Coal Collection

Arthur Scargill at home near Barnsley, Yorkshire. One of Arthurs possessions is a clock with a face made of coal. The painting was done by Margaret Burlton

Durham Miners Gala - The Easington miners lodge banner, draped in black arrives back in the village after being carried at Durham Miners Gala

Shaft and gear at Vane Tempest Colliery, Seaham

Coal Miners at Whitwick Colliery hwere they smashed the record for the country producing 258 tons Circa 1960

The last shift of miners prepare to go down Boldon Colliery bringing to a close 116 years of coal production

A coalman delivering coal. 27th January 1972

Arthur Scargill of the NUM talks with miners on strike 1984

Coalman Mr Nightingale delivering coal. 25th April 1955

Adrian Street, Welsh professional wrestler, pictured with his father, a coal miner. 2nd November 1974

View of Hem Heath Colliery in Trentham, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire. 2nd April 1962

Each man for himself - prospectors at West Wylam digging for coal during the fuel shortage in February 1952

Betteshanger Colliery, Kent, threatened with closure. 1985

Wirral Colliery at Neston, just before the general strike. Wirral miners were the first to come out when the employers cut their wages. 10th April 1925

Mines at Easington Colliery. July 1969

The first trucks of coal from South Pit, Glyncorrwg 1906

Terraced streets of Easington with the gear towers of the local pit head in the background

Miners at Langley Park Colliery on their way to work stop for a glance at their record after achieving their target during the recent 12 weeks period. 20th September 1943

Toddlers in Merseyside running after National Coal Board Lorries and trying to jump on. This is a very dangerous activity. Picture taken 9th June 1963

Oliver Kilbourn of Ashington, with one of his paintings. 2nd July 1991

Miner Ken Black clocking off the last underground shift at Bates Pit, Blyth in May 1986

Durham Miners Gala - Harold Wilson and Shirley Williams share a joke

Durham Miners Gala - The crowd listen to the speeches

Worklers pulling along a wagon carrying coal at Priory Colliery in Blantyre, Scotland April 1951

Coal workers William Watson, of Cramlington, and Brian Hogg, of Annitsford, deliver coal in Scotswood, Newcastle

The Bucket Wheel Reclaimer, at Aberthaw power station. 28th May 1968

Murton Colliery silhouetted against a night sky

Owing to the diminishing coal supplies and bad weather, deliveries of coal to the housewife have been slowed down and many are trekking with prams and wheelbarrows to coal wharfs

A sad moment as miners for the last time hang up their lampsat the doomed Silksworth colliery, one of County Durhams best know mines

Arthur Scargill and his wife Anne at home near Barnsley, Yorkshire, with their dog Ginger. 19th November 1980

Artist Tom McGuinness, a member of the Spennymoor Settlement. Circa 1991

Norman Cornish, the miner-artist from Spennymoor, who still works underground at the Dean and Chapter Colliery, will be having an exhibition of his paintings

A housewife, cigarette dangling from her lips, nonchalantly wheels away a barrowload of coal, April 1968

Miners in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England, showering after their shift August 1954

Mr. Douglas Purser who runs his Ford 1, 600 c. c. Capri on Coal
Mr. Douglas Purser who runs his Ford 1, 600 c.c. Capri on Coal, is pictured shovelling anthracite into the burner. February 1975 75-01164

A training exercise at the Merchant Navy School, teaceing rookies how to shovel coal and clean the furnaces with stones instead of coal

Having changed their clothes, working miners leave the changing room and make their way to the pit at Betteshanger Colliery, Kent. 22nd February 1985

Arthur Scargill working at home near Barnsley, Yorkshire. 19th November 1980

Food parcels being packed and distributed by the miners wives at the Community Hall, Dyffryn Cellwen, Wales. 26th July 1984

Miners from Woolley Colliery, near Barnsley, at the Welfare Club for the ballot today. Pictured is Arthur Scargill. 23rd February 1972

Miners leader Arthur Scargill faced questions from an audience selected by a leading market research organisation to represent a cross-section of Britains voters

Arthur Scargill at the Ramsgate Miners Rally, Kent. 20th November 1984

Yorkshire mineworkers leader Arthur Scargill has it on a plate. He has challenged a nuclear scientist to an eating contest which will involve him eating coal if the challenge is taken up

A miner enjoying the newly installed showers at Askern Colliery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. This Bevin Boy is Bill Thomas

A photograph of a group of Bevin Boy miners receiving their equipment on their first day at Askern Coliiery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Easington Colliery workers. Circa 1977

The entrance to the main drift at the Belsay Colliery, Northumberland, it is now three-quarters of a mile in length, and has 250 feet of cover. That is the depth of the surface to the coal

The tip at the old Prince of Wales colliery at Abercarn is being leveled to make an industrial estate. August 1968

Langley Park Colliery, near Durham, where a number of men were injured by runaway tubs. 8th May 1930

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