Under Ground Collection (page 2)

MALTA. Rabat. Catacombs of Saint Paul. Saint

Workmen drilling in Bristol, possibly doing maintenance work on the underground sewerage system. Date: circa 1950s

Sheltering on underground stations 1940
During the blitz of the Second World War, Londoners made uses of the underground tube stations as air raid shelters, because they felt secure. Date: 1940

Thames Embankment Section
Illustration from 1867 showing a cross-section of the Thames Embankment, at that time in construction and completed in 1870

Hyde Park pneumatic subway

Why bother about the Germans invading the country? Invade it yourself by Underground and motor- bus. Easter - 1915. Poster showing children at play in a spring landscape. Date 1915

Bombs reveal underground railway in Warsaw, 1939
Following the bombardment and subsequent invasion of Warsaw, photograph revealing the citys underground railway system only a few feet below the surface. Date: 1939

London tube made air raid proof, 1939
Page from The Sphere outlining how London Underground had carried out emergency work on the under-river tube tunnels to make them waterproof from flooding during World War II

Syracuse, Italy - Ear of Dionysius
Syracuse, Italy (Siracusa) - This card shows an artificial cave, 65 m long and 23 m high, which was given the name of The Ear of Dionysius by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, when in 1586

London / Oxford Circus
The hustle and bustle of Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, central London. Date: mid 1960s

Underground Stream Grid
A blonde rambler wearing Argyll socks looks at a grate near Priddy, Mendips, Somerset, England. Down this cleft vanishes an underground stream to Wookey Hole caves! Date: 1930s

Moscow, Russia: Komsomolskaja Underground Station. Date: 2010

Taking cover in Piccadily underground
A photograph of Londoners using an underground station as bomb shelter during an air raid in 1940. Date: 1940

Dieppe, France - A Troglodyte, one of a group of people who built homes into the faces of cliffs, connected by underground passageways Date: circa 1910s

Southern Africa - Gold Prospecting
Working underground in a South African goldmine - using a machine drill Date: 1907

French Underground slate quarrying at Laval Date: circa 1910s

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

Tube Ticket Machines
London underground tube ticket machines, in the days when you could travel for only 30p = bargain! Date: 1978

Wales / Porth-Y-Ogof
Porth-y-Ogof, near Ystradfellte, Brecon, Wales. It is here that the River Mellte disappears underground, to emerge some few hundred yards downstream. Date: 1960s

Army Signal Service wireless station, Western Front, WW1
An Army Signal Service wireless station on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Projecting advertisements from a moving train
Illuminated advertisements, projected from a moving train for the benefit of the passengers. A very innovative concept indeed

Map of Central London with Woburn House Hotel marked, in Upper Woburn Place, WC1. Date: circa 1920s

Family flees from tornado, 1903
The method of protection against tornadoes in North America. A farmer and his family seek shelter in a storm cellar, a protective underground shelter to be found attached to many farm houses

Poster seeking women for the ATS and WaF
Poster seeking women to join the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) and WaF (Womens Auxiliary Air Force) -- full information at the nearest recruiting centre or your employment exchange

Potsdamer Platz, Berlin - at night Date: circa 1920s

Underground Homes
Fairies in their underground homes

The Inner World
THE INNER WORLD (A Hyatt Verrill) A traveller to the Inner Earth encounters its alarming fauna Date: 1935

Police Shooting Range
Wearing protective ear pads to silence the blast of gunshots in the police underground range in North London, Inspector Robert Gould gives instruction. Date: 1960s

Lady passenger on the underground -- Route Maps
An illustration entitled Route Maps, depicting a seductive lady passenger on the underground reading a little book with the word Kisses on the front cover

Haulier and horse in a South Wales mine
A haulier guides a horse, pulling a loaded dram (truck) along an underground track in a South Wales mine

City Hall and Subway, New York City, America

Boy pushing coal wagon in mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
A boy with a belt and chain around his waist pushes a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

Boy dragging coal wagon with belt and chain in mine
A boy with a belt and chain around his waist drags a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire

City Hall Subway Station, New York City, America

Transportation Center, New York City, America opposite City Hall Park

Moving staircase / W H Robinson
A more comfortable moving staircase for tubes. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Modern office building, Berlin, Germany
A modern office building at the Potsdamer Platz metro station in Berlin, Germany

Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works
Part of the Internal Roadway at Daily Mirror Printing Works, facilitating the delivery of newsprint by day and the despatch of completed newspapers at night. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

New York Subway
Entrance to the New York subway station at 14th street and 6th avenue, downtown, in America

New York Subway
New York subway train in the tunnel connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn under the East River

Elevated Subway, New York
Elevated subway curve and 110th street station in New York, America

Tunnel for the Paris Metro - Seine
Tunnel cut for the Paris Metro under the River Seine - the convergence of two branches of the underground railway

Great Northern and City Railway - London
The Great Northern and City Railway (opened 1904), which only lasted a short time until it developed into the Northern Line of the London Underground system

Removing Rock from a Tunnel
Three construction workers use pneumatic drills to remove rock from around a large pipe in an underground tunnel. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Seam welding aluminium plates - arc lamp
Two welders seam weld aluminium plates onto the roof of a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island under the light of an arc lamp. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Clearing Bristol Sewers
Three workers use spades and a pneumatic drill to clear/expand the tunnel space in Bristols underground sewerage system. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

German underground dug-out
Interior of a German underground dugout at Fricourt during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. Note the immaculately made brass bed and other comforts

Ypres, World War I
Soldiers entering and underground billet in Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

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