Shovelling Collection

Accident- Snow from Roof
A REGULAR DAMPER - AND NO MISTAKE Having left an exhibition on Swiss avalanches a tatty man suffers a similar fate courtesy of a roof clearer !

Miner at coal face -3
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Miner at coal face -2
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Miner at coal face -1
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Two fortune seekers, one man shovelling up washed up dirty water into a cradle, another man pouring water while rocking it all the time

Take My Tip The one way to follow horses with success
Take My Tip.. Theres only one way of following horses with any success... AND THIS IS IT! circa 1930s

LONDON SCAVENGER
THE LONDON SCAVENGER. Date: 1862

OPEN FOOTPLATE 1870
On the open footplate of a train at night - driver at the controls, stoker shovelling in coal, while their train hurtles into the darkness... Date: 1870

SHOVELLING COAL
Men shovel coal into horse drawn carts above the ground. Date: 1930s

Man on gate outside seafood processing factory shovels ice
A man sits on a gate outside a seafood processing factory and shovels ice into a red skip. The ice is used during the processing of scallops in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland

Stone-breaking cell in a workhouse
Illustration showing a workhouse stone-breaking cell. Tramps and vagrants broke stones in return for a nights accommodation Date: circa 1909

WW1 - Eastern Front - German soldiers advance in snow
WW1 - Eastern Front - German soldiers shovel through the winter snow to aid the passage of an advancing artillery regiment

HRH George, The Prince of Wales - The Volunteer Stoker
HRH George, The Prince of Wales (1865-1936) - as a Volunteer Stoker! The photograph was taken in 1909 on board the HMS Indomitable with the Officers and Members of his suite

Kieselguhr Industry, Toome, Grinding Bann Clay - a view of a man shovelling clay into a feed for a grinder. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Toome). Date: circa early 1900s

Men on New Stoughton Wagon, Iowa, USA
Two men on a New Stoughton Wagon with spades in their hands. Photograph by Charles Clinton Stevens of Williams, Iowa, USA. The covering on the horse is probably designed to protect it from flies

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Shovelling snow

Washing Oysters / Photo
OYSTER INDUSTRY - fishermen washing oysters Date: 1930

RAF air cadet shovelling coal
Cartoon of a Royal Air Force air cadet on training at Heaton Park, Manchester, shovelling coal

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

Man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry
A man shovelling manure from the back of a lorry

Industrial furnaces
Workmen in front of two Meldrum Brothers patent furnaces, manufactured in Manchester. The furnaces may be " destructors", for the purpose of burning town refuse

Shovelling rubble onto a lorry
A workman bends down to shovel up some rubble from roadworks onto the back of a lorry

Street scene in Kashgar, western China
A street scene in Kashgar, western China, showing a man shovelling a pile of sand. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

A casual worker shovelling stones from his cell
This intriguing image entitled, The sieve in the wall: in the casual ward, shows a casual, or a man who receives temporary relief in a workhouse that is not his own parish shovelling stones he has

Gold Shovelled like Coal. A Curiosity of a Siberian Mine. Spa
Illustration from sketches by Special Artist Julius Price in Siberia showing Russian women working on the Siberian gold mines, shovelling ore like coal. Women are paid badly, worse than men

Open Cast Iron Mining
Men working at an open cast iron mine, shovelling iron ore into a horse-drawn cart

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