Derelict Collection (page 8)

Boys at a boarded up window, Balham, SW London
Three boys at a boarded up window of a house in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Cliff face and building in Dovedale
Labelled by the photographer as the Isaac Walton Fishing House, it appears to be a derelict house rather than the famous fishing lodge beloved by anglers. Date: 1909

Dear -------- at present we are staying at a farm
While being surrounded by died cattle and a derelict barn, two soldiers decided to rest and write a letter home

A derelict ship discovered, 1873
An abandoned ship, encountered by HMS Immortalite in 1873. The ship was the Margaret Pollock, and was later sunk. Date: 1873

A derelict ship discovered, 1856
An abandoned ship drifting across the sea, as discovered by the Reine Hortense near Greenland in 1856. Date: 1856

Fire in Kennington Park Road, SE London
Fire at a derelict house in Kennington Park Road, SE London, 30 April 1955. Two boys were trapped on the top floor, and escaped by dropping from the two top floor windows

Battalion commander explaining the next move
Battalion commander and his soldiers having a temporary rest in a derelict building while being instructed where their next move will be using a field map of the district. Date: 1917

Drifting derelict warship, Richelieu, by G. H. Davis
The drifting of the derelict French warship, Richelieu. While being towed from Toulon to Rotterdam, the ship broke loose from her tugs at Brest

Brighton / Chain Pier 1896
Brighton Chain Pier, photographed just before the it was washed away by a gale in December 1896. 1896

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

Derelict Cultivators
Extinct relics from a bygone era - derelict cultivators languishing in a field in the morning mist on a farm in Nottinghamshire, England. Date: 19th century

17 Gough Square - where Dr. Johnson compiled his dictionary
17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London - where Dr. Samuel Johnson compiled his dictionary in 1748. In the garret (with the slanting roof) his assistants worked

Chinese Summer Palace - Bejing, China - A semi-derelict pagoda. Date: circa 1931

Damaged buildings and trees, China
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Harbour damage, China
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Remote Scottish Cottage
A derelict old cottage, a homestead at Torrin, on the Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Beyond the tangled garden can be seen the rounded hump of the Red Hills. Date: 19th century

Remote Lakeland Cottage
A derelict old cottage, near Easedale Tarn, Grasmere, Lake District, England. Date: 19th century

Cruck-Beam Gable
A derelict cruck-beam house (being demolished), at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. This was one of the very earliest forms of building construction. Date: 19th century

Ruined windmill - Madingley, Cambridge
Lovely photograph of a ruined windmill at Madingley, Cambridge Date: circa 1910s

Derelict ship being blown up, WW1
A derelict ship being blown up during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Woman and Liverpool derelict house
A woman points at a terraced house with boarded-up windows in Liverpool, possibly one of the buildings destined to be demolished in the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s. 1960

Strood Union workhouse
The derelict buildings of the Strood (formerly North Aylesford) Union workhouse, erected in 1837 on Gun Lane in Strood. Date: Date unknown

Derelict Station
The platform of a derelict Victorian railway station near Romsey in Hampshire, England. Date: 1970s

Derelict miners cottage, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A derelict miners cottage in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. The roof has gone, and plants are growing in the stonework

Derelict slate workings, Nantlle Valley, North Wales
View through an open window of derelict slate workings in the Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. When an industry dies, the area dies too, and only the pollution is left

Derelict building, slate quarrying area, North Wales
View of a derelict building in a slate quarrying area of North Wales. The roof of this house has several tiles (probably made of slate) missing

Towed Derelict Torpedo
Recovery of a lost torpedo by a fishing boat or patrol vessel. Finders received 5 pounds for salvaging derelict torpedoes and returning them to the Admiralty authorities

England / Kegworth
The village of Kegworth, Leicestershire, England, including some derelict and rather run-down buildings

Triumphal Arch / Reims
PORTE BAZEE, RHEIMS, FRANCE Roman triumphal arch in a somewhat dilapidated condition with a strut used to hold the walls apart. Much of the ornamentation has now gone

Derelict Tank at Peronne
Sappers, or Royal Engineers, remove a derelict tank obstructing the road near Peronne in France during World War I

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