Digs Collection

Terriers
Smooth Coated Fox Terrier, Wire Haired Fox Terrier, Irish Terrier and a Welsh Terrier. The Welsh Terrier digs a hole under the porch of a house as the other Terriers look on attentively

Two Dachshunds in the woods one burrows as the other looks on Date: 20th century

Shetland Islands - Cutting a peat bank
A Crofter cutting a peat bank on The Shetland Islands, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

Children in Sand Pit
Children play in a sandpit in a park; a little boy digs, whilst a young girl ties a bonnet around her dogs head

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret playing in a sandpit
Princesses Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-) and Margaret (1930-2002), daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York playing in a sandpit at St

ZUG CEMETERY
Tending the graves in the cemetery at Zug : while one tells her rosary, her more practical sister waters the flowers and digs up the weeds Date: 1835

Comic postcard, Crowded hotel room in a seaside hotel Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Crowded hotel bedroom at Mablethorpe Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, People sleeping on the roof at Falmouth Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, People sleeping on the stairs at Weston-Super-Mare. Date: 20th century

Digging for Ants Date: 1948

GERMAN MERCHANT CHARITY
A German merchant digs into his money-bags and hands a fistful of coins to a poor family. Date: circa 1510

TRUFFLE HUNTING PIG 1939
A man with his truffle-hunting pig. He digs with a spade where the pig has found truffles - the hardest part is stopping the pig eating them before he can dig them up! Date: 1939

KING ALBERT DIGS TRENCH
King Albert of Belgium, along with senior army officers, dig trenches, keen to play their part in defending their country against the German forces. Date: 1914

Student room, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1911
Interior view of student room in New Court, Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1911. The room is neat and filled with elegant furniture, pictures and other comforts

Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston Moors
The distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors

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

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

Family group on holiday, Southwold, Suffolk
Family group outside their holiday home at 25 North Parade, Southwold, Suffolk -- Albert, Lucy, Arthur, Harold, Ellen and Violet Auerbach, summer 1912. Date: 1912

Last day of the holidays, saying goodbye, Southwold, Suffolk -- members of the Auerbach family (Albert, Harold, Lucy and Violet), and members of the Cattley family, September 1912. 1912

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

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

Students studying in digs Date: 1955

Collared Lemming - adult in winter fur, looks like a furry ball from its back while feeding on buds and bark of dwarf willow it digs in snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

Siberian lemming - adult in winter, on snow in tundra; quickly digs snow in attempt to escape (Lemmus sibirica). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Inniskillings digging
Soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers digging, and posing with a boy on a donkey; they are possibly in India. Date: C.1913

Digs for a British soldier
A British soldier from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in his dorm, probably in China; the wall is decorated with photographs. Date: circa 1913

Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s

Colonial Indian Troops digging trenches on the Western Front Date: circa 1915

Elderly maid digging in the garden c. 1910

Excavations of Roman Fort in City of London
The site of a Roman fort, uncovered during an archaeological dig in Falcon Street, in the City of London. The fort, which was built before the ancient city wall is pictured in the shadow of

Digging the Garden
An old man digs over the vegetable patch of his walled garden. Date: 1930s

A London dust-yard
A pig rummages in a London dust-yard, while a man digs through the rubbish and women sieve the dust hoping to find things of value

Digging up the tarmac on a road
A workman in a trilby hat digs up the tarmac surface of a road with a pneumatic drill

Home From the Trenches
Home from the Trenches - How Tommy Got to Sleep. A soldier used to sleeping in a dug-out or trench on the Western Front of the First World War

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Selling Hot Potatoes
A woman wearing a shawl cooks potatoes to sell them hot on the street; a man digs in his pocket for some coins while a boy warms his hands on the side of the portable stove

Donkey Ride (Liebig)
An obstinate donkey digs its heels in, despite shoving from the riders sisters

Three Children on Sand
While their brother digs energetically, his two sisters are happy just to sit on the sand and let it sift through their fingers

Cock Robin 3
The Owl digs the grave in which the corpse of the late bird (as opposed to the early bird which catches the worm) will be laid

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