Reconstruction Collection (page 10)

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

Reconstruction in the Outer Hebrides by Heath Robinson, WW1
Settling a Scottish soldier on the land. A lone Scottish soldier is left alone on a tiny island with a barrel of turnip seed at the end of First World War. Date: 1919

Reconstruction by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Afforestation - a good beginning in the provinces. A town rather over-compensates for all the felling of trees that took place during the First World War by placing planted flower pots in every

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, with reconstruction to the stonework taking place. The Floral Hall is just visible on the left

Elizabethan Pageant, Olympia, London
Elizabethan Pageant in the Royal Naval & Military Tournament at Olympia, London. The Call to Arms, a display showing the uniforms and accoutrements of the age of Queen Bess. Date: 1912

Rotes Colleg, Leipzig, Germany
Rotes Colleg (now part of Leipzig University) following reconstruction, Leipzig, Germany. Date: circa 1905

Mount St Sepulchre - replica of Lourdes Grotto
Group photo of Franciscan friars from Mount St Sepulchre, Brookland, Washington DC, USA, at the Lourdes Grotto - a replica in the grounds. Date: circa 1910

Paris, France - Avenue Foch (formerly de l Imperatrice). It was constructed during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III as part of the grand plan for the reconstruction of Paris. Date: 1858

Paris, France - Rebuilding Place Cambrai. Date: 1856

Paris, France - Rebuilding Rue Monge, Rive Gauche. Date: 1868

Paris, France - Rebuilding. Demolition of the houses of the Pont Notre-Dame. Date: 1786

Paris, France - Old Walls Unearthed Date: 1860

Paris, France - Destruction of Old College of Cluny. Date: 1860

Fire at construction site, Oxford Street, London
Fire at a construction site in Oxford Street, London, 14 February 1955. The building was under reconstruction following war damage

Prehistoric Europe and Africa united by a land-bridge
Reconstruction drawing by A Forrestier from material supplied by Sir Arthur Keith, the anthropologist, showing Neanderthal men stampeding elephants

Football boots advertisement, end of WW1
An advertisement for Super football boots from W. Abbott & Sons of the Strand and Regent Street. The advert suggests to officers that a pair would make a perfect gift to express appreciation of their

Givenchy, adopted by Liverpool post-First World War
The Lord Mayor of Liverpool at Givenchy, an adopted French village : a ceremony at the 55th West Lancashire Division Memorial

Gift of Old Etonians to French village of Eton Woeuvre
The gift of Old Etonians to Etons adopted French village devastated in the First World War : the opening of the school and mairie at Eton Woeuvre near Verdun

Liverpools gift - new memorial hall at Givenchy
Liverpools gift to its adopted French town : the new memorial hall at Givenchy after the opening ceremony performed by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool

Island of Heligoland by G. H. Davis
Refortified for prestige : Heligoland, of no strategical value. A detailed drawing of the fingerpost to Germanys only western sea outlet: the tiny island of Heligoland

Ancient boat building by G. H. Davis
Boat building over 2500 years ago: Humber craft reconstructed. The skill of primitive man exemplified in a recent find of two carvel-built canoes. Date: 1946

Japanese Garden - Bernheimer Hill, Hollywood, California Date: circa 1920s

Pagoda - Bernheimer Garden, Hollywood, California, USA
Pagoda at the Bernheimer Garden, Hollywood, California, USA Date: circa 1920s

Piltdown Man: reconstructed skulls compared
Ape-Man of Modern Man? The two Piltdown skull reconstructions. A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A

Piltdown Man: mandible and skull compared
Ape-Man of Modern Man? The two Piltdown skull reconstructions. A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A

The Piltdown jaw: a reconstruction by W. P Pycraft
A drawing by W. P Pycraft of the restored jaw of the Piltdown Man, showing a pronounced forward thrust. Date: 1912

Piltdown Man: brain capacity compared
A page from the Illustrated London News, debating the merits of Dr. A. Smith-Woodwards reconstruction of the Piltdown Mans brain over the reconstruction proposed by Professor Arthur Keith s

Conjectural recreation of Ephesus, Turkey
Conjectural recreation of the city of Ephesus, Turkey, viewed from the Coressus

Conjectural restoration of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Re-building Menai Suspension Bridge
The Menai Suspension Bridge - built by Thomas Telford, opened in 1826. Reconstruction started in June 1938. Date: 1938

Westminster
Reconstruction of the ancient thoroughfare from Westminster to London. Date: middle ages

The Turin Exposition 1911 - The Alpine Village Date: 1911

Turin Exposition 1911 - Russian Pavilion and Medieval Castle
The Turin Exposition of 1911 - The Russian Pavilion and The Medieval Castle on the riverbank of the River Po. Date: 1911

The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete - excavated by Sir Arthur Evans. Extensively re-built. The Capital city of the Minoan Culture. Date: circa 1920s

Ypres - Market Place with Hotels - post WWI
Ypres (now Ieper), the Market Place after WWI. The mental hospital. (Hal Notre Dame, Onze Lieve Vrouwhospitaal, Hospital of Our Dear Lady)

Dunne D7bis a reconstruction of the D6
Dunne D7bis, a reconstruction of the D6 converted to a two-seater with an aircooled engine, on test at the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough

The view from the RAeS Library, Mailton Place
The view from the Library prior to the Hyde Park Corner reconstruction scheme

Hamilton Place prior to the Hyde Park Corner reconstruction scheme

?Sopworth Pup? WW1 fighter plane, reconstruction

A Wealden mollusc, 1924
One of the preparators in the Geology Department, Frank Oswell Barlow, seen here with his reconstruction of a giant Wealden mollusc

Anomalocaris model
Model of the swimming predator Anomalocaris based on fossils from the Cambrian Burgess Shale, 520 million years old

Silurian seafloor
An artists impression of the seafloor of the shelf sea surrounding Britain during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago), with trilobites, brachiopods, rugose corals, and molluscs

Proterozoic Ice Age

Carboniferous coal forest
Artists impression of the swamp forests of ferns and other non-flowering plants which covered much of Britain towards the end of the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago)

Silurian landplants
An artists impression of the the earliest vascular plants which developed beside freshwater pools during the Silurian (443 to 417 million years ago)

Precambrian Landscape
Artists impression of a Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) landscape, when oxygen built up in the atmosphere (about 1)

Homo sapiens cranium (Omo 1)
A reconstruction of Homo sapiens skull discovered By the team of Richard Leakey in 1967. Location: Kibish, north west of Kenya Camp near Shiangoro Village east of River Omo

Platinum model
A reconstruction of a platinum nugget. Platinum (Pt) is an element and very precious metal. The most common source of platinum is from alluvial deposits

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