Colliery Collection

Shaft and gear at Vane Tempest Colliery, Seaham

View of Hem Heath Colliery in Trentham, Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire. 2nd April 1962

Betteshanger Colliery, Kent, threatened with closure. 1985

Wirral Colliery at Neston, just before the general strike. Wirral miners were the first to come out when the employers cut their wages. 10th April 1925

Mines at Easington Colliery. July 1969

The first trucks of coal from South Pit, Glyncorrwg 1906

Terraced streets of Easington with the gear towers of the local pit head in the background

Miner Ken Black clocking off the last underground shift at Bates Pit, Blyth in May 1986

Murton Colliery silhouetted against a night sky

Queen Elizabeth visits visiting Silverwood Colliery, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, is behind her. Picture taken 30th July 1975

The waste and inefficiency of it all made Denzil Mellin mad. Here was Kent sitting on the best coal in the country and nobody wanted it. April 1984 P018144

Theres a look of keen anticipation on the faces of these Bevin Boys about to make their first descent of the Moirrison Pit. 19th January 1944

A miner enjoying the newly installed showers at Askern Colliery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. This Bevin Boy is Bill Thomas

Boy trainees get their lamps before going below to the Ashington Colliery Companys underground school. 30th April 1942

A photograph of a group of Bevin Boy miners receiving their equipment on their first day at Askern Coliiery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Bevin Boys attendng the Annefield Plain pit school seen leaving the Morrison Pit after descending the mine. 23rd January 1944

Easington Colliery workers. Circa 1977

The entrance to the main drift at the Belsay Colliery, Northumberland, it is now three-quarters of a mile in length, and has 250 feet of cover. That is the depth of the surface to the coal

The tip at the old Prince of Wales colliery at Abercarn is being leveled to make an industrial estate. August 1968

Parc Level Mine, Rhiwfawr, Swansea Valley. A tram of coal is brought out by Kenyon Guinn. 18th April 1967

Miners at the Cannock Wood Pit handing in their Davy Lamps and lanterns at the end of their shift. May 8th 1939

A group of miners enjoying a meal after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit in Throckley near Newcastle. 1st March 1942

Miners at the Morrison Busty Colliery. 24th February 1971

Coal miners Phillip Jenkins (left) and Chris Lee seen here at the Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales. 23rd March 1983

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

A miner working the coal face circa 1930s

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

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

Miners from Hamsterley Colliery in County Durham give their pit ponies a bath. August 1943 P017817

The reflection of a member of the Home Guard. Seen here in a puddle at an un-named colliery. Circa June 1940

Wives of miners working in Grimethorpe colliery helping to cultivate reclaimed land. 24th April 1944

Members of the Russian delegation paid a visit to a colliery during their visit to South Wales. Seen here with Welsh students and colliery officials. 18th November 1942

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

Members of the Fforchaman colliery A. R. P. squad seen here during a training exercise at
Members of the Fforchaman colliery A.R.P. squad seen here during a training exercise at the pit head. 22nd September 1938

Harnessing this pony at Ashington Colliery are some of the boys who are being trained under a newly instituted scheme. 17th June 1941

An instructor at the Government pit school showing Bevin Boys how to follow a seam of coal in Morrison Old Pit, Annefield Plain. 30th December 1943

General view of Ellington Pit, Northumberland. Circa 1987

Miners coming off shift at Hamstead Colliery, West Bromwich to the news that the mine is to close in 1965. 22nd January 1962

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visits the Mosley Common Colliery, Lancashire. The Duke rides in a bucket (or " hoppit" ) down the 975 yard shaft with Mr C.H Richards (manager no 4 pit)

At the end of Marley Hills High Row, a pit heap and pit workings. 11th September 1952

Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington. 2nd March 1951

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