Destruction Collection (#5)

Nuclear Bomb Explosion, Owen Test, Nevada, 23rd July 1957

Nuclear Bomb Explosion, Baker Day Test, Bikini, 25th July 1946

Crashed car

Toledo Alcazar
The ruins of the Toledo Alcazar following the famous siege during the Spanish Civil War, 1936. Here General Francos troops held out against the Republicans for 70 days until reinforcements arrived

Windsor Hotel Fire
The remains of the Windsor Hotel on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, after it was destroyed by fire on St Patricks Day, 17th March 1899. Around 90 people lost their lives

Great Boston Fire
Firemen stand amidst the rubble after the Great Boston Fire of November 1872. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Burnt Out Bus
May 1926: A burnt out bus in a London street during the General Strike. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Wreck ship in black and white in water

Houndsditch Outrage
Hoses are sprayed at the besieged house during the Sidney Street Siege. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Austrian Infantry passing through a burnt-out village. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Moisants Propeller
The broken propeller of Franco-American aviation pioneer John Moisants plane, which crash-landed in an allotment near Rainham, Kent during a Paris-London flight

Crippled Liner
The Orient liner Otranto returns to Southampton with her bows crushed after a collision with a rock. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Cambrai Ruins
September 1919: The ruins of Cambrai town hall, the sight of fierce fighting during the first world war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Prisoners Repairing
September 1919: A group of German prisoners of war repairing a bridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin Riots
22nd August 1911: The aftermath of a riot in Talbot Street, Dublin, one of the ways workers vented their frustrations during a series of strikes in Ireland and Britain

Theatre Fire
circa 1900: The Grand Theatre in Islington, London, with a fire crew still in attendance after a fire gutted the building. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Outgunned
October 1913: A wrecked cannon after bombardment during the Balkan War. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Smashed Aeroplanes
8th November 1913: Two army aeroplanes smashed on Salisbury Plane when the descending plane crashed into a Henri Farman which was about to start. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wanton Destruction
1910: A house in Avenue Libertad, Lisbon, destroyed by revolutionary guns. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Failed Flight
18th June 1910: Grahame White crashes his plane at Brooklands Motor Racing circuit. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wrecked Pier
circa 1923: The earthquake damage at Kobi Pier. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bloomsbury Damage
circa 1925: A general view of the extensive damage caused by a gas explosion in High Holborn, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Demolition
1925: A one hundred foot high chimney stack in mid-fall in England. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bomb Site
October 1940: Middle Temple Hall, bomb damaged during an air raid. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

O Connell Street 1922
July 1922: The Gresham Hotel in O Connell Street, Dublin in flames during the Irish Civil War. (Photo by Brooke/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rail Crash
22nd August 1910: A railway carriage is damaged after a smash at Victoria Station, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Carlton Fire
9th August 1911: Firemen fighting the blaze at the Carlton Hotel, in the Haymarket, central London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bomb Damaged House
July 1915: The remains of a house in Shoreditch, London, after a Zeppelin raid on the area. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin Rising
May 1916: The remains of Liberty Hall, headquarters of the Transport Workers Union and the Irish Citizen Army, after the violence of the Easter Rising in Dublin

Collision Damage
February 1928: The damaged bows of the soviet ship Tovarisch, after its collision with Italian steamer Alcantara off Dungeoness. It is feared that the Alcantara is sunk with all hands

Crystal Palace Fire
31st December 1936: The shell of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, London, after its recent destruction by fire. The structure of the North Transept can be seen, looking towards the South Tower

Belgian Exhibition
17th August 1910: Damage to a lion statue following a fire at the Brussels Exhibition. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse Lift
8th December 1913: Workmen take a horse up to the roof by lift, to help clear away the debris after a fire in this Berlin factory. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Point Of Impact
2nd October 1916: A group of men cluster round a dent in the grass caused by a falling body at a zeppelin crash site in Potters Bar. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin 1916
Sections of the city burn freely as the fire brigade are unable to operate during the Easter Rising in Dublin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Zeppelin Fire
Crowds survey the wreck of a Zeppelin airship LZ-4, the fourth design of Count von Zeppelin, which caught fire at Echterdingen. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin Ruins
The ruins of Sackville Street, Dublin, after the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mayfly Disaster
H M Airship No 1, built in Barrow as a response to German advances in airship technology, lying twisted in half and beyond repair after a gust of wind tipped it over prior to its maiden test-flight

Russians Raided
An office belonging to the Union of Russians in the USA after a police raid to quash communist activities. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bomb Crater
February 1916: A bomb crater in Paris near an Underground station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Crashed Zeppelin
20th March 1917: The ruins of a German Zeppelin being inspected by French troops. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Battle Scarred
1915: German troops passing over a temporary bridge. The shattered remains of trees fill the foreground. (Photo by Faber/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship R101 Disaster Wreckage
7th October 1930: Wreckage of the airship R101 which crashed and burst into flames in a forest near Beauvais on its maiden voyage to India. Only six of the 54 people on board survived. (Photo by S)

Transport Destroyed
October 1918: Shell riddled motor L. & N.W. Railway Horticultural show, Euston Square. (Photo by J. B. Helsby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shelled Ambulance
October 1918: The shell-shattered ambulance on display at L & N W Railway Horticultural show, Euston Square, London. (Photo by J. B. Helsby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Triplane Nosedive
26th May 1919: The trial flight of the three-winged Tarrant Triplane ends in failure. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Albert Ruins
September 1919: The ruins of the cathedral in Albert on the Somme, the site of fierce fighting during the first world war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The Ruins Of Ypres
September 1919: The ruins of Ypres in Belgium, the site of three major battles during the first world war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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