Coal Mining Collection (page 4)

A Mines rescue worker kissing his canary. January 1981 P017743

Boy Brownsword carrying a parcel full of votes from Norton Colliery in Stoke-on-Trent arrives at the Electoral Reform Society headquarters in Chancel St. February 1974 P017756

Mechanised mining. The only machine at Newbattle Colliery not driven by electricity is the steam-driven winding apparatus. Here two miners, bring forward the C.P. hole-boring machine

Father and son miners. October 1978 P017741

The coal is dredged in buckets from the bed of Sir Hony River at Fontllanfraith, near Blackwood. The coal, still wet, is loaded on to the waiting lorry and transported. September 1947 P017732

The coal rush on motorway six. April 1968 P017739

Mechanised mining. One of the pioneers of the modern system of "intensive"
Mechanised mining. One of the pioneers of the modern system of " intensive" or fully mechanised mining, the Lothian Coal Company, Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland. Circa 1947 P017729

Pit ponies reaching the end of the road at the coal mine. April 1969 P017736

Phtotographs show the miners of Hepton Valley Colliery, near Burnley, which has been nicknamed " Happy Valley". April 1975 P017758

Scenes unederground at Newstead mine, Nottingham. 1963 P017746

Another pithead medical centre has been opened at Coegnant Colliery in the Llanfi Valley. Nurse checking up on a miner February 1949 P017710

Miners at Creswell Colliery, Notts, smashed their output target forty-one times out of fifty-two in 1947. January 1948 P017730

One of the pioneers of the modern system of "intensive"
One of the pioneers of the modern system of " intensive" or fully mechanised mining, the Lothian Coal Company, Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland, are specialists in Colliery efficiency

Toby stops for lunch. Two thousand feet below ground at Kilmersdon Colliery, Somerset, Old Toby, the pit-pony, has been helping his mates, Ern Dorey, 60, and Charlie Lye, 35

Mechanized coal mining. A group of miners sit down for a rest while working underground 1946 P017733

Mechanised mining. Powered by electric batteries, this shuttle-car is used to take coal from the coal-face to the conveyor belt. 1946 P017725

Miners working underground at Mekton Colliery 1974. P017748

Modelling this "Space Age"Helmet for Britains Coal Miners is Britain
Modelling this " Space Age" Helmet for Britains Coal Miners is Britains newly elected " Coal Queen", 21-year-old blonde Debbie Johnson

A coal miner with a specially designed helmet. December 1971 P018203

An automatic (fire damp) detector developed by the Mining and Materials Handling Division of the English Electric Co. Ltd

Mining coal miners. Miners straight from the coal sitting down with women folk of the village at the canteen to-night April 1946 P018216

Sign outside a coal mine which had saved from closure. June 1969 P018143

16 men working at the Hitwick Colliery in Coalville, Leicestershire. A train-load in a day! May 1946 P018215

Britains most modern coal mine at Comrie Colliery, Cowdenbeath, Scotland. A full train of coal travelling to the pit head, also shows the construction of the roads down the mine. October 1942 P018161

Scotlands only coal-woman. Dorothy Riddell (23) who runs her own coal merchants business in Glasgow delivers coal herself to customers in the Shieldhall District of Glasgow

Miner setting a prop at Rossington Colliery. April 1970 P017747

Nurse helps miners beat their target. Miners queue up in the pithead surgery as Sister Ada Starkey attends to her patient Cyril Ainsworth, 16. January 1948 P017711

Mr. Tom McGuinness at the pithead of his colliery near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. January 1977 P017751

Two women who were serving coal at the emergency coal dump at Chiswick. They are Floe Powell (left) and her friend Ellen Stacey. They volunteered to help their men folk. February 1947 P017804

These experienced women workers at the cleaning screens of Allerdale Pit, Great Clifton, West Cumberland. June 1949 P017795

Coal Women. Woman on a cart laiden with sacks of coal, being pulled along by a horse through an English village. November 1938 P017803

Mrs. Mary Fagan carrying a large sack of coal on her back at St. Helens March 1939 P017801

Coal girl Patricia Oliver, aged 23, of Earlsfield, London, who took over her fathers coal delivery business four years ago after her fathers illness. May 1962 P017802

Women coal miners. January 1966 P017794

A popular figure at the Haigh pit in Whitehaven, Cumberland, is 14 stone Mrs. Margaret Aitken. December 1955 P017799

Fuel Shortage. Notice on a coal dealers door in Sidcup, Kent. January 1963 P017808

Coal miner with Irar his pit pony. October 1946 P017669

Five foot woman does coalmans job. Mrs. Pittock is a bright and willing little woman and when the coalman employed by Mr. E

Picture shows women from the Southwark district of London gathering coal from a Bomb site in Sumner Road Southwark. The coal is mystery as no one seems to know how it came to be lying in an old

Coal has been found in King street, the main street of Brynmewr, Monmouth. April 1950 P017823

Boy miners digging for coal in the old mine at Cobridge North Staffordshire. Brothers Alex 11, Tony 8 and Kevin Donoghue 9 searching for coal. February 1972 P017674

Pit pony Robin takes his first look at the surroundings at Ladyshore Colliery which he last saw 14 months ago, held by blacksmith William Heaton (left) and Jess Taylor. January 1948 P017815

Illuminate the work at Bothal, near Ashington Northumberland. April 1946 P017827

The coal shortage has hit many homes this winter, contractors are low if not out of stocks and don t know when the next quota will arrive

Coal Mining A man training a pony. for the pits. May 1936 P017818

Blinkered to protect his eyes, a pony canters up the shaft towards daylight and green grass at the Knowetop Mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland. January 1966 P017820

Pit Poines holiday. Some of the liberated ponies enjoying their mid-day meal of hay from " coal tub managers" photographed at the Broomhill Colliery, Northumberland. May 1926 P017822

Woman wheeling a wheelbarrow filled with a sack of coal at Bentley Lane in Walsall, Staffordshire. April 1968 P017825

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