Sujet

Spade drill at the Tower, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Spade drill at the Tower [of London], 1870. 'Spade drill has been commenced in the Tower ditch by the second battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and it is proposed to continue the exercise weekly during the season'. Soldiers of the British Army using pickaxes in the moat. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A48_403

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,5Mo (5,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 30,1cm / 4960 x 3560 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel building London England people man men arts country bank art guy British tools tool castle Scotland fortifications fortification military war maintenance location SCOTTISH Armed Forces century Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier print MOAT digging concept Tower of London B&W ditch tourist attraction Army pickaxe pickaxes warfare engraved engraving Regiment 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services British Army nineteenth century Scots Tower Hamlets tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News pick axe Scots Guards TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century pick axes The Illustrated London News Scots Fusilier Guards