Coal Mining Gallery

Miners and owner, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

A group of men at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. They are the current shift of miners plus the owner, standing near a wooden headframe connected to a mineshaft

© Mary Evans / Roger Worsley Archive

1890, 1890s, Class, Coal, Colliery, Conditions, Group, Haverfordwest, Headframe, Historical, History, Hook, Labour, Manual, Men, Mine, Mine Shaft, Miners, Mining, Owner, Pembrokeshire, Shaft, Shift, South, Standing, Timber, Victorian, Wales, Welsh, Wooden, Work, Working

Queen Elizabeth II visit coal mine

Queen Elizabeth II dressed in protective white overalls to make her first descent into a coal-mine at Rothes Colliery, Fife, Scotland in 1958. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh spent two hours at the colliery and stayed underground for about half an hour where they visited different parts of the mine and chatted with the miners at the coal face. Date: 1958

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Zonguldak, Turkey - Miners

Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. An important coal mining centre. Miners and general staff of the Goelik Coalmine. The discovery of coal in the region dated to the reign of Sultan Mahmud II and its extraction dated to Abdulmecid's reign

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection