Underneath Gallery

Egyptian Arch, Bessbrook Road

Egyptian Arch, Bessbrook Road - a view of the Egyptian style railway arch over the road from the Camlough side, looking towards Newry with a motor car underneath. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Newry). Date: circa early 1900s

© National Museums NI / Mary Evans

Arch, Bessbrook, Camlough, Car, County, Down, Egyptian, Ireland, Location, Motor, Newry, Northern, Railway, Road, Side, Style, Underneath, View

Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead 1926

Diagram showing where the tunnel connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead would be, under the River Mersey. Spanning 44ft wide with two desks for vehicles only. Eventually opened by King George V, called Queensway, on 18 July 1934, at the time the longest underwater tunnel in the world a title it held for 24 years, with a cost total of £8 million. Date: 1926

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Working parties in a mine

Photograph: Working parties in a mine. From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917. Associated with World War One (1914-1918). Tunnelling and mining operations were used to attack enemy positions by tunnelling underneath them and then destroying them with explosive mines. Much of the tunnelling was done by special Royal Engineers units formed from Welsh and Durham miners. Date: 1917

© The National Army Museum / Mary Evans Picture Library