Under Ground Collection (page 3)

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

Hinterbruhl, Austria
Hinterbruhl - a town in the district of Modling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is home to the Seegrotte, a system of caves including Europes largest underground lake

Seam welding aluminium plate
Two welders seam weld aluminium metal plates onto the curved framework of a large domed liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1966

Installation of the roof for a liquid methane tank
Two welders, standing on a scaffold, use spanners to tighten the nuts securing sections of the centrepoint of a large domed roof for an aluminium liquid methane tank at Canvey Island

Seam welding under arc lighting
A stunning composition photograph of two welders seam welding the domed aluminium roof of a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Building the framework for a domed roof
A welder seam welds aluminium plate whilst sitting on the edge of a centre section of a domed roof, built to cover a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Underground Pipes
A worker turns a valve, while standing next to two pipes, possibly containing water or gas. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Building the roof of a liquid methane tank
Two welders work on the domed aluminium roof of a large liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice swims
Alice swims in the pool of tears, followed by birds and animals. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice grows
Alice after she has grown large in the house of the white rabbit. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: the croquet game
The croquet game, complete with hedgehogs, playing cards and misbehaving flamingoes. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground

Alices Adventures Underground: the door in the tree
Alice approaches a door in the trunk of a tree. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground, his story that pre-dated Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Alices Adventures Underground: Alice watches creatures go
Alice watches as birds and animals hurry away from her, leaving her alone. Hand drawn illustrations by Lewis Carroll from Alices Adventures Underground

Alices Adventures Underground: Bill the lizard comforted
Various creatures minister onto a sickly companion. Bill the lizard is restored with a drink after being ejected from the chimney of the white rabbits house

Railway Sleeper - Oxford Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing University graduate seated on his trunk, nods off at Oxford Station as he studies a map of the London Underground

Poster advertising the Betharram Grottos
Poster for French railways advertising the Betharram Grottos in the Pyrenees, near Pau --a subterranean wonder of the world, not discovered until 1810, and not opened to the public until 1903

Poster advertising hats: a hat makes all the difference! A fashionably dressed young woman in a stylish orange hat turns a few heads on the underground, and is offered a seat by a chivalrous gent

ENSA Concert 1940
ENSA Concert in the Aldwych London Underground Station during World War II

Lear / Nonsense / Chertsey
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey, who made a remarkable curtsey; She twirled round and round, till she sunk underground, which distressed all the people of Chertsey

Tom Titt / Sir Edgar Speyer
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet. American born financier and philanthropist, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915 and a friend of several leading composers

How to straphang
Various London Underground passengers using inventive ways to hang on to straps on Tube trains. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

Pity the poor strap hanger
An image illustrating the introduction of hand straps on underground trains. When straps were added to underground railway carriages in the early 1900s, there was an outcry among travellers

French soldiers 1914
Underground with a gramaphone, white table-cover and flowers: French soldiers in a home like bomb proof trench

A German communication trench, mending an underground cable

Fleet Bridge over the Fleet River near where it joins the Thames : the river will vanish underground in 1766 and the bridge demolished

Ansells Fire-Damp Indicator, 1880
Engraving showing the instrument, designed by Ansell, for the detection of fire-damp in underground mines, 1880. If fire-damp gases built up then the risk of explosion increased

American Soldier with a V-2 Rocket, Nordhausen; Second World
Photograph showing an American soldier of the US First Army studying a partly-assembled German V-2 rocket in an underground assembly plant at Nordhausen, Germany, 1945

Prince of Wales opening the new electric railway
The Prince of Wales opening the new electrical railway. The arrival of the train into Stockwell.The underground electric railway runs for three miles from a point in King William Street

Interior carriage of the Thames Subway
The interior carriage of the Thames Subway at Tower Hill. The underground railway ran from Tower Hill to Tooley Street

Underground warfare
Men working a mine-drill in a gallery, making a bore-hole for a camoflaut or secondary chamber, intended to cause the enemy work to fall in

Waiting room at TowerHill underground station
Tower Hill undergroud station waiting room. Passengers waiting for a train to Tooley Station

Listening for sounds of counter-mining
British soldier using a microphone to listen for evidence of enemy counter-mining underground. Underground mines became a major feature of warfare on the Western Front during World War I with miners

An Underground Drinking Cellar, San Francisco, 1884
Engraving showing an underground drinking cellar with, in the background, a stock index board marked on the wall, San Francisco, 1884

SS Patrol searching Civilians, Warsaw, 1944
Illustration showing a German SS Patrol searching Polish civilians, for weapons and documents, in a Warsaw street, 1944. This drawing was made during the Second World War by Captain Bryan de Grineau

Gent in Sloane Sq. Pub
A well-dressed old businessman in a suit having a pint at the Sloane Square underground station pub. The barmaid holds the pub cat in her arms

Underground Gas Shelter, London, 1936
Photograph showing an underground gas shelter constructed at the offices of Carrier Engineering Co. Buckingham Gate, London, 1936

Caught out by the draught, c. 1909
Photograph showing the problem faced by women trying the cross the gratings above the Berlin Underground railway, 1909. Date: 1909

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