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The last shift of miners prepare to go down Boldon Colliery bringing to a close 116 years of coal production
Blackfriars Bridge, London. Looking north to south over the River Thames. Blackfriars Bridge opened 19 November 1769 (the first bridge) and then the current bridge opened 6 November 1869
Miners coming off shift at the end of a hard day at the coal face. Circa 1960s
A sad moment as miners for the last time hang up their lampsat the doomed Silksworth colliery, one of County Durhams best know mines
Coal - Miners - Coal miner checks his lamp in at the lamp room at a South Wales Colliery (no other info given) - 19th April 1990
A type 3 class 27 diesel locomotive seen here undergoing routine maintenance at the Cambridge train sheds 15th October 1962
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
Boy trainees get their lamps before going below to the Ashington Colliery Companys underground school. 30th April 1942
Bevin Boys attendng the Annefield Plain pit school seen leaving the Morrison Pit after descending the mine. 23rd January 1944
Bedroom in a show house of "Dulwich Gate". Prime Minister Margaret ThatcherBedroom in a show house of " Dulwich Gate". Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and husband Denis have shown interest in buying a new house in Dulwich for when they leave Number 10"
The final polish. Austin 10 cars on the final inspection and finishing tracks at the Longbridge works. Circa September 1936
Coal miners Phillip Jenkins (left) and Chris Lee seen here at the Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales. 23rd March 1983
Ryhope Coal Companys new model mine for the instruction of boys at Oxclose, Durham. Here they are coming out of the drift mine
Beaming miners leaving Ravensworth Colliery near Birtley after a Saturday morning shift in January 1951
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
Esterbrook Pen Factory 21st November 1967 Pen nibs being modified following quality control checks at the Esterbrook Pen factory at Moland Street, Birmingham
Mr Joe Gormley (left) with George Rees, Vice President of South Wales Area National Union of Miners at the Lady Windsor Colliery, Ynysybwl, Wales 21st January 1975
Pedestrians walking dog through the near deserted streets Cardiff, Wales, 19th February 1978
Former Iron stone miner Jim Easton, 84, was one of the last to leave Skinningrove mine when it closed in 1958 - and the first to go back when it opened as The Tom Leonard Mining Museum
Christmas Trees, On Sale during blackout, being sold by candlelight, Market Hall, Birmingham. Monday 17th December 1973
A view of Plessey Railway Station on 13th September, 1939, which was awarded a special prize in the British Rail Stations Garden Competition. George Allan and James Harmen the two porter gardeners
Mr. J Knox and Mr. W Ratcliffe (Porters) look over the prize winning show at Beamish Railway Station for the best kept station. There were prizes for the station gardeners on 17th September 1953
New robotic coal cutter seen here at work in the Bolsover Colliery Company Clipstone Colliery in Nottinghamshire 28th November 1946
Coal - Miners - Miners in the lamp room at Merthyr Vale Colliery - 20th February 1974
Mods in Peckham, South London, May 1964. Including John Rogers, with his scooter, sporting 43 chrome extras
Coal - Miners - After 100 years of mining in the Rhondda, the miners of Maerdy finish at the start of their last week at the colliery - 14th December 1990
Lights go out in the Ellington Colliery lamp room as the pit closes in February 1994
Carol Singers at Sandringham, Norfolk December 1954 Neg No E9129
The paint shop at the Volswagen factory at Wolfsburg, Germany. December 10th 1952
The Bee Gees examine an early christmas present from agent Robert Stigwood, a 1948 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, 12th December 1967
The scene in The Journal newsroom during one of the power cuts in 1972. Much of the preparation for the newspaper was done by the light of hurrican lamps and candles
Hornsey Borough Council workers bringing in burners and clocks into their worskhop to add to the collection of the hundreds of street gas lamps which are being maintained and overhauled
Mr Mack, the Lighting Inspector for Hornsey Borough Council, with some of the hundreds of street gas lamps being maintained and overhauled at the Boroughs depot
Galician trader seen here standing in the entrance to his Lamp shop in Halicz. Circa October 1914
Four hundred men of the Airborne division who took part in the ill fated Arnhem operation / Operation Market Garden seen here marching away from Buckingham Palace after their special investiture by
Bob Nesbitt (top) and Norman Bell train in the heat and humidity chamber at Ashington
Staff and part time members of NCB Mines Rescue Station Ashington are to do a sponsored stretcher carrying for the South Atlantic Fund
The fire and rescue team practicing to revive a miner overpowered at the coal face. 18th July 1937
Mr. Philip Sprott, a Burradon collliery miner, demonstrated a new type of safety resopirator now on trial at eight British pits
Kitted up and ready for workd are rescuers Bob Nesbitt from Ashington, John Tench from Ashington and Norman Bell of Bates Colliery
Miners leaving their pit after their shift with the ponies
A modern day miner looking at and old miners lamp
Twenty five years old Norman Chambers, a coal hewer and putter, is moving to Marley Hill Colliery now the last pit in the North West Durham coalfield
Conveyor belt operator Fred Bolton watches as the 1, 000, 000th ton of coal comes from the combined collieries at Lynemouth and Ellington
A miner ready to start his shift wearing traditional clothes
Roof conditions at Murton Colliery are so serious that the face has been abandoned. Stone has virtually buried the conveyor along the whole 210 metre length
