Underground Collection (page 9)

Underground Railway Construction, Hainault, London
Underground Railway Construction, Hainault, Ilford, near Chigwell, County of London, England. Showing Central Line Extension - London Underground Date: 1948

Underground Railway Construction, Leytonstone, London
Underground Railway Construction, Leytonstone, Walthamstow, near Aldersbrook, County of London, England. Showing Central Line Extension - London Underground Date: 1947

Tube Station, Shepherds Bush, London
Electric Tram & Underground Railway/Tube Station, Shepherds Bush, County of London, England. Date: 1906

Underground Railway, British Museum Tube Station, Holborn, County of London, England. Showing the British Museum Platform. Date: 1913

WW2 - German Military Underground Hospital
World War 2 Entrance Corridor, German Military Underground Hospital/Hohlgangsanlage 9, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles. Date: 1940s

The Tunnel, Woolwich, London
The Tunnel, Woolwich, Eltham, County of London, England. Underground Railway Date: 1900s

Piccadilly Circus Tube Station, Piccadilly, London, County of London, England. London Underground - Great Northern Piccadilly & Brompton Electric Railway Date: 1910s

Public Garden subway entrance, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, showing pedestrians and tramcars. Date: circa 1906

WW2 Christmas card, Keep Going... for a Happy Christmas. The message inside reads: A message of cheer this Christmastide / To help to KEEP GOING along the steps / That lead towards a just

Drilling an Oil Well - Boring by Turbine. Liquid mud is pumped at high pressure through a non-revolving pipe to a turbo drill (shown in the inset enlargement) at the bottom of the well

Listening for counter-mining in the First World War
A French officer of engineers in a mine-gallery, listening for German counter-mining with special drums and microphones. A very delicate operation. Date: 1917

Miners at work, Victor, Colorado, USA
Miners at work, drilling one thousand feet underground in a gold mine at Victor, Colorado, USA. Date: circa 1910

Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
Scene inside the Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. A miner stands next to a cart containing gold ore ready to be taken to the surface. Date: circa 1910

Telephone Cable Repair
The intricate work of repairing and connecting telephone land lines. London, 1998 Date: 1998

Greek church window, Nazareth, Northern Israel
A window of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation (the Church of St Gabriel, St Gabriels Greek Orthodox Church), Nazareth, Northern Israel

Boats with tourists enter the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Limestone formations on the exit from the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Entry to a cave that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river. 50 kilometers north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. February

A group of tourists on a boat with a guide - inside the cave that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Limestone formations in the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river, supposedly the longest navigable underground river in the world

Russian Desmans - in the burrow (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill by Bruce Bairnsfather
Masthead of The Bystander magazine featuring characters on a London tube train (or bus?) drawn by some of the magazines most regular artistic contributors

Proposed Channel Tunnel, 1880
The proposed channel tunnel with three engravings showing the preliminary experimental workings at Sangatte on the French coast, Ness Point, St

Projects for a road & rail link between Britain & France
A double page spread from The Illustrated London News demonstrating a number of rival proposals for building a road and rail link between France and Britain

Visitors to the Channel Tunnel works at Dover in 1882. 1. Going down in the Cage. 2. Arrival at the bottom of the shaft. 3. Swindon Junction (visitors enjoying a restorative glass of champagne!) 4

Graphic front cover - visitors to Channel Tunnel works
Front cover of The Graphic newspaper with engravings showing scenes of a visit to the preliminary tunnelling works near Dover for the start of the Channel Tunnel in 1882

Women War Work WW1 Women Painters
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Women War Work WW1 Bus Conductor
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Women War Work WW1 Women Fitters
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Women War Work WW1 Lift Girl
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

Women War Work WW1 Ticket Collector
Lithograph by Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864-1950), one of a set of twelve published in December 1918. The lithographs were issued in a portfolio entitled, Playing the Game, War Work 1914-1918

French officers in an underground shelter, WW1
French officers dining in an elaborately constructed underground shelter on the Western Front, somewhere in Northern France in the winter of 1915/16

Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
View of Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, showing the entrance to the Subway. Date: early 20th century

Present Day Types - the Straphanger by Arthur Watts
A gentleman in a top hat and smoking a pipe tries to keep his balance on a London Underground train by hanging onto one of the overhead straps whille holding his umbrella

Woman railway officials on the Underground, WW1
Two women in uniform working on the London Underground during the First World War in jobs which were previously carried out by men. Date: 1914-1918

London Underground Station Indicator
A new invention on the Underground Railway in London. After a train leaves a station, a bell rings and the name of the next station appears, keeping passengers informed of their location. Date: 1896

Six-inch piping, Kingsway tunnel, Central London
Six-inch piping (outlets to dams) outside the Kingsway tunnel, Central London

Firefighters and police in London Underground
Firefighters and police in the London Underground during an incident on 28 February 1975. An underground train had failed to stop at Moorgate station

Opening of the tube line between Holborn and Euston
The pneumatic despatch tube: the Holborn end of the tube on the opening day of the line between Euston Square and Holborn. Date: 1865

Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932), 1st Baronet. American born financier and philanthropist, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London from 1906 to 1915 and a Privy Councillor

Bonzo Wants His Money Back by George Studdy
Bonzo Wants His Money Back. Travelling in the underground at rush hour, hemmed in by peoples feet and umbrellas, is definitely not worth the cost of a ticket! 1923

French mine crater WWI
View of French soldiers working at the mine face in the tunnel in darkness, and a diagram showing two branches stretching to the right and left where tons of explosive are to be placed. Date: 1916

Entrance to captured German dugout, Western Front, WW1
Entrance to a captured German dugout on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

How the busiest junction in England is worked: electrical devices which protect the passenger from danger on the District Railway. Showing the newly completed Earls Court underground station, London

Damage to St Pauls Cathedral, London
The dangers which assail St Pauls Cathedral: vibration damage caused by nearby heavy traffic. Sectional view showing where the cracks in the building exist at the present time. Date: 1913

Defence of British aerodromes by G. H. Davis
The defence of British aerodromes: methods of defence above and under the ground during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Voles and vegetables
Three voles engaging in digging up carrots

Two soldiers in underground passageway, WW1
Two soldiers in an underground passageway during the First World War. Date: 1916

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