Coal Mining Collection (page 3)

Pit gear at Bomarsund Colliery, October 1965

Miner Wilfey Moralee who was the last man off the shift at Vane Tempest Colliery on its closure in October 1992

Coal train at Westoe Colliery South Shields, January 1972

The demolition of Wearmouth Colliery in October 1994

Murton Colliery produced its millionth tonne of the financial year in record time, beating the previous best by three weeks. January 1988

Miners leave the cage for the last time at Murton Colliery, November 1991

Harraton Colliery, December 1946

Eppleton Colliery in June 1952

Crowds watch the demolition of Westoe Colliery, South Shields in April 1994

Washington Colliery, County Durham, Britains oldest pit when it closed in 1968. It was due to become the centre of a pleasure park when this picture was taken in January 1971

A 1949 picture of the headgear and winding house at Lynemouth Colliery, Northumberland

Shilbottle Colliery in March 1977

A miner walks home from Ellington Colliery in February 1994

Langley pit lads in September, 1943

Eighteen year old John Hewetson formerly of St Bees school in Cumberland pictured after arriving at the miners training centre at Swinton, Lancashire during the Second World War January 1944

Ashton Collierys new bath opened. October 1952 P005142

A Miner at work with helmet and head lamp. January 1985 P005131

The fire and rescue team practicing to revive a miner overpowered at the coal face. 18th July 1937

Coal miners cast their votes during the election. October 1977 P005132

Coke queue Manchester. Pram loads of coke leaving Gaythorne Gasworks this morning. December 1950 P009433

A miner looks over the fence toward the Gorkie Colliery during the miners strike in World War Two. The flagstaff at the top of the pithead is now bare

One of the underground men at work around Barnsley is Charles Greaves of Sciessitt in the Marjery Wood Colliery by the Aid of candlelight, too ! April 1947 P009830

Welsh miners on strike drew their last full weeks pay at Nine Mile Point Colliery in Monmouthshire, Wales. March 1944 P012055

Welsh miners on strike drew their last full weeks pay to-day at Nine Mile Point Colliery, Monmouthshire. March 1944 P012054

Factory girls on way home, at Mountain Ash, Patting. Miners now on strike. March 1944 P012056

Huge pile of coal at a a colliery. January 1941 P017675

The C. P. Hole-boring machine is being used to bore apertures in the coal face - the same
The C.P. Hole-boring machine is being used to bore apertures in the coal face - the same depth as the undercut made by coal-cutter, ready for an explosive charge

Coal arriving by boat iat a dockyard. February 1947 P017677

A miner goes to college. Bill Millington, 21, an underground filtter at Bickershaw Colliery, has just won one of a hundred scholarships awarded by the National Coal Board in mining

Two brothers working their own colliery have been given the task of bewing a two-ton lump of coal by February, to be exhibited at the Festival of Britain. January 1951 P017715

Derrick Latter (21) of Snodland, Kent drafted to the pits as a Bevin boy as decided to remain and work in the mines. He is working at Fishburn colliery in County Durhan. March 1948 P017719

Enter the Coalmen - both in bowler hats. Two bowler-hatted gents turned up on Grandma Gwen Henstocks doorstep yesterday. They smilingly passed the time of day Then they humped coal into Mrs

Drilling from a tower 4 miles off the shore in West Hartlepool, County Durham, the National Coal Board tries to find out how far the coal seam extends under the sea from mines near there

Lignite-brown coal -is being surface mined at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire. The mine was first opened 100 years ago but has been closed several times. New workings have recently been opened

Boy trainees take a 16 week course at the Colliery school before starting work in the pit. Arthur Clough, 15, George Davison, 17, and Peter Brown, 15, learn how a coal conveyor works from a model

Women digging at a coal mine to gather winter fuel. August 1947 P017706

Another pithead medical centre has been opened at Coegnant Colliery in the Llanfi Valley. Nurse checking up on a miner February 1949 P017709

A Rescue man in the mines with his assistant the canary. January 1951 P017722

Whitehill Midlothian, Scotland. Mechanised coal mining. Envy of all the other Bevin-Boys is young James Turner, who drives on of the electric shuttle-cars at Newbattle Colliery. July 1946 P017718

For six weeks miners Will Davies (left) and his brothers Rees (right) have been working to produce one lump of coal - a lump so special that a crate is built around it before it is levered on to a

Thanks to such machines as the Sullivan Shortwall Coal-Cutter, the coal face in the Colliery moves forward about 300 yards every year

Miners at Creswell Colliery, Notts, smashed their output target forty-one times out of fifty-two in 1947. January 1948 P017716

Wearing headscarves for protection, Lancashire women and girls are doing a grimy but important job of work in the screening plant in a Leigh colliery

Miners cheer a lump of coal that took a year to dig out. January 1950 P017723

The state of the mines. A roadway at Sealfield Colliery falling apart. July 1984 P017742

A coal miner walking his son, a junior miner. October 1978 P017740

These men run their own mine in the forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. 1930 P017727

The ponies are washed down before being taken to their stables for a feed at Knowetop Mine, Lanarkshire. January 1966 P017734

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