Digging Collection (page 4)

Blitz in London -- Standish Road, Hammersmith, WW2
Blitz in London -- repairing a fractured water main in Standish Road, King Street, Hammersmith, 4 September 1940. A bomb-damaged house can be seen, top left. Date: 1940

British soldiers digging a trench, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers digging a communication trench through what was once Delville Wood on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger

The Gentle Art of Excavating - Removing top soil
A new type of shovel removing the top soil from a bluff in the Cotswold Hills. A typically elaborate contraption by the gadget king

People in a bomb damaged street during WW2
People in a bomb damaged street in Germany during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Driver on the farm
WW2 - British Home front, October 1941 - Mrs John Steel, daughter of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, British Pathologist, lends her hand to the war effort

Tunisia - Metlaoui - Phosphate Society Mines of Sfax-Gafsa - unloading the wagns. Date: circa 1910s

Psalter of Saint Elizabeth. 1200s. April: farmer digging. Romanesque art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Cividale del Friuli. Archaeological Museum

Arch Druids planting Coronation Oak, Crystal Palace
To commemorate the coronation of King George V, the Arch Druid of England planted a Coronation Oak sapling at the Crystal Palace, London. The ceremony was attended by many foreign delegates

Excavating machine for digging trenches, France, WW1
An excavating machine used for digging trenches, at Mericourt in the Somme area of northern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 August 1916

Dig For Victory
British wartime poster encouraging the public to grow their own food

The Treasure by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, digs up countless bulbs which have been carefully planted in a garden border in an effort to retrieve his bone

Women working in the fields, Roscommon, Ireland
Peasant women in Roscommon, Ireland, working in the field digging the earth with shovels

Digging Corinth Canal
Construction of the Corinth Canal : cutting the path of the canal through solid rock

Spain. Community of Madrid. Panorama of San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the Monastery of El Escorial from the Chair of Philiph II

Peat stack, County Donegal, north-west Ireland
Peat stack in County Donegal, north-west Ireland, with a trench in the foreground from which the peat has been dug. Date: circa 1900s

Elsie Janis working on the land, WWI
American actress, Elsie Janis posing for a picture looking very fetching in a land workers outfit during the First World War

Christiania, North West Province, South Africa
Vaal River diggings, Christiania, a diamond town in North West Province, South Africa. Date: 1907

Treasure Trove diggings, North West Province, South Africa
Water station (mobile water supply) at Treasure Trove diamond diggings near Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1927

The Pines - Petrified Forest - Santa Rosa, California - Queen of the Forest with a new live oak growing out of the petrified trunk! Date: circa 1930s

Archaeological work at a villa in Pompeii, Italy. circa 1895

Susi - in the garden with a bone. 1950s

Kieselguhr Industry at Toome, Digging the Bann Clay. Grants Factory - a view of two men digging clay and one using a barrow outside. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome)

Digging Mud Turf in an Oul Bog Hole Co. Antrim - a view of a man and lady digging turf out of a trench. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Digging pitch, La Brea, Trinidad, circa 1900. Date: circa 1900

Digging an irrigation ditch, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Van and snow plough in the snow
Van in the snow, with a snow plough in action on the A259 (near the south coast of England). Date: 1960s

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

Happy Families - Mr Flower. circa 1940s

Mining. Shaft sinking by hand with hammer and wedge. Diorama
History. Mining. Shaft sinking by hand with hammer and wedge. Diorama. Deutsches Museum(Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany

Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving
Economy. 19th century. Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving. The Art of the Illustration, 1888

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Weed the Gardeners Son. circa 1930s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Flower the Gardener. circa 1935

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Weed the Gardener. circa 1930s

Japan, Two children digging for shellfish, low tide riverbed
Japan - Two children digging for shellfish on a low tide riverbed. Both hold small picks/shovels suited for this purpose. Date: 1906

Illustrated London News cover - the Diamond Diggers
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing two diamond diggers in South Africa, in the valley of the Vaal river, Orange Free State

Suez Construction 4
Digging the cutting between the Sweet Water canal and Nefiche : giving some idea of the massive scale of the operation, most of which is done by manual labour. Date: 1863

Class Distinction 1934
Three workers laugh at a fat capitalist taking his dog for a walk. Date: 1934

Whichelow / Southwark St
A couple of men talking in a deserted street, St Marys Priory, Southwark, London. Date: 1811

Christmas / Tree Dug Up
Lifting the tree Date: 1851

Night workers laying an electric cable in London 1900
Workmen working in the streets at night laying electrical cable. Date: 1900

Gentleman instructing gardener, c. 1800
Gentleman instructing a gardener wtih a spade, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

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