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Wooden Rail in MineBlinkered 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
Selling Small CoalsSelling small coals from a barrow in a winter street
Class Distinctions / CoalDIGNITY 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
Burnley Miners / 1956Miners coming off their shift, at Cape Bank Hall Pit, in Burnley, Lancashire
Miner Using Drill / 1956Miner using an hydraulic drill at the coal-face, at Cape Bank Hall Pit, Burnley, in Lancashire
Coal / Horse Works WhimA horse working a whim in a French colliery
Coal Exchange, LondonThe 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
Loading Coal BargesA pit pony pulling heavy coal trucks along on rails for loading onto barges on a canal in Staffordshire, England
Lancashire CollieryASTLEYs COLLIERY, Dunkinfield, Lancashire (England)
MINE WORKINGS / 1880 SThe workings of a mine, showing miners at the coal face and the coal being transported by pony
Women in Coal Mine / 1840Women working down a Northumbrian mine
Talke-On-The-Hill MineTalke-on-the-Hill colliery, near Hanley, Staffordshire, the scene of an explosion causing nearly twenty deaths on 18th February 1873
1837 / COAL MINEA cross-section of a coal mine showing all the underground chambers and tunnels
Coal Narrow BoatsA pair of laden narrow boats, with their cargoes of coal, passing through a lock on the Grand Union Canal near Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Mining Safety LampsSafety lamps, invented by Davy in England and modified by Mueseler, in use in a French coal-mine
Coaling at JamaicaAt Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies), long lines of women carry baskets of coal to enable the liner to continue on its way
Boy Working at CoalfaceOLDER 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
Coal SellerA coal seller wheels his barrow through the streets of London
Industrial LandscapeIronworks at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire
