Mines Collection (page 2)

Coal miners drilling holes with a mechanised drill early 1900s

Coal miner using self-acting incline haulage early 1900s

Miners safety lamps Victorian period

Pit Girls Victorian period

Miners undercutting a seam of coal Victorian period

Coal Mine Surveyor early 1900s

Miners fitting long pit props Victorian period

Miners building a cog Victorian period

Miners / Hauliers early 1900s

Middleton Dale Old Lead Mines early 1900s

Carn Brea tin and copper mines, Cornwall

Carn Brea Tin and Copper Mines early 1900s

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

WW2, Ensign Flag And Wartime Fisherman
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a naval ensign banner flown in the Navy manner, while the right picture portrays a war time fisherman

Poster, Sainte Marie aux Mines, Haut-Rhin, France Date: 1950

Chicago Exhibition, Palace of Mines Date: 1893

London Family cutting Firewood
During the coal strike in 1912 families started to cut their own fire wood is response to the lack of resources. A family in London is seen collecting its own resources from their back garden

Strike scenes in Germany and Britain
Striking in Germany and Great Britain in 1912. Men in Germany who don't strike are protected by soldiers. A mass strike during the coal mining strikes in the UK. Date: 1912

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

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

Mining conditions
Miners lift to the mines in a dangerous lift. The conditions were drear for the men working in these mines. The nation coal strike was in protest of the conditions seen here. Date: 1912

The Coal crisis
The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main goal was securing a minimum wage

Coal crisis in Portsmouth
Navy coping with the coal crisis in Cribb Portsmouth. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom. Its main goal was securing a minimum wage

HMS Boadicea - a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Boadicea, a Boadicea-Class scout cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century

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

Advertisement for Miners
An advertisement placed in a local newspaper by the National Union of Mineworkers, Derbyshire area, seeking miners for underground work. Date: December 1973

CHILD LABOUR IN MINES
Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts showing children working down the mines, with a small boy acting as a "trapper" opening an air door for a truck to 1841

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

Cartoon, The Problem-Picture of 1921, showing the Triple Alliance of Railways, Mines and Transport as Cerberus, the three-headed dog. Date: 1921

Bristol Bolingbroke IVT G-BPIV - Z5722 - Z WM (msn 10201), at Duxford painted as a Blenheim IVFnight fighter, with gun pack and racks for Long Aerial Mines Date: 2000s

Blenheim IVT G-BPIV - Z5722 - Z WM
Bristol Bolingbroke IVT G-BPIV - Z5722 - Z WM at Duxford painted as a Blenheim IVFnight fighter, with gun pack and racks for Long Aerial Mines Date: circa 2000

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

Discussing the situation, apparently without misgivings: Pit lasses and pit boys after ceasing work. Date: October 1920

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. Tin mines, bullocks and pipe smoking. Miner on a ladder with a bucket of tin ore in a Redruth tin mine 10, beef cattle on a Devonshire moor 11

Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin making
Trades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8

Scenes from the East Coast of Africa, 1820
Ducks on the sacred lake on Comoro Island 61, Solomons merchants buying ivory and peacocks at Sofala, Mozambique 62, and natives with torches chasing a wild elephant in Mozambique 63

Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering weight, Sept 1939
Volunteer mine-sweeper trainees lowering a weight over the side of a boat to keep their paravane at the correct depth. Volunteers, most commonly fishermen

Volunteer mine-sweepers in training, Sept 1939
A scheme to train fisherman as volunteer mine-sweepers began in 1938 and was used to allow the navy to concentrate elswhere

Mine at Glentogher, Donegal
Exterior view of the mine at Glentogher, Donegal in 1905, reported in The Sphere to have been first worked 150 years earlier. Date: 1905

22nd Dragoons Memorial, Cresserons, Normandy
The Dragoons were equipped with Sherman flail tanks. Rotating metal chains were attached to a roller at the front of the tank and as the tank moved slowly forward

Iron mines near Clausthal and mountain hikers
Iron mines in the Hartz mountains near Clausthal, Germany, and hikers crossing rivers, mountains and glaciers. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by A

Gold bricks on display, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada
Gold bricks on display from the Klondike gold rush, Bank of British North America, Dawson City, Yukon, NW Canada. Date: late 1890s

Mines and Mining Building, Worlds Fair Exhibition, Chicago, USA. 1893

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