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Splitting SlatesA workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales
Granite Quarry, New Hampshire, USA - Chanelling Date: circa 1909
Craftsmen making besom brooms and wooden rakesTwo craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Tearful paper moon sees lover fall from skyA tearful paper moon sees a womans lover fall from sky as the end of his crescent form breaks off
Craftsmen make besom brooms and wooden rakesTwo craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Thatcher, Sidney Chun, splitting a spar - MarlboroughA thatcher, Sidney Chun (1903-1985), wears protective clothing, including a cricket shin pad, while splitting spars before thatching a roof at Marlborough - date: 1950s
Dr J D Cockcroft listening for atomic disintegrationDr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus
Apprentice splitting slate, Delabole Quarry, CornwallAn apprentice splitting a slate at the Delabole Quarry in North Cornwall. Slate has been mined in the area since the middle ages
Comic postcard, Large woman exercising on the beach, with warning from inspector Date: 20th century
Splitting coconuts, Jamaica Date: early 1900s
Splitting coconuts Jamaica early 1900s Date: early 1900s
Bourne Woods, LincolnshireThis photograph shows a path splitting two ways, with a figure standing on the right, walking through Bourne Woods, situated in Lincolnshire
Advert, Turner's Oat Crushing and Bean Splitting Mill, St Peter's Iron Works, Ipswich Date: 1856
Sawing Timber - India. Date: circa 1910s
A workman splitting slates in one of the biggest slate quarries in the world, at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Date: 1950s
Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south LondonMan operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842
Paris, France - The River Seine upstream of Notre Dame (view from the Cathedral) Date: circa 1940
UFO splitting and changing colour, Hessdalen, NorwayThis UFO is observed as it changes colour and splits into several smaller parts against the black night sky. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway, and have never been explained
Heath Robinson and his pea-splitting machinePhotograph of William Heath Robinson (1872 - 1944), pictured with his own model of a pea-splitting machine. A well-loved artist, illustrator and cartoonist
Sf Earthquake Cartoon 1The San Francisco earthquake gives the globe a splitting headache
Daisy Headache CureDaisy headache cure : cures splitting headaches in a phew minutes
Two UFOs, Hessdalen, NorwayA rare photo of two UFOs together. Interestingly, they are very similar in shape and colour -- possibly they are an example of a UFO splitting into two
Hurdle making -- a range of scenes. 1899
Splitting the Atom by G. H. DavisA possible source of unlinited power. Tapping a source of power that may drive all the machinery in the World: Experiments designed to release the forces imprisoned in the atom. Date: 1924
Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D CockcroftDr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus
Cartoon, Split Pea Soup, Valley Inn, California, USACartoon, Little Known Occupations, Splitting Peas for Split Pea Soup, advertising Andersens Valley Inn, Buellton, Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Date: circa 1940
Chinese Timber Yard. Date: circa late 1920s
Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and TrainRusso-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny)
WW2 - Little girl searching for her homeThis charming comic social commentary card from WW2 is either a little girl pondering where her new home will be (following her evacuation from the big city) or (potentially)
The problems of a long distance relationshipBoth the American guy and his gal are concerned about their other half (and their romantic activities) whilst he is posted to the other side of the globe during World War II. Date: 1942
Woman with a headacheMagazine illustration of a woman with a splitting headache and unable to read, rests on a sofa Date: 1928
Dr Ernest Walton with Cockcroft-Walton apparatusDr Ernest Ts Walton in the cabinet (marked E) into which the high-velocity protons emerge and strike the target of lithium
Dr J D Cockcroft at work in Cavendish LaboratoryDr J D Cockcroft at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge University, adjusting a vacuum-creating pump. Physicists John D Cockcroft
Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North WalesDetail of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. The tomb was sculpted by Richard Westmacott for the first Lord
Cherubs on Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North WalesA detail of cherubs splitting slate on the bas relief of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales
Carpenters saw a large logA team of carpenters use a long two-person saw to split a large trunk log into planks. Watercolour Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Club Des FeuillantsA body of moderates splitting from the Jacobins to pursue a less extremist course, the Feuillants make their home in an old convent near the Tuileries (now destroyed)
Making Brooms from HazelMaking besoms - a particular type of broom - by splitting hazel, Penmach, Caernarvonshire, Wales
WWI / 1918 / PIAVEItalian forces, supported by British and French divisions, attack across the river Piave, successfully splitting the enemy, a decisive victory
Hongkong SawyerA Chinese sawyer cuts a log in Hong Kong. He uses his saw sideways to minimise the risk of splitting