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Queen Mum in RhodesiaElizabeth, the Queen Mother, seen entering the west entrance of the Zimbabwe ruins
WW1 - White Chateau, Hollebeke in ruinscirca 1910s
Napoli and the Bay of Naples - View toward Mount Vesuvius and Villa (Palazzo) Donna anna (left) Date: circa 1903
Sketrick Castle, Strangford Lough - a view of a derelict castle with people perched on the ruins. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Strangford Lough). Date: circa early 1900s
Ruins of Red House, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West IndiesRuins 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
Syria / Palmyra / Hulottgeneral view of the ruins The Ancient City of Palmyra as it now appears
Furness Abbey, Barrow-in-Furness, CumbriaView of the ruins of Furness Abbey (Cistercian), Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Date: 1882
Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, ScotlandView of the ruins of Melrose Abbey (Cistercian), in Roxburghshire, Scotland. Date: 1882
Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire ?Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford, near Leicester, Leicestershire ?, England. Showing the ruins Date: 1910s
Ruins of the Reichstag, Berlin, GermanyRuins of the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany. Date: late 1940s
Ruins d Ypres with wooden frame from a Cloth Hall beamRuins d Ypres 1918. Framed in a wooden frame with an inscribed plaque which reads This frame made from a piece of beam from the Cloth Hall, Ypres. Paul Mansard
River Tay from Kinnoull Hill, Perth, Scotland Date: circa 1890
Thurstons Billiards House, Leicester Square - Bombed - 1940The bombed out remains of Thurstons Billiard House on Leicester Square during the Blitz on London, WWII. The corner building was hit by a parachute mine at 3:30am on 16th October 1940
Clerkenwell Prison explosionEffects of the explosion at the house of detention, Clerkenwell, seen from within the prison yard: police officers and firemen searching the ruins
Herculaneum RuinsThe ruins of the town of Herculaneum, Italy, less famous than Pompeii, but destroyed in the same series of eruptions of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Date: 1930s
Hardwick Old HallThe ruins of the Old Hall started in 1586 but never completed. The remains contain excellent original plasterwork
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
World War II ruins in the centre of BerlinWorld War II vintage photograph - ruins in the centre of Berlin, dust cloud from collapsing wall
Sheep by Alfred LeeteA group of tourists obediently follow a guide while visiting an ancient ruin. Date: 1929
Ilkley - West Yorkshire - Various scenes in the locality including Bolton Abbey, The Ilkley Tarn (small lake), Strid Wood and the wooden bridge above the Hebers Ghyll waterfall. Date: circa 1900
Syria / Palmyra Ruinsgeneral view of the ruins
Collapsed house in Swedenborg Square, StepneyGazing at the ruins of their home, which collapsed soon after they fled - tenants of a house in Stepney. The house was typical of much of old housing in London
Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley, North YorkshireView of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey (Cistercian), near Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Date: 1882
Damascus, Syria - Ancient Walls (St. Pauls escape)Damascus, Syria - Ancient Wall - connected (in some way) to the flight of Saint Paul, forced to flee the city under the cover of night after explosive reactions from Jews opposed to his teachings
Scenes in Lebanon - Herods Palace, Mount Tabor, GalileeScenes in Lebanon (then part of the wider Ottoman Empire) including the Cedars of Lebanon, the ruins of Herods Palace in Samaria, Mount Tabor
Syria - Maaloula - Ancient Hillside town. It is known as the last surviving place where Western Aramaic (Aramaic of Jesus) is still spoken. Date: 1910
West Dereham AbbeyThe ruins of the Abbey at West Dereham, Norfolk, England. These remains were once the Abbey Church. Date: 12th century
Beeston Regis PrioryThe ruins of Beeston Regis Priory, near Sheringham, Norfolk, England, a small Augustinian priory, which only had one Prior and four Canons. Date: founded 1216
Macedonia - Ancient Ruins close to Prilep Date: circa 1910s
Aerial photograph of ruined suburbs, Arras, France, WW1Aerial photograph (Canadian) of the ruined suburbs of Arras in northern France, taken from a kite balloon during the First World War. Date: November 1917
Royal Opera House in Valletta, Malta - RuinsRuins 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
Tlemcen - Tomb of the Princess - AlgeriaTomb of the Princess at Tlemcen ( The Pearl of the Maghreb ) in northwestern Algeria - capital of Tlemcen Province. The name Tlemcen comes from the Berber for Dry Spring
Bethune 1918One of the less damaged streets in Bethune on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918
Ankara - TurkeyAnkara. The capital city and administrative centre of Turkey, located in Central Anatolia. Established before 1200BC by the Hittites
The Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, EgyptThe Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, Cairo, Egypt
Winston ChurchillSir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) British politician and Prime Minister amongst the ruins of Berlin at the end of the Second World War giving a V sign victory salute
Oxwich CastleA view of the ruins of the fortified manor house know as Oxwich Castle in the Gower Peninsula, Glamorgamshire
Stalingrad SoldiersRed Army soldies lie in wait amongst the ruins
Ruined StalingradThe ruins of the city, after its liberation. A sculpture of dancing children survives, though battered, like Stalingrad itself
Dinas Bran Ruins / 1830Ruins of Dinas Bran Castle, Denbighshire
Schliemann at MycenaeSchliemanns excavations at Mycenae. The famed shaft graves are pictured in the middle circle, with Schliemanns large scale excavations on the right
Entrance at Troy (Ruins)An entranceway through the Cyclopean walls of Gergis, Bournabashi at Troad (Troy/Hissarlik), the site of Ancient Troy excavated by Heinrich Schliemann
Alaskan PotlatchAlaskan natives gather for a POTLATCH - a ritual exchange of hospitality and gifts which often ruins the donors who seek to compete in displays of generosity
Alexandre-Henri MouhotHENRI MOUHOT French naturalist and explorer; discovered the ruins of Angkor in Cambodia in 1858
Montacute Priory 1733South view of Montacute Priory, Somerset, England. This priory of Cluniac monks was founded by William, Earl of Moreton, brother of William the Conqueror, c. 1091 - 1102
Mexico / Xochicalcoinscribed ruins
The Parthenon, Athens
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England Date: circa 1920s