Drilling Collection (page 2)

Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard, Cornwall
Oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

The Ancient English Musket & Halbert Exercise, Plate 3. 1794

Anti-nuclear power demonstration, Gwithian, Cornwall
Anti-nuclear power demonstration at Gwithian, Cornwall, with a CEGB drilling rig and site office in the background. Date: 1970s

Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Muse
History. Mining. Drilling with a jackhammer. Diorama. Deutsches Museum (Museum of Science and Technology). Munich. Germany

Circassians drilling, natives of Circassia, who were displaced in the course of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century Date: 1913

And no wonder! H. M. Bateman cartoon
" And no wonder! THE DEAR OLD LADY (as the recruits march by): Dear me, how the fine weather does bring the young fellows out to be sure

Boys Drilling, Training Ship, Exmouth, Grays, Essex
Boys at drill on the Training Ship Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the River Thames off Grays, Essex

Bench 30 at Abadan
Abadan is a city on Abadan Island in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran, close to the border with Iraq. Rich oil fields were discovered in the area in the early 20th century

Cover design, Womancraft magazine, February 1974 - A do-it-yourself magazine for women. 1974

What are you lagging behind for? Pen and ink drawing by Harry Riley, 1945 (c); signed lower right; caricature of soldiers drilling, 1945 (c). Date: circa 1945

Soldiers Drilling. Coloured aquatint with soft ground etching by and after J A Atkinson, nd.Published by William Miller, 49 Albemarle Street, London and James Walker, 8 Conway Street, Fitzroy Square

THE LOCK STEP, or drilling for the Review.Coloured etching after Capt Charles Aylmer, 11th Regiment of Foot.Published bys W Fores, London, 4 Aug 1797.Having served in the Army from 1789 to 1799

Things I Should Like To See II by Bateman. A Dentist having a tooth stopped. One Dentist filling the tooth of another. The look of fear and pain is clear of his face

Boring for water in camp near Taveta, East Africa, WW1
Boring for water in camp near Taveta, East Africa, during WW1. 1916

Florence Upton playing cards - Drilling. circa 1900s

Lagunillas oilfield, Venezuela, Central America
Lagunillas oilfield, on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, Central America. Date: 1927

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Chips
Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Tooth the Dentists daughter. 20th century

Switzerland. 19th century. Locomotive driven by compressed air used for the drilling of Saint-Gothard. Colored engraving of The Spanish and American Illustration, 1875

USA. 19th century. Oil well in the Oil-Creek Valley. Colored engraving. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1872

A Hole through the Earth
The immense works at the drilling site as the engineers work their way to the Antipodes. Date: circa 1900

Colonel Patrick Crichton of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers Date: 1794

Oilfields near Bakersfield, Kern County, USA. Date: circa 1908

Wrens learning to salute, 1940
Probationary officers of the W.R.N.S. learn to salute, drilling in front of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Date: 1940

Soldiers on a parade ground
Soldiers drilling on a parade ground. Date: circa 1930s

Drilling rig at Rosemanowes Quarry, Penryn, Cornwall
Drilling rig at Rosemanowes granite quarry, near Penryn, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Engineers & Drilling Rig, Storrington, Sussex, England. Where Storringtons Water is Coming From Date: 1900s

South Africa - A Rand Gold Mine
A Rand Gold Mine, South Africa. Showing rock drilling Date: 1927

Oxford University under arms, drilling in the quadrangle
Members of the Officers Training Corps at Oxford University drilling in a college quadrangle. Date: 1915

Eton College Office Training Corps drilling before lessons
Schoolboy members of the Officers Training Corp at Eton College going through an early morning drill before beginning the days studies in 1915. Date: 1915

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Mosque at Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, WW1
Mosque at the Citadel, an army barracks in Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1914-1918

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Oil fire at Sour Lake, Beaumont, Texas, USA
Oil fire at Sour Lake, a big oil-producing area of eastern Texas, USA. Date: early 20th century

History of Wells in silhouette by H. L. Oakley -- second page (entitled THEN) of a leaflet published by LeGrand Sutcliff & Gell Ltd, Artesian Well & Hydraulic Engineers of Southall, West London

Selkup Man (North Siberia minority) shows work with wooden hand-made tool (for drilling wood and bone). early spring, taiga-forest; North Tumen region, Russia

Training native soldiers in Uganda, WW1
Page from the Sphere magazine showing photographs of the drilling of recruits in Uganda for the Kings African Rifles. The Sphere comments that they make splendid soldiers - keen

Training munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute
Scenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War

With the Army by Denis Cowles, WW1 cartoon
With the Army - 1. Teaching recruits to " carry the left foot about 12 inches to the left." " Infantry Training 1914." Something of a misinterpretation of infantry training

With the Army, Telling off a platoon, WW1 cartoon
A platoon is given a dressing down by the commanding officer inspecting them. Date: 1916

Inspecting recruits at Tower of London, WW1
An Inspector of Recruits at the Tower of London. These were men who volunteered at the outbreak of war and are pictured still in civilian clothes. Date: 1914

Firefighters in training with various equipment in a drill yard

AFS women, gas mask drill, WW2
AFS women doing a gas mask drill during the Second World War

LFB water relaying drills, Hyde Park, London
LFB water relaying drills taking place in Hyde Park, London, on 12 February 1938, watched by mothers and their children. Date: 1938

Junior LFB firefighters practise on a Wheeled Escape Ladder Date: circa 1950s

Bystander - Making assurance doubly sure
An illustration showing a sergeant teaching his soldiers how to stab someone with a bayonet to maximise the effect of the stab by twisting the bayonet, in preparation for fighting in WW1. Date: 1916

Scouts of the 4th Calcutta Troop, India
Scouts of the 4th Calcutta (Armenian College) Troop, India, doing physical drill

Boer volunteers drilling, Market Square Johannesburg, South Africa

Oil wells at Los Angeles, California, USA. Date: 20th century

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