Coal Collection (page 24)

Coaling a Battleship
Vast quantities of coal are required to keep the worlds navies operating : purpose- built coal supply ships carry the coal to a fuel-hungry warship of the Royal Navy

Great Northern Loco
Great Northern Railway, single express locomotive Number One

Coal Mine Steam Engine
A diagram showing the use of a steam engine in a coal mine

Servall Grate
When the days cooking is done, Dad sits beside his coal-burning Servall grate - the top bit opened out as an oven for the little woman to do her cooking

Staffordshire Mine
A steam engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire collieries

Lead and Coal Mine 17Thc
Lead and coal mines at Mostyn, Wales

PRITCHARDs MAGIC BOX
Young William Pritchard and his invention, the Magic Box, which is capable of detecting dangerous gases and thus saving 300 lives a year down Great Britains mines

Horse-Drawn Barge
A horse pulls a barge full of coal along the canal towpath

Coaling at Jamaica
At Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies), long lines of women carry baskets of coal to enable the liner to continue on its way

Boys Picking Slate
Boys picking slate out of mined coal, in an American mine

Undercutting Coal Seam
Undercutting a thin coal seam

Boy Working at Coalface
BOY WORKING A LOW SEAM Eighteen is the age at which boys are allowed to get coal, and they are at that age considered " three-quarters of a man (from the Report)

Children Putting a Tub
CHILDREN WORKING AS PUTTERS A girl and a boy haul a hutchie laden with 3-10 cwt (150-500kg) of coal from the coal-wall to the pit-bottom

Girls on Ladders
GIRLS CARRYING COAL UP LADDERS Mary Duncan began to carry coals when 12 years old... many have wrought from 8 years old, and know no other...can carry 2 cwt (100 kg+) - Report

Girl Carrying Coal
OLDER GIRL CARRYING COAL I carry a hundredweight and a quarter (60kg+) on my back, and am frequently in water up to my calves (Report)

Lowering Children Mine
Two children are lowered down the mine-shaft to the coal- face by a woman working a winch

Warming Kettle by Fire
Keeping the water hot in a metal kettle by keeping it next to a hot coal fire on a long trivet

Surrey Theatre 1840S
Idlers, promenading couples, a lady & lap dog, a dog chasing a boy, & a porter with a heavy load loiter on the street - 3 drunks with pint pots stumble out of the Coal Hole pub

Canal Tow Path & Horse
An industrial narrow boat laden with coal is towed by a horse (encouraged with a feeding nosebag) on the tow path (entering a lock), Grand Union Canal, England

Furniture Disturbed
A family return home to find the parlour furniture moved - pictures on the floor, coal scuttle & fire tongs in the alcove, chairs balanced on tables - all topsy-turvy

Women Working / Coal
Woman worker in the Belgium Black Country

French Miners
French miners at Montceau-les- Mines, central France

Woman & Mice in Cellar
A woman hiding from a German zeppelin raid in a coal cellar finds a worse danger

Coal / French Pit Ponies
The pony stable in a French colliery

Rail, Horse-Drawn Coal
RAIL:PRE-STEAM Horse-drawn coal wagon on rails

Glasgow Airy Nothings
Street scene in Glasgow in the early 19th century, with shops and street traffic including a coal cart

Wet day in Piccadilly, Central London
A wet day in Piccadilly, Central London, with pedestrians and a hansom cab

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