Construction Collection (page 6)

RMS Queen Mary towering over Clydebank
The bow of RMS Queen Mary towering over Clydebank Date: 1930s

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

Underground railway station under construction Date: 1909

Roman roofing system using tegulas and imbrices
Roman Villa of Cambre. 2nd-4th centuries AD. Typical Roman roofing system using tegulas and imbrices. Archaeological Museum of Cambre. Province of La Coruna, Galicia, Spain. Date: 2021

Conquest of Mexico
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-21). Construction of the Villa Rica of La Vera Cruz, with the help of the Totonac Indians. Detail

Bombo manchego. Traditional rural architecture of La Mancha
Spain, Castile-La Mancha, Ciudad Real province. Surroundings of Tomelloso. Bombo manchego. A kind of vaulted hut made with stone labs without mortar, coming from the plowing of the vinyeards

Tower Bridge, Surrey Main Pier from the South Date: circa 1893

Tower Bridge, Southern Main Pier, masonry superstructure, October 1893 Date: 1893

Tower Bridge, Northern Main Pier, masonry superstructure, November 1893 Date: 1893

Tower Bridge, Middlesex Abutment, West Side Date: circa 1892

Tower Bridge, Middlesex Pier from south
Tower Bridge, Middlesex Pier from the south-opening span, 24 September 1892 Date: 1892

Tower Bridge, masonry of lower parts of river piers Date: circa 1892

Tower Bridge, front elevation of Middlesex Abutment Date: circa 1892

Tower Bridge under construction, October 1892 Date: 1892

Tower Bridge under construction, June 1892 Date: 1892

Carpenter's Shop, British Lion Films, Beaconsfield Studio
The Carpenter's Shop, British Lion Films, Beaconsfield Studio Date: 1929

Skeleton of British International new studios at Elstree
Skeleton of British International Pictures new film studios at Elstree under construction Date: 1929

SOCATA ST-10 Diplomate G-BBTV (msn140), at Elstree in June 1974. ( SOCATA - Societe de Construction d'Avions de Tourisme et d'Affaires). Date: 1974

SOCATA TB 10 F-GJRB (man 228). ( SOCATA - Societe de Construction d'Avions de Tourisme et d'Affaires). Date: circa 1995

SOCATA MS. 893A Rallye Commodore 180 D-ECCR
SOCATA MS.893A Rallye Commodore 180 D-ECCR (msn 11463). ( SOCATA - Societe de Construction d'Avions de Tourisme et d'Affaires). Date: circa 1995

Gulfstream III HZ-NR2
Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream III HZ-NR2 (msn 304), of the Rashid Engineering-Civil Construction Establishment, at Luton Airport, in June 1987. Date: 1987

SOCATA MS. 894A Rallye Minerva 220 G-AZIZ
SOCATA MS.894A Rallye Minerva 220 G-AZIZ (msn 11883), at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport, in September 1972. (SOCATA - Societe de Construction d'Avions de Tourisme et d'Affaires)

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

Udet U. 13 float under construction
Udet U.13 float under construction for D-945, the sole U.13. Date: 1926

How Housing Shortage is Being Met 1920
At the end of First World War One almost 80% of Britains rented homes from private landlords. David Lloyd George was concerned by the standards of the housing

Portrait of Edward Entwistle, apprentice to George Stephenson on the construction of the Rocket locomotive engine and extension of the railroad from Manchester to Liverpool

Channel Tunnel proprosals, 1985(pages 2-3)
Article from The Illustrated London News, November 1985, detailing four proposed plans for the construction of a Channel Tunnel. The fourth was revealed as an exclusive by the ILN. Page 2-3 of 6

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel, London 1908
Diagram plan of where the latest road tunnel under the River Thames, London is situated, linking Rotherhithe on the south west to Limehouse on the north east

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River Thames
Men working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day

Industry Industrial Power Station 1960 1960s
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Foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland
A view of the turbine hall foundations of Hunterston Power Station, Ayrshire, Scotland, showing the first reactor building in the background

New tunnels for the Post Office Railway. 70ft beneath the ground near Oxford Street the nearly completed, double track line

Construction of Lenin's mausoleum, Red Square
Vladimir Lenin was an exceptional revolutionary, adored by the majority of Russia, and regarded as being among the leading global intellectuals of the time

Construction of Lenin's Temporary Mausoleum
A temporary but elaborate wooden mausoleum was quickly built on Red Square in Moscow to hold Vladimir Lenin's Body following his death in 1924

Lenin's mausoleum, Construction, Red Square
The Russian Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin died of a stroke on the 21st of January 1924. Due to the exceptional public support he received whilst alive it was deemed fitting to honour him in

Disruption extending the entire length of Haymarket, Piccadilly, London, closed until September. Date: August 1928

First British Built Construction Southampton
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Orient Explorer oil drilling platform
The Orient Explorer, the first British-built oil drilling platform, constructed in Southampton Docks, pictured shortly before it was towed 9, 200 miles to Labuan in Borneo Date: February 1959

Temporary buildings after World War Two under construction at the Bristol Aeroplane Company's factory at Barwell. Date: 1947

Keeping Green the Memory of the Glorious Dead
Crowds come to pay their respects to the dead as they walk past the cenotaph memorial in Whitehall. A temporary construction in 1919, it was completed the following year in Portland stone

Ruins of some buildings demolished in the Poultry area of London, to make way for a new street leading to the Thames Embankment. Date: 1869

Tower Babel 1563 Brueghel Pieter Elder Bruegel
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Charing Cross - Temporary Entrance 1864
Temporary entrance to the station from Villiers Street. 1864

Railway construction, Berkhamsted, Herts. 1837
Navvies building a cutting near Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire in June 1837, part of the London to Birmingham railway line, engineered by Robert Stephenson. Date: 1837

Labour digging up a narrow road for repairs on a burst waterpipe in London. Date: 1901

Laying big main water pipes, Southwark and Vauxhall 1900
Photograph showing engineers and assistants lifting up heavy large circular piping with a crane ready to be put underground, in the streets of South London

Boeing B-52D Stratofortress 56-0689 (msn 464060) at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. before construction of the American Air Museum building

New Dwellings for workmen in East London 1894
New brick-work blocks of housing to provide accommodation for working people of the East-End of London. Date: 1894

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