Sujet

The Lund Hill Colliery Explosion: Mouth of the Downcast Shaft, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Lund Hill Colliery Explosion: Mouth of the Downcast Shaft, 1857. Preparations to recover bodies after mining disaster in Barnsley. 'The Illustration represents the entrance to the downcast shaft, after the mouth had been closed. The iron basket in which the miners made their descent is suspended immediately over it, and a jet of steam is being forced through a pipe connected with the boiler into the pit, for the purpose of extinguishing the fire. The brick tank in the foreground of the sketch was filled with charcoal, preparatory to making carbonic acid gas, for the same purpose; but these means being considered inadequate, the water from a neighbouring stream is now being turned into the pit. Some days will elapse before it can be pumped out and any of the bodies be recovered'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_289

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

17,7Mo (1,6Mo) / 21,0cm x 21,2cm / 2475 x 2501 (300dpi)

Mots clés

England technology industry British equipment color industrial accident explosion underground disaster century mine Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept incident B&W south yorkshire coal mine coal mining engraved engraving Mineshaft Colour Coal Industry 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Barnsley colliery Illustrated London News industrial accident TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown coalmine 19th-century Lund Hill Colliery Lundhill Colliery