Coal Collection (page 16)

Prince of Wales visits mines
A cover of The Illustrated London News shows the Prince of Wales visiting mines during a tour of the west of Britain. In the top and lower left pictures he is seen visiting mines in Cornwall

Coal tit, Periparus ater.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Gas bag omnibus in Edinburgh, WW1
An example of a coal gas powered vehicle in Edinburgh - in this case a bus which holds a voluminous rubber bag for the gas on its roof

Coal barges at Lydney, South Wales receiving coal

Settle to Carlisle Railway Lineside Coal Staithes, Cumbria
Settle to Carlisle Railway Lineside Coal Staithes, Unknown Location, Cumbria, England. Date: 1970s

Coal-merchant & Cart, Unknown location, England. Date: 1900s

LNER steam locomotive, Sir Ralph Wedgwood
LNER steam locomotive, with coal truck and passenger carriages, 60006, Sir Ralph Wedgwood. Date: circa 1960s

Steam locomotive, the County of Oxford
Steam locomotive, with coal truck and passenger carriages, 1023, the County of Oxford. Date: circa 1960s

Steam locomotive, Great Eastern Railway
Steam locomotive 62785 of the Great Eastern Railway, built in the late 19th century. circa 1960s

Coal Miners Working a Seam, England. Date: 1900s

Main Street, Bilston, Staffordshire
Main Street, Bilston, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Getting Coal Date: 1906

Providence River, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Aerial view of Providence River, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Date: circa 1905

Coal barge wreck, Pemberton, Massachusetts, USA
Coal barge wreck at Pemberton, Massachusetts, USA. It was driven ashore during the great November storm of 1897. Date: circa 1905

New Stock Exchange in London dealing with contracts on coal. La Ilustraci󮠐 eriod o Universal. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library

Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Miners at mine entrance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: early 20th century

Beaconsfield railway engine 1122, Baker Street, London

Suffragette breaks Window, Miners Strike. Militant suffragette breaks shop window. Miners and Suffragettes are alike. For now they all begin to strike

Fire safety -- baby playing near guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a baby playing near a guarded coal fire

Fire safety -- correctly guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a family in their sitting room with a correctly guarded coal fire

Coal-gas powered delivery van of the Illustrated London News
An example of coal-gas powered vehicles during the First World War, this example being the delivery van of the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd

Society dinner party in wartime, WW1
Illustration to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in The Tatler, showing a society dinner party, with guests wrapped in furs against the cold

A coal-scuttle made from two types of shell cases (one a 2 pounder) and a naval button with the engraved inscription - HMS Maenad, Jutland, 31st May 1916. HMS Maenad was a Moon (M) class destroyer

WW2 poster, the Battle for Fuel
WW2 poster -- You are in the Battle for Fuel -- are you keeping inside your target? Date: circa 1940

Gas powered car by Annie Fish, WW1
A car powered by coal gas which was contained in a rubber bag similar to a pneumatic tyre and placed on the top of the car

Fighting in Lens, Northern France, 1914
With the French army : a scene during the fighting between French and Germans among the coal trucks of the mining town of Lens in Northern France, 1914. 1914

Coal depot and railways, Laraquete, Chile

Children play at tanks by Leslie Shaw
We re not little wretches - we re the Tanks!" Two little boys, with heads in coal scuttles pretend to be tanks and scare their girl playmate. Date: 1917

Lady with carthorse and coal, WW1
A lady of Grasmere, who, on the enlistment of her servant, took on his rough work and tramped eighteen miles a day in all weathers during the First World. War

Advert for Kooksjoie range cooker 1918
Kooksjoie range cooker, from the London Warming and Ventilating Co. Ltd, a behemoth of a thing, whose manufacturers promise it consumes just half a ton of coal per month

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar soap 1915
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap, the ideal Christmas present to send to a soldier at the front, along with a stick of Coal tar shaving soap

Street scene with comic figures advertising Phurnod (a coal product), passing an Odeon cinema. Date: 20th century

The everlasting fuel, atomic power, by G. H. Davis
The everlasting fuel: atomic power replacing the consumption of hundreds of thousands of tons of coal. The probable compact layout of an atom-powered municipal electricity generating station in

Big fighting ships auxiliaries by G. H. Davis
Navy notes of the week. A big fighting ships auxiliaries: some little-known members of the British fleet. 1912

Sinking of a German submarine by G. H. Davis
The sinking of a German submarine, showing the action in four stages between HMS Birmingham and the German U-boat U15. Also shown: how long a cruiser can keep going with one supply of coal (middle)

Three types of oil ships in the navy by G. H. Davis
The question of oil in the navy: the three types of oil ships. 1. The vessels which only use oil as a supplementary aid to coal. 2. The vessels which depend wholly upon oil as fuel to produce steam

By-products developed from coal by G. H. Davis
The enormous importance of coal as the basic element in vital war manufactures. A diagrammatic drawing showing a great variety of by-products developed from coal. Date: 1944

Keeping a check on fuel consumed by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: keeping a weekly check on the fuel consumed in an average household during the Second World War. Electricity and gas meters will tell you if you are keeping to your proper average

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

Railway engines converted to oil fuel by G. H. Davis
Saving coal: mainline railways convert engines to oil fuel. A series of drawings illustrating the conversion of a locomotive. Date: 1946

The Hon J and Mrs Freeman-Mitford
John Power Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, later 4th Baron Redesdale (18851963), seen here with his bride, formerly Fraulein Marie Ann von Friedlander-Fuld, daughter of a wealthy German coal owner

National Coal Strike, 1912
National Coal Strike of 1912. A man inspects an important notice of a coal strike which has closed Cannon Street Station, London. Date: 1912

Advert for Powell Duffryn 1944
Phurnacite smokeless fuel. Phurnacite is increasing in popularity for Domestic Boilers, stoves and central heating Plants

Corner of a large tiled kitchen, showing a gas cooker (right) and a large stove with doors for the coal (in a scuttle at the side), and a flue. There are pots and pans on a tall stand (left)

Limehouse
Scene in a Limehouse Street in London with two-horse coal cart ridden by two tradesmen passing a stationary cart piled high with large boxes and crates Date: 1930s

Coal Delivery Carts in the East End of London
Coal Delivery Carts in an East End Street in London Date: 1930s

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Nursery Rhymes -- Little Polly Flinders sat among the cinders. Date: circa 1920s

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