Scaffolding Collection

Madison Square Garden
29th November 1966: Construction work in progress on the new Madison Square Garden arena at New York City. It will be used for sports, concerts, entertainment and other indoor events

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Robinsons Store
July 1923: Peter Robinsons department store in Oxford Circus, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

No Lions
circa 1843: Trafalgar Square, the base of Nelsons column surrounded with scaffolding and without the lions. The church of St Martin-in-the-Fields is in the background

Prefabricated Council Flats
11th November 1959: Tennants live in prefabricated flats built for temporary accomodation during the war, until construction work on the Brandon Estate, Southwark, is finished

Empire State Building
Construction workers celebrate the completion of the iron work on the Empire State Building, Manhattan, circa 1930. The building was constructed between 1930 and 1931

Canal Construction
Construction work during the making of the Panama Canal, engineered by French diplomat Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps (1805 - 1894)

Old, Black and White Illustration of Ship Construction, From 1800's
Old black and white illustration of construction of a ship, from 1800's

Daring Steeplejack
20th November 1925: An American construction worker walking blindfolded on a construction girder twenty stories high in New York City. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Building The BM
14th April 1855: The construction of the new reading room at the British Museum in London. Original Artist: By C W Sheeres. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub

Leviathan Launch
1857: The chain-drums and checking-gear used at the attempted launch of the Leviathan. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1857 (Photo by Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Lunch On Site Above London
A group of construction workers sitting on the framework of the building they are working on during their lunch break, high above a London street. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Mersey Bridge
October 1960: The Mersey road bridge, which had the longest span in Europe, under construction. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Skeleton Ship
circa 1911: The inner bottom and midship framing of the Cunard liner Aquitania during construction at John Brown and Companys Clydebank Yard

Zeppelin Construction
October 1934: The vast and intricate framework of the new Zeppelin LZ 129 under construction at Friedrichshafen, Germany. With a gas capacity of 7, 070, 000 cubic feet

Truck transporting concrete parked at construction site

Statue Of Liberty In Paris
View of the Statue of Liberty enclosed by scaffolding, while under construction, seen from the Rue de Chazelles, Paris, France, circa 1884

The Titanic
The White Star liner Titanic in course of construction at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. (Photo by F J Mortimer/Getty Images)

The Olympic
The stern of the Cunard liner Olympic at the Harland and Wolff yard, Belfast, just prior to her launch. Known as Old Reliable, she was the sister ship of the Titanic and Britannic

Palace Skeleton
October 1852: The first rib of the nave of the new Crystal Palace, which is being reconstructed from the original materials in Sydenham, south London

Men At Work
14th December 1850: Builders at work on the upper part of a column at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in preparation for the Great Exhibition

Palace Scaffold
19th August 1913: Scaffolding on the front of Buckingham Palace during its reconstruction. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Temple construction on the Aventine in Ancient Rome
Illustration of a Temple construction on the Aventine in Ancient Rome

Construction of the Acropolis in Athens, 5th century BC
Illustration of a Construction of the Acropolis in Athens, 5th century BC

Airliner, expanded cross-section, elevated view

Digital illustration secure ladders and access tower outside house

Illustration of construction of Great Wall of China

Illustration of crane lifting steel

Wooden churches under repair of Kizhi Pogost
22-dome Transfiguration Church and 9-dome Intercession Church of Kizhi Pogost, showing repair scaffolding

Building St Pancras
February 1868: The large vaulted roof has taken shape and dominates the skyline during the construction of St Pancras station in London. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images)

Jodrell Telescope
18th April 1957: Almost completed, the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. The responsibility of Manchester University and partly funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Jodrell Bank
26th June 1957: The giant 250 feet diameter Radio Telescope nearing completion for the University of Manchester at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

New St Francis Church
St Francis Church under construction near the Great West Road at Isleworth

Single Span Hangar
4th December 1933: Men at work on the steel girders of a single span hangar being built at Gravesend Airport with a main span of 130ft. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Constructing Bell
1926: The luminous Liberty Bell under construction for the Sesquicentennial Exposition at Philadelphia, celebrating the 150th anniversary of American independence

New Building
New buildings going up next to the Grosvenor House on Park Lane in London

Shipbuilding
circa 1910: The Mauretania under construction at John Brown and Co Ltd shipyard on Clydeside. John Browns shipyards were the most famous on Clydeside and produced many liners

The Leviathan
circa 1912: Laying the deck plates during construction of the Leviathan, formerly the Vaterland, built at Hamburg by Blohm & Voss. She was launched in 1914

Bridge construction, wooden scaffolding, B207, Heiligenhafen, Baltic Sea, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe

Scaffolded Hindu statue, Nanjangud, Karnataka, South India, India, South Asia, Asia

Worker carrying materials, seen from below

Scaffolding on front of house (B&W)

Construction site, (B&W)

Woman in swimsuit hanging from wooden construction (B&W), portrait

The Aquitania
circa 1913: The Cunard liner Aquitania nears completion at the John Brown & Co shipyard on Clydebank. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dublin Street
28th May 1918: Sackville Street in Dublin during rebuilding. (Photo by R. Humphrey/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Concrete Ship
July 1918: Scaffolding and wooden casing in position when building a concrete ship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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