Coal Collection (page 3)

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

Rover car with fitted Coal-Gas installation
A Rover car fitted with a neatly made coal-gas installation. The gas bolster originated by Wood-Milne Ltd. was a recepticle built along the lines of a pneumatic tyre

Coal Mine Machinery
Improved Machinery for working Coal Mines - devices for conveying the coal along the galleries and up the shafts

Govan Ironworks, Glasgow
Charging a blast furnace at Govan Iron Works in Glasgow

Coal / Pit Ponies / 1907
Ponies hauling coal trucks along the gallery of an English colliery

Great Central Express
The Great Central Express runs non-stop from London to Sheffield, drawn by a locomotive of the Sir Sam Fay class

COAL GOING UP / 1910
Tubs of coal arrive at the bottom of the lift shaft, ready to be hauled up to the surface, at the Clay Cross mine at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England

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

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

Clay Cross Miners
Colliers - getters of the coal - at the end of the shift at Clay Cross mine

Work in a Coal Mine
Various workings of a coal mine in Northumberland, England

Woolwich Power Station, SE London, with coal barges on the River Thames. Date: circa 1950s

Stallion coal car engine, 1822. Taken for Stephenson Centenary. Date: 1881

John Smeatons water gin winding engine, 19th century.. John Smeatons design for a water gin (winding engine) for drawing coals from the pits, 19th century. Copperplate engraving by W

Fuel winter crisis: Heating pumped from the earth and water
Diagram illustrating how heat in the earth and water can provide heating for homes and factories. City Electrical Engineer of Norwich

Undercutting coal, Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales
Two men kneeling in a narrow seam, undercutting the coal in Baldwins Level, Pontypool, South Wales

Ruhr Crisis / 1923
The French forcibly take coal from the Ruhr when Germany defaults on reparations

WIGAN COLLIERY LASSES
Colliery lasses of Wigan

Tonypandy / Fusiliers
TONYPANDY COAL STRIKE Lancashire fusiliers waiting to depart for Tonypandy

An East Anglian Express steam train, running through Framlingham, Suffolk Date: circa 1960s

James Winstone, South Wales Miners Federation
James Winstone, Vice President of the South Wales Miners Federation (1912-14), and President in 1915

Miner working at the coalface, South Wales
A miner, stripped to the waist, working at the coalface in a mine in South Wales

Traders doing business at the Coal Exchange, London, 1890
Illustration showing a group of top-hatted traders doing business at the desks of the London Coal Exchange, 1890

Usworth Colliery / 1881
A general exterior view of Usworth colliery, showing the colliery buildings and a workers cottage, with an insert of the winding machine

Lascar Seamen at work and at rest, 1906
Series of Photographs showing Lascar seamen at work in the stokehole of a passenger liner (centre image) and at rest in the Home for Asiatic Seamen (bottom images)

Horse-Drawn Railway / 1820
Birkinshaws horse-drawn railway, characteristic of those in general use at this time

N American Miners
A group of North American miners

Unloading Coal 1930S
Unloading anthracite coal at Bristol docks, Gloucestershire, England. A metamorphic rock, anthracite is almost smokeless and is used to make high grade steel

Punch / Infant Electricity
King Steam and King Coal wonder what the Infant Electricity will grow into

Steam Boilers / 1885 Ad
Advertisement for patent water-tube steam boilers from the Babcock and Wilcox Company of New York and Glasgow

English Dresses Oct 1838
3 gowns all with bishop sleeves, 2 with reverse cuffs, V necklines and pointed waists. Hemlines are trimmed with flounces, embroidery, rouleaux and puffing

Rocks, Carbon
Various types of carbon including crystallised diamond, graphite, slate coal and peat

Pyne - Coal Heavers
COAL HEAVERS An essential trade when almost every house is heated with coal, the heaver shovels coals into sacks for delivery door to door

Miners / Lift Shaft / 1855
Landing at the bottom of the shaft in a mine in Northumberland, England

Miner at coal face -3
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Map, South Wales coalfield. 1939

Miner at coal face -2
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Coal mining terraced houses at Tredegar, South Wales
Rows of terraced, working class houses on a winter hillside in Tredegar, South Wales. First published in The Sunday Times in 1988. 1988

The Sprays, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: circa 1905

Coal vase
Japanned coal vase made from lacquered tin plate with gilding and painted floral decoration on the lid, cast iron claw feet and iron lion mask handles, with a removable tin-plate liner

American steam locomotive with cow catcher
Vintage 19th century photograph: American steam locomotive with cow catcher on the front

Extinct scale tree, Lepidodendron of the Carboniferous era. Illustration from Wilhelm Bolsches Das Leben der Urwelt, Prehistoric Life, Georg Dollheimer, Leipzig, 1932

Railway map, Clapham Junction area, London
Railway map, Clapham Junction, Stewarts Lane, Lavender Hill and Longhedge, SW London, with colour coding of the various railway companies. Date: 1912

Map, Millwall Docks (Harrow Lane) and Poplar, East London, with railway lines and links. Date: 1906

Chimney Sweeps or Coalmen fighting
Cartoon, Chimney Sweeps or Coalmen fighting - Black and White. 19th century

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

Hillen Station, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Hillen Station on the Western Maryland Railroad, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, with locomotive and coal truck, and a Sears Roebuck warehouse in the background on the right. Date: 1939

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