Mine Collection (page 7)

Wigan Junction Colliery Pit Brow Lasses early 1900s

Coal Mining Working the Cage Engine early 1900s

Coal mine rescue team

Mine Rescue Team Victorian period

Slate cavern in North Wales probably Llechwedd

A Coal Miner's Family early 1900s

Llechwedd Slate Cavern Wales Victorian period

Gold mine workers, Barberton, South Africa, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

A Cornish tin mine engine house, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

A Cornish tin mine pumping engine, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

A Cornish Tin Mine, Botallack, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

A Cornish Tin Mine, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Cornish tin mines, Rosewall Hill, St. Ives, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

The Washing Floor, Great Laxey Mine, Isle of Man, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

WW2 - Merchant Mine Disposal
A pair of photographs which show British WW2 merchant seamen spotting, and then disposing of an enemy sea mine. Date: circa 1942

Roan Antelope Copper Mine, Luanshya, Zambia, Africa. The deposits were discovered in 1902, but their full extent was not understood until 1926. Date: circa 1930s

Rangpo Copper Mine, Nathu La Pass, Sikkim, India, from a fascinating album which reveals new details on a little-known campaign in which a British military force brushed aside Tibetan defences to

Queen Victoria visiting a Cornish iron mine Date: circa 1840

Terrier puppies chasing a mouse - He's Mine Date: 1937

A West Lancashire Coal Mine
This etching shows some active smoke stacks of a coal mine in Lancashire, steam and smoke can be seen billowing into the sky. Date: circa 1915

Subterranean Canal in Speedwell Lead Mine, Castleton, Derbyshire. Date: circa 1910s

RMS Lusitania - captured German UC5 submarine. WW1
RMS Lusitania - rare cross-sectional postcard of the UC5, German submarine responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915

Brass anchor chain and propeller from WW1 period
Brass anchor chain and propeller reputedly from a WW1 Royal Navy minesweeper. 21 inches

How mines were ventilated
How the mines were ventilated and drainer. One of the reasons for the mine strike of 1912 was the poor maintenance of ventilation and draining of the mines

Women and children, mining
Women and children of the mining districts. Children would gather coal. A Typical Pit-brow Woman; She was one of the 6, 221 females employed above ground

Coal Supplies in England which were gradually used up because of the coal strike. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

Coal mining pit boys and girls
The girls and boys who worked in the mines. Children covered in coal who had been working in the mines all day. The maidens (girls) who would sift the coal

Horse in coalmine
A horse in a coal mine, surrounded by coal miners. The horse is wearing traditional leather mining gear. Date: 1912

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

Westland Wessex 60 G-ASWI
Westland Wessex 60 series 1 G-ASWI (msn WA199, ex G-17-1) of Bristow Helicopters, at Blackpool-Squire's Gate Airport in October 1974

Pit pony with handler underground in Lanarkshire mine
Pony is pulling trolleys, known as hutches, of coal along small railway lines. From a postcard posted from Hamilton to the French Legation in Tangier Date: 1902

W. Heath-Robinson: Coal mine, drawn for the 1922 Heath Robinson Calendar commissioned by Atherton Collieries. Date: 1921

W. Heath-Robinson: Coal mine pi-head, drawn for the 1922 Heath Robinson Calendar commissioned by Atherton Collieries. Date: 1921

Scene in a Cornish tin mine Date: early 19th century

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

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

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

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

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

Successful campaign in the Libyan desert. Italian soldiers about to trigger an underground device. Date: 1941

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

Women hauling coal wagons in a French mine Date: 1903

Cartoon, A Pretty Penny in the Slot -- Baldwin asks John Bull for national investment in mines. Following the mine-owners reduction of their workers wages

Comic postcard, Postcard, letter, phone and money Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Bald head in the sea, WW2 Date: circa 1940s

Washing Gear, Kimberley diamond mine, South Africa, c. 1888
Washing Gear, Kimberley diamond mine, South Africa, c.1888

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