Coal Mining Collection (page 5)

Louise tipping coal through a grid to a conveyer at an open cast coal working at blackburn, March 1944 P017824

Coal Mines underground scenes. March 1946 P017830

Coal Mining underground scenes. February 1957 P017828

Coal miners. The Hill miners family. Left to right front row, David Kimber (son in law), Graham Hill Son, Michael Hill (son), Thurlow Hill (father), Davis Hill (Son), Mark Hill (son)

Coal Mines underground scenes. March 1946 P017833

Opencast coal mining. Workers extracting coal from the earths surface using large vehicles. February 1947 P017826

Coal mining underground scenes at Ollerton Pit in Nottinghamshire. January 1944 P017837

Coal Miners underground scenes. A miner pushing a cart loaded with coal along the track April 1936 P017831

Coal Mines Underground Scenes. October 1941 P017839

Lane Thomas pictured near his home at Pen Mountain, Cilfynnydd, with Eastern a pit pony presented to him by the National Coal Board. January 1970 P017816

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

Coal Mines underground scenes: Miners at work. January 1944 P017836

Coal Mines underground scenes. Workers having a break. December 1937 P017829

Coal Miners: Three miners come up with a smile left to right, Fred Robson, John Lowerson and Andy Boyle. March 1978 P017897

Cliviger colliery, near Burnley. Albert Smith a Deputy walks the mile to the coal face. December 1952 P005136

Two miners waiting outside the new social service centre at Burnhope colliery. 15th January 1935

A typical pit village street at High Rows, South Moor in 1900

Retired pitmen leaving the colliery for the last time, November 1946

A band of coal trimmers in about 1880. Their job was to level the coal on boats on the Tyne so they kept a balance. The large pointed shovels enabled coal to be shifted easily

Eccles Pit, owned by the Backworth Coal Company, where an explosion killed three men. 24th April 1933

Coal miner Joe Baksi (right) has a canteen lunch after a trip down the pit with Laurence Plover of the National Coal Board. May 1947 P009784

Jane Ectis looks at a mine rescue helmet on show at a Durham City exhibition in April 1975. The exibits had come from the collection of postman Gavin Burdon who was attempting to save relics of

A North East miner standing by the pit shaft

A specimen National Coal Board notice to be displayed at all collieries when they were nationalised on January 1, 1947

Geordie miners at Houghton Spring Pit, 1893

Theres plenty of hot water on top, and this "Happy Pit"
Theres plenty of hot water on top, and this " Happy Pit" miner is making good use of it. March 1947 P011972

Nationalisation of mines at Penallta Colliery near Ystradmynach. January 1947 P018221

Miners lamp March 1990 P018224

Miners straight from the coal face sitting down with women and children of the village at the canteen ( April 1946 P018218

A new miners lamp invented by Mr E. A. Hailwood. December 1927 P018214
A new miners lamp invented by Mr E.A. Hailwood. December 1927 P018214

Immediately after the vesting ceremony miners were waiting at the pit head to descend yet once again to the same coal face, yet inspire by new hope. January 1947 P018213

Eighty years old Joseph Brogan collecting his lamp prior to working his shift at the pit. Mr. Brogan has been awarded the B.E.M. for services rendered to the coal industry. January 1946 P018217

Eighty years old Mr. Joseph Brogan who has been awarded the BEM for his service as a miner. He is employed at the Garswood Hall Colliery, Aston-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. January 1946 P018209

Leonard Hector aged 9, demonstrating his fathers invention to this schoolmates in the Ministry of Fuels " Coal and its Products" Exhibition at Othercliff Methodist Hall, Sheffield

The end of shift as miners leave the cage. May 1972 P018207

Miners of Chesswell Colliery pose together for a group photograph. January 1948 P018222

A smiling miner at the end of his shift August 1947 P018212

Coal Mines underground scenes. Miners going to work by rail on a half mile trek to the coal face at one of the Manchester Collieries pits. December 1937 P017835

Men about to go underground at the Gresford Colliery in Wrexham. March 1935 P017892

Miners give their pit ponies a clean. March 1941 P017819

Coal that has been imported from West Germany at an Essex dock. April 1984 P018225

Coal Mines under ground scenes: Workers at a pit in Manchester shovelling out coal from under the water. January 1948 P017834

Area production manager John Mackie checking the roadway to the coal seam at Seafield Colliery. July 1984 P018141

David Baird, 29, sits at his Rolf Operator at Ormonde Colliery. This is the machine that is replacing the manual work in coalmining. May 1965 P018142

Miner at work underground in a coal mine August 1984 P018140

Britains most modern coal mine. 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 P018145

Miners who have received severe injuries, some to the spine, others to the legs or arm, pictured exercising durin g their fitness regime at a rehabilitation centre March 1942 P018165

Beveridge Brothers coal mine. April 1948 P018148

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