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Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, (1864). Creator: Unknown.

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Ruins of the Great Exhibition Building of 1862, [London], (1864). Engraving from a sketch '...looking in an easterly direction along the Cromwell-road...The grand central entrance appears in the foreground; and, beyond this, a portion of the tower at the comer of the Exhibition-road. In the background are the buildings attached to the Gardens of the Horticultural Society, which mark the sight of the Exhibition Refreshment Rooms. On Tuesday last the Engineers and labourers completed the clearing away the debris of the two towers in the Exhibition-road, which had been dislodged by gunpowder. Profiting by the experience gained in connection with these new experiments for removing masses of masonry, the tower was deposed in two divisions, the force of the explosive power at the base being considerably increased, the result being that, instead of being precipitated laterally, as on the last occasion, into the road, the columns crumbled down, so to speak, upon themselves with only a slight noise and scattering of the materials. Operations will be next taken for the demolition and removal of the towers in the Albert-road, and of the grand entrance'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A15_105

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,2Mo (4,9Mo) / 46,3cm x 31,5cm / 5471 x 3720 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors road building London England people technology architecture arts industry art British color industrial location century explosive Britain newspapers press print concept exhibition explosives B&W demolition street scene dismantling demolishing engraved engraving Thoroughfare Colour Construction Industry 19th century black & white black and white building materials B W white and black gunpowder Kensington and Chelsea nineteenth century The Print Collector Cromwell Road Illustrated London News South Kensington TGN ILN RCH outside street newspaper Unknown 19th-century R. C. H. H. R. C. R.C.H. H. R.C.