Construction Collection (page 10)

Advert, Neilson Reid & Co, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert, Neilson Reid & Co, Glasgow, and Walter Macfarlane & Co, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Ship construction in a British dockyard, WW1
Ship construction in a British dockyard, First World War. 1914-1918

Construction of underground railway King William Street 1888
Driving the tunnels of the London and Southwark sub-railway passing under the River Thames. 1888

Derby Reclamation Dam, Truckee River, Nevada, USA
Derby Reclamation Dam, Truckee River, near Derby, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1908

Truckee River Dam, near Reno, Nevada, USA
Truckee River Dam, Truckee Carson Irrigation Project, near Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1908

Krug Park, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, with a roller coaster in the background. Date: circa 1908

Battleship launch, Newport News, Virginia, USA
People gathered for a battleship launch at the shipyards, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Allyn House, New Plymouth, Pilgrams house 1621
A 3 storey house, built by one of the pilgrim fathers in the construction of New Plymouth. A large wood framed house with a central chimney

Demolition of the old London Bridge 1832
Demolition of the Great or Chapel-Pier of old London Bridge in 1832. March 1832

Kings Cross underground station 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864
Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864

Widening of Cannon Street Bridge, London 1926
Cannon Street Station was being widened in order to allow the construction of two new lines of railway track and new system of electrical signalling Date: 1926

Embankment making the tracks 1906
Labourers laying steel tracks for the new electric tram-way at Thames Embankment, London, construction started by the London County Council at the end of August 1909

Embankment torn to pieces for the trams 1906
London County Council beginning the construction of the electric tram-way along the Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge, starting at the end of August 1909

New tunnel under the Seine 1905
Night staff work on the new tunnel extension under the River Seine. Date: 1905

Metropolitan railway and Fleet Ditch 1862
Engraving from the foot of Frederick Street, Grays Inn Road, at its junction with Bagnigge Wells Road. of a portion of the works in progress for this vast undertaking. 1862

Royal catafalque, Cambodia, South East Asia
Building the royal catafalque, Cambodia, South East Asia (then a French Protectorate). The structure was built on the death of King Norodom in 1904, and has his funerary urn at the top

Mausoleum at Ibiabon, Obibio, West Africa (then part of the British Empire), with a black umbrella fixed to the top. Date: 1922

House building by hand, Nigeria, West Africa
House building by hand in Nigeria, West Africa. Date: 1922

Two women doing building work, Vienna, Austria
Two women doing building work, mixing cement, in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. Date: 1922

Paris new market of Temple 1865
Paris improvements to the new Paris market of Temple, constructed where the old decayed building lay unused for eighty years

SMS Oldenburg at the AG Vulcan shipyard, Stettin
The building of the SMS Oldenburg, a German armoured warship, at the AG Vulcan shipyard, Stettin (then in Germany, now Szczecin in Poland), by Carl Hochhaus. She was launched in December 1884. 1880s

Work at the Embankment, London 1868
Workmen improving the public stretch of road alone the River Thames, 70 to 100 feet in width and stretching from Westminster to Blackfriars more than a mile and a-half in length

Spiral cycle track helter skelter. circa 1898

Plan of River Thames Tunnel and its Approaches
Plans for first underwater tunnel to connect Wapping with Rotherhithe. Date: circa 1824

Three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel 1825
Section of the three divisions of the shield of the Thames Tunnel in 1825, using Marc Isambard Brunels and Thomas Cochranes newly invented tunnelling shield technology. Date: 1825

Longitudinal section of Thames Tunnel 1825
First of the construction took part in 1825, hundred and fifty feet under the River Thames. Date: 1825

Erecting Aeroplanes, by Muirhead Bone, WW1
Erecting Aeroplanes -- an RE8, 2-seater reconnaissance plane being built at the Coventry Ordnance Works, February 1917, lithograph by Muirhead Bone, First World War. 1917

American poster, Shoot Ships to Germany, WW1
American poster, design by Adolph Treidler, Shoot Ships to Germany and help America Win, First World War. 1917

Entrance to Pullman Works, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Entrance to the Pullman Works, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the Pullman railway carriages were manufactured. The building is now the Pullman National Monument Visitor Centre

Piccadilly roadworks 1927 Roadworks in Piccadilly, London 1927
Labourers making a trail in the pavement, for some kind of maintenance, watched by a crowd of people. 1927

Sir William Arrol, builder of Tay, Forth, and Tower Bridges
Sir William Arrol, MP, builder of Tay, Forth, and Tower Bridges. late 19th century

The Severn Tunnel works, 1880
The Severn Tunnel works - building the railway tunnel linking South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire under the estuary of the River Severn. It was built between 1873 and 1886. 1

Plaza de la Feria, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Aerial view of Plaza de la Feria, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, with roadworks going on. Date: circa 1900s

Ghost River Dam, Bow River, Alberta, Canada
Ghost River Dam, Bow River, near Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- construction camp overview. Date: 1929

Factory construction, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. circa 1910s

Postcard booklet, Pecos River High Bridge, Texas, USA, carrying the Union Pacific Railroad across the river gorge. Date: 1942

Construction of skyscraper, New York 1905
Cornice hands at work eighteen storeys from the street. Date: 1905

Laying the first stone of Blackfriars Bridge, London
Laying the first stone of Blackfriars Bridge by the Lord Mayor of London. 1769

Excavating tube railway 1903
Under construction, workers in the shield, Great Northern and City Railway. 1903

Kings Cross underground station, London 1868
Junction of the Midland, Great Northern, and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross. Part of new work being carried out between Kings Cross and Farringdon Road in 1868. 1868

Construction of The Leviathan later Great Eastern 1857
Christened Leviathan in construction, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, showing the bows with shipbuilders on the sides of the vessel hanging form hoists. Date: 1857

Construction of The Leviathan later Great Eastern 1855
Christened Leviathan in the early stages, thereafter always known as SS Great Eastern, an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J

View of East Berlin taken from The Brandenburg Gate photograph taken shortly before the construction of The Berlin Wall Date: circa 1960

Traditional South African home being built in the bush - the reedwork frame awaits a covering of mud. Date: circa 1903

Trenches at La Boutillerie, forward of Fleurbaix, WW1
By the light of the flare. My first impression of the trenches, at La Boutillerie, forward of Fleurbaix, Jan.15. The front line consisted of separate trenches of primitive construction without any

Kitchener Camp WWII
Refugees labouring at the Kitchener Camp Date: 1939-1945

Section of the road closed off to do some kind of maintenance work. Date: 1927

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