing completion in 1848, the viaduct collapsed into the River Nidd

Boeing EC-135J Stratotanker 62-3584
United States Air Force (USAF) - Boeing EC-135J Stratotanker 62-3584 (MSN 18567), airborne command post. (Overshot runway at Pope AFB, NC, undercarriage collapsed)

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 Series 1A N1135MK
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 1A N1135MK (msn 25019), of Kewitt Construction Company. (Written off at Des Moines on 24 February 1966 after an aborted take-off with collapsed undercarriage) Date: 1965

General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon 89-2175
United States Air Force - General Dynamics F-16D Block 42H Fighting Falcon 89-2175 (msn 1C-338, base code LF'), of the 63rd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Wing

1914 1910s 10s Tens Promotional Postcard Adrian
1914, 1910s, 10s, tens, promotional, postcard, adrian, ross, george, dances, opera, house, northampton, waltz, dream, waltzes, waltzed, dreams, violin, violins, musician, music, musical, body

FLOGGING NEAR-DEAD HORSE
Montfaucon, on the outskirts of Paris : a wagon-driver flogs a nearly dead horse which has collapsed trying to draw a wagon containing a truly dead cab-horse. Date: 1860

Child labour working in the fields
Farming under the gang system - work contracted out to entrepreneurs who worked their labour force often under harsh conditions. Date: 1867

Railway construction accident, Camden Town, London 1849
Railway construction accident at Camden Town, NW London, when some newly constructed arches collapsed on the western side of Kentish Town Road

The Ruins of the Principal Church at Paysandu 1865
The church at Paysandu was extremely damaged during the Siege of Paysandu during the Paraguayan War, which lasted over a month of Brazilian-Colorado troops blockading

St. Andrews Church, Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

St. Andrews Church, Hempstead, Essex - The Fallen Tower
circa 1910s

HOUSEHOLD / COLLAPSED WALL
Indignant houseowner complains to builder about collapsed wall

For Auld Lang Syne - New Year Greetings card - 1908 Date: 1908

A Local Woman of the Orkney Islands outside her house. Orkney was the site of a Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, where the sailor who sent this card was stationed (on HMS Royal Arthur) in June 1916

Hic Jacet - Here Lies - drunken man collapsed in gutter
(hic!) jacet (translated from the Latin: " Here Lies" ) - a drunken Londoner collapsed in gutter, his umbrella and hat discarded onto the street in his stupor. Date: circa 1890s

Intoxication - drawing by Paris-based artist Jan Olitzki - a woman has passed out under the effects of a heavy night on the tiles - in so doing her top has unfortunately descended

German bomber crashed on house, Bromley, Kent, WW2
The remains of a German bomber which crashed on house in Johnson Road, Bromley, Kent, during the Second World War (9 November 1940)

Falling down the stairs - the end result is the same
Voice from above - " Whist, Mick! Are yer for faalen down shtairs?" Mick - " Uts arl roight, oi was comin down, anyhow!" Date: 1896

Wreckage of German bomber on house in Bromley, WW2
Blitz in London -- inspecting the wreckage of an enemy plane that crashed onto a house in Bromley, Kent

Blitz in London -- Surrey Docks, Rotherhithe, WW2
Blitz in London -- roofs of the timber cargo storage areas totally collapsed after the intensity of the fires that devastated the Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe, SE London

Collapsed Scout at 1948 London Olympics
Scout collapsed through heat exhaustion whilst holding a Liechtenstein nationality sign at the 1948 London Olympics held at Wembley Stadium. 1948

Collapsed building in Eastbourne, Sussex
View from the side of a collapsed building in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1965

London firefighters at work in Hampstead High Street
London firefighters at work outside a Woolworths building in Hampstead High Street, north-west London (11 May 1946). General aerial view of the front of the premises after the fire has been

Bonzo Quite Agrees! by George Studdy
Bonzo Quite Agrees! He falls into a hole in the road, which confirms that the maintenance work is necessary. Date: 1923

Tommy Hampson collapsed after 800m win, 1932 Olympics
Thomas " Tommy" Hampson (1907 1965), British athlete, winner of the 800 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Pictured on the front cover of the Illustrated Sporting

Man walking under collapsed structure, WW2
A man walking out from under a collapsed metal structure during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

India Benares
Temple on the banks of the Ganges : due to erosion, two of the towers have collapsed. Date: 1835

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

Malaga - Spain - Calle Pintoresca. Date: circa 1920s

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