Coal Collection (page 8)

1969 1960s 60s Sixties Electric Man Men Electricity
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Lofthouse Colliery rescue workers
Grim faced mines rescue men on their to go down the pit at the Lofthouse Colliery, West Yorkshire. On the 21st March, miners were working at a coal face unaware that nearby were some flooded 19th

Montague Colliery rescue workers
At the Montague Colliery, Scotswood, near Newcastle on Tyne, members of the rescue brigade check their apparatus before descending the flooded mine

Houses affected by subsidence
A house in Cowdenbeath, Scotland leans at an angle due to subsidence caused by coal mining

Welsh miners wives banner
Welsh miners wives hold up their banner on a demonstration during the national miners strike of 1984 - 85. The banner reads

Scottish miners demonstration
Scottish miners, their wives and children on a demonstration during the 1984-85 miners strike Date: 1984

Derbyshire miners march 1984
A march by the Derbyshire area branch of the National Union of Mineworkers during the 1984 - 85 miners strike. Amongst the marchers at the head of the procession is Labour MP Tony Benn Date

Miners widows protest
The widows of British coal miners protest, seeking greater compensation for the death of their husbands. Date: 1970s

Miners strike demonstration
A demonstration in Wales, in support of the striking coal miners, including members of the Cynon Valley Communist Party, and the National Union of Public Employees (N.U.P.E.) Date: 28 April 1984

Yorkshire miners demand pay rise
Yorkshire miners outside the headquarters of the National Union of Mineworkers demand a pay rise Date: 1974

Tony Benn, Joe Gormley and Sir Derek Ezra
Tony Benn, Energy Secretary in the Labour Government, at a news conference in London. On the left is Joe Gormley, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and on the right is Sir Derek Ezra

Lewis Merthyr colliery, Wales
The Lewis Merthyr pit, Trehafod, in the Rhondda Valley, Wales. The pit closed in June 1983, the second to last pit to close in the Rhondda

Mick McGahey
Michael Mick McGahey (1925 - 1999), at the offices of the National Coal Board. The Scottish miners leader and member of the Communist party was Vice-President of the National Union of Mineworkers

N. U. M. leaders
Leaders of the National Union of Mineworkers attend the National Energy Conference in London. From left, Mick McGahey, Vice-president; Lawrence Daly, General Secretary; Joe Gormley

N. U. M. Conference 1980
The platform at the National Union of Mineworkers Conference in 1980. On the right is Joe Gormley, President of the Union, and on the left his Vice-President, Mick McGahey. Date: 1980

Yorkshire miners protest
A group of Yorkshire mineworkers protest against pit closures, the import of foreign oil, and levels of pay. Date: February 1966

The Battle of Saltley Gate
At Saltley Coke Depot, Birmingham, police struggle to hold back pickets who had gathered to force the closure of the Depot

Charrold Autobagger
School children watch a demonstration of the new Charrold coal delivery lorry, the Autobagger, for door to door home delivery of Charrington's coal. Date: 1950s?

Spacek Sissy Long Hair Microphone Playing Guitar
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Ian McGregor, head of the NCB during the Miners Strike
Ian McGregor (Sir Ian Kinloch MacGregor, 1912-1998), Scottish-American metallurgist and industrialist, controversial head of British Steel

Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician
Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), British Labour politician. He served as Minister of Labour in the wartime coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government

CHILD LABOUR IN MINES
Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts showing children working down the mines, with a small boy acting as a "trapper" opening an air door for a truck to 1841

Gas Light & Coke Company in Nine Elms on the south bank of the River Thames, photograph showing their shire horse and carriage. Date: 1897

Old Coal Exchange, faced the site of Smart's Quay Billingsgate, London, what is now Lower Thames Street

Exterior of the new Coal Exchange, London. Date: 1849

Two Children in the Mines 1854
Two young colliers helpers pulling a cart full of heavy coal upwards in the dark mines. Date: 1854

Oaks Colliery 1866
The colliery at Barnsley, England, where three explosions in December 1866 left a total of 361 men and boys dead. Date: December 1866

Women hauling coal wagons in a French mine Date: 1903

Arley Pit 1853 Industry Coal Regional Collieries
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Cartoon, A Pretty Penny in the Slot -- Baldwin asks John Bull for national investment in mines. Following the mine-owners reduction of their workers wages

Coal Tit (juvenille)? by George Rankin

Es Willard as Cyrus Blenkarn in The Middleman Date: 1890s

Comic postcard, dissatisfied customer in shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, hen laying in coals, WW2 Date: 1940s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Monday Night at Eight
Even though the war is over, coal rationing continued so the fire is unlikely to be lit. The caption Monday night at Eight refers to a regular entertainment show broadcast by the BBC Home Service

Coal Strike in Stoke-on-Trent 1920
Pit boys from Stoke-on-Trent with a chalked declaration

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar soap, 1926 Date: 1926

Generating petrol from coal using the Hydrogenation process. Illustration by G H Davis of the Date: 1931

Mr John Crosbie Aitken Henderson - vendor to Germany of a Welsh Coal Field

The Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and barge
The Bellman, a London Wharf and Coal-ship and coal barge. London Bellman or Town Crier reading a notice about missing child Tommy Dallow 7, London Wharf at the East India Docks 8

New London Bridge, Billingsgate and the Scavenger. New London Bridge built by John Rennie in 1825 4, Billingsgate fish market 5 and Scavengers with horse and cart cleaning the streets 6

Trades in Regency England: charcoal burning, Jew selling pencils, and fishing. Worker at a charcoal pit in Furness 64, Jewish pedlar selling pencils door to door in Borrowdale 65

Cartoon, Prosperous John! (high prices)
Cartoon, Prosperous John! John Bull, during an inflationary period, is overcome by high prices and high taxes, and not enjoying it one bit. 1872

Hetton Coal Company locomotive with cab addition or shelter of driver built by George Stephenson for the Hetton, Durham, 1822. Date: 1905

Cartoon, Why Coals Are Dear -- a satirical comment on the high cost of coals to ordinary working people, caused by Restricted Navigation and City Tax. Date: 1853

Miniature Railway, Marine Lake, Rhyl, North Wales
Holidaymakers enjoying a ride on the Miniature Railway, Marine Lake, Rhyl, North Wales. Date: 1937

Coalfish or saithe, Pollachius virens (Gadus carbonarius). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Geological sections and plan of a coal mine
Plan of a coal mine and mode of ventilation, 19th century. Geological sections of metallic veins, chalk, basalt, and limestone

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