Coals Collection

Housemaid Carries Coals
The housemaid brings up a scuttle full of coal

Silhouette, Sending Coals to Newcastle
Sending Coals to Newcastle -- silhouette showing a mining landscape and three men carrying sacks of coal up a slope

Pyne - Coal Heavers
COAL HEAVERS An essential trade when almost every house is heated with coal, the heaver shovels coals into sacks for delivery door to door

1969 1960s 60s Sixties Electric Man Men Electricity
1969, 1960s, 60s, sixties, electric, man, men, electricity, council, appliance, appliances, testing, laboratories, laboratory, leatherhead, surrey, lab, labs, test, experiment, quality, electrical

Comic postcard, dissatisfied customer in shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, hen laying in coals, WW2 Date: 1940s

Old-Fashioned Iron Date: 1880

CHINESE BEGGARS / MASOCHIS
Strolling Beggars in China placing burning coals on their heads and using other austerities Date: 1752

Strolling beggars in China with burning coals
Strolling beggars in China laying burning coals on their heads and using other austerities in order to extort alms. Date: 1752

Winter - a Greek or Roman woman warms her hands by a fire
Winter by Henry Ryland - a Greek or Roman woman warms her hands by a fire set in an ornamental metal basin. Although he did paint in oils

Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA
A chef at work in the Blacksmith Shop Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA, specialising in lobsters, steaks, fish and chops broiled over the coals of the old forges. 1941

Brahmins walking on hot coals near Madras, India
Near Madras, India, forty Brahmins of the Soivrasta sect demonstrate their piety by walking on hot coals. Date: 1908

How are you Off
How are you off for coals ?

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

Christmas card, skating rabbits. 20th century

Coals at Christmas
Christmas distribution of coals to the poor by the town. Date: 1850

The Brass Rail restaurant, New York City, USA
The Brass Rail restaurant, 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, USA, showing meat cooking in front of burning coals on an English Roasting Jack. Date: circa 1940

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

Stock Exchange Notes (1 / 4) - Fall of Coal
An allegory on the The Fall of the Coal Price - Stock Exchange Notes: " Coal Fell Unexpectedly" !! 1903

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Thomas Britton - 3
THOMAS BRITTON Coal-dealer, musician, mystic, scientist and bibliophile, depicted as he went about the streets selling small-coals. Date: 1654 - 1714

Whitby Parish poor relief voucher for coal
A voucher for a shilling bag of coal, issued as poor relief by the Churchwarden at Whitby, North Yorkshire

Madame Giradelli, The Celebrated Fire-Proof Femal
Undated illustration of Madame Giradelli, " The Celebrated Fire-Proof Female", with one hand in the brazier and foot on a slab of red-hot iron. HPG/8/2/1 (xxv)"

Woman on Rug by Fire
A young woman sits on a leopard skin rug, complete with head, in front of a roaring fire

Fanning a Fire
A woman uses a newspaper over an open coal fire to make it draw more quickly and light the coals faster

Ladies by a Fireside
Two young ladies sit in front of an open fire : should they require them, a whole battery of tools are available to poke the coals, shovel the ash or brush the hearth

Selling Small Coals
Selling small coals from a barrow in a winter street

Class Distinctions / Coal
DIGNITY ATTACKED " I say Guv ner, jest guv us a lift up with these here coals" A rather ridiculously-attired posh gentleman is shocked by a coalboys impish request

Advertisement for Hill & Poyser, coal merchants, Derby
Advertisement for Hill & Poyser, Coal Merchants and Colliery Agents, Head Office at 45 The Wardwick, Derby, Depot at City Road Wharf, Derby

Bassinoire of C17
A bassinoire (warming pan) : it is filled with hot coals and slipped between the bedsheets to do the same job as the hot water bottle

Medeira / Funchal C19Th
FUNCHAL A map of the port showing places of safe anchorage for vessels requiring coals

Preparing the Opium
A Chinese opium dealer prepares the opium, heating it gently over coals

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

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

Carrying Things
Two servants carry their burdens upstairs - the footman carries a letter on a tray, the housemaid carries a scuttle full of coals

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