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Ruined Church1858: Graves in a ruined church. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
Toledo AlcazarThe 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
Austrian Infantry passing through a burnt-out village. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Gale ForceNovember 1918: Remains of a plane and a hangar after a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Gale DamageNovember 1918: Wrecked planes as a result of a gale at Hendon aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Douai RuinsSeptember 1919: The ruins of a 350 year-old Spanish building, dynamited by the Germans before they left the town of Douai in France. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Prisoners RepairingSeptember 1919: A group of German prisoners of war repairing a bridge. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Wanton Destruction1910: A house in Avenue Libertad, Lisbon, destroyed by revolutionary guns. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Bomb SiteOctober 1940: Middle Temple Hall, bomb damaged during an air raid. (Photo by Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Bomb Damaged HouseJuly 1915: The remains of a house in Shoreditch, London, after a Zeppelin raid on the area. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Dublin RisingMay 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
Damaged BuildingJuly 1915: A group of women and children looking at a damaged building in Shoreditch in east London which was hit during a zeppelin raid during World War I
Exhibition PayMay 1908: Workers who are constructing the Franco-British Exhibition are viewed queuing up to receive their wages on a Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Dublin 1916Sections 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)
Russians RaidedAn 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 CraterFebruary 1916: A bomb crater in Paris near an Underground station. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Crashed Zeppelin20th March 1917: The ruins of a German Zeppelin being inspected by French troops. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Bomb Damage7th July 1917: Damage to Little Britain in the City of London, after a German air-raid. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Gale ForceNovember 1918: Part of a hut blown into a tree after a gale at Hendon Aerodrome. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Wrecked TankSeptember 1919: A wrecked tank on the battlefield at Ypres. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Albert RuinsSeptember 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)
Somme RuinsSeptember 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)
Wrecked CrossingSeptember 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)
Cloth Hall RuinsSeptember 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)
Shelled Courts1st 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
Horse Lift8th 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)
Welsh Riot25th 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
Dublin 19163rd May 1916: Smoking ruins in Earl Street Dublin during the Easter Rising 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Dublin 1922July 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)
Easter Rising1st May 1916: Dubliners viewing the ruined buildings damaged in the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Easter Rising3rd May 1916: Bomb damage in Dublin following the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Dublin 19163rd May 1916: Volunteers clearing debris in Dublin after the Easter Rising. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Paris Bomb DamageFebruary 1916: A five storey house hit by a German bomb, during an air raid on Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Air Raid Damage1st October 1940: A warden inspecting the damage after German aircraft dropped bombs on the city. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Post War U-Boat Pen19th October 1945: A U-boat in pen at Finkenwerde, near Hamburg, wrecked by Royal Air Force bombs during the war. The Royal Engineers continue with the demolition process using former German
Hitler UndoneFebruary 1945: An American GI removing a sign which reads Adolf Hitler Street from the side of a building in Duren, Germany. The street is to be renamed following the Second World War
Market Street RuinsView of the destruction and rubble along Market Street at Third Street after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires, San Francisco, California, 1906
Call Building RuinsView looking southeast down Market Street at Third Street of the Call building (formally the Claus Spreckels building) after being severely destroyed by the San Francisco earthquake
Market & Taylor Streets RuinsSurvivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake walk along Market Street at Taylor Street past debris and crumbling facades of buildings caused by citywide fires, San Francisco, California, 1906
Metal Dump1953: A waste metal dump. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6317 - Waste Probe - unpub. (Photo by Raymond Kleboe/Picture Post/Getty Images)
Arras City HallThe ruins of Arras City Hall during World War I, July 1915. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Zeppelin WreckageBritish Sentries guard the wreckage of a German Zeppelin airship brought down at Potters Bar, England, 2nd October 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Wrecked ZeppelinThe wreckage, including one of the engines, of a German Zeppelin airship, 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Zeppelins Raid LeytonDamaged houses in Leyton, east London, after a zeppelin bombing raid, February 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Arras RuinsThe ruins of the French town of Arras during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Mortimer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Arras CathedralThe ruins of Arras Cathedral during World War I, June 1916. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
PompeiiThe eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroys the Roman city of Pompeii in AD 79. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)