Stoking Collection

Stoking a Steamship
Stokers at work in the hold of a coal-burning steamship

Indians In Belgium
A coloured chalk drawing of some Indian soldiers at an encampment in Belgium, one is lighting a cigarette, while another is stoking the fire, others are walking behind the red tent. Date: circa 1918

Lascars on British Ships: The Question of their Retention. " Human Salamanders" :The Lascar at Work and Play. Employed on board P&O Australian Line liners - working as Coal Stokers

Stokehole of the Atlantic Liner 1903
Stokers in the boiler room on board a atlantic liner. Date: 1903

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

FURNACE OF STEAM ENGINE
The furnace, boilers and temperature gauge of a fully operating steam engine Date: early 19th century

Train driver and stoker on engine footplate
On the footplate: a driver and a stoker on the open footplate of a night train at Christmas-time, discussing the recent railway strike in Scotland. Date: 1891

Men at work in engine room of a ship, WW1
Men at work loading coal in the engine room of a ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

An extended African-American family round the fire Date: circa 1890s

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

Burning Seaweed for Kelp in an Antrim Coast Glen
Burning Seaweed forKelp in an Antrim Coast Glen - two men stoking a very smoky scene. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

THE STOKER
A stoker uses a long stick to stoke up the fire in a factory. Date: early 1930s

The Fireman of a Gentlemans Club
Character portrait of the Fireman of a Gentlemans Club - whos role was to stoke and feed all of the open fires throughout the establishment. Date: 1892

A Rabbit at the stove
A hansomely dressed rabbit puts more wood into the stove. Date: early 1930s

In a London Gasworks
Workers in a London gasworks stoking the furnaces : a continual supply of fuel must be fed into them by hand - a laborious business. Date: 1907

Stoking furnace, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
A foundryman stoking the foundry furnace at Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales

Illustration entitled Lanterne Magique
Illustration entitled " Lanterne Magique" showing many silhouetted images of magic by Michel Delaporte, 1832. HPF/5C/0"

Stoking the Retorts
A man with a long, heavy steel pole, stokes the retorts at a gasworks

Stoking a Liner
Seedie Boys - firemen at work in the stokehole of a P&O passenger liner en route to India

Imperial Gas Works
Retort house of the Imperial Gas Works, Kings Cross, London, stoking the burners

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