Colliery Collection (page 2)

Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales
General view of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales

Llest Colliery explosion, Glamorgan, South Wales
A group of men and boys waiting for news of miners trapped underground following an explosion at Llest (Lluest) Colliery, Pontyrhyl, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales

Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
A group of miners at the pit bottom of Tirpentwys Colliery, near Pontypool in South Wales

Lancashire Colliery
ASTLEYs COLLIERY, Dunkinfield, Lancashire (England)

Miners at the Coal Face Victorian period

Rotherham Main Colliery coal

South Kirkby Colliery early 1900s

Wigan Junction Colliery Pit Brow Lasses

Coalminers Leaving the Pit, Unknown Colliery, . Date: 1900s

Holmewood Colliery, Heath Village, Mining
Village life in Heath, Derbyshire, England. A lone woman, a young girl on a tricycle with her father beside her, and a couple of men chatting

Glapwell Colliery, Mining
Miners from Glapwell Colliery, north east Derbyshire, black and dirty from the pit at the end of their work shift. Glapwell colliery closed in the 1970s

Alfred Onions, Welsh Labour MP
Alfred Onions (1858-1921), Welsh Labour MP for Caerphilly and Treasurer of the South Wales Miners Federation

Aerial view, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
Aerial view of Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Winding man, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
The winding man at the coal face in Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

Man under coal weighing machine, Llanerch Colliery
A smartly dressed man (Herbert Saunders) standing under a coal weighing machine at Llanerch Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales

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

Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Wales, 1913
Keeping their painful vigil: waiting for news by the burning pit. Photographs from The Illustrated London News, at the time of the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan

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

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

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

Puffing Billy engine
Puffing Billy, steam engine invented by William Headley in 1813. Headley solved the problem of slippage on the iron tracks by applying power through two sets of driving wheels

Map, South Wales coalfield. 1939

Typical Lancashire miners going on strike: A group of men leaving work until further notice. Date: October 1920

Welsh miners going on strike at the Rhondda valley colliery: Men leaving the mines. Date: October 1920

Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery and tanning. Workers blowing molten glass into bottles and goblets in a Newcastle factory 67

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

Aldwarke lock on the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation near Rotherham - coal transport by barge from Aldwarke Colliery. Date: circa 1920

Miner at work within the Great Harwood Colliery - digging our Cock Bridge House Coal " so much esteemed for us in Farm

Penrhyn Slate Quarry near Bethesda Victorian period

Clogau St. David's Gold Mine near Bontddu early 1900s

Gwynfynydd Gold Mine near Dolgellau early 1900s

Gwynfynydd Gold Mine near Dolgellau - panning room - early 1900s

Frongoch lead and zinc mine near Pontrhydygroes early 1900s

Welsh Gold Prospectors early 1900s

Saint-Beat Marble Quarry Haute-Garonne France Victorian period - showroom

Delabole Slate Quarry Victorian period

Farm workers in Cornwall Victorian period

Colliery lamp room Victorian period

Miner working a high seam Victorian period

Miners Gala Parade early 1900s

Coal mine lattice steel headgear early 1900s

Aberdare Valley Miners early 1900s

Coal mine pit pony Victorian period

Taking a pit prop into the mine early 1900s

Miners drilling holes in a two foot seam early 1900s

Young Coal Miners early 1900s

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