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Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miners working at the coalface, South Wales

Miners working at the coalface, South Wales
Two miners, stripped to the waist, working at the coalface in a coal seam in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Wyndham Colliery, Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, South Wales

Wyndham Colliery, Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, South Wales
A pre-1914 image of the Wyndham Colliery, Nantymoel, Ogmore Vale, South Wales which opened in 1868. Date: circa 1900s

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Queen Elizabeth II visit coal mine

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

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal / Durham Pit Pony

Coal / Durham Pit Pony
Pitmen hewing the coal, South Durham : a pit pony waits to haul the coal away

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Soldiers at Brynkinalt Colliery, 1912

Soldiers at Brynkinalt Colliery, 1912
Men of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment on duty at the Brynkinalt Colliery, Chirk

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: At the Coal Face / 1869

At the Coal Face / 1869
Two men mining for coal

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal miners in shaft lift, South Wales

Coal miners in shaft lift, South Wales
Several coal miners with blackened faces stand in the shaft lift at the end of their shift in a coal mine in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South Wales

Picking coal from waste tip during 1921 strike, South Wales
Three men picking coal from a local colliery waste tip during the 1921 strike, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: At the Coal Face / 1842

At the Coal Face / 1842
By the light of a Davy safety lamp, two miners work at the coal face

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miners and owner, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

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

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miners in a Lift Shaft

Miners in a Lift Shaft
Miners about to descend for their shift underground at Lynemouth Colliery

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Silhouette, Sending Coals to Newcastle

Silhouette, Sending Coals to Newcastle
Sending Coals to Newcastle -- silhouette showing a mining landscape and three men carrying sacks of coal up a slope

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal mining with a horse

Coal mining with a horse
Coal mine in Hoganas.South of Sweden. A horse is lowered down a coal mine shaft

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales

Cwmpennar Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Cwmpennar Colliery (also known as the Powell Duffryn Colliery), Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales

Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales
View of the Marine Colliery, Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales. Date: early 20th century

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales

Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of the derelict Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. The foreground is littered with pieces of wood, including an empty coffin which has broken apart. The colliery closed in 1969

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Young collier, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Young collier, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A young collier, about 14 years old, at a colliery in the Saundersfoot area of Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The mines employed children as young as ten

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Men at West Pit, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales

Men at West Pit, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Miners preparing to descend the West Pit of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales. The West Pit opened in the 1880s

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miner riding drams, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales

Miner riding drams, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
A miner riding a journey of drams (coal trucks) at Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. Date: 1910

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales

Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
A group of miners at the pit bottom of Tirpentwys Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Welsh Colliery / 1960

Welsh Colliery / 1960
Parc Colliery, at Cwm Parc in the Rhondda Valley

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Medieval French Mining

Medieval French Mining
A coal mine in France during the medieval era, showing the ladders that the miners use to descend to the coal face

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal Narrow Boats

Coal Narrow Boats
A pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: COAL TRAIN

COAL TRAIN
Coal train hauled by a 4-4-2 tank locomotive at the harbourside

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: PIT PONIES / 1869

PIT PONIES / 1869
Horse at work in a South Staffordshire colliery [England] Date: 1869

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Bank Hall Colliery, Mining

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. A scene underground as the coal is mined

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Bank Hall Colliery, Mining

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. The Pit Wheel, in silhouette

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Bank Hall Colliery, Mining

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. Within the confined surroundings of the pit face, a miner drills into the coal

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Technical Institute, Mining

Technical Institute, Mining
Mining Technical Institute, Burnley, Lancashire, England. A smiling young boy in a hard hat, finishes a mug of tea before returning to class

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales

Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Gwent, South Wales
View of the Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
Detail of the pump flywheel of the 1845 beam engine, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
View of the winding engine house, with a tall chimney, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales

Men with dram, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Two men hauling a dram (truck) full of coal from a cage at the pithead of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A view of Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, showing the wooden pithead gear in the middle distance, and a few buildings

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Surface worker, South Wales colliery

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales

Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales
Two middle aged miners with their lamps, at a colliery in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miners at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, South Wales

Miners at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, South Wales
Three miners in a coal seam at Baldwins Clog and Legging Level, near Pontypool in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales

Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
An aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck

Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck
A Welsh miner, stripped to the waist, pushing a truck in a coal mine

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Soldiers at Brynkinalt Colliery, 1912

Soldiers at Brynkinalt Colliery, 1912
Men of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment on duty at the Brynkinalt Colliery Chirk sitting at their ease on pit-props

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Mining Coal

Mining Coal
French miners mining coal in a coal mine

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Zonguldak, Turkey - Miners

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

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: How are you Off

How are you Off
How are you off for coals ?

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Wooden Rail in Mine

Wooden Rail in Mine
Blinkered pit-horses draw coal wagons along a wooden railway at an unidentified colliery : it looks extremely precarious - lets hope they can see where they are going

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Selling Small Coals

Selling Small Coals
Selling small coals from a barrow in a winter street

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Class Distinctions / Coal

Class Distinctions / Coal
DIGNITY ATTACKED " I say Guv ner, jest guv us a lift up with these here coals" A rather ridiculously-attired posh gentleman is shocked by a coalboys impish request

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Burnley Miners / 1956

Burnley Miners / 1956
Miners coming off their shift, at Cape Bank Hall Pit, in Burnley, Lancashire

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Miner Using Drill / 1956

Miner Using Drill / 1956
Miner using an hydraulic drill at the coal-face, at Cape Bank Hall Pit, Burnley, in Lancashire

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal / Horse Works Whim

Coal / Horse Works Whim
A horse working a whim in a French colliery

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal Exchange, London

Coal Exchange, London
The Coal Exchange is where the 960, 000 chaldrons of coal (each of 36 bushels) imported from Newcastle etc each year to keep Londoners warm, are regulated and, of course, taxed

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Loading Coal Barges

Loading Coal Barges
A pit pony pulling heavy coal trucks along on rails for loading onto barges on a canal in Staffordshire, England

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Lancashire Colliery

Lancashire Colliery
ASTLEYs COLLIERY, Dunkinfield, Lancashire (England)

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: MINE WORKINGS / 1880 S

MINE WORKINGS / 1880 S
The workings of a mine, showing miners at the coal face and the coal being transported by pony

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Women in Coal Mine / 1840

Women in Coal Mine / 1840
Women working down a Northumbrian mine

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Talke-On-The-Hill Mine

Talke-On-The-Hill Mine
Talke-on-the-Hill colliery, near Hanley, Staffordshire, the scene of an explosion causing nearly twenty deaths on 18th February 1873

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: 1837 / COAL MINE

1837 / COAL MINE
A cross-section of a coal mine showing all the underground chambers and tunnels

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Mining Safety Lamps

Mining Safety Lamps
Safety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coaling at Jamaica

Coaling at Jamaica
At Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies), long lines of women carry baskets of coal to enable the liner to continue on its way

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Boy Working at Coalface

Boy Working at Coalface
OLDER BOY WORKING WITH A PICK Young men work as getters from age 18 : they work from as little as eleven to as much as 18 hours a day

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Coal Seller

Coal Seller
A coal seller wheels his barrow through the streets of London

Background imageCoal Mining Collection: Industrial Landscape

Industrial Landscape
Ironworks at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire


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