Collieries Collection (page 2)

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - resuing the survivors 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, resuing the survivors, were 189 men and boys died from a explosion. Date: February 1857

FUSHIN COLLIERY, CHINA
Large scale oil works at the Fushin coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

KAILAN COAL MINES 1930S
Chinese miners pushing trolleys of coal on rails at the (British) Kailan coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

BLANZY MINE, FRANCE 1867
Exterior of mine at Blanzy, France Date: 1867

BETHUNE MINE FRANCE 1861
Exterior of a coal mine in Bethune, France. Date: 1861

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Powell Duffryn Collieries, Aberaman, Aberdare, Wales
Powell Duffryn Collieries, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1912

Silverwood Colliery, Dalton, Yorkshire
Silverwood Colliery, Dalton, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. Part of Dalton Main Collieries Ltd - Showing Colliery Railway Date: 1910

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Queen Mary amongst the Colliers
Queen Mary on a carriage visiting a Coalmine whilst on a tour of the Collieries with King George V, assessing the conditions of labour of the " brave workers of the mines" - June 1912

Rhondda Valley / 1960
The mining village of Treherbert at the head of the Rhondda Fawr in South Wales. Date: 1960

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

Mining Area / Germany
A mining area in Germany. Date: 1909

Mining / South Bulli
SOUTH BULLI Members of the Australian Royal Commission into the coal mining dispute ready to go down the mine at South Bulli, New South Wales. Date: 1930s

Colliery Office, Ecclesall, Yorkshire
Colliery Office, Ecclesall, Sheffield, near Greystones, Yorkshire, England. Holmwood House - Head office of the Rotherham & District Collieries Association Ltd. Date: 1910s

Essen Coal Mine / Germany
The huge Zeche (= colliery) Victoria Mathias at Essen, Germany, with rail trucks loaded with coal Date: early 20th century

Mine / Manchester / 1957
An exterior view of Bradford Colliery, Manchester. In the foreground three girls stand in front of a corner shop selling groceries with Hovis advertisements in the window. Date: 1957

Rochebelle Mine / 1904
The Desccours shaft and buildings at the Rochebelle mines, Alais, France

Refuelling a Steamship
A large group of Japanese workers unloading coal from traditional boats and carrying it at great effort up rope ladders onto a steam liner at Nagasaki Harbour, Japan

Coal mine fire at Astley, near Manchester
Coal mine fire at the Tyldesley Collieries near Manchester. The fire spread so furiously that all the shafts were unaccessable

Tredegar Mine / 1865
BEDWELLTY PIT, TREDEGAR Monmouthshire (Wales)

Edmund Colliery
Edmund main colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire

Ardsley Colliery / 1847
ARDSLEY MAIN COLLIERY, near Barnsley, Yorkshire

Coal / Tyne Staith / 1892
A staith, from which coal is being transferred onto barges, on the river Tyne, north-east England

Chinese Mine
The Surface works at a Chinese mine. Date: 19th Century

Staffordshire Mine
A steam engine drawing coal in the Staffordshire collieries

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