Miners Collection (page 2)

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

The General Strike - Government leaders
Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3

At the Coal Face / 1842
By the light of a Davy safety lamp, two miners work at the coal face

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

Advert, Hardys High-Class Tools, Sheffield Date: 1906

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

Sappers & Miners / Hill 60
Sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers drive a tunnel under Hill 60 at Ypres, obliterated by a mine fired by the British in April 1915

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

N American Miners
A group of North American miners

Miners / Lift Shaft / 1855
Landing at the bottom of the shaft in a mine in Northumberland, England

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: blacksmith, Jappanner and goats. Blacksmith with hammer and anvil in front of a forge in the Forest of Dean 43, man showing a Japanned or lacquered tray in Pontypool 44

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 Humphry Davy in a mine with his safety lamp. circa 1815

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

The Duke of York visits the Pit at Atherton, Lancashire
The Duke of York visits the Pit at Atherton, Greater Manchester, Lancashire on a tour organised by the Industrial Welfare Society. Date: 1932

Families picking coal from a dump Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Coal miners Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

South Africa Kimberley De Beers Diamond Mine pre-1900

South Africa KimberleyDe Beers Diamond Mine washing plant pre-1900

South Africa Kimberley De Beers Diamond Mine pulsators pre-1900

South Africa Kimberley De Beers Diamond Mine depositing floors pre-1900

South Africa Kimberley De Beers Diamond Mine searching tables pre-1900

South Africa Kimberley De Beers Diamond Mine compound pre-1900

Africa Gold Field workers pre-1900

Women in coal mines

Silver miners - Victorian period

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

Miners Gala Parade

Miner working a high seam Victorian period

Miners Gala Parade early 1900s

Miners, Aberdare Valley

Coal mine lattice steel headgear early 1900s

Aberdare Valley Miners early 1900s

Coal mine pit pony Victorian period

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