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Poster advertising the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park, running from April to October 1924. Travel routes are shown, together with a plan of the exhibition space itself
Amsterdam PlanA pre-railway plan showing how the streets and canals have been built concentrically round the city centre. Date: mid-19th century
Extension of the British Museum, LondonExtension of the British Museum in London: the new King Edward VII Galleries. A birds eye view showing the new section of the building. Date: 1914
Plan and elevation of Stonehenge, Wiltshire.. Ancient stone circle at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, with original plan and elevation, and ruins as of 1816. Copperplate engraving by W
LCC-LFB Dockhead fire station, BermondseyDockhead fire station, Bermondsey, SE London, built in 1928. This fire station was the location for the early seasons of the ITV series Londons Burning
Ground plan, Carmarthen County Lunatic Asylum, WalesArchitects ground-floor plan of the Carmarthen Lunatic Asylum erected near Carmarthen, South Wales, in 1865 and designed by David Brandon
Plan Pentonville PrisonA plan of the floor layout of Pentonville, a model prison built in London in 1843, with corridors of cells radiating out from a central point & exercise yards
WW1 - Trench map from a soldiers war diary showing the Somme Battlefield with information gleaned from captured German Prisoners
Ebenezer Howard - plan of garden cityEbenezer Howards plan of a garden city. Date: 1898
Map of St Marylebone, LondonMap of St Marylebone, from a plan of London published by Richard Phillips. Date: 1813
Glasgow Municipal Tenement PlanLayout plan of a Glasgow Municipal Tenement. Date: 1896
Cartoon, Kitcheners All, WW1Cartoon, Kitcheners All, First World War. A scene in a London club, where nearly all of the members look just like Lord Kitchener, each one with his own ideas of how the war should be run. Date: 1914
All-Red Route at the Festival of Empire, 1911A diagram of the All-Red Route at the Festival of Empire, opened on 12th May 1911 by King George V and Queen Mary. The route was essentially an electric railway line laid down at a cost of 90
Didus ineptus, dodo designDrawing 51 Vol 2 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the panel over doorway in the South East gallery, first floor of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875
Great Zimbabwe / ArtefactsA plan of the site of the incredible ancient buildings at Great Zimbabwe, and a few of the many objects found at the site. Everything is of ancient African origin
Bisley Farm School No. 2 Ground-floor PlanGround-floor plan of the new building added to the Bisley Farm School, Surrey, in 1873, and later known as the Shaftesbury School block. Date: circa 1888
Neo-Sumerian. Statue of Gudea. Girsu, Iraq. 2120 BC. CuneifoMesopotamia. Neo-Sumerian. Ruler Gudea of state of Lagash. Diorita statue. From Girsu (modern Telloh). Iraq. 2120 BC. Cuneiform inscription. Detail. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France
A Sectional Drawing of The Empress Club, 13 Berkeley StreetA Sectional Drawing through the extensive premises of The Empress Club, sitting between Dover Street and 13 Berkeley Street, W1, London
Map of Rome
Map of BrusselsMap of the city of Brussels, Belgium Date: 19th century
Map of ParisBradshaws Plan of Paris, France and map of the environs Date: 19th century
Ground plan of Millbank Prison, London. Date: 1862
Ground plan of Newgate Prison, London. Date: 1862
Ground plan of Holloway PrisonGround plan of London City Prison and House of Correction, Holloway. Date: 1862
PARIS IN 1578A fascinating plan of the city, showing the inner and outer walls, the suburbs, the islands; the Tuileries, so central today, are actually outside the city wall
The Western Front battleground - map of August 1914WW1 - The Western Front battleground - map of August 1914 Date: 1914
London Map 1806London extending from the head of the Paddington Canal West, and to the West India Docks East. Date: 1806
King David. Drawing for the rose window of the Cathedral of Leon. 14th century. Paper, gouache. Leon Cathedral Chapter. Castile and Leon. Spain
Austria. Vienna. Plan, 1720Austria. Vienna. Plan of the walled city with Prater and the Danube River. Engraving, 1720
Pen and ink sketch by B. Waterhouse HawkinsSketch on the reverse of a letter dated 24 October 1855, written to Professor Richard Owen from Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Date: 1855
County Lunatic Asylum, Aylesbury, BuckinghamshireAerial view of the Buckinghamshire County Lunatic Asylum at Stone, near Aylesbury. The asylum, designed by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon, was opened in 1853
Union Workhouse Infirmary, Kings Norton, WorcestershireThe pavilion-plan infirmary erected in 1897 adjacent to the Kings Norton Union workhouse on what is now Raddlebarn Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, south west of Birmingham
University of LondonA panorama of the Bloomsbury area of London showing how Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, will fit in with the other University of London buildings
Men of the British First Airborne Division in a glider; SecoPhotograph showing a unit of the British First Airborne Division in a glider on the way to Arnhem, September 1944. On 17th September 1944 Operation Market Garden was put into action; a bold plan
British First Airborne Troops using a mortar, Arnhem; SecondPhotograph showing men of the British First Airborne Division using a 3-inch mortar in one of the woods surrounding Arnhem, in Holland, September 1944
Rome / Colosseum 1855Plan of the various levels of the building : the lowest level is on the lower right, and the three higher levels are shown anti-clockwise
Plan of Bosworth Field, Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, 22 August 1485, towards the end of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). Date: 1485
LCC-LFB Interior of Brigade Control UnitThe inside of the control unit and the preparation of the fire ground map, showing the layout of the affected building. It is used for planning the disposition of crews and lines of attack on the fire
Map of AntwerpMap of the city of Antwerp, Belgium Date: 19th century
Map of WarsawMap of the city of Warsaw, Poland from 1862 Date: 1862
Wandsworth County Court, Sections, 1858 Date: 1858
Map of VeronaMap of the city of Verona, Italy Date: 19th century
Aerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, LondonAerial plan of the Festival of Britain site, South Bank, London, showing all the main buildings and other venues of interest. Date: May 1951
Plan of John Evelyns gardenA plan of John Evelyns garden at Sayes Court, Deptford, shown looking south, which he occupied from 1652 to 1694
Aerial View of the bridge at Nijmegen, Holland; Second WorldAerial photograph showing the road bridge across the Waal at Nijmegen, Holland, 1944. This photograph was taken prior to Operation Market Garden ; the audacious plan to lay an Allied carpet of
Asylum at Hanwell 1843The Asylum at Hanwell
New Tower Blocks Go UpA striking impression of modern flats being constructed on a slum clearance site, the Woodside Development Plan, in Sheffield
Kew - Botanical GardenPLAN OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS (the arboretum is beyond the pinetum, upper left)