Destroyed Collection (page 5)

Battle of Sluys
English and French warships locked in combat at Sluys (LEcluse) : almost the entire French fleet is destroyed Date: 24 June 1340

FRENCH STRAYS DESTROYED
Stray dogs brought in from the streets of Paris are destroyed at the Prefeture de police. Date: 1874

COMPRESSED AIR BLOWING
The introduction of compressed air for blowing glass put an end to the occupational ailment of glassblowers whose lungs were destroyed by their work Date: 1883

FRANCE / PARIS / TUILERIES
Tuileries Palace in ruins after the Commune. Date: 1895

Martello Tower 1876
MARTELLO TOWER The tower at Hastings destroyed by a gale. Date: 1876

MORALS / ROME THEATRES
The theatres of Rome are destroyed because they are considered to have a corrupting influence on public morals Date: 158 BC

Houses of Parliament destroyed by fire
The Houses of Parliament destroyed by fire, as seen from across the River Thames. Date: 16 October 1834

St Dunstans-in-the-East
Severely damaged in the Fire of London in 1666, it was patched up between 1668 and 1671. A steeple was added around 1700 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren

Dyers Hall
The hall of the Dyers was originally located west of London Bridge, but was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. This is a view of the current hall in 1850

All Hallows the Great
All-Hallows-the-Great was a church in the City of London, located on what is now Upper Thames Street, first mentioned in 1235

St Michael ad Bladum or St Michael-le-Querne. A parish church in the Farringdon within ward. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and not rebuilt

Monument & Church of St Magnus
View of the Monument and the church of St Magnus the Martyr. The church was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, but rebuilt under the guidance of Sir Christopher Wren and reopened in 1676

St Benet Fink
A church that was located on what is now Threadneedle Street. Recorded since the 13th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666

Chain Bridge, Brighton
The Royal Suspension Chain Bridge, Brighton. Built in 1823, destroyed in a storm in 1896. Date: 1885

The Church of the Pilgrim Fathers, Southwark, London, dedicated to the Pilgrims who travelled to America in the Mayflower in 1620 - destroyed in a German Luftwaffe raid on London. Date: 1941

de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 100 CF-AWC (msn 108), of AirWest Airlines at Richmond, British Columbia. First flown on 4 March 1968, CF-AWC crashed and was destroyed by fire

Fleet Super Bonanza N174SV
Fleet Super V Bonanza N174SV (msn SV115) (donor aircraft msn D-422 built in 1947). In the late 50s Bay Aviation (formerly Oakland Airmotive produced a twin-engined conversion of the V-tailed Beech)

Brantly B-2B G-ATFH (msn 449). This helicopter was destroyed on 3 February 1977. Date: circa 1974

Croydon Airport - de Havilland DH. 86b Express G-AEJM
de Havilland DH.86b Express G-AEJM (msn 2351) of Wrightways Ltd.. approaching to land at Croydon Airport. G-AEJM was first registered on 06.07.36

A devastating fire at a British Public School for Boys, which appears to have gutted the elegant Victorian Main building and a number of ancilliary buildings

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

Russian Navy lends aid after the Messina Earthquake
Russian Navy lends aid after the terrible Messina Earthquake, Sicily, Italy. The devastating earthquake and tsunami of 27-28th December 1908 which measured 7.5 on the richter scale claimed 100

WW1 - Home Front - Daylight Air Raid - Damage to GPO, London
WW1 - Home Front - Daylight Air Raid - Damage to the General Post Office building, London. Date: 1917

Ruins of Maharubi Palace, Zanzibar, East Africa - built outside Zanzibar Town in 1882 for Sultan Barghash to house his impressively large harem

Berlin, Germany - after WW2 - Sport Palace, Potsdamerstrasse Date: circa 1945

Morocco - Locomotive destroyed by Arabs - Chaouia uprising
Morocco - Locomotive destroyed by Arabs during the uprising in the Chaouia region, in which railroads were targetted. Date: 1907

Ruins of Queens Hall, Langham Place, London, WW2
Ruins of the Queens Hall, a concert hall in Langham Place, London, following a WW2 air raid. 1941

Fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle
Destructive fire at Inverary (Inveraray) Castle, the ancestral seat of the Duke of Argyll. Valuable paintings, furniture and books were saved though some were water-damaged

Battle of Mons 1914
German forces attempt to cross the Mons-Cond頃 anal by throwing pontoons across the water. Several times this was done

Damage to Canterbury during WW2 - Baedeker Blitz
" Canterbury under fire" - Damage sustained by bombing on the city by German planes of the luftwaffe during WW2

Thessaloniki, Greece - Bombings of Boatmen of Thessaloniki
The Boatmen of Thessaloniki (or the Assassins of Salonica), were a Bulgarian anarchistic group, active in the Ottoman Empire in the years between 1900 - 1903

Blitz in London -- Oxford Street after an air raid, WW2
Blitz in London -- the aftermath of a nights bombing on Central London and the West End, 18 September 1940. The John Lewis department store (left) was destroyed

Commune Hotel De Ville
The ruined Hotel de Ville, Paris, massively destroyed in the fighting between the Communards and the Versailles government forces. Date: May 1871

Stari Most - Mostar Bridge - Mostar, Bosnia
Stari Most (English translation: The Old Bridge ) - a 16th century bridge in the city of Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina, that crosses the River Neretva and connects two parts of the city

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - The burning of Kumasi
In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana, the British attacked and virtually destroyed the Asanti capital of Kumasi

Borley Rectory Ruins
The garden front of Borley Rectory, shortly after the fire which destroyed much of the house

Asgard Destroyed
The destruction of Asgard, home of the gods, following the final battle of Ragnarok or Gotterdammerung. But don t worry, a better and friendlier realm will replace it

7 Wonders / Diana / Parr
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, destroyed by fire 1882
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 16th December 1882, showing the destruction of the Alhambra Theatre in Londons Leicester Square by fire on 7th December 1882. 1882

WWI - Military observation balloon shot down by German plane
Hot time for a " sausage". A British observation balloon is shot down by enemy planes during the First World War

The end of the world and the Last Judgment. All houses
Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486). Italian miniaturist. Miniature depicting The end of the world and the Last Judgment. All houses and villages be destroyed. 6th time

HMS Bulwark battleship, on 26th November 1914 conducting patrols in the English Channel, while anchored near Sheerness, she was blown up with loss of between 700 and 800 lives. Date: 1915

Italy. Herculaneum. Lararium. House of the Skeleton
Italy. Herculaneum. Ancient Roman town. Lararium. House of the Skeleton

Ukraine. Kiev. Verkhovna Rada, Parliament building. The original building was constructed from 1936-38. Destroyed in the Second World War, it was reconstructed in its original style in 1945-1947

WW1 - SS Sussex torpedoed, 24th March 1916
WW1 - SS Sussex was on a voyage from Folkestone to Dieppe when she was torpedoed by SM UB-29. The ship was severely damaged, with the entire bow forward of the bridge blown off

WW1 - HMS Badger rams U-19 German Navy U-Boat, 1914
WW1 - HMS Badger was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was the eighth Royal Navy ship that served during the First World War

Fokker G1-23 of these escort fighters were available at the time of the German invasion in May 1940, when most were destroyed on the (on the ground)

Jamaica - Jubilee Square, Port Royal
Slide showing a photograph of a mast on the sand at Port Royal, named after Queen Victorias jubilee. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour

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