- Shooting
Shooting - Racing
Racing - Sections of an English Coal Mine
In some English and Scotch mines, and also in some of the French mines, where the seams of coal are thin, boys, who are called “putters,” are employed to draw small carts along a railway. They fasten themselves to the cart with belts around their waists, and draw it along, going sometimes on their hands and feet where the road is wet and rough. Sometimes one of them pulls the cart while the other pushes it. In some of the Scotch mines girls formerly performed this work; but of late the laws do not allow women to work under ground. Girls used to carry on their backs a basket fastened to a leather strap which passed around their foreheads. A lamp was attached to the strap, and in this way they carried their loads up the long ladders and through the inclines, sometimes a distance of several hundred feet. If a strap broke, a block of coal fell, or a bearer missed her footing, those below were seriously hurt, and many fatal accidents occurred. This primitive mode of raising coal was abolished by law. The owners of the mines had become so careless in regard to the management of their laborers that the government was obliged to interfere. - Prospect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724
Prospect of the Roman Road & Wansdike just above Calston May 20, 1724 This demonstrates that Wansdike was made before the Roman Road. - A View a little beyond Woodyates where the Ikening Street crosses part of a Druids barrow Jun. 9. 1724
The drawing is a prospect taken from the king’s barrow, west from Vespasian’s camp, in the way from Ambresbury to Stonehenge, by the Bristol road. Tho’ the graver has not done it justice: yet it will give one a general notion of the situation of the place. It is admirably chosen, being in the midst of those wide downs, call’d Salisbury plain; between the river Avon to the east, and a brook that runs into the Willy, on the west. - Firing the letters
The disk containing the enameled letters is taken at the end of a long iron handle and carefully placed in a dome-shaped muffle. These muffles are all heated from the outside; that is, the fire is all round the chamber, but not in it, the fumes of the sulphur being destructive of the enamel if they are allowed to come into contact with it. So intense is the heat, however, that a muffle lasts only about nine days, and at the end of that time has to be renewed. - Mixing the enamel
Mixing the enamel - The Blacksmith
The Blacksmith - Dusting the letters before firing
The letters are now taken charge of by a girl, who lays them out on a wire tray, the hollow side up, and paints them over with a thin mordant. While they are in this position, and before the mordant dries, they are taken on the gridiron-like tray to a kind of large box, which is full of the powdered enamel, and, holding the tray in her left hand, the girl takes a fine sieve full of the powder and dusts it over the letter, all superfluous powder falling through the open wirework and into the bin again, so that there is absolutely no waste. - Filing the letters after enameling
This is done by girls, who, with very fine files, rub off the edges and any protuberances which may be there. Every letter is subject to this operation, and all are turned out smooth and well finished. - The First printed map of England
The First printed map of England - Anglo-Saxons Feasting and Health-Drinking
- An Ancient brewery
- Ancient Alehouse
- Anglo-Saxon Tumblers
- Cakes and Ale.
- brewhouse
- Lady
- Is it in Condition
- Health-Drinking
- Cornelius Caton
- Cotswold Games
- Cup found in the Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey
- Drinking scene
- Drunkards Cloak
- Eleanor Rummyng
- For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King
- Innkeepers, 1641
- Lamentable Complaints
- Man at Alehouse
- man
- Man2
- Mediæval Cellarer
- Mother Louse
- Night Scene in a Fifteenth-century Inn
- Punishment of the Hurdle
- The Ancient Arms
- The Black Boy Inn
- The Falcon Inn, Chester
- The George Inn, Salisbury
- The Pillory
- The Sad Fate of a Mediæval Ale-wife
- A Mediæval Innkeeper
- The Tumbrel
- A Sixteenth-century Cooperage
- Alehouse
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-house lattice
- An Ale-stake
- Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria - Her majesty’s State Carriage
Her majesty’s State Carriage - Marshall Soult's State Carriage
Marshall Soult's State Carriage - The procession approaching Westminster Abbey
The procession approaching Westminster Abbey - Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey
Her majesty leaving her private apartments in Westminster Abbey - Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation
Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace on the morning of the coronation - The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria
The coronation of her majesty Queen Victoria - Celtic implements
Their bronze and iron ornaments and utensils were very artistic, curves and scrolls and intertwined work being the chief characteristics of early Celtic Art. Enamelling in red colours was much used on metal work, and studs of coral and pearls, or some bright pebble, were worked into their breastplates, shields, and helmets. - Torques
Round the neck he might have an ornament called a " torque," composed of twisted gold wire, and bracelets of the same on the arms and wrists. These seem to have been worn only by chiefs, and were much prized by their Roman conquerors. - Celt Warrior
- Celt 2