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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
Shaft sinking record at Boulby Mine. 1971
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales at Queenstown copper mine in Queenstown, Australia. January 1994
The salvage operation of HMS Gipsy. East coast of Britain, near Harwich, Essex. November 1939. HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s
Having changed their clothes, working miners leave the changing room and make their way to the pit at Betteshanger Colliery, Kent. 22nd February 1985
Miners from Woolley Colliery, near Barnsley, at the Welfare Club for the ballot today. Pictured is Arthur Scargill. 23rd February 1972
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
Langley Park Colliery, near Durham, where a number of men were injured by runaway tubs. 8th May 1930
Parc Level Mine, Rhiwfawr, Swansea Valley. A tram of coal is brought out by Kenyon Guinn. 18th April 1967
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
Eggscavators... Children at the Yorkshire Mining Museum, Overton, unearthed chocolate Easter eggs instead of coal. They are from left: Neil Hartley, nine, Gary Hartley 11, Wayne Blyth 12
Ravensworth Ann Pit, Birtley, where a lightening stoppage occurred yesterday involving, with the Betty Pit, 1, 200 miners. 21st March 1936
The reflection of a member of the Home Guard. Seen here in a puddle at an un-named colliery. Circa June 1940
Oslo, Norway Cargo Steamer Ship The SS Burgos, 3, 220 tons, pictured sinking off the East Coast of England after it hits a mine. There were no casualties
Sappers of a South African Division clearing and making safe enemy mines in the Bardia area of Lybia. 12th January 1942. The Western Desert campaign (the Desert War)
British troops drive into Germany - first pictures from Geilenkirchen area. This is the British 2nd Armys first major penetration into Germany. Picture taken during the start of the offensive
Mines that will be laid to trap enemy ships. A hard working man takes a well earned nap underneath them. Picture taken 24th April 1942
Three apprentices from the modern Westoe Colliery, pictured on the beach at South Shields, County Durham, with the colliery in the background. April 1967
Three apprentices and a canteen girl from the modern Westoe Colliery, pictured on the beach at South Shields, County Durham, with the colliery in the background. April 1967
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
Drilling the huge mountains of slate in the mine, half a mile under the Berwyn Mountain range, North Wales, in preparation for the explosives
Barry Kent, left, the acting assistant manager, and David Duke, the colliery mechanical engineer, at East Hetton Colliery
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
Quarrying green slate. Lowering slate down the side of Yew Crags on the east side of the Valley. In the distance in Buttermere. Lake District. 4th December 1934
Stotsfield Burn Lead Mine, at Rookhope in County Durham. Work has been restarted there. The mine had been closed for fifty years. 20th November 1929
Disused tin mine near Postbridge, Devon. 1929
Fishburn Colliery, affected by strikes. 1972
A miner goes back to work in Fishburn, County Durham. 1972
Woodhorn Colliery, Ashington. 2nd March 1951
Which car is mine?, Hull
The first bar of gold at Dolaucothi Gold Mine with day shift workers. Afternoon and night shifts are also being worked. February 1938
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
MP Tony Benn seen here during a trip to a North West Colliery 11th November 1977
A mine displayed on the deck of UC-5 a German Type UC I minelayer submarine of the German Imperial Navy. The submarine ran aground while on patrol on 27 April 1916
Coal - Miners - Miners in the lamp room at Merthyr Vale Colliery - 20th February 1974
The 75ft high coal washing tower at Bates Pit, Blyth just prior to demolition, February 1961
The last shift going down at Burradon Colliery, November 1975
Believe it or not the grimy person in the oversize overalls and pit helmet is Yorkshires Coal Queen Margaret Dominiak of Normanton. August 1972 72-8473-001 planman - - 25/01/2010
Coal miners working at the coal face in the Somerset coalfields, March 1946 OP403B
German mine washed ashore near the Suffolk village of Aldeburgh. January 1916 4316
Eccles Pit, owned by the Backworth Coal Company, where an explosion killed three men. 24th April 1933
