Colliers Collection

Riot at Mold in Flintshire
A huge mob, assembled at the railway station at Mold in Flintshire, Scotland to protest against the imprisonment of miners, employees of the Leeswood Coal Company

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

Strike Meeting / Boldon
Colliers wives are summoned to a mass meeting at Boldon, Co. Durham

Friends of the Yorkshire miner Charles Martin, who worked at Dinnington Colliery, admire an exhibition of his paintings. See picture no. 13127079 for a photograph of Martin. Date: 1912

Sir George Colliers Victory In Penobscot Bay 1779

Three mine workers in America
The United Mine Workers (UMWA) had won a sweeping victory in an 1897 strike by the soft-coal miners in the Midwest, winning significant wage increases and growing from 10, 000 to 115, 000 members

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

Photograph of Royal Standard PH, Colliers Wood, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub

Photograph of Red Lion PH, Colliers Wood, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Strike of colliers in Durham 1863
Striking Durham pitmen meet on The Batts, Bishop Auckland. Date: 1863

The Village, Colliers End, Ware, Puckeridge, Hertsfordshire, England. Date: 1928

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

The Colliers Lass by F. G Kimberley. Miss Lynn Darlington
Miss Lynn Darlington in The Colliers Lass by Mrs F.G. Kimberley. First produced at the Theatre Royal in Wolverhampton on 27th May 1912 and the Theatre Royal in Stratford East on 3rd February 1913

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

Tyneside Miners Homes
Colliers cottages at Long Benton, Tyneside. Date: circa 1860

The Town, Colliers, Weirton, USA
The Town, Colliers, Weirton, near Steubenville, West Virginia, USA. Date: 1909

Street Scene - Purley Road, Purley, London
Street Scene - Purley Road, Purley, County of London, England. Showing the Nalder Colliers Brewery & the Railway Hotel (South Eastern and Chatham Railway) Date: 1910s

Welsh collier family in their cottage
This shows the living conditions of Welsh colliers during the strike in South Wales. The interior of the cottage appears to be one room which is crowded with a woman doing the laundry

Clay Cross Miners / Shaft
Colliers at the Clay Cross mine at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, wait at the bottom of the pit as their colleagues are hauled to the surface, 300 yards above

Strike / Durham Colliery
Colliers discuss the situation during a strike at Durham

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