Ruined Collection

The Beach at Ballybunion, County Kerry, Ireland
The Beach at Ballybunion, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, England. King Edwin built a small church here c. 630. St. Hilda founded a monastery in 656. The present ruined Norman Abbey was built circa 1222. Date: founded circa 656

Whitby Abbey, Whitby, North Yorkshire
View of the ruins of Whitby Abbey (Benedictine), in Whitby, North Yorkshire. Date: 1882

Polish anti-war poster -- Nie
Polish anti-war poster of a ruined city in the silhouette of a falling bomb, with the single word Nie (No)

The Cross Bearers, WW1 battlefield by Matania
British soldiers on a devastated battlefield rescuing a figure of Jesus Christ and his cross from a ruined church. Date: 1918

Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds, West Yorkshire
View of the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey (Cistercian), near Leeds, West Yorkshire. Date: 1882

Bolton Priory, Wharfedale, North Yorkshire
View of the ruins of Bolton Priory (Augustinian), in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire. Date: 1882

The Easter Rising - Dublin, Ireland
The Easter Rising also known as the Easter (or Irish ) Rebellion and referred to erroneously in some contemporary British reports as the Sinn Fein Rebellion - an armed insurrection staged in Ireland

Ruins of Brambletye House, near East Grinstead, Sussex
Ruins of Brambletye House, near Forest Row and East Grinstead, Sussex, dating back to the early 17th century. Date: 1809

British trooper meets French woman on the road to Lille, WW1
A poignant scene captured by the Sphere magazines special artist, Fortunino Matania showing a British trooper riding through a devastated French landscape and stopping to speak to a French woman

Ludlow Castle
The ruins of Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England, first referred to by chroniclers in 1138, but parts of the gatehouse keep appear to be late 11th century

Entrance to Castle grounds, Dudley, West Midlands, with a statue of William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, on the right. Date: 1905

House to house fighting in Stalingrad, USSR
House to house fighting during the bitter battle amongst the ruins of the battered city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), USSR

Ramsey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey, formerly in Huntingdonshire but now in Cambridgeshire. Date: circa 1770

Lindisfarne - Holy Island
The ancient, ruined Priory at Lindisfarne, or Holy Island in Northumberland. In the distance is the Castle standing on its whinstone crag

Ruthuen Barracks
The ruins of Ruthuen Barracks, near Kingussie, Inverness- shire, Scotland. Built in 1718 to overawe the Highlanders. Burned down by Highlanders in the Jacobite Rebellion (1746). Date: 18th century

Reading Abbey, Berkshire
Two horsemen stop to speak with a pedestrian, near the ruins of Reading Abbey, Berkshire (4 of 4) Date: circa 1770

Capriccio Landscape, by Jean Victor Bertin (1767-1842). Date: circa 1810

Reading Abbey, Berkshire
Sheep and cattle graze in the grounds of the ruined abbey at Reading, Berkshire (1 of 4) Date: circa 1770

Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta - Ruins
Ruins of the Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta - severely damaged in 1942 following German bombing raids during World War Two and pulled down following the war

Napoli and the Bay of Naples - View toward Mount Vesuvius and Villa (Palazzo) Donna anna (left) Date: circa 1903

Ruins of Red House, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies
Ruins of the Red House, a government building in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies. It was set on fire during the Water Riots in March 1903. circa 1903

Furness Abbey, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
View of the ruins of Furness Abbey (Cistercian), Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Date: 1882

Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland
View of the ruins of Melrose Abbey (Cistercian), in Roxburghshire, Scotland. Date: 1882

Ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
Ruins of the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany. Date: late 1940s

Hard lines on the hard court by George Studdy
Hard lines on the hard court -- the Bonzolines dig in their search for the ball, which Bonzo is holding in his mouth. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Tonbridge Castle, Tonbridge, Kent - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley, North Yorkshire
View of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey (Cistercian), near Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Date: 1882

Dower House Tower
The Tower of the old Dower House, a ruined lodge in Fawsley Park, Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 17th century

Aerial photograph of ruined suburbs, Arras, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (Canadian) of the ruined suburbs of Arras in northern France, taken from a kite balloon during the First World War. Date: November 1917

Poster advertising East Indian Railway to Delhi
Poster advertising the East Indian Railway to Delhi

British cavalry 1917
British cavalry standing in water on horses in a ruined town in France on the British front during World War I in 1917

Ruined Stalingrad
The ruins of the city, after its liberation. A sculpture of dancing children survives, though battered, like Stalingrad itself

The Parthenon, Athens

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England Date: circa 1920s

Dryburgh Abbey, on the River Tweed, Scotland
View of the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey (Premonstratensian), on the River Tweed, Scotland. Date: 1882

A British Advanced observation post
A ruined house is used as an advanced observation post by British officers. Situated close to German lines, the officers relay information back about the accuracy of artillery fire

LAUNCESTON, Cornwall
Launceston, Cornwall, with the ruined castle in the distance Date: 1829

Scottish soldier writing home on a spiral staircase, WW1
A resourceful Scottish soldier sits on a section of spiral staircase on the Western Front during the First World War to write his letter home. Date: 1914-1918

Entrance to Bishops Palace, St Davids, South Wales
The wide gothic-style entrance to the medieval Bishops Palace, with a man standing at the open gate, in St David s, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Cooks Programme of Popular Day Outings
Cover illustration for Cooks Programme of Popular Day Outings by Rail, Coach and Steamer in connection with the Midland, North Eastern, and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways

The Padre and his old church
A British Artillery chaplain during the Somme advance of 1918 surveys the ruins of a Nissen hut which once served as a makeshift church in 1916

Izmir, Turkey
A panoramic view looking over the rooftops of Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey from the ruined citadel

Stalingrad - Obs. Post
A Russian observation post in a ruined building

Scarborough Castle 1813
Scarborough, Yorkshire: a ladys parasol is blown away by the wind after a visit to the ruined castle

Beaurepaire Abbey (or Bear Park), County Durham, a ruined manor house near where the Battle of Nevilles Cross took place on 17 October 1346, part of the Second War of Scottish Independence. Date: 1346

Ruins of Goodrich Castle, Goodrich, Herefordshire
Ruins of Goodrich Castle, a Norman medieval castle north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire, England, controlling a key location between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye. Date: circa 1910s

View of St David s, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. Date: circa 1910s

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