Coal Collection (page 9)

Gas works retort house, Horseferry Road, Westminster, London
Men at work in the retort house of the gas works at Horseferry Road, Westminster, London. The retort house contained the retorts (vessels) in which coal was heated to generate the gas

Coal Merchant. Woodcut. Artist: Wladyslaw Skoczylas

Railway map, Willesden, Acton Wells, Queens Park, London
Railway map, Willesden, Acton Wells, Queens Park (West Kilburn), London, with colour coding of the various railway companies. Date: 1920

Railway map, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Haydon Square, London
Railway map, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Haydon Square, Mansion House, Spitalfields & Whitechapel, London, with colour coding of the various railway companies. Date: 1922

Railway map, Acton, Kew, Turnham Green, London
Railway map, Acton, Kew, South Acton & Turnham Green, London, with colour coding of the various railway companies. Date: 1913

Descending a coal mine at Wielliczka, Hungary. early 19th century

Coal Commission sit in Kings Robing Room - House of Lords
The Coal Commission sitting in the Kings Robing Room of the House of Lords, thrashing out the question of miners wages and hours. The Chairman, Mr Justice Sankey, is at the head of the curved table

Interior of a coal mine, Newcastle upon Tyne. circa 1850

The New System of Delivering Coal. circa 1840

Coaling a steamship, Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

New Coal Pier No. 9, Newport News, Virginia, USA
C&O Railway Companys New Coal Pier No. 9, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Date: circa 1915

Steamship Cedric in cross-section to show contents. Date: 1903

Spanish Blockade at Valparaiso
A Spanish squadron blockading the port at Valparaiso, Chile. Several Spanish ships sit broadside to the shore, incapacitating Chilean ships and port industry

Craftsmen overhauling lamps, South Wales
The Great Coal Strike - craftsmen busy overhauling lamps in South Wales. 1921

Great Coal Strike, South Wales, 1921
Great Coal Strike in South Wales, 1921 - pit head with shafts covered. 1921

Woman making balls of clay and slack, West Country
West Country woman making balls of clay and slack (coal), an economical way of keeping fires alight from night to morning

Advert, Ventilating Kitchener Close Range Oven
Advert, Benham & Sons, Wigmore Street, London - Ventilating Kitchener, Close Range Oven with Open Chimney. circa 1890

Coal-porters 1850s
Coal-porters on board a ship filling waggons at the coal-wharf. Date: circa 1850s

Coal-whippers
Coal been brought from the mines was transported by ship to London docks to be sold, illustration showing a gang of coal-whippers on board bringing the coal up from below deck using pulley system

Hardy Patent Pick Co. patent hand boring machine 1890s
Patent hand boring machine, for rock and coal, produced by Hardy Patent Pick Co, works in Sheffield. Date: 1890s

Colliery explosion, Duffryn pit 1852
Scene of an explosion, near Aberdare Valley, mouth of the middle Duffryn pit. No deaths were occasioned more by choke or after-damp than from the fire-damp. Date: 1852

Work at a coal mine 1878
Work at a coal mine, low travelling and holding the bottom coal. Date: 1878

Miners at work 1865
Various positions assumed by the Hewers in digging at the coal. Date: 1865

Advert, Wrights Coal Tar Soap, brings sweet refreshing sleep to baby. 1913

INDUSTRY / METALS / IRON
Three young men struggle and strain to push a rail truck full of iron ore uphill as part of their Labour Service training. Date: 1930s

Coal and metals mining
Diagram of the exterior and interior of a Metalliferous mine. Date: 1859

The interior of Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York

PHILIPPA OF HAINAULT (1314? - 1369), Queen of Edward III of England. She introduced Flemish weavers & encouraged coal mining

Casey Jones on Board Date: 1948

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

Lung Hill Colliery 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, shortly after the tragedy were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - rushing to scene 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, relatives rushing to the scene of the explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - resuing the survivors 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, resuing the survivors, were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Coal tit, Periparus ater.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his own Natural History of British Birds, London, 1794-1819

Disaster at Troedyrhiw colliery, Wales 1877
Flooded mine at the Troedyrhiw colliery, showing the old Cymmer mine from where the water came. Date: 1877

Sailors swab the decks after refuelling their ship
Sailors, many in bare feet, clean the decks after coal has been put into the hold. Coal was known by the sailors as black diamonds

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

SUMMERLEA IRONWORKS
Coal wagons at night outside the blast furnaces at Summerlea Ironworks in Glasgow Date: circa 1870

COAL MINE IN THE CLOUDS
A coal mine in the clouds, where coal has to be sent down a precipitous drop to the plains (probably in the USA), where locomotives take it to the coast. Date: 1930s

FUSHIN COLLIERY, CHINA
Large scale oil works at the Fushin coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

THOMSONS ROAD STEAMER
Thomsons road steamer (traction engine) Enterprise hauling a train of coal wagons. Date: 1870

MINERS AT COAL FACE
Two miners working at the coal face, one with an electric drill and the other with a pickaxe. Date: 1940s

Page Bank Colliery, fire 1858
Fire at Page Bank Colliery, Durham. Date: 1858

OPEN FOOTPLATE 1870
On the open footplate of a train at night - driver at the controls, stoker shovelling in coal, while their train hurtles into the darkness... Date: 1870

PIT PONIES MID-CANNOCK
Pompey (the pony) with Mr Talbot (left) and Titch with Mr Hawkes leaving the shaft at Mid-Cannock Colliery, on the first stage of their journey to the Royal Show at Windsor. Date: 1960s

CHIMNEY SWEEP & BRUSH CHIMNEY SWEEP & BRUSH
A chimney sweep pushes his brush futher up the chimney by adding poles to the end. He seals the chimney up to prevent coal dust pouring into the room. Date: 1940s

HIGH BROOKS MINE 1866
An explosion at the High Brooks colliery, near Wigan in Lancashire, England, results in the deaths of 30 miners. Date: 23 January 1866

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