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Demolition squads at work after a Nazi Luftwaffe raid on Liverpool and Merseyside. Original caption suggests the picture was taken in Opie Street or Great Homer Street, Liverpool
A woman standing in the street in Middlesbrough. 1971
Cardiff, Wales, during The Blitz in World War Two. The Cardiff Blitz refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II
Cantril Farm Estate, Mab Lane, West Derby, under construction, 15th August 1946
Many lives lost when river flood sweeps into London streets. The most destructive London floods within living memory have taken place in districts along the Thames. Many lives were lost
Under construction, Hill Street Centre, Middlesbrough, 30th May 1980
Doing it just like the builders do, a hive of industry going on in the new childrens playground opened on the blitz site of St. Lukes Church, Peckham, London
Eight and nine year olds from Highburton First School left behind their cosy classrooms for the windswept moors above Slaithwaite to learn the art of drystone walling
The Rev Gordon Fisher lays the foundation, watched by the Rt Rev Bates and church wardens Ron Allen and Christine Pointer
Julian Clary spends the day on a building site in Londons Docklands to earn 10, 000 wages for charity. The money was donated by a development company to the ITV telethon 90. 27th March 1990
Nuns build a convent. Every moring 18 nuns don aprons over their habits and start building. They are out to build their own chapel, cloisters, choir and cells
Old London Bridge, across The River Thames, London. Picture is looking down river, towards Tower Bridge, The Docks and eventually The North Sea and English Channel. Picture taken 23rd July 1965
Children playing games on a bomb site in London, three little girls play with bricks on the site of a bomb raid during WW2 Circa 1941
Soldiers learning how to become brick layers and house builders. The instructor (bricklaying nearest to the camera) is 40 years old Norman Green a foreman for a big building concern in peacetime
Picture shows Mrs Edna Ford with her children, leave their house in Knowle Park, Bristol. (Avon and Somerset area) Daughter June (left - aged 5) Her other daughter (right - aged 8)
Civilians in Russia amongst ruins after an Air raid during the Second World War. 1st September 1941
Members of The National Fire Service, building their own fire station. It is possible these men are from 34 Fire Force and that the station is possibly at Bushy, Hertfordshire
Rescue squad at work amongst the debris of a wrecked pub in South Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, after a Nazi Luftwaffe. Original caption suggests the picture was taken in " Sth Street "
Schoolboys build little houses. More than a 100 schoolboys from aged 13 are 1st year students at the Hammersmith school of building
Children playing amongst the rubbish and debris in Halewood, Liverpool. 8th April 1974
Jamaica Street, Liverpool, debris from War remain, Wednesday 11th March 1959
One of the four iconic smokestack at Battersea Power Station, London. 17th January 1934
A tram runs along Bernauer Strasse, Berlin. The buildings on the east side of the street are in East Berlin, and the sidewalks and the street in West Berlin
New recruits to the Derby Auxiliary Fire Brigade watching a fire-drill at Haslams old foundry. 15th September 1939
A Whirlwind tore and mauled its way across London, tossing people, roofs, cars and trees out of its path as it howls through the night sky
Cannon Street, Middlesbrough, 21st June 1972
Chester Water Tower. Circa 1970
Chester Water Tower, Cheshire. 11th August 1966
Bricklayers at work. August 1939
Ayresome Park, the home of Middlesbrough F. C which is due to be demolished followingAyresome Park, the home of Middlesbrough F.C which is due to be demolished following the clubs move to their new stadium. 13th May 1996
Regal cinema Uxbridge under construction. Circa 1931
Grainges yard, Uxbridge, demolition of the southern end. London, circa 1930
Jonathan Plant and James Henshaw donned policemen helmets for a sponsored build-a-brick event organised by Quarry Hill Playgroup and Mothers and Toddlers
The ruins of a Church in Grindon, Stockton-on-Tees. Picture shows left to right, Oliver Sherratt, Countryside Action Team members and Robin Daniels. 28th February 1995
World War Two - Second World War - A record output of 200, 000 bricks in 48 hours was reached by Blythe and Sons, Birtley, a North-East firm with a history extending over nearly 80 years
Hammersmith London, 8th February 1949
A cat hiding and on the lookout for trouble
Demolition Man
Its tough work, if you can get it, but in 1964 this 60 year old Geordie, Jean Birch, is pictured stacking bricks before they are loaded on to a lorry and taken to a building site
A rider of Royal Corps of Signals cycle display team crashes through a wall of bricks at the Tyneside Summer Exhibition. 7th August 1968
South Londons First Civil Defence Basic Training Ground at the Lamberth Civil Defence Training Centre. Our Picture Shows: Rescue workers seen here learning how to extract casualties from the rubble
Supertot Preston Mahon shatters three bricks with a hefty blow, at the tender age of two-and-a-half hes well on his way to becoming a Karate Black Belt November 1973 Children: Sports: Karate:
Belgian soldiers seen here inspecting the remains of a residential villa near Dunkirk, northern France which was blown during the German advance of October 1914
The remains of a residential villa near Dunkirk, northern France which was blown during the German advance of October 1914
Children playing around demolished houses in Byker, Newcastle
Brick Fancier... Dave Marshall with his pets at the bus stop. January 1980 P009423Brick Fancier.....Dave Marshall with his pets at the bus stop. January 1980 P009423
Adults and children collecting road blocks in Camberwell where the tram lines are being removed. September 1952 C4416
Prime Minister Tony Blair and Frank Dobson (only just) lay a foundation stone for new hospital development at Victoria Hospital in Blackpool. 1998
