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The tip at the old Prince of Wales colliery at Abercarn is being leveled to make an industrial estate. August 1968
Langley Park Colliery, near Durham, where a number of men were injured by runaway tubs. 8th May 1930
Left standing idle after loading the final cargo on board the coastal steamer Farringay at the Queens Dock, Cardiff, these coal hoists will never again load vessels bound for far countries with their
Residents of Birmingham queue with their prams at the Coal Merchants in Green Lane awaiting their allocation and hoping there is enough coal to go round following earlier shortages. 6th February 1954
Bromley by Bow coal merchant Charles Franklin horses and cart delivery wagon takes a break and a drink of water from the trough during his delivery round in Bow. 3rd March 1955
Writer Sid Chaplin, pictured sitting in a chair. Circa 1983
Coal men start delivering coal, Teesside. 1972
Northumberland County Technical College at Ashington, heard a series of readings and dramatised readings of Sid Chaplins work
Norman Cornish, the Spennymoor pitman artist who has never had an art lesson in his life, is to be paid £ 1000 by Durham County Council for a giant canvas of the Durham Miners Gala. Circa 1959
Oliver Kilbourn, a former coal face worker at Ellington Colliery is the sole surviving founder member of what became known as the Ashington group of painters
Painter Oliver Kilbourn and his work. "I was a damn good miner. I liked the lifePainter Oliver Kilbourn and his work. " I was a damn good miner. I liked the life. You are battling against nature. Not just this nature all around, but what was laid down millions of years ago
Ashington Hirst County Middle School. December 1970
Colliery worker Spence Skillet Richardson has lived in Tenth Row, Ashington for more than 50 years. He was not the first person to find a house there, but he will certainly be the last to leave
Long rows of houses, Ashington. Circa 1961
Mrs Annie Berry takes in her coal, which is delivered in a heap in the street. Stanleytown, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. 1st March 1954
Children play on the slag heap at Berry Hill May actually be picking coal April 1965
Carol service by miners 600 ft down. An accordion play and miners voices are raised in the singing of Christmas Carols. Wath Main Colliery, near Mexborough, South Yorkshire. 23rd December 1966
Mr Cyril Owens who lives in Bwllfa Cottages, Gelli, pictured in the garden of his home. He is surveying the area which was threatened by a tip slide the day before
A group of miners enjoying a meal after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit in Throckley near Newcastle. 1st March 1942
West Cramlington Colliery, Northumberland. 11th December 1958
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
Miners Strike 1984 - 1985, Pictured. Chief Supt. Bryan Meadows, shows damage to one of South Yorkshire Police Horse Boxes, at Sheffield Stables, Wednesday 7th November 1984
Horse and cart pulling coal through the sreets of London. Franklins Coal June 1955
A miner working the coal face circa 1930s
Coal - Wales - Penallta Colliery at Hengoed - 23rd June 1970
Big coal klondyke in Barmulloch Glasgow, as the local residents dig for coal in the bing, which is being flattened by bulldozers, October 1971
Miners working at the coal face at the Frances Colliery in Scotland. 2nd March 1983
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
A coal miner at Ellington Colliery in Northumberland sitting in the locker room after his shift November 1999
Coal miners John Derbyshire front and Vinc Higson give each other assistance to get clean in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England August 1954
Women Coal screeners with soot covering their faces at Lyme Pit in Lancashire coming off shift wash in the pithead showers November 1948
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
Ryhope Coal Companys new model mine for the instruction of boys at Oxclose, Durham. Here they are coming out of the drift mine
The collier ship Fulham being loaded with coal on the River Tyne at Dunston Staithes in Newcastle, to be transported to Fulham. 16th February 1946
Staff and part time members of NCB Mines Rescue Station Ashington are to do a sponsored stretcher carrying for the South Atlantic Fund
Bedlington Miners Picnic - These girls are doing a spot of high kicking to the music of the marching bands at the annual miners picnic
Miners from the record breaking Brenkley Drift: Included are Mr. Joe Thomas, manager (right), Alan Wilson (centre foreground) and Danny Hogg (front right)
This 15 ton "Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner"This 15 ton " Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner" has been imported from the United States for experiments in British mines
Edward Robson washing in an old tin bath. This will probably be the ast time he will use it because the new pit-head baths open today
Coal Mining underground scenes at Hucknall Colliery in Nottinghamshire. May 1972 P017832
Faceworkers Jim Watson, aged 56, of Parkside, Seaham and underground development worker billy Stephenson, of Winyard Street, Dawdon in the sauna at Dawdon Colliery
Beaming miners leaving Ravensworth Colliery near Birtley after a Saturday morning shift in January 1951
