Concrete Collection (page 4)

Peabody High School, Santa Barbara, California, USA, with the sports stadium in the foreground. Date: late 1920s

Netherlands pavilion, International Exhibition, Liege
Netherlands pavilion at the International Exhibition in Liege, Brussels. With water as the theme, the exhibition was designed to celebrate the opening of the Albert Canal. Date: 1939

Sports arena, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Hershey sports arena, home of the Hershey Hockey Club, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: 1936

Wreck of City Light Station, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
Wreck of the City Light Station, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA, seen here on 24 September 1909 after the collapse of the dam. Date: 1909

Boys snowballing in Balham, SW London
Two boys snowballing in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Small boy keeping goal in Balham, SW London
Small boy keeping goal in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Small boy with football in Balham, SW London
Small boy catching a football in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Second Goetheanum, Dornach, near Basle, Switzerland
The Second Goetheanum under construction at Dornach, near Basle, Switzerland. The building is the world centre for the anthroposophical movement

Centrepoint
The precast concrete elements of the window mullions of Centrepoint at the intersection of New Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. Architect: Richard Seifert

A bomb shelter built in London, WW1
Children posed by the doorway of a bomb shelter built by a man (a City merchant according to The Graphic) to provide protection for his family during air raids in 1917

British soldiers breaking down German strong point, WW1
British soldiers breaking down a German strong point on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers on Hindenburg Line, WW1
British soldiers take over a German strong point on the Hindenburg Line, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Concrete balloon houses by G. H. Davis
Concrete balloon houses: an ingenious system of construction from America. Date: 1942

Earls Court takes shape
A new exhibition centre for London. Earls Court exhibition centre in the midst of construction showing the main hall of the vast building

New House-building Techniques by G H Davis
Several diagrams demonstrating new building techniques involving steel and concrete. In the article, these techniques are given credit for increasing house-building by a large margin

France - St Pierre du Vauvray - The new bridge
France - St Pierre du Vauvray - The bridge over the River Seine. Considered to have the longest spanning concrete arches in the world

Progress at the north (central terminal area) approach to the airport cargo tunnel, where there will be a traffic roundabout and reinforced concrete flyover bridge curved in plan

Block of flats in Vienna, Austria
The light well of a block of flats in Vienna, Austria, with residents looking down from two of the balconies. Date: 1953

Postwar reconstruction, Lambeth, south east London
Postwar reconstruction taking place on the corner of Norfolk Row in Lambeth, south east London. Date: circa 1950s

Art Deco Staircase
The concrete spiral staircase in a modern house in Bremen, Germany. Date: early 1930s

England / Quainton
At Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England, is this fine example of a cobbled pavement, extremely rare, in these days of asphalt and concrete. Date: 1950s

Sunken cruiser, Bruges Canal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
An American photo of a sunken British cruiser in the Bruges Canal at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, during the First World War, soon after the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918)

Road Surfaces
The use of asphalt, concrete and granite sets on a section of the Chitterne to Codford road, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1930s

Captured German officers outside concrete bunker, WW1
Captured German officers standing outside their concrete bunker on the Western Front, France, during the First World War. On the left is a Scots soldier standing guard. Date: 1914-1918

Captured British Whippet tank on Western Front, WW1
An American photograph of a captured British Whippet tank used by the Germans during the First World War, with a German marking painted on the side

Girl pouring water from a tin into a bucket
A girl in a summer dress pouring water from a large tin into a plastic bucket

Unloading Concrete, Panama Canal

Remains of the Berlin Wall, Germany
Remains of the Berlin Wall with graffiti in the Bernauer Strasse, Berlin, Germany

Captured shelter WWI
German captured concrete shelter on the canal at Hollebek in the Netherland during World War I

French defences WWI
Inside a French defensive bunker with a machine gun in action during World War I

French tank obstacles WWII
Concrete dragon teeth tank obstacles line a field in northern France. The workers who built it file past

Machine gun post, Queant line 1918
A large reinforced concrete machine gun post in the Queant Line on the Western Front in France during World War I in October 1918

Captured German dugout, Battle of Albert
Photograph of an incredibly elaborate and well-built German dug-out in the northern corner of Bernafay Wood, captured by the 9th Division during the Battle of Albert on the 3rd July during the first

Disguised pill box
Concrete pill box near Poperinghe camouflaged as a ruined cottage on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in August 1918

Zonguldak, Turkey - Jetty Building
A crane boat lifts a large stone (or concrete block) to build a new jetty at Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey

Pyramid of Cestius, Rome
The pyramid was built about 18 BC-12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius Epulo, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations at Rome, the Septemviri Epulonum

Sewer Construction under London, 1910
Illustration showing the construction of a sewer from Belgrave Square to Barking, under London, in 1910. On the right of the image is the Greathead Shield

German V-2 Base at Watten; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the huge concrete bunker of the German V-2 base at Watten, near St. Omer, France, 1944. This bunker was 300 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall

V-1 Flying Bomb Launch Site; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German V-1 Flying Bomb launch site somewhere on the coast of France, June 1944. In the foreground of this image can be seen a small concrete control building

Damaged Concrete Wall, France; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the damage caused to a reinforced concrete wall by a Flying Dustbin explosive charge, France, 1944. The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers)

Mulberry Caisson under construction; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a steel and concrete Mulberry caisson under construction on the South Coast of Britain during 1944. When the Allied Armies invaded Normandy in June 1944

Churchill AVRE Tank entering Geilenkirchen; Second World War
Photograph showing a Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) tank entering the town of Geilenkirchen in late 1944

Festival Sea & Ships
The River Walk outside the Sea and Ships exhibition centre, part of the Festival of Britain exhibition on the South Bank, London

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

Playground Tunnel
Children playing in a concrete playground tunnel

Washing in a Trench
To begin with, trenches were built to last, with concrete washplaces and other amenities. Later, the constant shifting of the Front Line made this unrealistic

Panama / Cristobal C1915
Cristobal, Canal Zone, showing concrete and steamboat agency offices

St Pauls Precincts
The Precincts development around St. Pauls Cathedral, including Paternoster Square. Later deemed to be yet another ugly example of post World War Two architectural modernism

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