Peat Collection

Dolls House of Petronella Dunois, c. 1676
Dolls House of Petronella Dunois (1650-1695), c. 1676. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Rail / Chat Moss / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY The railway crosses the Chat Moss peat bog, a major feat of civil engineering on the part of George Stephenson

Nydam Viking Ship
The 007 Nydam ship, one of three vessels discovered in the 19th century, and dating from the late Iron Age. Preservation was aided by the ships peat bog deposit site

Clamping Turf in a Fermanagh Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers stacking turf into piles over the peat bog. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Fermanagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Cutting the Turf in a Co. Derry Peat Bog - a view of a group of workers cutting turf from a face. There are two turf barrows being used. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim)

Crofters Houses - Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Crofters Houses at Stornoway, a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Date: circa 1910s

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

Peat carts, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Horse-drawn carts transporting peat (cut turf) on the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, northern Scotland

Peat Man & Irish Cottage
A man delivering peat in a basket to a typical Irish cottage, watched by a little boy and two women in the doorway. Date: October 1938

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

An Irish peasant girl sits astride a wooden barrow bearing a small load of Peat sods in the farmyard Date: 1907

Girl with Peat Cart
A girl stands next to the peat horse and cart on the Shetland Islands. Date: March 1939

CLAN ROSE
Clan ROSE engaged in digging peat

Carrying Turf / Ireland
A girl carrying peat in baskets strapped to a donkey

Rocks, Carbon
Various types of carbon including crystallised diamond, graphite, slate coal and peat

Shetland girl carrying peat Victorian period

Shetland girl carrying peat

Lady carrying peat and knitting, Shetland Isles

Peat carriers, Ireland Date: circa 1900s

Irish Peat Carriers early 1900s Date: circa 1900s

Cutting peat in Ireland, Victorian period

Peat cutting in North West Ireland Victorian period

Crofters cutting peat on the west coast of Scotland, Victorian period

A Scottish crofter's peat basket Victorian period

Crofters using a cas chrom to dig peat Victorian period

Carrying peat on the Isle of Skye, Victorian period

Constance M. Peat
Constance M Peat, friend of Frank Bell Date: circa 1930s

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 Series 1B G-AWUF
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 1B/522 G-AWUF (msn 25090), of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA), at Edinburgh Airport / RAF Turnhouse. Date: circa 1975

Peat Collecting 1877
Peat collection in Loch Maree, Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Date: 1877

Man gathering peat, to keep the home fires burning through the winter. Date: 1890s

PEAT SELLER C19
A peat seller. Date: early 19th century

Kilns
Two men cut peat to be used in the tall kilns standing behind them. Date: 1803

Throwing peat into trailer during peat cutting, County Clare
Throwing peat into a trailer during peat cutting, County Clare, Ireland Date: 1992

A farmer sits in the farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
An elderly farmer sits in the farm kitchen and puts the kettle over the peat fire. He wears a cloth cap and wellington boots. Co Clare, Ireland. See also 12445690 - 1247384 Date: 1990

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland - 2
A farmer and his wife and family sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Sunday Times

Peat cutting shoe - 2
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe

Industrial peat cutting, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire Date: 1990

Peat cutting shoe - 1
Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Peat cutter, Shropshire
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. He stands by a stack of cut peat with his pet dog. His old tractor is behind him

Farm kitchen, Co Clare, Ireland
A farmer and his wife sit in front of a peat fire over which a kettle boils in their farmhouse kitchen. County Clare, Ireland. First published The Daily Telegraph Date: 1990

Peat delivery Ireland
Ireland - Co Clare. A housewife fills a bag of peat for her kitchen fire from a street delivery man with tractor and trailer Date: 1990

Heating / Peat
Cutting turf in Denmark Date: 1860

Cut turf and donkeys - Ireland
Piles of cut turf and a group of donkeys, Lough Shindilla, Connemara, Co Galway

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

A Donegal Cabin, Rosguil - a view of a thatched cabin and outhouse with peat stacks and a girl peering out of the door. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Rosguil)

Granulated Peat Factory, Portglenone - an exterior view of a peat factory building and the railway running into it. In the foreground are stacks of peat

Connemara Peat Bog and Twelve Pins near Clifden, Co. Galway - a view of a peat bog and turf stacks and buildings and the mountains behind. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Galway; Clifden)

A Co. Antrim Peat Bog - a view across a watery peat bog. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

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