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This is the last shift at Ashington Colliery for some of these miners as it closes tomorrow
Sister Eira Davies, with help from ambulance man John Price, removes a splinter from Richard Edwards eye at the new pithead medical centre at Geognant Colliery in Maestag
World War II Women. Hotel is "Home"for ATS. An A. T. SWorld War II Women. Hotel is " Home" for ATS. An A.T.S. Transit Camp to house 700 officers and girls has just been opened in Bloomsbury, London
London housewives queue up to receive thier supply of coal from the roundsman. The coalman has been supplied with an army lorry to make his deliveries during the Second World War February 1945
Coal Strike. Miners, now idle, looking from a bridge at a Colliery at Mountain Ash, Rhondda South Wales March 1944 P012057
Coal miners at Rochdale pit on a mine cart. October 1947 P018219
Pit tunnel showing conveyer belt and a Davey lamp at a coal mine in Newstead, Nottinghamshire. April 1962 P017744
In the Rhodda. A group of the Durham miners come off their shift at their new home the Lady Windsor Colliery in Ynysybwl, Rhondda April 1963 P017760
These experienced women workers at the cleaning screens of Allerdale Pit, Great Clifton, West Cumberland. June 1949 P017795
Miss Hannah Turner of Shevington near Wigan, with her horse and coal lorry although 58 years of age, she still conducts her own coal business. February 1939 P017800
L. A. C. R. Holmes of 44, Buckingham Street, Moss Side, Manchester who has spent everyL.A.C.R. Holmes of 44, Buckingham Street, Moss Side, Manchester who has spent every morning of his leave queueing for coke outside Manchester Gaythorn Gas works. January 1946 P017806
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
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
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
Coal Mining underground scenes. February 1957 P017828
Coal Miners. Herbert Skeels, 46, is a power loader at Eppleton Colliery, Co. Durham. Herble, as his mates call him, has been a miner for 31 yrs, 22 of which have been at Eppleton. April 1977 P017752
Coal Mines underground scenes. Workers having a break. December 1937 P017829
Port of London Authority Dredger Number 10 with barges alongside it at work in high water on the lower reaches of the River Thames
Mrs. Ethel Comeny Stoker, seen here feeding the boiler. October 1952 C5925-001
Fuel for the boiler of an old steam engine is shoveled on by Peter Weightman one of the enthusiasts who has helped to renovate old steam engines for the beamish Museum
The pit head gear overshadows the converted pit pond swimming pool at Easington colliery, where a swimming gala had swung into action immediately after Saturdays official opening
Miner Jim Abbott was told that Usworth Colliery was to close as he left his shift
Manager, Charlie Fisher, of the Smithy Dene Drift Coal Mine, Chester-le-Street, at work checking the props
Ex-Pitman Charlie Wilson and his wife Margaret beside their coal fire with the free coal they receive from the Coal Board
A large lump of coal
Apprentice miner Paul Weedy and colleagues celebrate their record breaking draw at Westoe Colliery
Pit ponies bullet, Darkie and Baldie, with pitmen George Oxley, William Armstrong and Bow Cowell, at the Marley Hill Pit near Gateshead in 1983, shortly before the mines closure
A busy scene on the beach at Roker, where large quantities of sea coal have been washed up during the gales of the last few days
Coal gatherers on the beach at Hendon, Sunderland run for it as the big breakers roll up the beach. The prevailing gales are casting up coal on the beaches which is eagerly sought after by
Coalman Robert Scott humping bags of coal for a living
Coal Men filling bags with coal imports from America. December 1954 P005126
Robot Coalman. October 1961 P005203
Coal in paper bags. After the filling and sealing of the paper bags of coal - each weighing 561bs - Jimmy Rayner (19) carries one with ease to dispatch bay. March 1959 P005124
Recent additions to the unique collection of pit lamps at Armstrong College, Newcastle
Lamp man Jack Storey lit his last miners lamp at the Morrison Busty pit at Annfield Plain just before it was closed
Miners Ron Oates (left) and Joe Olley hand in their lamps for the last time as Dawdon Colliery ceases to operate in July 1991. Ron had worked at the pit for 35 years, Joe 30
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
Adding another to the collection of old and new miners lamps which is being made for educational purposes at Armstrong college, Newcastle
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
Three of the 55 miners who retired from the Betty and Ann pits have their lamps checked for the last time in September 1946. Between them they had over 200 years of mining experience
Their lamps are checked by safety man James Harrison then they are frisked for inflammable materials before going down the Busty Pit at Craghead
