Reinforced Collection

The Terra Nova of Scotts Antarctic Expedition
The ship Terra Nova - the vessel used by Robert Falcon Scott (1868 -1912) for his South Polar Expedition in 1911-12. Built originally for the Dundee whaling and sealing fleet (launched 1884)

Stalingrad Reinforced
Re-inforcements arrive having crossed the Volga River

French Water Towers - Built in Reinforced Concrete
Three examples of French Water Towers in the modern style built in Reinforced Concrete by Demay Freres - Advertising card. The Architect for all three was Monsieur Maigrot of Paris. Date: circa 1910s

Weymoor Post Office and Hall's Newsagents Shop, Harborne, south-west Birmingham. Note the K3 telephone box/booth/kiosk (right) - the K3, introduced in 1929, again by Giles Gilbert Scott

Modernist Seaside House, Frinton-On-Sea
A photograph of a modernist seaside house located at Frinton-On-Sea, the reinforced concrete structure was designed by architect Gilbert C. Roberts. Date: circa 1937

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

Modernist House, Sydenham Hill
A pair of photographs showing different angles of a modernist house at Sydenham Hill, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton

Modernist House, Redhill, Surrey
A pair of photographs showing different elevations of a modernist house in Redhill, Surrey, designed in 1936 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks
A photograph of a modernist house located at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1936 by architect Rose Elisabeth Benjamin, built in reinforced concrete. Date: circa 1937

Modernist Bungalow, Whipsnade, Interior
A photograph of a hallway to a one storey modernist house in Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, designed in 1936 by architects Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin and Tecton. Built in pre-cast reinforced concrete

Modernist House, Farnham Common
A pair of photographs of a reinforced concrete modernist house at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Farnham Common, Interior
A photograph of an interior room belonging to a reinforced concrete modernist house at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, designed in 1935 by architects Valentine Harding and Tecton

Modernist Houses, Ruislip
These photographs show various angles of modernist semi-detached houses at Ruislip, west London, designed in 1935 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, High Street, Iver
A photograph of a modernist house situated in High Street, Iver, designed in 1936 by architect Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke, built in reinforced concrete. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Hampstead, Interior
A photograph of an interior top floor hallway to a modernist house at Hampstead, designed in 1936 by architect Edwin Maxwell Fry, built in reinforced concrete frame and panel walls

Modernist House, Chalfront, St. Giles. Interiors
Some photographs of some room interiors to a modernist house constructed in reinforced concrete, located at Chalfront, St

Modernist House, Hampstead
A photograph of a modernist house at Hampstead, designed in 1936 by architect Edwin Maxwell Fry, built in reinforced concrete frame and panel walls

Modernist Houses, Plumstead
A photograph which shows a row of four speculatively built modernist houses in monolithic reinforced concrete, located in Plumstead

Modernist House, Chalfront, St. Giles
A photograph of a modernist house constructed in reinforced concrete, located at Chalfront, St. Giles, designed in 1935 by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Ivan Chermayeff. Date: circa 1937

Modernist House, Wentworth
A photograph of a modernist house situated at Wentworth, Surrey, designed in 1937 by architects Colin Anderson Lucas, Amyas Douglas Connell and Basil Robert Ward

Modernist House, Rugby, Warwickshire
A pair of photographs showing different angles of a modernist house in Rugby, Warwickshire, designed in 1934 by architect Serge Ivan Chermayeff

Modernist House In Church Street, Chelsea
A photograph of a modernist house situated in Church Street, Chelsea, designed in 1936, by architects Walter Adolph Georg Gropius and Edwin Maxwell Fry

Advert for Dunlop Tyres, as used in motoring and aviation. Date: 1932

Advert for Dunlop Tyres, using imagery of the Ascot Gold Cup. Date: 1932

Advert for Dunlop Tyres, featuring the crest of the Prince of Wales. The incumbent Prince of Wales at the time went on to become King Edward VIII. Date: 1932

Advert for Dunlop Tyres, promoting them as being in a class of their own. Date: 1932

Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Roman Catholic Church - Amlwch, Angelsey, North Wales. It was built in the 1930s to a design by an Italian architect, Giuseppe Rinvolucri

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

The government declares that the nation is in danger and this is reinforced by public manifestations in all the public places of Paris on the 22 July, with guns firing Date: 11 July 1792

Woman police officer in white shirt and bowler hat, London
Woman police officer in the short-sleeved white shirt and dark trousers from the mix and match uniform introduced in 1977, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Two women police officers in new bowler hat, London
Two women police officers (Deborah Barnes on right) in the mix and match uniform introduced in 1977, wearing the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Woman police officer in a London street, sticking a yellow label on a car windscreen, with a Metropolitan Police Vehicle Removal Unit lorry behind her

Male and female police officers in a London street, with a building called Benson Court behind them (probably in N19). The WPC is wearing the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985

Woman police officer in uniform, London
Woman police officer in woollen V-neck jumper and trousers, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Woman police officer in coat and bowler hat, London
Woman police officer in a coat from the mix and match uniform introduced in 1977, together with the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa 1985

Construction work, Argentina, South America
Construction work in progress, Argentina, South America. Date: circa 1910

London in a tank. Date: 20th century

New Year card in the shape of a leather briefcase -- Bag your game in the New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Male and female police band members, London
Male and female police band members, Met Police, London, both in ceremonial uniform. The WPC in the foreground is holding a clarinet

Woman police officers accessories: a whistle on a chain, a plastic-covered notebook, a wooden truncheon with leather strap, and the reinforced bowler hat introduced in 1985. Date: circa late 1980s

Iron Gates at Wembley
A man stands by the gates at Wembley Stadium which have been reinforced to prevent the doors being rushed at the Cup Final where record crowds are expected. Date: 1930

Pittsburgh Conduit
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : placing reinforced steel for a conduit carrying filtered water to a reservoir for the city. Date: 1912

A bomb shelter built in London, WW1
Children posed by the doorway of a bomb shelter built by a man (a City merchant according to The Graphic) to provide protection for his family during air raids in 1917

Question of the double bottom by G. H. Davis
The question of the double bottom: should it be strengthened? A sectional view through the double bottom of a great liner. 1912

Earls Court takes shape
A new exhibition centre for London. Earls Court exhibition centre in the midst of construction showing the main hall of the vast building

SAVA armoured car, WW1
A SAVA armoured car, used by the Belgian army during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

WW1 - Two armour plated army vehicles, labelled HMAC Silver Witch. Date: circa 1917

Timbers for Dykes
The zeedijken (sea dykes) of the Netherlands are reinforced by massive timbers. Date: 1466

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