Coal Collection (page 14)

The Duke and Duchess of York - Durham Colliery visit
The Duke and Duchess of York (Later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) - visiting a Durham Colliery on 29th July 1936. The Duke is wearing a miners helmet and both are holding Miners lamps

Poorly puppy by the fire - His First Trouble by G E Studdy
His First Trouble by G E Studdy - A poorly puppy, wrapped up warm by the fire staring across to his medicine on the hearth with apprehension. Date: 1912

London Trade Card - John Edwards, Coal Merchant, at the Old Collier and Cart, Fleet Ditch, near Holborn Bridge. 18th century

John Cory - coal-owner and ship-owner
John Cory (18281910) - British philanthropist, coal-owner, and ship-owner. Cory Way is named after him in the eastern area of Barry Docks

WW1 poster, Mine More Coal
Poster, Mine More Coal, United States Fuel Administration. circa 1918

Stoking the fire before heading to bed on Christmas Eve
A young boy in nightshirt and nightcap stokes the fire with his Mother before heading to bed on Christmas Eve, to dream of the joy, fun and raft of surprises the morrow may bring... Date: 1912

South Africa Cape Colony - Molten coal mine - Coal truck coming out of mine - miners sitting either side. Part of Box 169 Boswell Collection - South Africa Cape Colony. Date: circa 1900

Fair Hd, from the Coal Mines - a view along a track to Fair Head. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Ballycastle). Date: circa early 1900s

Fair Head from the Coal Mines - a perspective view of fair head with a man and horse vehicle in the foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Ballycastle). Date: circa early 1900s

Greetings card in the shape of a coal scuttle with cats
Greetings card in the shape of a coal scuttle with a cat and a kitten inside. Date: circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a coal scuttle
Greetings card in the shape of a brown wooden coal scuttle. Date: circa 1890s

The vocation of Isaiah. Engraving

Cartoon, French coal supply, WW1
Cartoon, French coal supply. A coal merchant and an old woman discuss the crisis. The board outside his shop shows the high price of coal, when its actually available. Date: 1917

Entrance to an Anthracite Coal Mine
No.2 Slope - Entrance to an Anthracite Coal Mine, Pennsylvania, USA - the miners are shown on a gun boat, descending by an inclined slope into the mine. Date: circa 1910s

A lull whilst coaling HMS Marlborough - Moda, Turkey
A lull for the crew whilst coaling HMS Marlborough at Moda, Sea of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey. Hot and dirty work! Date: 1923

Coal Ship - HMS Marlborough - Moda, Sea of Marmara, Turkey
Coal Ship alongside the HMS Marlborough at Moda, Sea of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill

Happy Families - Mrs Blaze. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Miss Flue. circa 1940s

A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of
Cesar Boetius van Everdingen (1617-1678). Dutch painter. A Young Woman Warming her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter, c. 1644-1648. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Coal mine. Extraction of coal and transportation of minecard
History. Mining. coal mine. Extraction of coal and transportation by minecart. 19th century. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany

Spain. Barruelo Mines. 19th century. Engraving. Colored
Spain. Barruelo Mines, Palencia province. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1880. Colored

Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving
Economy. 19th century. Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving. The Art of the Illustration, 1888

Locomotive designed in 1814 by British engineer and inventor George Stephenson (1781-1848). Nineteenth-century engraving. Colored

History of France. Decazeville strike. Military patrols crossing the Duke of Decazes square occupied by the strikers in the coal mines and steel mills. Engraving in 1886 by Comba. Colored engraving

English miner and transport of coal mined
Industrial Revolution. Nineteenth century. English miner and transport of coal mined. Engraving after a watercolor (1814) by George Walker. Colored

National Hotel. Warwick, 1875. Nueva York. Estados Unidos

Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s

Coal Merchant - Coal Mining Billhead

Book of Trades, Colliery. 1841

Work at a coal mine, 1878
Work at a coal mine, sinking a shaft. Date: 1878

Shops in London Street
Old houses in St John Street, London, with a furniture maker and a coal warehouse on the ground floor. Date: 17th or 18th century

Fleet Laid Up / Gen Strike
Fishing trawlers and liners laid up at the Fleetwood docks, owing to shortage of coal due to the General Strike Date: 1926

Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits, WW1
Three Frenchwomen in fashionable outfits. High Empire waists, short full skirts and high hairstyles. Gingham dress: plain sailor collar

Coaling by night at Singapore 1876
Coaling by night at Singapore; an important function of the worlds ports is to supply coal, and teams of workers are needed to carry out the operation basket by basket... Date: 1876

Mining Area / Germany
A mining area in Germany. Date: 1909

Mosside Mine Flood / 1939
A flood at the Mosside Mine, near Airdrie, Scotland, results in the deaths of three miners. Date: 22 September 1939

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

Mining / South Bulli
SOUTH BULLI Members of the Australian Royal Commission into the coal mining dispute ready to go down the mine at South Bulli, New South Wales. Date: 1930s

Pit Bank Women / 1904
Pit bank women, Wednesbury. Date: 1904

Fireplace / Scribners
An ornate fireplace. Date: 1879

Coal / Horse / Le Creusot
Lowering a horse at the Le Creusot colliery, France Date: 1869

Unloading coal at the London docks 1871
WHIPPING (= UNLOADING) COAL Date: 1871

Advertisement for Wrights coal tar shampoo powder. Date: early 20th century

Vignette illustrations, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson -- A busmans holiday and The kind-hearted engine driver. Date: 1935

Front and back covers, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson, published by the Great Western Railway in the companys centenary year

Mules hauling props, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA
A six-mule team hauling props for use in coal mining, Shamokin, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1908

Cartoon, First feelings, WW1
Cartoon, First feelings. A French soldier says that the first time he saw a German soldier he couldn t fire at him because he seemed too old to be shot. Date: 1916

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata near Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

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