Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction Finish:20-pack Great Britain's Kriss Akabusi

Great Britain's Kriss Akabusi

Full-length portrait of a man wearing a dark suit and holding a document in one hand

View of Salters' Hall

showing the interior of Crystal Palace filled with people

The building formerly housed John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery

Brooklands motor racing circuit under construction Finish:20-pack Great Britain's Kriss AkabusiBrooklands motor racing circuit under construction, Surrey, c1906 c1907. Workmen and horses pictured at the site. Over a nine month period over seven hundred men worked virtually round the clock, seven days a week, the only breaks being on Saturday and Sunday nights. The work involved diverting the river Wey, re housing smallholders, the felling of thirty acres of woodland and the moving of 350,000 cubic yards of earth. Seven miles of rail track was