Shaft Collection (page 4)

Museum of Black Sea Fleet. Sevastopol. Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine

Greek Art. Hellenistic Gymnasium. 2nd century B. C. Doric col
Greek Art. Hellenistic Gymnasium. 2nd century B.C. Doric columns preserved. Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. Remains of column shafts. Olympia. Greece

Ionic column
Greek Art. Ionic column. Olympia. Greece

Greek Art. Temple of Zeus. Ruins (471-456 BC). Altis. Olympia. Greece

Capital. Palace of Darius I
Capital from the audience hall of the Palace of Darius I (Susa). 6th century BC. Louvre Museum. Paris. France

Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis. Metropol
Greek art. Hellenistic period. Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis Turkey. Marble. Dated ca. 300 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Gothic. The Infantado Palace. The Courtyard of the Lions. La
Gothic. The Infantado Palace. Late 15th century. The Courtyard of the Lions with double archery with ogee arches superimposed in the lower gallery and Doric columns. Guadalajara. Spain

Work at a coal mine, 1878
Work at a coal mine, sinking a shaft. Date: 1878

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

Mizpah Shaft, Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA
Mizpah Shaft of the Tonopah Mining Company, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1910

Construction Work, Seacombe, Cheshire
Construction Work, Seacombe, Wallasey, near Liverpool, Cheshire, England. Showing construction of the Kingsway Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Waterloo Road, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Showing construction of the Wallasey Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Seacombe Promenade, Seacombe, Cheshire
Seacombe Promenade, Seacombe, Wallasey, near Liverpool, Cheshire, England. Showing construction of the Kingsway Tunnel ventilation shaft Date: 1960s

Ventilation Shaft - Kilsby Tunnel, Kilsby, Northamptonshire
Ventilation Shaft - Kilsby Tunnel, Kilsby, near Rugby, Northamptonshire, England. London & North Western Railway Date: 1905

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Picture of a weathered cross
Slide showing a picture of a weathered Christian cross, mounted on a rock in the sea, being battered by waves, lit by a shaft of light. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

Visitors to the Channel Tunnel works at Dover in 1882. 1. Going down in the Cage. 2. Arrival at the bottom of the shaft. 3. Swindon Junction (visitors enjoying a restorative glass of champagne!) 4

A Pick Nick Down Under by William Heath Robinson
A sharp thrill in the Antipodes: one of the dangers of very deep mining. A man tunnelling through te earth with a treacherous looking pick axe surprises an Australian having managed to dig entirely

Camel-drawn vehicle, India
A camel-drawn vehicle in India. Date: 1918

Man feeding carthorse
A man feeding a carthorse from a bucket at the side of a road

East Hagbourne Cross
Half-timbered houses and the old stone village cross, which has at the top of the shaft three sundials, East Hagbourne, Berkshire, England. Date: 1950s

Istanbul, Turkey - The Grand Bazar Date: 1927

The Norman Doorway at Barfeston Church, Kent
The finely-decorated carving on the Norman Doorway at the Church of St Nicholas, Barfeston, Kent. The churchs website proffers this view on the south doorway

Sir Hiram Maxim and visitors at his shed at Baldwyns Park, Kent, showing the motor for driving the whirling table and shaft to same, 1893

Junkers Jumo 205 fitted with a drive shaft

?Centre shaft? ? Lanchester drawing

Shaft brackets and stern frame transported by rail
A record feat in railway transport was accompllished when the speacial L&NER train loaded with the shaft brackets and stern frame for the new liner made its journey from Darlington to Middlesbrough

Mammals, birds & leaves
Drawing 33 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation for the annulet of shaft in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875

Dining Hall at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
Benches and tables set for a meal line the dining hall in B Wing at Wakefield prison. A black central heating shaft rises from the floor to the roof. Date: Date unknown

Unknown object with open-work base, ornamental shaft, and cord(?). Date 1878 Dec

The foreman and miners pose for a photograph. King Cobalt silver mine, Cobalt, Ontario Canada

Harringworth Cross
The fine Market Cross, with its tall shaft, in the village of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England. Date: 1950s

Tudor Summerhouse
This Tudor summerhouse, in Soho Square, London, disguises a ventilation shaft from the underground railway tube station! London, England. Date: 16th century

Miners - Ironwood, Michigan - Lowered into pit. Date: circa 1910s

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Steam Whipping Engine by J. Scott Russell and Co
Technical drawing depicting a patent Steam Whipping Machine constructed by Messrs. J. Scott Russell and Co. of Millwall and used to load and discharge cargo on screw collier ships. Date: 1856

Two soldiers in a trench during WW1
Two soldiers in a trench during the First World War. The officer, new at his job, is asking whether the enemy are very close

Edwardian family in South Africa
An Edwardian family in South Africa. Two women sit in an open carriage with a baby, while a girl and a native man hold the shafts at the front

Three visitors, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three visitors, including Mr Vickerman (the boss) at the Margaret pithead, Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Men at Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A group of men at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are standing near the aerial ropeway connected to the Margaret shaft, which opened in 1911

Artists impression of a colliery explosion
An artists impression of a colliery explosion caused by firedamp, used in lectures on mining, taken from the Illustrated London News

Miners in shaft lift, Llanerch Colliery, South Wales
Miners standing in a shaft lift at Llanerch Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

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

Miners getting out of a shaft lift, South Wales
A group of miners getting out of a shaft lift at surface level at Llanerch Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Managers of Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales
The General Manager and Manager of Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales, photographed in a mineshaft

Miner working in Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner working in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Boys being winched up a mine shaft at Halifax, Yorkshire
Two boys being winched up from a coal mine at Halifax, Yorkshire. The winch is extremely primitive with no safety features

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