Miners Collection (page 6)

FRENCH MINERS, LIFT SHAFT
French miners descending a shaft Date: 1869

Miners in Bethune 1861
A group of miners in Bethune, France Date: 1861

FRENCH MINERS 1870
A group of French miners Date: 1870

Pits and pitmen - night-shift 1871
Night-shift down the pits, half an hour before the shift starts at five-thirty in the evening, the miners meet on the pit-heap for a chat by a fire, this engraving was took from Seaham

Royal Sappers and Miners 1843
Royal Sappers and Miners in uniform Date: 1843

Miners at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall -- leaving at the end of the last shift, before the mine was closed. Date: circa 1986

Coal mining. Belgium
Coal mining. Herscheuse Mining. Quaregnon County. Belgium. Colored engraving from 1884

Durham miners as sappers, WW1
Durham miners who had enlisted in the army preparing a practice sap. Many miners served as tunnellers in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. Date: 1915

MET DE BLES, Henri. Copper mines
MET DE BLES, Henri (1480-1550). Landscape with coppper mines. Detail of the foundry. 16th century. Renaissance art. Oil on wood. CZECH Rep.. Prague. National Gallery in Prague

Coal Mining 1906
Hewers working at coal face on a thin seam, Frog Lane Pit, Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, 1906 Date: 1906

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

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

Men at West Pit, Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, South Wales
Miners preparing to descend the West Pit of the Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, South Wales. The West Pit opened in the 1880s

Men with dram, Hook Colliery, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three men with a loaded dram (truck) of coal at Hook Colliery, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

British Sappers 1823
Sappers and Miners in uniform

British 19C Sappers 1825
Sappers and Miners in uniform and working dress

Medieval French Mining
A coal mine in France during the medieval era, showing the ladders that the miners use to descend to the coal face

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Queen Mary amongst the Colliers
Queen Mary on a carriage visiting a Coalmine whilst on a tour of the Collieries with King George V, assessing the conditions of labour of the " brave workers of the mines" - June 1912

On strike: the colliers family at home, 1912
On strike: the colliers family at home in South Wales. A study from life by Fortunino Matania. The national strike ended after 37 days, with the introduction of the minimum wage act. 1912

Cardiff Strike - Policemen - Tonypandy Riots
Cardiff Strike - London Policeman brought in to aid management of rioting miners. The Tonypandy Riots, sometimes known as the Rhondda Riots

France. Women working inside of a coal mine. Drawing color
France. Women working inside of a coal mine. The moulineuses.Drawing color. 19th century

Miners racing whippets, Illustrated London News front cover
Front cover of the Illustrated London News showing coal miners, on strike, partaking in one of their favourite pastimes, whippet racing

Miners Strike, Wales
South Wales miners families pawning their possessions during lock-out, at Merthyr Tydfil. Date: 1875

Miners loading a mine car in a coal mine in America Date: circa 1920

CZECH Rep Kutna Hora. St. Barbara Church. Late
CZECH Rep.. Kutna Hora. St. Barbara Church. Late Gothic. 1388-1512. Sightseeing of the vault which covers the central nave. This cathedral was first built by Peter Parler and ended by Benedikt Rietl

Street scene in Nome, Alaska, USA, piled high with snow. circa 1910

Miners hut, Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia
A Miners hut in Lithgow Valley, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1890s

Coal strike of 1912
National coal strike of 1912. Workers went on strike from February to early April, to secure a minimum wage. 1912

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Elevator for miners
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - An Elevator for the miners Date: circa 1910s

France (19th c. ). Workers movement. Strike of
France (19th c.). Workers movement. Strike of miners in Pas-de-Calais. The strikerss demonstration on the streets of the city. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Prince of Wales meeting coal miners
Edward, Prince of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, shaking hands with a coal miner at Middlestone Moor in County Durham, during his tour of the coalfields in 1929

Coatbridge miners houses, Lanarkshire
A deserted street of single-storey miners cottages at Coatbridge, a mining and iron-producing area to the east of Glasgow. Date: circa 1936

Police at a Tonypandy colliery, Glamorgan, South Wales
Numerous policemen (nicknamed Devonshires) on duty at a colliery engine house in the Tonypandy area of Glamorgan, South Wales, during the riots of 1910

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

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

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