Dwellings Collection

The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham
Under the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876

LCC-LFB Aftermath of a fire in Hare Street, SE18
A retail shop and dwellings above were seriously affected by a fire in Hare Street, London SE18, requiring additional fire engines to combat it

Great Eastern Railways Locomotive works at Stratford
A view along the north side of the Great Eastern Railway?s Locomotive works at Stratford (East London) May 1864 with William Henry Maw, then Head of the Drawing office

La Hacienda, Hong Kong, China
La Hacienda, luxury apartments in Mount Kellett Road, Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1949

Collapsed house in Swedenborg Square, Stepney
Gazing at the ruins of their home, which collapsed soon after they fled - tenants of a house in Stepney. The house was typical of much of old housing in London

Village of Moveen during the 1840 s
A landscape view of the village of Moveen during the forced evictions of the 1840 s. Dwellings, some of them without a roof, appear without human habitation

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Design for a Regency park entrance with neoclassical walls and wrought iron gates. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts, London, 1816

Granuales Castle and Curraun Peninsula, Co. Mayo - a view of a Castle stack at the edge of the water, to the left are thatched dwellings. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Mayo; Curraun)

Village Scene - Ivory Coast - 1940s - French West Africa was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta

Fairy chimneys, and sunlit tree, Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey Date: 1992

Archaeological dig at Glastonbury
Archaeological finds for a dig in Glastonbury summerset. Seen are the Timber Foundation and Palisading at the Glastonbury Lake Village, a ladder found, a reaping-hook and some weaving combs

Corporation buildings, Farringdon Road 1866
Part of Corporation buildings, Farringdon Road, plans to erect eight large blocks of improved dwellings for the industrial classes. Date: 1866

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

Gypsy encampment, Essex
Gypsy family on an encampment in Essex, in the early 20th century. Date: circa 1905

Housing problems in the East End of London with typical large families living in one room. Date: 1919

A five-storey dwellings heavily damaged by a bomb by a zeppelin attack. Date: 1916

The first German air-raid by three Zeppelins, dropped bombs in Yarmouth, Kings Lynn and near the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk, wreaking buildings and killing civilians

Four generations of a gypsy family. Date: 1863

A Cave house / dwelling at Laon, France
A Reconstructed (Prehistoric?) Cave house / dwelling and occupant at Laon, Aisne department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. Date: circa 1905

Peabody Square, Westminster 1869
Peabody Square, Westminster, for the dwellings of the poor. Date: 1869

Lodgings for travellers 1856
London travellers could afford to rent lodgings in the poor districts in the out-of-the-way suburbs of London, neglected purlieus in dirty and diseased neighbourhoods. Date: 1856

George Peabody (1795 - 1869), American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy

Peabody Square, Islington 1867
Dwellings for the working-classes, Peabody Square, Shadwell, London. Healthy and comfortable housing for working-class families

JAPAN / YAMATA / MIZU 1912
Yamata and Mizu: idyllic waterside dwellings (Mizu is Japanese for water) Date: 1912

Cartoon, Edward, Prince of Wales, Masonic Grand Master
Cartoon, EDWARD, Prince of Wales, as Masonic Grand Master - Mr Punch hopes for an improvement to public architecture, especially the dwellings of the poor. Date: 1875

Model dwelling of working class 1900
Interior of a working class home, at the beginning of the 20th century. Date: 1900

Old houses in Fleet Street
Houses typical of the dwellings that lined Fleet Street in the 18th and 19th centuries. Date: 19th century

GERMAN CASTLED CITY
An old town on the Rhine, built high up for protection, and with the burghers dwellings clustered round the castle. Date: 1896

Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs
Australian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903

Cushendun River and Bay, Co. Antrim - an elevated and panoramic view of the bay showing bridge and dwellings. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Cushendun). Date: circa early 1900s

Rural Khmer houses on stilts near Phnom Penh, Cambodia - these appear to be fishermans dwellings. Date: circa 1910s

United Friendly Insurance Company document, Southwark Bridge, London, Householders Comprehensive policy for Private Dwellings. early 20th century

LCC-LFB Fire in Portobello Road, West London
A wheeled escape ladder in use at a fire in Portobello Road, West London, involving a cafe and dwellings

Bog village, County Roscommon, Ireland
Cultivation in a bog village in County Roscommon. Peasants farm the land while a dog looks on. Village dwellings border the fields and other women can be seen in the background working on the land

Basel, Switzerland - riverside buildings (River Rhine). Date: 1909

Soho, London - Westminster City Council building works - to contain 52 dwellings, plus office and showroom accommodation. 1973

Soho, London - Marshall Street W1
Soho, London - 1-20 Marshall Street W1, City of Westminster Dwellings. 1973

Riverside dwellings - Cho Quan Creek, Saigon, Vietnam. circa 1906

South China - Kowloon City - view over single-storey dwellings - hills in background. Part of Box 24 Boswell Collection Southern China and Its people. Date: circa 1900

Muckish and the Calabber River - a view over the river and dwellings to Muckish. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Muckish). Date: circa early 1900s

Toorybrennel Or the Schoolhouse, Inishmurray - picture of stone dwellings. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo: Inishmurray Island). Date: circa early 1900s

South China - Beach Village - Ramshackle dwellings, boat, people, hills in background. Part of Box 24 Boswell Collection Southern China and Its people. Date: circa 1900

Pitmens Dwellings, Scot
Pitmens dwellings at Nithshill, Scotland. Date: 1851

Prehistoric Houses
Pre-historic dwellings at Sumburgh, Shetland. These buildings were excavated by H. M. Office of Works and were communal villages of the past, partly built underground Date: March 1939

Cliff Dwellings, America
Cliff dwellings carved out of rock in Cliff Palace Canon, Southwest Colorado Date: circa 1880

WORKERS COTTAGE / 1857
Improved cottage dwelling for the labouring classes; the illustration shows dwellings for two families Date: 1857

Homes for Workers
Elevation of workmens dwellings, Birkenhead Date: 1852

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