Pit Collection (page 6)

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

Wood sawyer with old double-handled saw
Portrait of sawyer with an old double-handled saw. His beard is dusted with sawdust and he wears a cloth cap. He looks straight at the camera Date: 1989

Banking Expressions Illustrated - A Good Balance. The reverse message for this card rather wonderfully reads: " What Ho!" Date: 1904

The Duchess of York at the Abercynon Colliery, South Wales - she is being shown a Davy Safety lamp (and how it works) by one of the miners Date: 1933

Anthropomorphic stone stelae. Yamna Culture. 36th-23rd centu
Anthropomorphic stone stelae or statue menhirs, located in Yamna secondary graves. Yamna Culture. Late Copper Age - Early Bronze Age. 36th-23rd centuries BC

Tiger Hunting in Malaya
An English Colonial genteman with his prize bag following a Tiger Hunt in Malaya Date: 1911

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
Detail of the pump flywheel of the 1845 beam engine, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Men at West Pit, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Miners preparing to descend the West Pit of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales. The West Pit opened in the 1880s

Loading Coal Barges
A pit pony pulling heavy coal trucks along on rails for loading onto barges on a canal in Staffordshire, England

Starting a hole in a coal mine

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

A Night at Covent Garden by Matania
German opera draws London society to Covent Garden - a scene during the performance of Strausss Elektra at the Royal Opera House

Gwennap Pit near Redruth, Cornwall, where Methodist John Wesley preached to massive congregations 18 times between 1762 and 1789

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Atapuerca, Spain
Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Discovered in the Pit of Bones Site of Atapuerca (Spain). European Middle Pleistocene. Atapuerca. Spain

John Wesley / Preaching
JOHN WESLEY English religious leader, founder of Methodism : preaching at Gwennap Pit, Cornwall, to a huge congregation Date: 1703 - 1791

Punks at a gig, Manchester
A punk finds himself upside-down in the mosh-pit at a punk gig in Manchester. Date: circa 1982

Yellowbelly sea snake, Pelamis platura, and Asian pit viper, Trimeresurus species.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Piltdown Man
An illustration of The earliest known inhabitant of England, based upon the fragments of skull and jawbone supposedly discovered in a gravel pit at Piltdown, East Sussex, England

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Elevator for miners
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - An Elevator for the miners Date: circa 1910s

Rat Pit at The Swan Inn, Ash Ranges, Ash, Surrey
The Rat Pit at The Swan Inn, Ash Ranges, Ash, Surrey. Publican John Tupper (1817-1903) was celebrated for his breeding of sporting dogs and game cocks

PIT PONIES / 1869
Horse at work in a South Staffordshire colliery [England] Date: 1869

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
View of the winding engine house, built in 1845, which worked the pumps at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales
Two traditional style caravans at a gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales

Women chatting in a back yard, Pontypool, South Wales
A group of women, probably all wives of coal miners, chatting in the back yard of 76 Hanbury Terrace, Pontypool, South Wales. The smiling woman in the spotted skirt is the mother of W E Jones

William Brace, Welsh Labour MP
William Brace (1865-1947), Welsh Labour MP, President of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1912 until 1915. He was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britains coal miners

Gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales
Two small gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales

Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales
Two middle aged miners with their lamps, at a colliery in South Wales

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Woman using a dolly tub in a back yard, South Wales
A woman using a dolly tub to do the weekly wash, in a back yard in South Wales, with two children on the left. W E Jones recalled

Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
An aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
An aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Soldiers WWI
Soldiers sheltering in a grenade pit in Flanders during World War I

Zonguldak, Turkey - Railway at Mine
A small train in operation at the coal mines of Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre

Zonguldak, Turkey - Miners
Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre. Miners and general staff of the Goelik Coalmine

Wooden Rail in Mine
Blinkered pit-horses draw coal wagons along a wooden railway at an unidentified colliery : it looks extremely precarious - lets hope they can see where they are going

Pyne - Tanner
LEATHER DRESSING A feltmonger (a kind of tanner) at work at an ooze- pit, while his companions are frizing, removing the hair from the skin

Breakaway from coal strike 1926
After more than a week on general strike, there was a strong movement that began with the coal-miners of the Midlands to break-away from the strike abd return to work

Coal strike: movements towards an offical settlement 1926
Fillings in many of collieries was that the Genaral strike was coming to the end; a flow of men returning back to work steadily increased

Surrey Theatre, Great Surrey Street, London
The Surrey Theatre (formerly The Royal Circus), Great Surrey Street, London, with a map below. 1814

Steam locomotive above inspection pit, Cambridge
Steam locomotive 61827 above an inspection pit in an engine shed at Cambridge. Date: circa 1960s

Communist China - soldiers in wartime, taking time out for political study and discussion, while others look out for enemy action, probably during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Bern - The Bear PIt - Switzerland Date: circa 1920s

Bear Pit - Bern, Switzerland Date: circa 1950s

Crimean War, inside a French rifle pit
Crimean War -- interior of a French rifle pit in the parallel before the Mamelon fort and White Tower. 1855

Tram Construction at Belfast, the Engineering Shop - a view of the large workshop with a tram over a pit in the floor and wheels to the right. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

Gravel pit arrester being tested by RAF
Testing a gravel pit arrester for stopping runaway jets, using an RAF lightning jet fighter. The idea was that an aircraft unable to stop before the end of the runway would be brought quickly

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