Roof Collection (page 31)

Rooftop Skiing
Some people stop at nothing and this ski jumper goes over a snow clad roof just to keep in practice! Date: 1930s

Russian Department Store
Inside G.U.M. department store, the largest in Moscow, Russia. It was built by Alexander Pomerantsev and boasts an elegant steel framed glass roof. Date: built 1890 - 1893

Cruck-Beam Gable
A derelict cruck-beam house (being demolished), at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. This was one of the very earliest forms of building construction. Date: 19th century

Rothwell Market House, Northamptonshire, England. It was built by Sir Thomas Tresham. Work began in 1577, but he died before the roof had been finished. Date: late 16th century

Building a House 1930S
An " all timber" private detached house being constructed in the open countryside. Date: 1930s

Totnes Rooftops
Winter view of Totnes, Devon, England, seen from the castle walls. The houses (note the coal smoke coming from the chimneys) in this view line the towns main street. Date: 1950s

SOLAR ROOF
Solar panels on the roof of a suburban bungalow. Date: 1978

Bath Abbey Choir
The Choir and East Window of Bath Abbey, Somerset, England. The beautiful fan vaulting of the Choir roof is original 16th century. Date: 12th century

Fountain Row - not in the grounds of a mansion in the heart of the countryside, but on the Roof Garden at Derry and Toms, Kensington High Street, central London. Date: 1950s

Yorkshire House
A charming old house or farmhouse, covered with ivy and with a pantiled roof, in a corner of the pretty village of Lastingham, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1930s

World War Two Bomb Damage
A couple survey the damage caused by a bomb dropped on the UK during World War Two. Date: circa 1942

Niujie Mosque in Beijing, China
Beijings most historical and majestic mosque, The Niujie (Ox Street), is situated on Niujie Street in the citys Xuanwu District

American troops in Villers-sur-Fere, France, WW1
American troops in action in Villers-sur-Fere, northern France, towards the end of the First World War. 27 July 1918

Sudan - A Dinka Hut Date: circa 1910s

View from Roof Garden - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
View from Roof Garden - Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. A direct line of sight to the State Capitol Building in the distance. Date: circa 1910s

Little girl walking across the rooftops
A little girl walking across the rooftops, on her way to Somewhere Town. first published 1879

The Imperial Vault of Heaven, Beijing, China Date: circa 1927

Hotel Utah Roof Garden - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Hotel Utah Roof Garden - Salt Lake City, Utah - USA. A view over the Towers of the Mormon Temple in Temple Square Date: circa 1910s

Germany - Nurnberg - Sebaldus Pfarrhof (the Vicarage of St. Sebalds Church) - particularly noteable is the Old Choir Loft. Date: circa 1905

Bombed House - Occupants refuse to leave
The two elderly female occupants of a heavily-damaged house in Northern France during the First World War, who resolutely refused to leave their battered home. Date: 1919

Sennhutte - Switzerland - A Cheese Factory Date: circa 1910s

Odigitria, Crete - The Monastery
Panagia Odigitria (Afentiko) at Mystras (Odigitria Monastery), Crete in the Asterousia mountains. Date: circa 1920s

Roof of Saint Stephens Cathedral in Vienna, Austria circa 2008

Stadium, Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London
View inside the Stadium at the Franco-British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. Date: 1908

Royal Engineers working party in trucks, Arras, France, WW1
A Royal Engineers working party travelling in trucks on a light railway, passing through a ruined building at Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: March 1918

Soldiers at Varmi Fort, Nigeria, West Africa, WW1
Soldiers of C Company M1 at Varmi Fort, Nigeria, West Africa, during the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1916

Holt tractor transporting heavy artillery, WW1
A Holt tractor transporting heavy artillery (probably a Howitzer) along a country road during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Selfridges Hanging Gardens of London
The Vine Walk of Selfridges Hanging Gardens of London C. 1930

Scout Log Cabin Rockerfeller Centre, New York
A log cabin (with roof and chinks fortified against wind and cold) erected by a Troop of Boy Scouts atop the 70th floor roof of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York

Red Lion sculpture in York Road, near Waterloo, London
A Red Lion sculpture from the old Red Lion Brewery, in a new position in York Road, near Waterloo Station, not far from the Festival of Britain site on the South Bank, London

Sierra Leone - Vegetable Market
Sierra Leone protectorate - Vegetable Market Date: circa 1905

Country lane with farm buildings
A country lane with farm buildings

The Netherlands - Marken. Houses with wide gables on the edge of a canal. The housewives have hung out their washing in long lines heading down to the edge of the water

Tiling a Roof, Tools
Tools of the roof builders from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Diving, Malta 1969
Divers vent compressed air from a valve in the roof of the Underwater House, after setting it up, 30 feet beneath the surface of Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta. Date: 1969

Car of the 1920S
A lady in a striking coat enters an elegant car : her chauffeur is exposed to the elements, but she herself will be cosy inside unless she chooses to lower the roof. Date: 1920s

Thatching a Roof / 1957
Man thatching a roof Date: 1957

Putting out Thatch Fire
The Fire Brigade deals successfully with a fire that has broken out on a thatched roof Date: 1950s

Thatching a Roof / 1950S
Thatching a roof at an agricultural show. Date: 1950s

Tiling a Roof, France
Workers tile the roof of a building in a French town while two well-to-do gentlemen look on Date: Circa 1760

Escaping Monkey / 1932
Reluctant to participate in monkey gland rejuvenation treatment, a monkey escapes onto the roof of a hospital in Prague and defies captors for an hour Date: 1932

The Strand Roof Cascades, New York
The Strand Roof Cascades, Broadway at 47th to 48th Street, New York Date: 1920s

The Dolly Sisters in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic
Sheet music for Underneath the Stars from Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, New Amsterdam Theatre Roof, New York, USA, 1916 1916

City Investment Building, New York
City Investment Building. View from roof-top of the City Investment Building at 165 Broadway; Singer Building visible beyond

Hospital shelters at South Wharf, Rotherhithe, London
View of hospital shelters at South Wharf, Trinity Street, Rotherhithe, south east London, where smallpox patients waited before being transported down the Thames to hospital ships moored at Long

Prisoner of war camp, Catterick, Yorkshire
A group of six inmates pose amongst flower beds at a World War One prisoner of war camp at Catterick, North Yorkshire

Thatcher Sidney Chun - Marlborough
A thatcher, Sidney Chun (1903-1985), carrying the thatch upon his shoulder before thatching a roof at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England

Thatcher, Sidney Chun - thatching a roof at Marlborough
A thatcher, Sidney Chun (1903-1985), at work thatching a roof at Marlborough, Wiltshire, England - date: 1950s

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