Moving the earth Collection

Excavators and excavating

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The cooling water tunnel JLP01_01_078_01
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Two workers cleaning the face of the excavation for the cooling water tunnel during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear

Moving the earth JLP01_10_00113
John Laing excavators and other plant at work during the construction of the M1 motorway. Photographed 1958-9

Excavators and dump trucks JLP01_01_074_36
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 43 RB excavators and 15 ton dump trucks carrying out the excavation for the reactor during the construction of Berkeley

Corbridge Excavations FL00667_02_002
Corbridge Roman Fort, Corbridge, Northumberland. Excavations in progress in 1909 showing three men digging

Earthmoving JLP01_08_069478
South Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Midland Link Motorway, between Junction 13 and Junction 11 of the M6, showing earthmoving vehicles working on a section of the motorway

Excavator and dump truck JLP01_08_059930
STAFFORDSHIRE. A view of excavations being carried out on the route of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a excavator loading a dump truck with excavated material

Excavation JLP01_01_172_067
M6 Motorway, M6, Stafford, Stafford, Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Stafford By-pass on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6)

M6 construction Madeley Heath JLP01_01_165_76
M6 Motorway, M6, Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), looking south-east at Waltons Wood near Madeley Heath

M6 construction Madeley Heath JLP01_01_165_58
M6 Motorway, M6, Madeley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), looking north-west at Waltons Wood near Madeley Heath

Delivering a dragline excavator JLP01_08_001556
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. A Pickfords low loader transporting a W90 walking dragline excavator to Whitley Bay opencast coal site

Keele cutting JLP01_08_059934
M6 Motorway, M6, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6)

Second Severn Crossing groundworks JLP01_20_021_16_20
A view of progress on the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, showing a Komatsu excavator working in the River Severn, and a recently installed concrete caisson behind

Opencast mining JLP01_08_000355
A view of an unidentified opencast coal mine with Laing excavators extracting coal in the foreground. This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John

Pile cap trenches JLP01_08_043769
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL, PRIORY STREET, COVENTRY. A man digging in the pile cap trench on the construction site of Coventry Cathedral, with a stone coffin behind him protruding into the trench

Carringtons Coppice Opencast Colliery JLP01_08_001293
CARRINGTONs COPPICE OPENCAST COLLIERY, SMALLEY, AMBER VALLEY, DERBYSHIRE. A small team of men at work in the opencast mine at Carringtons Coppice as an excavator looms overhead

Ecavating Reactor 2 JLP01_01_074_07
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view showing progress on the excavation of Reactor No.2 during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Excavators and dump trucks JLP01_01_080_75
BERKELEY POWER STATION, BERKELEY, HAM AND STONE, STROUD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. A view of earth-moving vehicles carrying out excavation work during the construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station

Road building MOT01_01_34
Coast Road, Horden, County Durham. A group of workmen beside a Ruston excavator loading earth into wagons on a track, during the construction of Coast Road

Antler tool J010076
SILBURY HILL, Avebury, Wiltshire. Antler tine tool from May 2001 excavations

Limehouse Basin lat01_001_02
Limehouse Basin, Tower Hamlets, London. Construction of the expanded Limehouse Basin in May 1869. Photographic print by Lucas and Tuck showing details of the work

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