Pits Collection

Le Mans Poster
A poster for the 1924 24-hour maotor race at Le Mans, France, billed as the Gran Prix D Endurance. Held on the 14 and 15th June

Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Cwmpennar Colliery (also known as the Powell Duffryn Colliery), Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales

Emeryson Jaguar at Goodwood, England
1st Handicap Sports race, Paul Emerys Emeryson Jaguar in the pits at Goodwood, England Easter 19th April 1954. Date: 1954

Coldstreamers in a Great charge by the guards on the Somme
On 15th September 1916, Guards including the Coldstreamers, Grenadiers and the Irish, captured Martinpuich, formerly in German hands and Courcelette and over 2300 prisoners. 15th September 1916

Actions of the Somme Crossings 1918
Actions of the Somme Crossings, Nesle Sector. Men of the 20th British Division and of the 22nd French Division in hastily dug rifle pits covering a road at the Battle of the Somme on the Western

John Smeatons water gin winding engine, 19th century.. John Smeatons design for a water gin (winding engine) for drawing coals from the pits, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W

Typical Lancashire miners going on strike: A group of men leaving work until further notice. Date: October 1920

Welsh miners going on strike at the Rhondda valley colliery: Men leaving the mines. Date: October 1920

Charlton sand Pits - Charlton, South East London. The home football ground of Charlton Athletic FC, The Valley dates from 1919, at a time when the club were looking for a new home

Haden Hill Coal Pits, Staffordshire
A typical Black Country coal mine. Sunk in 1893 by the Draycott Colliery Co, the colliery was originally known as the Klondyke and finally closed in 1943 Date: circa 1910

Two Children in the Mines 1854
Two young colliers helpers pulling a cart full of heavy coal upwards in the dark mines. Date: 1854

PLAGUE OF LONDON 1665
Bodies are brought out of the city in carts and buried in pits dug for the purpose during the Great Plague of London Date: 1665

Notts strikers and their last mornings work: The final shift at Clifton Colliery. Date: October 1920

Lancashire miners extinguishing their lamps after ceasing work: Men on strike at Audenshaw pits. Date: October 1920

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

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling pencils, and fishing. Worker at a charcoal pit in Furness 64, Jewish pedlar selling pencils door to door in Borrowdale 65

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

Sir Malcolm Campbell at the Brooklands pits
Sir Malcolm Campbell in his racing car at the Brooklands pits. 1923

Motor racing track course at Alessandria, Italy. 1930s

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

Coal and metals mining
Diagram of the exterior and interior of a Metalliferous mine. Date: 1859

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

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

Fire in Pits at RAC Tourist Trophy Race at Goodwood
A fire in Pits during the RAC Tourist Trophy Race at Goodwood. The No.1 Aston Martin caught fire during refuelling. The driver

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

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

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

The Lime Pits, Walsall, Staffordshire
The Lime Pits, Walsall, near Bloxwich, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1900s

Private in full marching order, E Company, 106 Provisional Battalion. Chalk pits in the distance. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment

Finns v. Russian tanks by G. H. Davis
Finns v. Russian tanks: bombing from pits under the snow during the Second World War. How Finnish bombers get to close quarters with tanks by hiding in camouflaged pits

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

Brick making clay pit - Rangoon - Deep clay pits with sweating Indians carrying up baskets of the rich clay on their heads, . Date: 1952

Five polar bears on holiday at London Zoo
Visitors to London Zoo in 1911 were attracted to the bear pits where five young performing bears, the property of Doris del Monte of Copenhagen, were spending a weeks holiday

Coal Board Hostel, Mining
A Coal Board Hostel, near Sheffield, England, housing Italian migrant workers to help in the British coal pits

Steam powered winding engine, South Wales
A steam powered winding engine, possibly at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Shaft inspection, Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales
A shaft inspection taking place at Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales

Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales
External view of the Glyn Pits in Pontypool, South Wales

Nesle 1918
Men of the 20th British Division and the 22nd French Division in hastily dug rifle pits covering a road, in the Nesle sector of the Somme region

The Civil war in America. The fight for the rifle-pits in fr
Fort Wagner in South Carolina was the scene of bitter fighting in 1863, as this violent and dramatic engagement shows

Leather Tan-Pits
Hides passing through the tan pits as a preliminary to further processing

A family group waiting for news at the pit head, Gresford Co
A family wait by the pithead after the great explosion at Gresford colliery in Wales. Over 260 miners lost their lives as a result of raging fires in the pits, orphaning nearly 800 children

Soviet Poster, Russia
The heroic Soviet worker pits his strength against the might of the Church, the Capitalists and the Military Clique of the old regime...a simplistic view of the workers struggle

Wwi / Italy / Camouflage
Camouflaged tents at an anti- aircraft post. The posts to the left are in fact anti- aircraft guns protruding from pits

Seating / Lyceum & Strand
Plans showing the layout of seating available for booking at the Palace Theatre & London Pavilion. Prices range from Boxes, via Stalls, Circles & Amphitheatre to the Pits

London / Bankside C1580
Plan of the Bankside area, including the bull and bear baiting pits

Rifle pits in Tambi
Expedition from Sierra Leone to the Gambia, rifle pits at Tambi

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