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A Curtis Vertical Turbine, 1904Photograph of a Curtis Vertical Turbine at the power-house of the British Thomson-Houston Company, Rugby, February 1904. Designed by Curtis, a New York engineer
Compton Martin ChurchThe south aisle of Compton Martin Church, one of the oldest Norman buildings in Somerset. Note the beautiful pillar with a fluted shaft
Tunnelling / Kilsby / ShaftThe Head Gear at the Great Shaft during the construction of the Kilsby Tunnel
Greece / Archae / Mycenae 75The site of Schliemanns excavations of the shaft graves at Mycenae
Greece MycenaeA view of the ruins of the Early greek city state of Mycenae, famed for its shaft grave deposits discovered by Heinrich Schliemann
Clay Cross Miners / ShaftColliers at the Clay Cross mine at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, wait at the bottom of the pit as their colleagues are hauled to the surface, 300 yards above
Fringed Parasol 1914A large shallow dome shaped parasol in pale pink with a short fringed border & tassels tied to the shaft
Hard Times / Old Hell ShafStephen Blackpool rescued from the Old Hell shaft
Lightning and Ship 2The foremast of a sailing warship, anchored off the coast, is struck by a shaft of lightning which runs down to the deck
Hunting Turtles / 1865Hunting turtles. Having captured a turtle, it is turned on its back so it cannot escape
Tin Miners / CamborneMiners climbing from the sixty- to the fifty-fathom level in King Edwards mine, near Camborne, Cornwall
Children Winched DownCHILDREN WINCHED DOWN A MINE SHAFT - children may be employed from the age of 5, girls and boys alike, working underground for shifts of 11 to as much as 18 hours a day
Lowering Children MineTwo children are lowered down the mine-shaft to the coal- face by a woman working a winch
Drainage / Peckham SewerTunnelling for a sewer in Peckham, London : The bottom of a shaft in the southern high-level sewer
Tin Mining / Cornwall / 1869Winze-shaft, or sinking in a Cornish tin mine
