Pit Collection (page 2)

Programme cover, Palace Theatre of Varieties, Manchester, two houses nightly. 1912

Caricature of Lord Salisbury, Conservative party leader
Caricature of Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 1830-1903), the newly appointed Conservative party leader

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

Geologists at Piltdown
Geologists Association party visiting the pit at Piltdown on 12 July 1913

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

Wizard of Oz / Kalidahs
The tree fell with a crash into the gulf. Dorothy and her companions watch as the two Kalidahs fall into the pit

Anfiteatro / Pompeii
The Anfitheatro at Pompeii, with the original seating still in situ

Children in Sand Pit
Children play in a sandpit in a park; a little boy digs, whilst a young girl ties a bonnet around her dogs head

Seating / Lycuem & Strand
Plans showing the layout of seating available for booking at the Lyceum and Strand Theatres with prices ranging from Boxes to the Gallery via stalls, circles & the pit

Miner at coal face -3
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Miner at coal face -2
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

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

Miner at coal face -1
Coal miner working underground at the coalface of Acres Nook private coal mine, near, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire England. The mine closed in 1991. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Miner at work within the Great Harwood Colliery - digging our Cock Bridge House Coal " so much esteemed for us in Farm

Charlton sand Pits - Charlton, South East London. The home football ground of Charlton Athletic FC, The Valley dates from 1919, at a time when the club were looking for a new home

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

Agatha Christies abandoned motorcar, Surrey, 1926
Photograph showing the abandoned motorcar at the edge of a Surrey chalk pit, near Newlands Corner, which Agatha Christie had driven before disappearing on 3rd December 1926

Coal miners Scranton Pennsylvania USA early 1900s

Gwennap Pit, Redruth

Gwennap Pit near Redruth Cornwall, early 1900s

Swaledale Swinner Gill Lead Mine early 1900s

Colliery lamp room Victorian period

Working a high seam in a coal mine

Miners Gala Parade

Miners Gala Parade early 1900s

Coal mine headgear

Miners, Aberdare Valley

Aberdare Valley Miners early 1900s

Coal mine pit boys

Pit pony in a coal mine

Coal mine pit pony Victorian period

Taking pit props into a coal mine

Taking a pit prop into the mine early 1900s

Miners drilling holes in a two foot seam early 1900s

Drillin hole in a two foot coal seam

Young Coal Miners early 1900s

Coal miners drilling holes with a mechanised drill early 1900s

Machine hole drilling in a coal mine

Coal miner using self-acting incline haulage early 1900s

Self acting incline in a coal mine

Mining safety lamps

Miners safety lamps Victorian period

Pit Girls Victorian period

Pit girls, coal mine

Miners undercutting a seam of coal Victorian period

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