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Aberfan - Schoolchildren play football on the playing field, 10 years after a landslide destroyed the school - 12th October 1976
Picture shows Mr Alan Pegler, who bought The Flying Scotsman engine in 1963, leans out the cabin window to greet Lord Provost Sir Herbert Brechin at Waverley Station, Edinburgh. Scotland
The reflection of a member of the Home Guard. Seen here in a puddle at an un-named colliery. Circa June 1940
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers at TUC Conference, Bournemouth, Tuesday 6th September 1988
A coal seam was discovered when the Bradley estate in Huddersfield was being built in 1954. Here are a group of boys investigating it
Manchester gasworks during the Second World War. 22nd April 1944
A German woman wears shorts for her work as they recover coal from the River Elbe. 3rd September 1945
The engine shed at Tunbridge station circa 1960
The Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan visits Betteshanger Colliery, Kent. The colliery was established in the 1920s. Poor to shaft sinking the sod was cut by the then Archbishop of Canterbury in
Sir Bernard and Lady Docker visited the Water Haigh Colliery, near Leeds. Pictured, Sir Bernard and Lady Docker after their tour of the coal seams. 21st March 1954
Trainee miner seen here at work. Part of the Daily Herald Youth in Industry Feature 6th April 1954
President of the National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill speaks to miners at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 5th January 1985
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers. 20th July 1990
Barry Kent, left, the acting assistant manager, and David Duke, the colliery mechanical engineer, at East Hetton Colliery
General view of Ellington Pit, Northumberland. Circa 1987
Miners at Ellington celebrate digging out 1, 000, 000 tonnes of coal. Mark Saunders, Steven Fuller, Graeme Crisps, Tom Spain, Keith Stobbart, Barry McDonald and Ray Middleton. 1st October 1986
On Christmas Day, Bob Dickinson will sit down with a single bacon sandwich. He will have to wait 24 hours til he eats again. He is a miner on strike from Dawdon Colliery, Seaham. 29th November 1984
Ashingtons life and blood - the colliery. 28th May 1932
Some of the new loose horse-boxes at the Bomarsund Pit of the Bedlington Coal Company. The provision of the improved boxes has necessitated a large reconstruction scheme
Llangollen railway station, Denbighshire, Wales. May 1932
The new coal stacker and reclaimer which is used at the Aberthaw A and Aberthaw B 1500 mega watt Power Stationwhich is wing built on the coast between Barry and Llantwit Major
One of the employees at the Aberthaw power station watched the used ash mixed with water, being pumped into the ash settling tank, at the station. 2nd July 1965
Aberthaw power station, near Barry, Wales. 1st April 1963
The new Aberthaw B Power Station, which is almost complete. 20th October 1968
The Leys Power Station. 19th October 1959
The bucket wheel reclaimer, the duel purpose machine in the coal storage area at Aberthaw Power Station, used for stocking out and reclaiming tipping coal. 29th May 1968
The shaft at Leys Power Station. 17th April 1958
The view from the top of the giant 500ft tower of the Aberthaw B Power Station, which was officially topped off yesterday. 28th July 1966
The scene on the site of the new Aberthaw B Power Station. irk started on the site last July. In the background can be seen the existing Aberthaw A Power Station. 18th January 1964
Idle coal hoists at Cardiff Docks. 15th April 1963
PICTURE 14 of the 14 SEQUENCE. The Box Camera - a series of pictures demonstrating how to use it. Picture taken with a Box Camera, shows a horse walking towards the camera
150 coal workers march to save Kirk opencast site, 15th October 1988
Children collecting their coal ration from a coal merchant near Birmingham City centre. 14th February 1940
The winter of 1946 - 1947 Coal being loaded from the pit tubs onto waiting empty lorries at the Cannock and Leacroft Colliery at Cannock
Traffic at the junction of High Street and Rea Street, Deritend. The number 92 trolleybus was headed from Albert Street via Coventry Road
Christina Johnson with Jack Harrison and their competition paintings. Pitman artist Jack Harrison, the former deputy at Ashlington Colliery won second prize
Writer Sid Chaplin. Circa 1983
Oliver Kilbourn (right), a former coal face worker at Ellington Colliery is the sole surviving founder member of what became known as the Ashington group of painters
Artist Norman Cornish. Circa 1989
Three German miners admire the work of Norman Cornish, the Durham miner artist, at his exhibition in the Stone Gallery, Newcastle
A miner goes back to work in Fishburn, County Durham. 1972
One of the numbers by the Northumberland Youth Brass Band at the Ashington Festival was dedicated to author Sid Chaplin. Here the author (second left) listens to two members
The co-authors of "Close the Coalhouse Door"have a reunion when they meet atThe co-authors of " Close the Coalhouse Door" have a reunion when they meet at the University Theatre, Newcastle, for the opening night
Dinner time for Pitman Tom, at home in Stanley. He is pictured with his wife and children. 1st February 1947
Husband Tom, home from the pit, likes a look at the paper as his wife waits to dish up dinner in Stanley, County Durham. 1st February 1947
Gelli Colliery. Gelli is a village in the Rhondda Fawr valley, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales. The view from Alexander Road, pictured in the background in a coal tip. Circa 1953
