Construction Collection (page 2)

Wellington Construction
Assembly of a Wellington bomber at the Vickers factory. This was the RAFs standard light bomber at the outbreak of World War Two

Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company - Building a Warship Victorian period

Acropolis and Temple of Jupiter Olympus, Athens, Greece
19th century vintage photograph - Acropolis and Temple of Jupiter Olympus [Olympieion, ] Athens, Greece, c.1880

WW II - partly assembled Focke-Wulf 190 Bremen factory
Vintage photograph World War II - partly assembled Focke-Wulf 190 aircraft in the companys Bremen factory, following RAF bombing

Bactrian Camel. Ukraine
Bactrian Camel (Camelus Bactrianus) at the Genoese Fortress. Sudak. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine

Troumasse River Bridge, Micoud, St Lucia, West Indies. Date: circa 1900s

Bailey Bridge and Rhine victory by G. H. Davis
The Bailey Bridge: the British weapon which hurdled Allied armies across the Rhine barrier during the Second World War. Some constructional details of a great engineering invention

Salvago Greek College, Shatby, Alexandria, Egypt
Salvago Greek College/School in Shatby/Chatby Alexandria, Egypt - photograph taken (very) shortly after the conclusion of construction

HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, WW1
HMS Courageous, British battlecruiser, launched 1916, served during the latter part of the First World War, converted to use as an aircraft carrier during the late 1920s

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales. Wearing only a T-shirt and hot pants she entered the tunnel at 60 mph

Clifton Suspension Brg
The Bridge under construction. Part of the bridge was moved from the old Hungerford Bridge over the Thames

New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge, USA, c. 1890 s
New York skyline and Brooklyn Bridge, USA, c.1890 s

The Eiffel Tower, Paris, Fance, c. 1890 s
Vintage 19th century photograph: The Eiffel Tower, Paris, Fance, c.1890 s

Construction of Bells Bridge across River Clyde, Glasgow
A man working on Bells Bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The pedestrian bridge was constructed in 1988 to coincide with the Glasgow Garden Festival

Corner stone, St Patricks Church, Philadelphia, USA
Corner stone of the new St Patricks Church, 20th and Rittenhouse Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The stone had been brought from Armagh, Ireland, and was laid on 3 October 1910

New German incendiary bomb by G. H. Davis
Details of the new German explosive incendiary bomb produced during the Second World War. Explanatory drawings showing how the bomb is constructed, and the proper methods of tackling it. Date: 1942

Tube stations transformed by G. H. Davis
A Piccadilly Circus underground: tube stations transformed. The maze of London tubes: wonderful new junctions completed or in progress of construction. Date: 1927

Radial ply construction, car tyre

Tower Bridge under construction, April 1892 Date: 1892

Tower Bridge from the south west, March 1893 Date: 1893

World War II ruins in the centre of Berlin
World War II vintage photograph - ruins in the centre of Berlin, dust cloud from collapsing wall

Railway cutting works, discovery of fossilised trees
Railway cutting works on the Manchester to Bolton line, discovery of fossilised trees. Date: 1840s

Concorde under construction, Bristol
Concorde under construction at Filton, Bristol. Date: late 1960s

Construction at Coltness Brickworks, Newmains, Wishaw, Scotl
Construction at Coltness Brickworks, Newmains, Wishaw, near Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Showing railway wagon of the Coltness Iron Company. Date: 1910s

Construction of Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
Construction of the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, a WW1 war memorial. circa 1926

Construction of the Dean and Gloucester bridges
An Engraving of the construction and centering of both the Dean Bridge in Edinburgh and the Gloucester Bridge in western England. Date: 1838

The walking way in the keel of the R34, shown when the airship was still under construction. Some of the aluminium fuel tanks and canvas bags for the water ballast may be seen. 24 November 1918

Forth bridge during construction, c. 1883
Forth bridge during construction, c.1883 Date: circa 1883

Turriff-Burden advertisement - Iraq oil pipelines
Advertisement for Turriff-Burden Ltd of Brentford, UK, who supplied 315 miles of pipeline for the Iraq Petroleum Company in the 1960s. Date: 1961

Mancunian Way Flyover
The newly-built Manchunian Way flyover, Manchester, England, part of the M6 motorway network. Date: 1960s

Advert for Festival of Britain constructional engineers
Advertisement for constructional engineers, Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Ltd and Carter-Horseley (Engineers) Ltd, who built some of the structures for the Festival of Britain exhibition

Construction of Concorde
Engineers and fitters work on a section of one of the wings of the first prototype Concorde, 001, at the St. Martin, Toulouse, plant of Sud-Aviation, France. Date: 1967

Concorde Construction
The first prototype Concorde, 001, taking shape at the St. Martin Sud-Aviation factory Toulouse, France. Date: 1967

GWR construction work at Pontlliw, South Wales
Construction work taking place on the Great Western Railway near the village of Pontlliw, near Swansea, Glamorgan, South Wales

Tunnel construction, Great Western Railway, South Wales
Tunnel construction taking place on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales

Culebra Cut viewed from Observation Platform, Y.M.C.A. Building, Culebra, Panama Canal

Lower lock under construction, looking South, Miraflores, Panama Canal

Road widening in Brixham, Devon
Road widening in Middle Street, Brixham Devon, with an Albion lorry and mechanical digger

Bristol Clifton
The Avon at Clifton during the construction of the Clifton Suspension Bridge, viewed from the ferry

Titanic being Built
The ill-fated passenger liner, RMS Titanic under construction in a dry dock at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1883
Engraving showing the walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1883. This image, showing the view from the centre of the bridge towards the shore

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

View of the sea at Molde, Romsdal, Norway. Vintage 19th century photograph

Exterior of British Museum - reading room 1855
Construction of the great Reading Room of the British Museum, the forerunner of the British Library Date: 1855

Construction of Blackfriars bridge, London
Builders involved in various tasks atop two huge arches under construction. One of the arches clearly shows the scaffolding required to form such a huge structure. Date: August 1764

Truck Clearing the Rubble Soon after the End of World Wa?
Truck Clearing the Rubble Soon after the End of World War 2 at the Headquarters of the USAFe 85th Air Depot-Wing Date: 1945

Liverpool Cathedral under construction from St. James Mount Date: circa 1908

The Old Shot Tower, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Date: circa 1910s

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