Colliery Collection (page 6)

Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A view of Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, showing the wooden pithead gear in the middle distance, and a few buildings

Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A view of Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, showing the wooden headframe

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales
Two traditional style caravans at a gypsy encampment near Pontypool, South Wales

Women chatting in a back yard, Pontypool, South Wales
A group of women, probably all wives of coal miners, chatting in the back yard of 76 Hanbury Terrace, Pontypool, South Wales. The smiling woman in the spotted skirt is the mother of W E Jones

William Brace, Welsh Labour MP
William Brace (1865-1947), Welsh Labour MP, President of the South Wales Miners Federation from 1912 until 1915. He was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britains coal miners

Gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales
Two small gypsy boys making pegs, near Pontypool, South Wales

Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales
Two middle aged miners with their lamps, at a colliery in South Wales

Repairing pit props, Plas y Coed Level, South Wales
A miner repairing pit props in the Plas y Coed Level, South Wales

Woman using a dolly tub in a back yard, South Wales
A woman using a dolly tub to do the weekly wash, in a back yard in South Wales, with two children on the left. W E Jones recalled

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

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

Wooden Rail in Mine
Blinkered pit-horses draw coal wagons along a wooden railway at an unidentified colliery : it looks extremely precarious - lets hope they can see where they are going

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

Breakaway from coal strike 1926
After more than a week on general strike, there was a strong movement that began with the coal-miners of the Midlands to break-away from the strike abd return to work

Fern Impressions in Carboniferous Shales, Hutton Colliery - a view of a rock exposed to show fossilised ferns inside. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Book of Trades, Colliery. 1841

Oaks Colliery / 1866
The spoil heaps are used to fill in the cupola shaft, to cut off the air supply and thus extinguish the fire raging below at the pit in Barnsley, England. Date: December 1866

COLLIERY LASSES / 1890 S
Colliery Lasses, probably in Lancashire. Date: 1890 s

Coal / Horse / Le Creusot
Lowering a horse at the Le Creusot colliery, France Date: 1869

1st Baron Joicey
JAMES JOICEY, 1ST BARON JOICEY Colliery proprietor; Liberal M.P. (1885-1906) Date: 1846 - 1936

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

Colliery, Thought to be Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. Date: 1910s

The Colliery, Duffryn, Glamorgan
The Colliery, Duffryn, Newport, Glamorgan, Wales. Showing the Deep Pit Date: 1920s

Colliery Rescue Team, England. Showing Proto Breathing Apparatus Date: 1920s

Glamorgan Colliery, Llwynypia, Glamorgan
Glamorgan Colliery, Llwynypia, Tonypandy, near Trealaw, Glamorgan, Wales. Date: 1900s

Under Town Hall, Bilston, Staffordshire
Under Town Hall, Bilston, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Old Colliery Workings & Miners Date: 1906

Construction of Colliery, Wales. Location Unknown Date: 1910s

Senghenydd Universal Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, S. Wales
Rescue scenes as pictured in The Illustrated London News at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales

Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Glamorgan, South Wales
Scene at the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales. There were 439 miners killed in total, making this the worst mining accident in the UK

Pit Pony Pulling Coal
A blinkered pit pony, pulling along coal wagons on a colliery rail track. Point of Ayr Colliery, Scotland. Date: 1960s

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

Stephenson - controversy of the safety lamp
Letter from G Stephenson ? controversy of the safety lamp (Killingworth Colliery), 1822 Date: 1822

Hetton Colliery, engraving

Hedley colliery locomotive: Wylam, with two gentleman, 1813 Date: 1813

Springwell Colliery, No. 2

The Middleton Colliery, near Leeds
The Collier, coloured aquatint, 1813, by R & D Havell, after a drawing by george Walker. The background shows the Middleton Colliery, near Leeds

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

Burradon Colliery mining disaster
Report in the Illustrated London News, 10th March 1860, describing the terrible coal mining accident which occurred on 2nd March of that year at Burradon Colliery near Newcastle when a fatal

Nine Mile Point Colliery, Newport, Monmouthshire
At Nine Mile Point Colliery, Newport, relatives and friends wait at the pit-head for news of the miners who are taking part in a stay-in strike below ground. Date: circa 1936

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

Wonthaggi, Australia
State Coal Mine, Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia

Scene of mine disaster at Wellington Pit
The under-seas tomb of over a hundred men. The scene of the great mine disaster at Whitehaven: Wellington Pit, which extends five miles under the Irish Sea

Chalked message at Wellington Pit
The Wellington Pit explosion and fire at Whitehaven on 11th May 1910 was one of Britains worst mining disasters in which 136 men and boys lost their lives

Newtown Colliery, Mining
Newtown Colliery, Nr Bolton, Lancashire. An unusual view of the colliery with Victorian housing and a streetlamp in the foreground

Bank Hall Colliery, Mining
Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley, Lancashire, England. Study of an Italian migrant worker, fresh from the pit face

Hopkinstown Colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
View of Hopkinstown Colliery, Rhondda Valleys, Glamorgan, South Wales, as seen from the cemetery

Miners with colliery official, South Wales
Two miners with a colliery official at a mine in South Wales

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