Flats Collection

An Ideal Home No. II. The Folding Garden
This folding garden for flat dwellers with a love of open-air life will appeal to all householders who enjoy rustic amenities in a urban setting. The second of the Ideal Home designs by W

The Sketch Ideal Home No. VI. Sports Without Broad Acres by
The difficult problem of how to enjoy games and field sports when you live in a block of flats has triumphantly solved. The sixth in the series of Ideal Home designs by W. Heath Robinson

St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, Marine Court
The Art Deco splendour of Marine Court and New Sun Lounge, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. The building was completed in 1937 and was for a time the tallest block of flats in the United Kingdom

Bonneville Salt Flats at night
The scene on the Bonneville Salt Flats at night

Morshead Mansions, Morshead Road, Maida Vale, London. Date: circa 1910

Wanstead Flats Fair
A travelling funfair, at Wanstead Flats, east London. Date: 1930s

Dolphin Square Gardens, looking North - Pimlico, London. Date: 1956

Your Britain - Fight for it NOW - World War 2 public information Poster designed by Abram Games for the War Office - first published in 1942. Date: 1942

Sir Malcolm Campbell in the cockpit of Bluebird, 1935
Photographic portrait of Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948), the English car and speedboat racer, pictured in the cockpit of Bluebird after one of his record breaking runs on the Utah Salt Flats in

The Painting Room, Haymarket Theatre, London. 1865

Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, were modelled on the Karl Marx Hof flats in Vienna, Austria. The steel frame and concrete clad buildings were demolished 1978 Date: built late 1930s

Council Flats, Sheffield
Boys play on a climbing frame outside blocks of council flats on the Parkhill Estate, Sheffield

Guessens Court, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1920

Bedford, Street Scene
A road in the outskirts of Bedford showing modern blocks of flats. Date: 1964

Eyston Thunderbolt 1937
George Eyston drives his Thunderbolt on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, at a speed of 501 km/h. Date: 19 November 1937

New Tower Blocks Go Up
A striking impression of modern flats being constructed on a slum clearance site, the Woodside Development Plan, in Sheffield

King Henry VI of England married to Margaret of Anjou at Titchfield Abbey, 23 April 1445. The mad king was 24 and the queen 15

Sir Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird, Bonneville, Utah, USA
Sir Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, for the World Land Speed Record 1935. 1935

St. Ermins Hotel, St. Jamess Park, London - 600 apartments and self-contained suites. Numerous bedrooms with bathrooms attached. Date: circa 1907

Dolphin Square, Pimlico, London Date: circa 1950

A Variety of womens shoes 1926
Ladies 1920s footwear, including slippers, tennis and dress shoes. Date: circa 1926

Children on a London housing scheme - probably 1920s

Children in Council housing, London

Elizabeth In Wartime
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Elizabeth In Wartime, written by Florence Kilpatrick. The image portrays Elizabeth, who has dropped her domestic work to help with the war effort

Architectural Drawing, Residential Flats
An architectural drawing which shows an aerial view from the south, of some residential flats, the design was submitted in a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd

Architectural Axonometric Perspective, Flats
An architectural axonometric drawing of designs for some residential flats, a commended submission for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Designed by architect R

Axonometric Residential Flats Design
An architectural axonometric drawing of designs for some residential flats, a commended submission for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd

Architectural Perspective Of Residential Flats
This architectural perspective design placed second in a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. The flats were designed by architects A. P. Lloyd and E. W

Architectural Flats Illustration
A front cover architectural illustration of a block of flats, to a report on a competition for designs of five-storey flats, organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. Date: circa 1930s

Residential Flats Architectural Competition Winner
A winning architectural design for a competition organised by the Cement Marketing Company Ltd. This perspective shows a five storey reinforced concrete residential flat

Hanover Gate Mansions, Regent's Park
An architectural drawing which proposes the erection of three blocks, each containing ten flats, now named Hanover Gate Mansions, it is situated at Park Road, Regent's Park

Winter, Holland
A watercolour painting of some Dutch town steps with a tall lantern to the side, leading up to an alleyway with tall buildings of shops and flats to each side. Date: circa 1923

High rise tower block with banners, Clapham, London
A high rise 23-storey council tower block with banners, Sporle Court, Clapham Junction, South London. Residents were complaining that their requests to be rehoused were being ignored by the local

Modern housing, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Modern housing in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with prams being pushed along the pavement. Date: circa 1930s

Boys outside block of Marylebone flats, NW London
Boys play outside a block of recently built Marylebone flats, NW London. Date: circa 1930s

A Grand Apartment Block on Hyde Park Gardens, London. Date: 1909

Dramatic machinery for a theatre set including flying carriage, boat on moving waves, flats, etc. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Dramatic machinery for a theatre set. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees

Backstage at a the Variety Theatre, Paris, France
Backstage at the Variety Theatre in Paris, before the show begins. Names include Castera, Duvernon, Brossard, Valentino, Dea, De Prony, Lassouche and Darbel

Lady Hamilton Grant on roof garden of Berkeley Court
Lady (Hamilton) Grant, aka the actress Margaret Bannerman, featured in a photograph on the front cover of The Bystander taking tea on the roof garden of Berkeley Court

Speed of the Wind, specially built for Eyston
The specially built Speed of the Wind car in which Captain G E T Eyston set many land speed records on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA. 20th century

Speed record course, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA
Sir Malcolm Campbells course at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, for his attempt on the world land speed record. The circles indicate the courses used by Jenkins

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, the site of numerous land speed record attempts by Sir Malcolm Campbell. 20th century

John Cobb, driver, in a Napier-Railton, in which he set new speed records at Bonneville Salt Flats, USA in 1935. 1935

La Digue, Duinbergen, Knokke-Heist, West Flanders, Belgium
La Digue (The Dyke), Duinbergen, Knokke-Heist, West Flanders, Belgium. Date: circa 1950s

Seven identical letter boxes in a block of flats. Date: 1960s

Oatlands Court, Putney Heath - LCC 11-storey block of flats
Oatlands Court - LCC 11-storey point block of flats on the Ackroydon Estate on the Eastern fringe of Putney Heath. Date: 1953

BUILDING COUNCIL FLATS
The construction of a block of flats on the Woodchurch Estate, at Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. Date: 1960s

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