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The pithead and winding gear at Coventry Colliery at Keresley 31st January 1974
Shaft and gear at Vane Tempest Colliery, Seaham
Terraced streets of Easington with the gear towers of the local pit head in the background
A miner at work underground in a coal mine. August 1984 P017840
Miner Ken Black clocking off the last underground shift at Bates Pit, Blyth in May 1986
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
The last shift at Cotgrave Colliery, one of the last miners underground holds a Davy lamp. Circa 1992
Coal Miners shower after their shift in the pit head. February 1942 P018169
The waste and inefficiency of it all made Denzil Mellin mad. Here was Kent sitting on the best coal in the country and nobody wanted it. April 1984 P018144
Theres a look of keen anticipation on the faces of these Bevin Boys about to make their first descent of the Moirrison Pit. 19th January 1944
Boy trainees get their lamps before going below to the Ashington Colliery Companys underground school. 30th April 1942
Bevin Boys attendng the Annefield Plain pit school seen leaving the Morrison Pit after descending the mine. 23rd January 1944
Parc Level Mine, Rhiwfawr, Swansea Valley. A tram of coal is brought out by Kenyon Guinn. 18th April 1967
Pit-head bathes at the Hamstead Colliery in Hamstead, South Staffordshire. 24th August 1937
Miners at the Cannock Wood Pit handing in their Davy Lamps and lanterns at the end of their shift. May 8th 1939
The last shift at Cotgrave Colliery, returns to the surface. Circa 1992
A miner below ground at Cotgrave Colliery for the final shift before the mine is closed. Circa 1992
Miners of the Bullclliffe Colliery near Wakefield seen here coming off shift. 30th July 1963
Miners at the Morrison Busty Colliery. 24th February 1971
Coal miners Phillip Jenkins (left) and Chris Lee seen here at the Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales. 23rd March 1983
Anger and frustration at Cardowan Colliery after Bert Wheeler of the Scottish Coal Board, officially announces that the loss making pit - 10 million per year - is to close, 13th May 1983
A miner working the coal face circa 1930s
Miners at Coventry Colliery seen here working at the coal face. 5th March 1987
Richard Budge (centre) in the cage at Ellington Colliery
Wearmouth Colliery at a standstill after closure in November 1993
Miners leaving the cage after a shift at the re-opened Lynemouth Colliery. February 1967
The twin shafts of Morrison Busty Colliery, Annfield Plain in February 1971
The demolition of the 60-year-old Rising Sun Colliery, Wallsend in 1974
Miners leave the pit as the final underground shift leaves Bates Colliery, Blyth, May 1986
East Hetton Colliery, County Durham in June 1983
Ponies and their handlers at Greenside Colliery in 1932. It was claimed that the ponies were kept in better conditions than many animals on the surface. 24th December 1932
Coal mines underground scenes at Norton Hill Colliery, Somerset. March 1946 P017668
Another coal mine at risk. Betws colliery manager Vince Rogers. August 1984 P017678
Safety lamp and meter for use in a coal mine. March 1979 P017735
Coal Mining Pit Ponies. March 1941 P017821
Coal Mines underground scenes. Norton Hill Colliery, Somerset. Ernest Knowles, 40 years a miner, heaving coal. March 1946 P017838
Coal Mining underground scenes at Hucknall Colliery in Nottinghamshire. May 1972 P017832
Beaming miners leaving Ravensworth Colliery near Birtley after a Saturday morning shift in January 1951
Miners from Hamsterley Colliery in County Durham give their pit ponies a bath. August 1943 P017817
Two men pushing a cart full of coal in a mine. July 1978 P018160
A five-man coal mine. No strikes or labour troubles at this mine. The new Speedwell level, the Forest of Dean. June 1945 P018156
Members of the Russian delegation paid a visit to a colliery during their visit to South Wales. Seen here with Welsh students and colliery officials. 18th November 1942
Harnessing this pony at Ashington Colliery are some of the boys who are being trained under a newly instituted scheme. 17th June 1941
An instructor at the Government pit school showing Bevin Boys how to follow a seam of coal in Morrison Old Pit, Annefield Plain. 30th December 1943
The winter of 1946 - 1947 Coal being loaded from the pit tubs onto waiting empty lorries at the Cannock and Leacroft Colliery at Cannock
Miners coming off shift at Hamstead Colliery, West Bromwich to the news that the mine is to close in 1965. 22nd January 1962
A typical Black Country scene of the 1920s
