Digging Collection (page 2)

Henry III granting licence to dig coal in 1234. Different historical moments when coal was first noted to be used. The King is seen here giving permission to men in Newcastle to dig coal

Springbok Hunting, South Africa
Various depictions of the process of Springbok hunting by Bushmen in South Africa. We see their camps, lookout spots, methods of using bow and arrow or dogs, stalking ostriches

Advert, Parkes steel digging forks and draining tools
Advert, Messrs Burgess and Key, wholesale agents for Parkes steel digging forks and draining tools Date: 1856

Women Digging for Coal during 1912 Miners Strike
The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main aim was securing a minimum wage

Henry V - after the battle. 1862

Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River Thames
Men working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day

The Curse: Adam is digging in the ground, assisted by Death.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

Disruption extending the entire length of Haymarket, Piccadilly, London, closed until September. Date: August 1928

Royal visit to Leicester - planting oak tree in Abbey Park
Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark), opening the new Abbey Park by planting a young oak tree, on Whit Monday. Date: June 1882

PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665
Bodies are brought out of the city in carts and buried in pits dug for the purpose during the Great Plague of London Date: 1665

Labour digging up a narrow road for repairs on a burst waterpipe in London. Date: 1901

Laying big main water pipes, Southwark and Vauxhall 1900
Photograph showing engineers and assistants lifting up heavy large circular piping with a crane ready to be put underground, in the streets of South London

Comic postcard, Foreman and workman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Elderly man and gravedigger Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Middle-aged woman and gravedigger Date: 20th century

Allotment studies by G. E. Studdy
No. I. - Back to the land and what it fills like! To tackle food shortages, people were given plots to grow their own vegetables, in this cartoon a man is in agonising back pain

Page from Britannia & Eve by Katharine Woolley reporting on the great excavations carried by her and her husband Leonard at Ur in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq). Date: 1929

Unearthing the ship-grave of an Anglo-Saxon warrior king at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk. The excavations reveal the outlines of a 6th century sea-going craft

The Australian Diggers Memorial, Plugstreet Experience
The 14-18 Experience Museum was opened on 9 November 2013 and on that day a splendid bas relief of Australian miners digging underground was unveiled. It was donated by Ross J

What digging for victory really means, 1940
This is what Digging for Victory really means, 1940. Growing vegetables in an allotment or garden. Date: 1940

Ruins discovered, Whitcomb Street, London
Ruins discovered at the corner of Whitcomb Street, near Charing Cross, London, December 1821. 1821

How Does My Garden Grow by Muriel Dawson. 1942

Family on the beach at Weston-super-Mare
A father with his trousers rolled up paddles in the sea and supervises a small child who is busy digging in the sand in front of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare. Date: c.1930

Family group on the beach at Ramsgate
A family on the beach at Ramsgate. Little girls are busy digging themselves into holes in the sand while relatives make themselves comfortable on deckchairs

Rose tartan. circa 1846

Emigration - Infested by Mosquitoes. 19th century

Channel Tunnel attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent
Channel Tunnel digging attempt between Dover and Folkestone, Kent, with machinery and workmen. Date: 1880

Metropolitan Extension under construction 1864
Metropolitan Extension Railway under construction at Smithfield, London. 1864

Embankment making the tracks 1906
Labourers laying steel tracks for the new electric tram-way at Thames Embankment, London, construction started by the London County Council at the end of August 1909

Embankment torn to pieces for the trams 1906
London County Council beginning the construction of the electric tram-way along the Thames Embankment from Westminster Bridge, starting at the end of August 1909

Allied trench plough in action, WW1
An Allied trench plough in action during the First World War - they were used to cut trenches and build parapets at the same time. 1914-1918

Trenches dug in street, Porte Maillot, Paris, France, WW1
Trenches being dug across the street at Porte Maillot, Paris, 8 September 1914, at the start of the First World War. 1914

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

Piccadilly roadworks 1927 Roadworks in Piccadilly, London 1927
Labourers making a trail in the pavement, for some kind of maintenance, watched by a crowd of people. 1927

Factory construction, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. circa 1910s

Digging a vegetable patch, 1890s
Rustic types digging over a vegetable patch outside a cottage, 1890s Date: 1890s

Excavating tube railway 1903
Under construction, workers in the shield, Great Northern and City Railway. 1903

German Prisoners in Morocco
German Prisoners captured during the First World War, digging trenches in Morocco Date: 1915

Section of the road closed off to do some kind of maintenance work. Date: 1927

Boy with a spade, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. He was working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boy with a wheelbarrow, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. He was working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boys and girls, supervised by a man, taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

Boys taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

Communard forces reinforcing their position at Montmartre, digging trenches and placing cannon. Leftwing National Guard soldiers supported the Commune and helped to hold Montmartre

Disruption in Piccadilly, London, with crowds of people watching work being done on part of the main road. Date: 1927

Three scruffy boys watch the men digging up the road in Piccadilly

Pedestrians clamber over street roadworks in Piccadilly in a rather dangerous manner by todays standards

Prospectors camp at Pegleg and Sailors Gully, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1853

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