Colliery Collection (page 4)

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

Haden Hill Coal Pits, Staffordshire
A typical Black Country coal mine. Sunk in 1893 by the Draycott Colliery Co, the colliery was originally known as the Klondyke and finally closed in 1943 Date: circa 1910

Women Digging for Coal during 1912 Miners Strike
The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main aim was securing a minimum wage

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

Maerdy Lodge miners
Marching behind the banner of the Maerdy Lodge branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, miners from the Maerdy colliery, South Wales, return to work following the end of the long miners strike

Nottinghamshire Miners
A group of Nottinghamshire miners leave the pithead after completing their shift Date: January 1974

Durham Miners Gala
A brass band marches ahead of one of the banners in the Durham Miners Gala parade. This banner is of the Durham Colliery Enginemen, Boiler Minders and Firemen's Association Date: 16 July 1983

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

Pickets at Snowdown Colliery
Striking coalminers at the Snowdown colliery in Kent, threatened with closure, mount a token picket. The colliery was eventually closed in 1986 Date: February 1981

Miners Ballot
At Snowdown colliery in Kent, a miner, having completed his shift underground, votes in a ballot on early retirement Date: 24 November 1980

Kinneil Mineworkers protest
Workers protest against the proposed closure of Kinneil Pit, Bo'ness, Scotland. Their efforts were in vain as the colliery was closed in 1983 Date: December 1982

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

Notts strikers and their last mornings work: The final shift at Clifton Colliery. Date: October 1920

Lancashire miners extinguishing their lamps after ceasing work: Men on strike at Audenshaw pits. Date: October 1920

Black country strikers: miners at the pit bank, Stoke-on-Trent, coming up in the cage for the last time. Date: October 1920

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

Charles Martin, a working miner from Dinnington Colliery who was also a successful artist, having painted in oils 270 pictures, many of which he had sold

Hetton Colliery Railway locomotive. Verso stamped John R Moore, photographer, 48 Crowtree Road, Sunderland. Inscribed in pencil H Stephens, Quay. Date: circa 1901

Outline of growth of the locomotive engine, 1771-1840. Each illustrated with key details/measurements for the engines. Also illustrated with scenes such as Hetton Colliery. Date: 1885

Nathaniel Atrill Colliery wagon. Date: circa 1918

Barnsley Detachment Tankersley Brigade Rescue Party
Mine Fire at the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, Birmingham on 4th March, 1908. The Barnsley Detachment Tankersley Brigade Rescue Party

Colliery explosion, Duffryn pit 1852
Scene of an explosion, near Aberdare Valley, mouth of the middle Duffryn pit. No deaths were occasioned more by choke or after-damp than from the fire-damp. Date: 1852

General view of the East Kent colliery Companys Works at Tilmanstone, on the property of the Kent Coal Concessions Company. Date: 1911

Front cover of The Graphic, of the pit-mouth immediately after the explosion, killing 268 men and boys. Date: 11 September 1878

New council houses - Cwmbach near Aberdare, Wales
New council houses built at the lower end of Cwmbach for Welsh miners and their families, near Aberdare, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales

Lung Hill Colliery explosion 1857
Explosion at Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 200 miners went down the pit that day, in which 189 men and boys aged between 10 and 59 died

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

Lung Hill Colliery explosion - rushing to scene 1857
Lung Hill Colliery in Wombwell neighbourhood of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, relatives rushing to the scene of the explosion. Date: February 1857

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

Disaster at Troedyrhiw colliery, Wales 1877
Flooded mine at the Troedyrhiw colliery, showing the old Cymmer mine from where the water came. Date: 1877

Lancashire coal-mine disaster 1932
Bickershaw Colliery in Lancashire where coal-mine disaster happened on the 10 October 1932. A mine-shaft elevator carrying 20 people fell at the mine, killing all but one person

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

Page Bank Colliery, fire 1858
Fire at Page Bank Colliery, Durham. Date: 1858

PIT PONIES MID-CANNOCK
Pompey (the pony) with Mr Talbot (left) and Titch with Mr Hawkes leaving the shaft at Mid-Cannock Colliery, on the first stage of their journey to the Royal Show at Windsor. Date: 1960s

HIGH BROOKS MINE 1866
An explosion at the High Brooks colliery, near Wigan in Lancashire, England, results in the deaths of 30 miners. Date: 23 January 1866

Wigan Colliery Lasses
Colliery lasses of Wigan Date: 1900

Pony tramming 1889
Pony tramming in an English colliery Date: 1889

The Duchess of York at the Abercynon Colliery, South Wales - she is being shown a Davy Safety lamp (and how it works) by one of the miners Date: 1933

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

Coal train, Great Western Railway, South Wales
A one hundred truck coal train on the Great Western Railway, somewhere in South Wales. The trucks belong to the John Lancaster & Co colliery company of Nant-y-glo (Nantyglo), and bear a griffin symbol

Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of the derelict Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. The foreground is littered with pieces of wood, including an empty coffin which has broken apart. The colliery closed in 1969

Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales
Detail of the pump flywheel of the 1845 beam engine, at the Glyn Pits Colliery, near Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales. The mine closed in 1932, but continued as a pumping station into the 1960s

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Young collier, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A young collier, about 14 years old, at a colliery in the Saundersfoot area of Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The mines employed children as young as ten

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

Colliery map of Hook, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A colliery map (by Thomas Lewis) of the village of Hook, described here as West Hook in the parish of Langwn (Llangwm), showing fields, trees and mining locations

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