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Destruction Collection (#6)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Somme Ruins

Somme 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)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Wrecked Crossing

Wrecked Crossing
September 1919: A wrecked railway crossing in Lens, France, the site of fierce fighting during the first world war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Cloth Hall Ruins

Cloth Hall Ruins
September 1919: The ruins of the cloth hall and cathedral in Ypres, the scene of three major battles during the first world war. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Shelled Courts

Shelled Courts
1st July 1922: A wrecked Lancia armoured car outside the Four Courts in Dublin, the headquarters of the anti-Treaty Republicans, having been shelled by Free State forces during the Irish Civil War

Background imageDestruction Collection: Skeleton Coach

Skeleton Coach
22nd May 1915: A burnt-out carriage balanced precariously on the rails after a troop train crashed at Gretna Green in south-west Scotland. Many soldiers were injured in the incident and 158 died

Background imageDestruction Collection: Riot Damage

Riot Damage
1922: The damaged streets of Fordsburg after the Johannesburg Riots. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: St Mihiel

St Mihiel
13th September 1918: American soldiers, of the 18th Infantry Machine Gun Battalion, advance through the ruins of St Baussant, France, on their way to the St. Mihiel Front

Background imageDestruction Collection: Mangled Wreckage

Mangled Wreckage
15th October 1907: Men inspecting the damage after a train crash at Shrewsbury. The engine was a 4-6-0 Stephenson. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Whitby Abbey

Whitby Abbey
December 1914: Whitby Abbey after being shelled by German battlecruisers on 16th December. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Welsh Riot

Welsh Riot
25th August 1911: The raising of rents and the price of perishable goods during the transport strike caused the violent outburst of anti-semitic riots at Ebbw-Vale

Background imageDestruction Collection: Crashed Triplane

Crashed Triplane
May 1919: The trial flight of the Tarrant Triplane ends in failure. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Dublin 1916

Dublin 1916
3rd May 1916: Smoking ruins in Earl Street Dublin during the Easter Rising 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Shipwreck

Shipwreck
circa 1911: A shipwreck floating on the waters. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Clean Up

Clean Up
2nd October 1912: Labourers at work clearing up debris after a water main burst in Old Broad Street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Flamingo Hotel

Flamingo Hotel
circa 1929: The Flamingo Hotel in Miami in the aftermath of a great hurricane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: An Overturned House

An Overturned House
1925: A toppled house which was carried more than 50ft in the great US cyclone disaster of 1925. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: High Seas

High Seas
circa 1925: Huge waves destroying the harbour wall in Porthleven, Cornwall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Flood Wreckage

Flood Wreckage
circa 1921: A house wrecked by the floods in Pueblo City, Colorado. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Dublin 1922

Dublin 1922
July 1922: Devastation in Sackville Street, Dublin, after fighting between Free State and Republican Forces during the Irish Civil War. (Photo by Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Easter Rising

Easter Rising
1st May 1916: Dubliners viewing the ruined buildings damaged in the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Menin Road

Menin Road
September 1919: A group of people and a vehicle on the Menin Road, running through war-devasted landscape. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: L Atlantique

L Atlantique
4th January 1933: The French liner L Atlantique is gutted by an accidental fire in the English Channel. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Ruins After Rising

Ruins After Rising
April 1916: Ruins of Clerys stores and the Imperial Hotel, Dublin, destroyed in the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Airship Crash

Airship Crash
May 1911: The remains of an airship hanging in a tree as a group search the wreckage of the Le Baudy disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Railway Disaster

Railway Disaster
July 1906: The wreckage of the trains following the Salisbury railway disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Easter Rising

Easter Rising
3rd May 1916: Bomb damage in Dublin following the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Crowd In Street

Crowd In Street
July 1915: A crowd in a street in Shoreditch in east London in front of a gutted house which was hit during a zeppelin raid. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Dublin 1916

Dublin 1916
3rd May 1916: Volunteers clearing debris in Dublin after the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Reggio Earthquake

Reggio Earthquake
circa 1908: The wrecked station house by the railway in Reggio de Calabria, following the earthquake of 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Avalanche

Avalanche
7th April 1914: The Italian village of Ruinaux buried beneath tons of snow, after a disastrous avalanche. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Bombed Bridge

Bombed Bridge
July 1922: A bridge in County Leitrim destroyed by Republican forces during the Irish Civil War. (Photo by Crowder/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Paris Bomb Damage

Paris Bomb Damage
February 1916: A five storey house hit by a German bomb, during an air raid on Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Bomb Site

Bomb Site
circa 1940: A heap of rubble and the shell of a house in the Temple area of London, after a World War II German bombing raid. (Photo by Frank J. Galloon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageDestruction Collection: Giant tree grappling with Ta Prohm temple

Giant tree grappling with Ta Prohm temple, Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia

Background imageDestruction Collection: Temple ruins in the ancient city of Angkor Wat, Northwestern Cambodia

Temple ruins in the ancient city of Angkor Wat, Northwestern Cambodia

Background imageDestruction Collection: Dry condition

Dry condition for this tree. After a wilfire in tenerife island (canarias). Tree alone the world

Background imageDestruction Collection: Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima Prefecture, Honshu, Japan

Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Hiroshima Prefecture, Honshu, Japan



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