Quarries Collection (page 2)

Trades in Regency England. Tin mines, bullocks and pipe smoking. Miner on a ladder with a bucket of tin ore in a Redruth tin mine 10, beef cattle on a Devonshire moor 11

Slate Quarries - Penrhyn, Wales
Slate Quarries - Penrhyn, Bethesda, North Wales near Bangor. Date: circa 1910s

A workman splitting slates in one of the biggest slate quarries in the world, at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Date: 1950s

Underground Meeting in the Puteaux Quarries, Paris 1869
Underground meeting in the Puteaux Quarries, during the Paris elections. Date: 12 November 1869

Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen 1909
Rubislaw Quarry, located at the Hill of Rubislaw in the west end of the Scottish city of Aberdeen. Date: 1909

PORTLAND QUARRY: STRATA
PORTLAND Diagram showing rock strata at the quarries Date: circa 1830s

Beneath one of the the sheer stone faces ofs Hostal quarry
A woman photographer looks very small beneath one of the the sheer stone faces ofs Hostal stone quarry, Ciutedella, Menorca Date: 2008

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Interior of cell block at Portland Prison, Dorset
Interior of a new wing at Portland, Dorset showing cell doors, iron stairways and corridors. Wire netting was placed between balconies to prevent inmates falling to the ground

Convicts being searched, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows prison officers searching convicts on their return from work

Quarries, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows small groups of men cutting stone by hand while prison

The Channel Islands - Granite Quarries - Working quarry - men, horses, wagons. Part of Box 234 Boswell Collection - The Channel Islands Date: circa 1900

Sicily - Ancient Quarries at Campobello
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the ancient quarries at Campobello. Two men sit on the Rocks of Cusa, stone that was once used to construct the Greek Selinunte temple

Christmas and New Year Greetings card from XII Division
Christmas 1916 and New Year 1917 Greetings card from the XII Division. Hohenzollern, Quarries, Ovillers, Loos, Somme. Commemorative Art

Christmas and New Year card - XII Division, 1917-1918. Loos, Quarries, Hohenzollern, Somme, Ovillers, Pozieres, Arras, Monchy. Commemorative Art

British troops in one of the Aisne quarries, 1914
British troops resting in a disused quarry cave in the Aisne district of France. Most of the men when not actually in the trenches sleep

View of the River Nile from the Quarries of Toura, Egypt. Date: 1857

Edward Baron Penrhyn
EDWARD GORDON DOUGLAS-PENNANT, first baron PENRHYN owner of slate quarries in Wales Date: 1800 - 1886

Mount Lyell quarry 1898
Quartz quarry, Mt Lyell, Tasmania, 1898 Date: 1898

Islands from Luss Quarries, Loch Lomond, Scotland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Slate quarries, Bethesda, Wales. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Swithland Slate Quarry, Leicestershire
Sketch of Swithland Slate Quarry, Leicestershire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1859

Sketch of Shucknall Quarries, Herefordshire, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell. 1858

The Granite Quarries, W. Quincy, Massachusetts, USA Date: circa 1910s

England / Worth Matravers
Worth Matravers, a lovely village in Dorset, England. It is mentioned by name in the Domesday Book in 1086. Noted for its fine stone quarries. Date: 1950s

Quarrying Machinery
Steam derrick for raising stone from deep quarries Mount Sorrel granite Company, Leicestershire

Kitchen and inmates, Portland Prison, Dorset
A kitchen or cook-house at Portland Prison, Dorset. Inmates in arrow-patterned uniforms stand in front of a row of large steam-heated cooking coppers

Remains of a slate quarry, North Wales
The remains of a slate quarry in North Wales, with a mountain of slate waste, railway earthworks, retaining walls and walkways

Fitters Shop, Portland Prison, Dorset
The fitters workshop at Portland Prison, Dorset. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Cell Interior, Portland Prison, Dorset
The interior and meagre contents of a cell at Portland Prison, Dorset. The inmates bedding is rolled up on the left. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed

Prison Gates, Portland Prison, Dorset
Uniformed officers stand at the entrance to Portland Prison, Dorset. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Interior of RC Church, Portland Prison, Dorset
The interior of the Roman Catholic church at Portland Prison, Dorset. The prison opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Machine stone cutting, Portland Prison, Dorset
A machine with toothed blades and a rotating saw cutting up stone. Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Political Meeting 1
A political meeting is held in the former quarries at Puteaux

Political Meeting 2
A political meeting is held in the former quarries at Puteaux

Penrhyn Quarries - 1
The slate quarries at Penrhyn, Bethesda, Anglesey, Wales. (1 of 3)

Penrhyn Quarries - 3
The slate quarries at Penrhyn, Bethesda, Anglesey, Wales. (3 of 3)

Penrhyn Quarries - 2
The slate quarries at Penrhyn, Bethesda, Anglesey, Wales. (2 of 3)

QUARRYING / 1867
A view in the Carrara, the Ravaccione Quarries

Peru Ollantay
The ancient quarries and Tampu of Ollantay

China Clay Quarry
A china clay quarry near St. Austell, Cornwall. The quarries are often 300 feet deep and a mile round the top. The clay is washed out and the white sand is separated

Marble from Carrara
Twelve oxen are needed to drag this piece of marble from the quarries at Carrara, Italy

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