This collection contains images of significant buildings, factories and workers from around the world, from the 19th century to mid-20th century. Photographs include overseas embassies, hotels, shops, bridges, schools and schoolchildren from the Victorian and early Edwardian era, as well as disasters such as fire and flood-damaged buildings. There are also many pictures of wartime and post-war housing in the mid-20th century, as well as interior design (see the Design section).
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Workers constructing Marconi factory, 1912
Pullar's dye works, Perth 1884
Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden
Construction of the British Embassy in Washington
Perseverance Home Assurance Company
Prickett & Ellis, London Estate Agents
'Ascot' water heater in a post-war housing
project
Lloyd's Weekly News composing room, Fleet Street, London, 1911
Factory at Burslem, Stoke on Trent, 1898
Effects of gas explosion at the Regent Hotel, Salford, Lancashire, 1897
Showcard for the Métropole Hotel, London, 1900
Milton Board School,
1903
Workers constructing Marconi factory, 1912
Pullar's dye works, Perth 1884
Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden
Construction of the British Embassy in Washington
Perseverance Home Assurance Company
Prickett & Ellis, London Estate Agents
'Ascot' water heater in a post-war housing
Lloyd's Weekly News composing room, Fleet Street, London, 1911
Factory at Burslem, Stoke on Trent, 1898
Effects of gas explosion at the Regent Hotel, Salford, Lancashire, 1897
Showcard for the Métropole Hotel, London, 1900
Milton Board School, 