Underground Collection (#2)

Illustration, The train is just coming in now, said the little porter. Date: 1938

Turner's Asbestos Cement Advertisement
A humorous advertisement illustration for Turner's Asbestos Cement Co. showing a quarry scene both above and below ground

Orange Party meeting in vaults, Ladye Place, Berkshire
Orange Party (Orange Order) meeting in the Vaults under the Hall, Ladye Place, Hurley, Berkshire Date: 1688

Turkey. Constantinople - Cistern of Philoxenos
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Cistern of Philoxenos or Binbirdirek Cistern, The 1001 columns. It was constructed under a palace in the 5th century

Charing Cross Station, Underground
This painting provides a view looking down upon the entrance to Charing Cross Underground Station, opened originally in 1864 by South Eastern Railway

Everybody's Underground Part 1
Part one of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Everybody's Underground Part 3
Part three of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Everybody's Underground Part 2
Part two of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Chertsey
A London Underground design by F Gregory Brown, depicting Bright Young Things punting on the River Thames at Chertsey in Surrey

Underground work at Piccadilly station after the removal of the Eros statue. Service shaft being sunk here into the foundation which enables workmen to descend into the underground station

Discovery of the Tomb of Senoferu in Egypt, showing the location of the tomb and artefacts found within. The expedition was driven by Harvard and Boston university

How mines were ventilated
How the mines were ventilated and drainer. One of the reasons for the mine strike of 1912 was the poor maintenance of ventilation and draining of the mines

New Buildings: a Yacht Club and a Car Park
Two examples of recent modern buildings. A clubhouse for the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch. And an underground car park at Hastings, capable of holding up to 1000 cars

Map of London's Leading Cinemas and Music Halls Date: 1931

London Underground Railway Signal Box Date: 1909

The Tube Railways of London - group photo of workmen, with greathead shield driving a station tunnel, the ends of the hydraulic rams pressing on flange of furthest ring Date: 1909

Price's rotary digger and greathead shield
Front view of Price's combined rotary digger and greathead shield with six revolving arms and removal buckets Date: 1909

Underground railway station under construction Date: 1909

Tunnelling for the London Underground Railway Date: 1923

Air raid cartoon
Cartoon depicting Oxford Circus tube station during an air raid. Date: 1940

Pit pony with handler underground in Lanarkshire mine
Pony is pulling trolleys, known as hutches, of coal along small railway lines. From a postcard posted from Hamilton to the French Legation in Tangier Date: 1902

Ticket booth in German underground station
Solitary lady in hat buying a ticket from a uniformed lady in the booth.Caption explains that it is a woman doing a man's job while the men are away at war. Cleared by Censor. Date: circa 1914

Yere Batan Serai, underground cisterns, Istanbul, Turkey
Yere Batan Serai, underground cisterns, Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey Date: 1858

Scene in a Cornish tin mine Date: early 19th century

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel, London 1908
Diagram plan of where the latest road tunnel under the River Thames, London is situated, linking Rotherhithe on the south west to Limehouse on the north east

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River Thames
Men working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day

New tunnels for the Post Office Railway. 70ft beneath the ground near Oxford Street the nearly completed, double track line

Londoners sleeping in the Underground during the Blitz
German bombing campaign against Britain between September 1940 and May 1941 mainly targeting London and industrial places

Margaret Gardner, London Underground Guard
Margaret Gardner, the first female guard on the London Underground Date: January 1977

Ann Dadds
Mrs Ann Dadds, from Plaistow, East London, becomes the first woman train driver on the London Underground Date: October 1978

A much publicised first trip on the London Underground for Princesses Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Margaret Rose, who made the trip on a District Line train from St

Advertisement for Miners
An advertisement placed in a local newspaper by the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire area, seeking miners for underground work. Date: December 1973

Camouflaging the Colonel's Breakfast
Under elaborate cover the regimental cooks get to work, invisible from the air by a table of cabbages. Date: 1941

Successful campaign in the Libyan desert. Italian soldiers about to trigger an underground device. Date: 1941

Bob Crow, RMT trade union leader, giving a speech
Bob Crow, British trade union leader, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and a member of the General Council of the TUC

Tamper with a Railway Signal by William Heath Robinson
Sixth column strategy, frustrating a dastardly attempt by the fifth a tamper with railway signal. Date: 1940

Sheltering in the Madrid Underground; Spanish Civil War, 193
Photograph showing civilians of Madrid sheltering in the Gran Via underground station during a Nationalist bombardment of the city; Spanish Civil War, 1936. Date: 1936

Two Children in the Mines 1854
Two young colliers helpers pulling a cart full of heavy coal upwards in the dark mines. Date: 1854

Laying big main water pipes, Southwark and Vauxhall 1900
Photograph showing engineers and assistants lifting up heavy large circular piping with a crane ready to be put underground, in the streets of South London

London Life - A Shoeblack works outside a Station Entrance on The City and South London Railway (C&SLR), the tunnels and lines of which now form the Bank Branch of the Northern line, Date: circa 1910s

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway - Car interior. Date: circa 1906

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway - Interior of the Signal cabin. Now the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground network. Date: circa 1906

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway Motor Car. (running on what is the modern Piccadilly Line as part of the London Undergrond network). Date: circa 1906

GPO engineer at work, London
GPO engineer working on underground telephone cables on a street in Central London. Date: circa 1960s

Directing traffic, Wood Green Underground station
Traffic policeman directs traffic outside Wood Green underground station, London. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Piccadilly Circus in the Stone Age Date: 20th century

Work on the tramway in Kingsway, London, connecting the lines in the north and south. Date: 1905

Scenes in the Americas
Lumberjack felling a tree in the Bay of Honduras 40, view of the town of Acapulco, Mexico, 41, and interior of a Native American Nuu-chah-nulth house in Nootka Sound 42

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