Destroyed Collection (page 8)

Italy. Herculaneum. The House of the Stags. 1st AD. Room
Italy. Herculaneum. The House of the Stags. 1st AD. Inside. Room

Italy. Herculaneum. House of the Great Portal
Italy. Herculaneum. Ancient Roman town. House of the Great Portal. Lower decumanus

Italy. Herculaneum. Cardo IV
Italy. Herculaneum. Ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 80 AD. Cardo IV

The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of G
Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen (c.1577-1633). Dutch painter. The Explosion of the Spanish Flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar, c.1621. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Spain. Catalonia. Barcelona. Lyric Theatre or Lyric Theatre Beethoven room. Founded in 1881. built by architect Salvador Sabate i Vinals. Mallorca Street, 277

The End of the World and the Last Judgement. An earthquake will devastate the world. And the Earth opened. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Public fountain. Herculaneum
Public fountain at the roman Forum. Herculaneum. Italy

Italy. Rome. Pons Aemilius (Ponte Emilio) or Broken Bridge (Ponte Rotto), 193 B.C. on the River Tiber, the first stone bridge built in Rome. Tiberina Island

Italy. Herculaneum. Ruins of the ancient Roman city that was covered by lava after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a.D. Campania

Ramesseum. Granite bust of Pharaoh Ramses II. Egypt
Rameseum. Granite bust of Pharaoh Ramses II. 13th century B.C. Nineteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Egypt

William Gordon-Cumming
Sir WILLIAM GORDON-CUMMING Distinguished soldier, his career destroyed when he was accused of cheating at cards in the Baccarat scandal, at Tranby Croft, 1890. Date: 1854 - 1921

England / Whitby
A fine overview of Whitby, Yorkshire, showing the harbour and St. Hildas Abbey, perched on the East Cliff. Founded in 657 AD, the original Abbey was destroyed by Vikings in 867 AD Date: 1930s

Turkey / Laodicea
Laodicea (now Denizli) fell to the Kingdom of Pergamum in the 2nd century BC, and then to the Roman Empire for a short period. It was destroyed in an earthquake in 60 BC. Date: mid 19th century

Coffee Destroyed 1932
500 million kilos of Brazilian coffee are destroyed to keep the price high Date: 1932

Ww1 Postcard Love Story
" We will continue our love story when the German Empire is destroyed!" Date: circa 1916

Bombing Italy Defences
An Italian defence tower destroyed by Allied bombing. Date: circa 1942

Paris / Place Vendome 1850
Place Vendome: the column with its statue of Napoleon was destroyed by the Communards in 1871 but replaced at the expense of the painter Courbet Date: circa 1850

Tidal Wave at Ito
The town of Ito, in the Izu peninsula of Japan, is destroyed by a tidal wave caused by an earthquake Date: September 1923

Syria / Laodicea C1840
The ruins of Laodicea (today Latakia) : if the old city was destroyed, it is perhaps because its inhabitants were said (in the Bible) to be indifferent to religion Date: circa 1840

7 Wonders / Diana / Calmet
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

Euston Great Hall
The Great Hall at Euston Station, designed by Philip Hardwick the Younger in the Roman-Ionic style, wickedly destroyed in 1963 Date: 1849

Great Hall, Euston Station, Central London
View of the Great Hall, Euston Station, London, now wantonly destroyed. Date: 1849

Monastery Destroyed
RELIGION PERSECUTED On the pretext of building a cultural centre, officials blow up the church of an ancient monastery Date: 1930

Destroying Saxon Idols
Charlemagne orders the pagan idols of the Saxons to be destroyed, building Christian churches instead Date: 778

Lyric Theatre after a fire, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
Lyric Theatre after a fire which destroyed it on 24 February 1907, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. The icicles may be the result of attempts by firefighters to put the fire out with hoses during freezing

Cabinet Minister as Fireman: Winston Churchills daring
Winston Churchill, then President of the Board of Trade, is shown in his pyjamas and a firemans helmet taking part in yeoman service at the burning of Burley-on-the-Hill

Cock-a-doodle-doo, My dame has lost her shoe -- two dogs manage to rip the shoe apart between them. Date: 1899

WW1 - German aircraft views the English Navy - North Sea
WW1 - A German illustration of a battle in the North Sea showing a German aircraft beating-off the English Navy. Three enemy merchant-vessels are being destroyed

Liore 70 -only 8 of these built for the French Navy, with all but one destroyed in an air raid during June 1940

Bloch-SNCASO MB 700-first flown in April 1940, the sole MB 700 had only flown 10 hours when it was destroyed by German forces

WW1 - Western Front - Canadian troops in action at St. Eloi
WW1 - Western Front - Canadian troops in action, destroying a hill near St. Eloi, a point used by the Germans as an observation post. Date: 1916

Reopening of the Little Theatre, 1920
Feature in The Sphere reporting on the reopening of the Little Theatre, Adelphi, London which opened its doors in 1920 after it had been destroyed in a bombing raid on 4 September 1917

The library at Louvain ruined during WW1
The library at Louvain in Belgium, as it was with a smaller, inset photograph, showing how it looked after German bombardment In 1914

Charabanc Outing, Bristol, Bristol County, England. Showing in the background Temple Church - Destroyed in World War 2 Date: 1910s

Ruined houses at Bury St Edmunds following air raid, 1915
Firemen on the ruins of houses destroyed at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk by incendiary bombs dropped in an air raid in 1915. Date: 1915

WW1 damage at Dormans - Saint-Hippolyte Church
Two young boys pose amid the damage at Dormans, Marne, France showing the ruined Saint-Hippolyte Church following heavy fighting in the village during WW1

WW1 - Belgians destroy railways to hamper German advance
WW1 - Belgians destroy the railway between Landen and St. Trond to hamper German advance Date: 1914

Brim making machine at Battersbys hat factory in Stockport, 1906. This is believed to be new machinery bought to replace equipment destroyed in the fire a few weeks earlier Date: 1906

Rebuilding the hat factory trimming room after the disastrous fire in 1906 had destroyed many of the buildings. Within 6 weeks production had restarted - this photo shows the work in progress to

RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). The Emperor Charles V and the Empress Isabella. 1628. Copy of the original portrait by Titian destroyed in the fire at the Alcạ r of Madrid in 1734

WWI. France (1914-1918). The neighborhood of small industries in Reims destroyed by bombing. In the background the cathedral of Reims. Painting

Sicily - Catania Cathedral
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Catania Cathedral. Entitled to Saint Agatha, the church has been destroyed

Jamaica - Jamaica Anchorage
Slide showing a photograph of the view from the arsenal at Port Royal. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in south-eastern Jamaica

Jamaica - Panorama from Arsenal
Slide showing a photograph of the view from the arsenal at Port Royal. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in south-eastern Jamaica

Jamaica - Kings House, Kingston
Slide showing a photograph of Kings House (also known as Government House) is the official residence of the Governor-General of Jamaica, who represents the Jamaican Monarch, and head of state

Jamaica - Kings House Grounds, Kingston
Slide showing a photograph of the grounds of the Kings House (also known as Government House) is the official residence of the Governor-General of Jamaica, who represents the Jamaican Monarch

Jamaica - Panorama of Port Royal
Slide showing a photograph over looking Port Royal. Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in south-eastern Jamaica

Battle Areas - from the womans point of view, Helen McKie
Impressions of Rheims by Miss Helen McKie. One in a series of sketches, drawn by Bystander artist Helen McKie during a visit to war torn France following the end of the First World War. 1

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