Coal Collection (page 17)

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

Sir George Elliot MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT MP, 1st Baronet (1814-1893) Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Businessman from Gateshead, North-East England

Women workers for WWI
400, 000 women were employed by the Ministry of Munitions in 1916, theses women came from France and England and more were required to keep up with the demand. Date: 1916

London Coal Exchange
The Coal Exchange in Thames Street, a very important place when every household in London depended on the coal merchant. Date: 1830

The General Strike - incidents of the Strike 1926
The arrest of a woman (between two policemen in centre foreground) at Hammersmith Broadway in West London during the General Strike

The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926
A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in London during the General Strike

The General Strike - clearing up Hyde Park 1926
Clearing up in Hyde Park after the end of the General Strike: packing blankets used by volunteers for return to army stores

Pit Pony Pulling Coal
A blinkered pit pony, pulling along coal wagons on a colliery rail track. Point of Ayr Colliery, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Women helped during the Great Strike 1926
In Mrs Loefflers canteen at Scotland House. Lady volunteers, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, feeding Special Constables, who had come to Scotland Yard to report, while on duty

The General Strike - lorry transporting passengers
A lorry-load of Londoners in Kingsway, returning home after a days work during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The General Strike - reading wireless bulletins 1926
Londoners reading the latest news from wireless bulletins issued at Marconi House in the Strand, London during the General Strike

The General Strike - Carrying On 1926
Montage of sketches by ILN Special Artist, Bryan De Grineau showing how volunteers, specials and motorists saved the situation during the General Strike of May 1926

Handing in his lamp
1920 photo showing a Staffordshire miner handing in his lamp before the October 16 coal strike. About one million miners went on strike in aid of wage increases. Date: 1920

Dover Coal Elevation
Men working on the travelling chute of the new coal elevation at Dover harbour, Kent, England. It will be able to shoot coal into boats, 500 tons per hour Date: 1932

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Pit and Railway Tracks
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Pit and Railway Tracks. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Technical School
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Technical School. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Manda Pit Cages
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Manda Pit Cages. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Adaby Pump
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto The Adaby Pump Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Loading Coal - Harbour
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Loading Coal at the Harbour. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Electric Trains
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Electric Train at the Carin Mine. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Electricity Power Plant
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Electricity Power Plant. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - The Winding Machine
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - The Winding Machine. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto - Massive Water Gate at the Port. Date: circa 1910s

Railway Porter rather rude to sizeable female passenger
Stout Party - " And can t I get to X - without walking?" Railway Porter - " Well, theres the coal Train, Mum." Stout Party - " How much will it cost me

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

Japan - Miike Coal Fields - Manda Pit
Japan - Map of the Miike Coal Fields and a photograph of the Manda Pit. Date: circa 1910s

Christmas card in the shape of a coal scuttle. Date: circa 1890s

Goldbeater skin balloon of 500 cubic feet
Goldbeater skin balloon of 500cu ft inflated with coal gas, with camera attached being let up from 20 Waldegrave Park, Strawberry Hill

Aviatrix Miss Spooner talking with Lord Thompson
Aviatrix, Miss E.W.E. (Winifred) Spooner, talking with Lord Thompson in front of a Gypsy Moth at Stag Lane before making a demonstration flight using petrol derived from British coal

?Safety lamp for coal miners? - Sir H D Baron
?Safety lamp for coal miners?-Sir H D Baron

Parus ater, coal tit, Parus major, great tit
Plate 25 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 1 (1925)

Carboniferous coal forest
Artists impression of the swamp forests of ferns and other non-flowering plants which covered much of Britain towards the end of the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago)

Parus ater, coal tit
Plate 25 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Coal mine at Sandy Point, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Coal strata at coal mine, Sandy Point, Strait of Magellan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Shale
A specimen of shale containing small nodules of clay ironstone from the Lower Coal Measures, Brynamman, Carmarthenshire

Trigonocarpus parkinsoni
Large nutlike seeds (about 2.5cm long) from the coal measures of England dating from Upper Carboniferous. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Charcoal
Specimen of commercial charcoal produced from wood. Charcoal is created by burning organic substances such as wood in the absence of oxygen

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