Flooring Collection

Canberra: the swimming-pool
Colour illustration depicting the swimming pool of P&Os super-liner Canberra. Designed by architects Casson and Rendle, the pool was of white mosaic and set within tiers of sunbathing terraces

No. 2 (Battle) War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
Staff and patients in Ward A13 at the No. 2 War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire - the First World War deployment of Battle School, Cranbury Road, Reading

A Present from Caesar by Fortunino Matania
A Present from Caesar, a Vision of Imperial Rome. Painting by Fortunino Matania, exhibited at the R. I. Galleries, 1926. Date: 1926

Treloars Inlaid Linoleum - it never looks shabby
Why is this girl like Treloars Inlaid Linoleum? Because she never looks shabby" !! Date: circa 1890s

Harborne Bus Depot, south-west Birmingham
Ironite Flooring laid at the Harborne Bus Depot, Serpentine Road (off High Street), Harborne, south-west Birmingham for the City Corporation - May, 1926. Date: 1926

Tilo-Leum Advertisement
An advertisement for Liberty & Co. promoting Tilko-Leum, a flooring product, which, in the picture, gives an old-world effect on a tiled floor, of a tudor interior. Date: circa 1919

Advert for Linovent, which could be laid under carpets and linoleum to create extra spring and deaden noise. Date: 1932

Advert for Treloar carpets 1918
Trevoar carpets in Ludgate Hill. Date: 1918

Mosaics from Palermo Cathedral and Monreale Cathedral in Sicily, 12th century. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of All Classical Art Eras

Antique painted floor in the Villa di Arrio Diomede, Pompeii, excavated 1771-1774. Handcoloured lithograph by Konter after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of All Classical Art Eras

TESTING THE CONSTRUCTION
Troops from the nearby Knightsbridge barracks are made to run in step, to test the strength of the flooring in the Exhibition. Date: 1851

The Orchestra promenade, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Skeleton Mosaic
A black and white mosaic of a skeleton, Memento Mori, from a Roman floor in the Vesuvius region. Not definitely from Pompeii. Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Napoli collection

French furnishing -- corner seating. circa 1850s

The Aurigas mosaic. 4th century. The victoriuos charioteer Marcianus with his chariot. He carries a palm of triumph in one hand and the whip in the other

Germany. Berlin. German Historical Museum. Interior

Roman mosaic. Fish. Ostia Antica. Italy
Roman mosaic. Fish. From the Forum of the Corporations or Piazza delle Corporazione. Ostia Antica. Italy

Roman mosaic. Boat. Ostia Antica. Italy
Roman mosaic. Commercial boat. From the Forum of the Corporations or Piazza delle Corporazione. Ostia Antica. Italy

Flooring the Barley
Flooring the barley for the malting process. Date: circa 1850

Cultivation of beer. Steeping, couching and flooring malt Date: 1830s

The Senlac Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite in Dove Tigrato, Veneto Crocicohio or Cippolino Versilla. Date: circa 1920s

The Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin) Suite
The Classic Marble Lavatory (Wash Basin / sink) Suite in Breche Violetta Rose Aurore Date: circa 1920s

Tokay GECKO - on wooden flooring (Gekko gekko ). Bali, Indonesia

Main hall at Baden Powell House, London
The main hall at Baden Powell House, Queens Gate, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Keep Fit Exercises
Three women standing in front of a mirror doing keep fit stretching excercises. Date: early 1930s

Advertisement for Cavendish boilers with female model (Pat Knight). 1959

Operating track, covered with rubber flooring, and crossed w
Front of operating room in which are arranged parallel with track, 24 cameras at a distance of 12 inchdes from the center of each lens, and an electro-shutter in front of each. Date c1881

Krakow Castle Reception
One of the grand reception rooms, with wall tapestries in the Royal Castle ( Wawel or Vavel ), in Kracow (Cracow), Poland. Date: medieval

Rudston Roman Villa mosaics during excavation 1 / 3
Rudston Roman Villa mosaics during excavation - Rudston, East Yorkshire - dated to the 4th century. The villa contained some of the best examples of Roman mosaics

Advert for Geebro floor covering 1939
The modern colourful flooring Geebro cord rugs and carpets coverings Date: 1939

Krakow Castle Hall
The tournament hall in the Royal Castle ( Wawel or Vavel ), in Kracow (Cracow), Poland. Date: medieval

Interior, Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland
View of the spacious sitting room of the Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland. Date: 1950s

Laying a Tiled Floor
Three men lay a tiled floor in a grand house, being careful to measure everything exactly Date: circa 1760

Algerian Moorish Cafe
Moorish Cafe in Algeria - interior

Fantasy house with white cat
A stylised fantasy scene of a house interior with check floor and a white fat staring out of a glass door at a distant dusty horizon

White cat on a sofa
A stylised airbrush picture by Malcolm Greensmith, showing a white cat stretched out on a sofa with a purple landscape disappearinginto the distance through a pair of shutters

Hospital saloon on the London and North Western Railways
A hospital on wheels, the invalid saloons on the London and North Western Railway. Special thick flooring was used to deaden the vibrations and noise from the patient

Women Cricketers using Indoor Nets, St. Brides Institute, 1
Illustration of the female members of St. Brides Institute using the indoor cricket nets of their club, during the winter of 1905

Luxurious Living Room
An eye-catching living room, with a stylish satin suite, ruched curtains, parque flooring, Romanesque columns, flower arrangements, a baby grand piano, leopardskin rug

Benywood Chairs 1862
Chairs and other bentwood furniture (including the flooring) by THONET of Vienna Date: 1862

A Ship Shop
The Ship souvenir shop: Toys, gifts and radios etc. are sold. Two little girls admire a cuddly dog. A couple leaf through postcards. A cricketer and his pal are at the door

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