Shaft Collection (page 2)

Woman carrying a load of coal up a turnpike spiral stair, Scottish, 1848
Woman carrying a load of coal up a turnpike spiral stair, Scottish. From Matthias Dunn A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1848. Engraving

Women workers hauling coal to the surface up a ladder. Leading woman has lost her load and the woman following is in danger of being hurt buy falling coal and and falling off the ladder

Women climbing ladders to carry coal up a mineshaft, Scotland, early 19th century. From L. Simonin Mines and Miners, London, c1865. Wood engraving

Undershot water wheel powering a fulling mill, Copperplate Engraving, 1673. Artist: Georg Andreas Bockler
Undershot water wheel powering a fulling mill. Tappets, C, on shaft, B, raise and lower mallets, D, D, which pound the woollen cloth

Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft showing a warrior, c. 10th century
Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cross-shaft from Middleton Church, Yorkshire. It shows a Scandinavian warrior, laid out with weapons in a pagan viking burial, on the face of a Christian cross

Neolithic stone axe
A neolithic stone axe in antler socket and wooden haft (wood is modern), from the Louvres collection

Jan Huss, heretical Bohemian theologian, 1866. Artist: Charles Joseph Staniland
Jan Hus, Bohemian religious reformer and theologian, 1493. Hus (1369-1415), shown here in prison, was burnt as a heretic at Constance for preaching the teachings of the English reformist clergyman

Men standing in the cutting shield, Rotherhithe Tunnel, Stepney, London, August 1907. Front view of the shield with workmen standing in compartments where the shield partly emerged into Shaft 4

Shaft for descent to the entrance of the Thames Tunnel (view from the top), London, 1831. The Thames Tunnel, connecting Wapping and Rotherhithe, was the first underwater tunnel in the world

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