Rail Gallery

WW1 silhouettes, wounded soldiers and medical care

Silhouettes of wounded soldiers and medical care during the First World War. From the top: stretcher bearers, a field ambulance, the casualty clearing station, a train taking men off to the base, a nursing sister bringing food and drink to a patient, a ship taking wounded men back home, and hospital in England with nurses and convalescent men.
1916

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George Stephensons Rocket - the pre-1923 replica

George Stephenson's Rocket - the pre-1923 replica. George Stephenson's Rocket Locomotive was built in 1829. Built for the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The earliest full-size replica of Rocket is the one seen on this photograph. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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A China Clay Pit, Leswidden, Harold Harvey (1874-1941)

Oil on canvas, Newlyn School, 1920 or 1924. This painting shows the harsh, labour-intensive working conditions of a china clay pit. Leswidden China Clay Works, near St Just, was a more primitive works than the larger, more mechanised works in the St Austell area. The pit was closed before 1942. Harold Harvey was one of the few successful artists of the period who was born and raised in Cornwall. He grew up surrounded by the industry he would later paint and counted many of the working people he depicted as friends. He originally studied under Norman Garstin, but also visited Paris as a young man where he was greatly influenced by the Post-Impressionist movement. His earlier work was very much influenced by Stanhope Forbes, though it changed as he grew older, his brushwork becoming less thick and his forms more simple. Some of his later work shows a period stylisation but without the Picasso influences of his contemporaries Ernest and Dod Procter. Harvey continued to work right up to his death in 1941

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