Mining Collection (page 6)

Middleton Dale Old Lead Mines early 1900s

Coal getting, Judy Wood in Wyke

Brodsworth Colliery Gas Plant early 1900s

Brodsworth Colliery early 1900s

Wombwell Main Colliery early 1900s

Firbeck Colliery early 1900s

South Shields Coal Picking early 1900s

South Shields St. Hilda's Colliery early 1900s

Askern Main Colliery early 1900s

Denaby Main Colliery early 1900s

Carcroft - Bullcroft Colliery early 1900s

Edington Colliery early 1900s

Featherstone Main Pit early 1900s

Tonypandy early 1900s

Backworth Colliery early 1900s

Carn Brea tin and copper mines, Cornwall

Backworth Colliery

Carn Brea Tin and Copper Mines early 1900s

Six Bells Colliery Abertillery Wales early 1900s

Six Bells Colliery, Abertillery, Wales

Penrhyn Slate Quarry Wales Victorian period

Coal Miner Victorian period

Coal miner

Coal Mining at the Coal Face Victorian period

Coal mining at the seam face

Dodworth near Barnsley Miners Gala early 1900s

Dodworth, Miners Gala, Barnsley

Striking Miners early 1900s

Striking miners at a coal mine

Women Miners Victorian period

English women coal miners

Working the cage engine at a coal mine

Wigan Junction Colliery Pit Brow Lasses early 1900s

Coal Mining Working the Cage Engine early 1900s

Coal mine rescue team

A coal miner's family

Mine Rescue Team Victorian period

A Coal Miner's Family early 1900s

Llechwedd Slate Cavern Wales Victorian period

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

Queen Victoria visiting a Cornish iron mine Date: circa 1840

How the coal strike affected the iron industry
The coal strike affected the iron industry by shutting it down as the furnaces did not have enough resources to keep going. The iron furnaces in this period were forced to shut, Date: 1912

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

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

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping