Pit Collection (page 5)

ANTI-AIRCRAFT LEWIS GUN
Three soldiers in a pit wearing gas masks, with an anti-aircraft Lewis gun. Date: circa 1940

Arley Pit 1853 Industry Coal Regional Collieries
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Gwennap Pit near Redruth, Cornwall, where Methodist John Wesley preached to massive congregations 18 times between 1762 and 1789

Coal Strike in Stoke-on-Trent 1920
Pit boys from Stoke-on-Trent with a chalked declaration

Black country strikers: miners at the pit bank, Stoke-on-Trent, coming up in the cage for the last time. Date: October 1920

Historical views of Tartary. Funeral rites of a Tatar chieftain 13, Tatars abandoning the sick and aged to die in a hut 14

Scenes in the Americas
Lumberjack felling a tree in the Bay of Honduras 40, view of the town of Acapulco, Mexico, 41, and interior of a Native American Nuu-chah-nulth house in Nootka Sound 42

Two slatees guard a coffle of enslaved men, Senegal
Two armed Mandinka slatees (slave merchants) guard a coffle of six enslaved men, each wearing a heavy wooden neck collar supported by the man in front. Senegal, West Africa, 1800s

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a lovers on a sofa
Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a man and woman flirting on a sofa. Death and the Lovers. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

View of Pegasus Bridge, Gondree Caf & gun pit
This view is from the east bank of the Orne Canal, (the side where the gliders landed). The Gondree Caf is on the left and the German gun pit and the bridge are on the right

Steeping, evaporating and crystallising, Hurlet Alum Works
Three stages in the production of alum -- steeping pits, evaporating boiler and crystallising coolers at the Hurlet Alum Works, near Glasgow, Scotland. Date: 1843

Lancehead viper, Ceylon pit viper and berg adder
Lancehead, Bothrops atrox 1, Ceylon pit viper, Trimeresurus trigonocephalus 2 and berg adder, Bitis atropos 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Plee Jr

South American rattlesnake, Crotalus durissis, and snake from Boston, New England. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Paul Kuffner after an illustration from nature by Johann Christoph Keller

Plums and prunes, Prunus domestica. Greengage 1, prune royale de tours 2, mirabelle plum 3, damson 4 and prune de monsieur hative 5

The punishment for adultery in Guinea (Slave Coast). A man is roasted alive in front of his lover, who is tied in a pit and scalded with boiling water

French plum, Prunus domestica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants, London, 1880

Miners and Masters: Coal-dispute Protagonists - representatives from both sides, both capital and labour. Included are: Enoch Edwards MP, Mr D A Thomas, Mr Thomas Ashton, Mr Frde Hall MP

Berlin Opera House - viewed from the stage. 19th century

Pitstop at Monza, Italian Grand Prix
Pitstop at Monza during the Italian Grand Prix, showing Nuvolaris Maserati. 20th century

Auto-Union racing car restarting after a pitstop. 20th century

Auto-Union racing car, tyre change and refuelling
An Auto-Union racing car at the replenishment pits, having a tyre change and refuelling. 20th century

Auto-Union at a pitstop on Avus track, Berlin, Germany
An Auto-Union at a pitstop during practice on the Avus motor racing track, Berlin, Germany. 20th century

Great Coal Strike, South Wales, 1921
Great Coal Strike in South Wales, 1921 - pit head with shafts covered. 1921

Men on the Pit Counter at Le Mans, France
Early Motor Car Racing - men on the Pit Counter at Le Mans, France

Dog ratting 1850s
Dog ratting at a show held at The Graham Arms, Graham Street, London. Involving capturing rats in a pit or other enclosed area

Colliery explosion, Duffryn pit 1852
Scene of an explosion, near Aberdare Valley, mouth of the middle Duffryn pit. No deaths were occasioned more by choke or after-damp than from the fire-damp. Date: 1852

The Severn Tunnel works, 1880
The Severn Tunnel works - building the railway tunnel linking South Gloucestershire to Monmouthshire under the estuary of the River Severn. It was built between 1873 and 1886. 1

Front cover of The Graphic, of the pit-mouth immediately after the explosion, killing 268 men and boys. Date: 11 September 1878

Dick Turpins Ring (Cockpit), Hempstead, Essex
circa 1910s

Pig Couple Date: 1910

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

Lung Hill Colliery 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, shortly after the tragedy were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - rushing to scene 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, relatives rushing to the scene of the explosion. Date: February 1857

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - resuing the survivors 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, resuing the survivors, were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

Pouring metal into mould in a pit. Date: 1840s

PIT PONIES MID-CANNOCK
Pompey (the pony) with Mr Talbot (left) and Titch with Mr Hawkes leaving the shaft at Mid-Cannock Colliery, on the first stage of their journey to the Royal Show at Windsor. Date: 1960s

COAL / CHINA / MULE
A mule at the pit-head of a British coal mine in Kailan, North China. Date: circa 1930

PEEP FROM BEHIND CURTAIN
A Peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane Showing a caricature associated with Sheridan. Date: 18th century

THE GLOBE / HENRY IV C17
Masked and pipe-smoking ladies in the Pit watching a performance of Shakespeares Henry IV. Date: 17th century

Alum Mine at Hurlet near Glasgow 1843
Interior of an underground alum mine at Hurlet near Glasgow. The miners, with candles attached to their helmets, dig into the rocks and cart away the mineral in wheelbarrows

COAL / RHONDDA FETE
Fete in celebration of Winning the Coal on the Rhondda branch of the Taff Vale Railway Date: 1851

THE FIERY PIT
Virgil shows Dante what it is like to be subjected to the fiery pit for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and

Pony tramming 1889
Pony tramming in an English colliery Date: 1889

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Hogarth, The Cockpit - a satirical illustration showing the blindness of a man drawn into betting on the match, and other forms of debauchery. Date: 1759

Pit at Belize
My pit at Foxy-Golf Date: 1990

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