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Pedestrians clamber over street roadworks in Piccadilly in a rather dangerous manner by todays standards
Prospectors camp at Pegleg and Sailors Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1853
Panning for gold at Thompsons Point, on the River Turon in New South Wales, Australia. Date: 1853
Two fortune seekers, one man shovelling up washed up dirty water into a cradle, another man pouring water while rocking it all the time
Digging for Ants Date: 1948
TUG-OF-WAR / POLICEMENA tug o war team digging their heels in at the police sports day at Ember Court. Date: 1940s
NavvyLondon characters : if the streets of London were paved with gold, the navigator (NAVVY) would find it, for he spends his life digging them up and filling them in again. Date: circa 1870
BRITISH SAPPERS 1832Sappers and Miners in uniform Date: 1832
15TH CENTURY COUNTRYLe Travail des Champs - farm workers sowing, plowing, harrowing, reaping, threshing, digging, planting trees &c. Date: late 15th century
Veules-les-Roses - Le Petit Buin (Little Buin) and Cliffs. Date: circa 1906
Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 5Alfred Gee pushes a coal truck to the entrance of his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971
Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 4Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971
Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 3Alfred Gee working his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miners helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971
Peat cutting shoe - 2Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe
Industrial peat cutting, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire Date: 1990
Peat cutting shoe - 1Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990
Peat cutter, ShropshireMr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. He stands by a stack of cut peat with his pet dog. His old tractor is behind him
Bait digging, Lorient, FranceA man digs bait at low tide amidst the rotting wooden piles on a beach near Lorent, Brittany, France. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988
Father and daughter bury son (brother), British seasideA Father and daughter bury their son/brother in the sand - British seaside scene Date: 1938
Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s
Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston MoorsThe distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors
WW2 poster, Grow more food, dig for victory -- wanted 500, 000 more allotment holders, for plots of land apply to your council. Date: circa 1940
Durham miners as sappers, WW1Durham miners who had enlisted in the army preparing a practice sap. Many miners served as tunnellers in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. Date: 1915
Lady Evelyn Guinness with her children on the beach, WW1Lady Evelyn Guinness (1883 - 1939), formerly Lady Evelyn Hilda Stuart Erskine. Wife of Walter Guinness, 1st Earl Moyne and mother of Bryan Guinness, and mother-in-law to DIana Mitford, later Moseley
Scenes at the Kent Waterworks, 1876Engraving showing a series of scenes at the Kent Waterworks, near London, in 1876. The images show (clockwise from top left)
WW1 silhouettes, The Tide of Victory
King George V head and shoulders on a silk postcardThere were various different types of sllk cards - woven, embroidered and machine woven. The King and Queen set an example in all things from digging for Victory to abstinence from alcohol
Approved School - GardeningBoys digging with forks and spades in the garden of an unidentified Approved School. Date: circa1945
Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905
Kieselguhr Industry at Toome, Digging the Bann Clay. Grants Factory - a view of two men digging clay and one using a barrow outside. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)
Players Navy Cut Snap Game - The Digger - holding a large pack of Players " Digger" Flake - Empire Grown pipe tobacco. Date: 1930
Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches MuseHistory. Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany
Section of an underground mine. Model of a team in the second half of the nineteenth century. Scale 1:25. Manufactured in 1906. By R. Brown. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology)
Darkling Beetle - burrowing in the sand to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - April
Collared Lemmings large winter claw of a forepaw - adapted for digging snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic
How to start an allotment during WW1Diagram in The Sphere advising readers how to start work on a raw piece of ground in order to create an allotment. The Food Production Department was keen to get around 500
Blitz in London -- Standish Road, Hammersmith, WW2Blitz in London -- repairing a fractured water main in Standish Road, King Street, Hammersmith, 4 September 1940. A bomb-damaged house can be seen, top left. Date: 1940
British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916
Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath RobinsonThe inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger
The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soilA new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king
People in a bomb damaged street during WW2People in a bomb damaged street in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s
WW2 - London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Driver on the farmWW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort
Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s
Psalter of Saint Elizabeth. 1200s. April: farmer digging. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Cividale del Friuli. Archaeological Museum
Arch Druids planting Coronation Oak, Crystal PalaceTo commemorate the coronation of King George V, the Arch Druid of England planted a Coronation Oak sapling at the Crystal Palace, London. The ceremony was attended by many foreign delegates
Excavating machine for digging trenches, France, WW1An excavating machine used for digging trenches, at Mericourt in the Somme area of northern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1916
Dig For VictoryBritish wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food
The Treasure by George StuddyBonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, digs up countless bulbs which have been carefully planted in a garden border in an effort to retrieve his bone