Mains Collection

Turncock (Petherick)
A London turncock, employed by the water company to turn on or off the cocks whereby water is channelled from the mains to domestic supply pipes

Water shortage and supply: Londons water stores, 1921
Seriously depleted by drought: Londons water stores in 1921 for seven million people, spread over 558 square miles.The Thames estuary is viewed looking east, towards the sea

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

Mains Castle, Dundee, Scotland, dating back to the 16th century, with a Rob Roy tartan background. Date: circa 1905

DOMESTIC ELECTRICITY
Before mains electricity became available, those who could afford it installed their own electricity power plants, generally in the cellar, as here. Date: 1885

Turncock
London characters: the TURNCOCK is employed by the water company to turn the mains taps on or off, as may be necessary. Date: circa 1870

Women Sewing for Troops WW1
Three young ladies sewing comforts for the troops Les Absent stop now and then to think of their menfolk waging war at the front Si parfois nos mainss arretent un peu

Firemen at Battersbys hatworks were obviously employed in house, and despite the equipment being satisfactory, when a fire broke out in 1906 there was insufficient water pressure in the mains to be

Paris, France - General View beneath the streets
Section of the soil under a street in Paris, showing drains, water and gas supplies and caves Date: 1854

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 71, May 1928
Illustration Haut les mains by Cuesta from Paris Plaisirs number 71, May 1928 Date: 1928

A firefighter demonstrating the use of a water main key

LCC-LFB Flooding caused by burst water main in street
An area of Hammersmith and Fulham extensively flooded following the fracture of a large diameter water main in the street

Blitz in London -- emergency water main, water bridge
Blitz in London -- firefighters, observed by fire officers, erecting a water bridge, an elevated emergency water main that allows traffic to flow underneath whilst the mains cross over road junctions

Blitz in London -- emergency water mains for firefighting
Blitz in London -- frequently water mains were damaged or destroyed by enemy bombing. Emergency water mains were laid, over ground, to which fire hoses could be connected

The Wallace Stone, at Blairston Mains Farm, near Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland. It has associations with Sir William Wallace and has a carving of a sword on it. Date: 1950s photo

Thurn, Germany - The Principal Lane

Society wedding at St Margarets Church
A society wedding between Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Vivian Campbell Douglas and Elizabeth Cicely de Bunsen. The bridegroom is from Mains, Laraich, Aberfoyle, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Construction of Drainage Tunnels at Wick Lane, London, 1859
Engraving showing the construction of mains drainage tunnels at Wick Lane, near Old Ford, London, in 1859

Floods, Cincinnati
Flooding at Cincinnati forces many to leave their homes, to which is added explosions of gas when mains are shattered

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