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Unemployed South Wales Miners seen here in Reading during their hunger march from the Rhondda Valley to London to protest against the Ministry of Health who were limiting relief notes to unemployed
Reading Miners Support Group. Broad Street, Reading. 28th November 1992
Morrison Busty Colliery 24th February 1971
1972 Miners Strike. Ash bin at the back of a terrace overlooking the Monmouthshire Valley, at Newbridge, Monmouthshire. Taken to help illustrate the 1972 Miners Strike, 19th January 1972
Miners wait outside of the Pavilion at Porthcawl, for the annual NUM South Wales miners conference, Porthcawl, Bridgend, South Wales, 1st May 1962
MP Tony Benn seen here during a trip to a North West Colliery 11th November 1977
Monktonhall was one of the Scottish super pits sunk in the 1950s intended to supply the new generation of Power stations. They were the most modern
Miners celebrate as the one millionth tonne of coal leaves Coventry Colliery. 13th February 1987
Coventry Telegrapher reporter Rob Carter talks to Mark McNulty 3000 feet underground. With them are (Left to Right) saefty engineer Geoff Webster, chocker Brian Godber
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
Boxer Alan Richardson is chaired by co-workers at their mine. 21st March 1977
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
John Redwood - Miner Andrew Walker (left) meets the Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood during his visit to Tower Colliery at Hirwaun - 6th March 1995
Labour MP, Neil Kinnock pictured electioneering in Bedwellty with local miners - April 1978
David Lloyd George pictured during a visit to the colliery at Mountain Ash talking with miners, cap in hands - 10th May 1934
Miners activites at Hartford Hall - playing bowls
Linton Colliery, Ashington with miners going down on the last shift before closure. September 1968
Pitman Wilf Barnes takes the last bag of coal from Burradon Colliery November 1975
The cramped conditions at Ellington Colliery, near the pits most productive face. Pressure had lowered the roof by nearly three feet, trapping equipment. October 1984
Mobile winders at North Delavel Colliery, September 1956
Giant winding wheels top the 200-foot high head gear at Bates Colliery, Blyth. 0
Ashington Colliery. Final shift comes to the surface, March 1988
Westoe Colliery silhouetted against the sky, October 1992
End of an era. Last shift comes to the surface at Ashington Colliery, March 1988
Harrington Colliery at Lowca on the Cumberland coast which was being threatened with closure
A man works a seam at Willington Colliery in about 1930
Sacriston Pit in February 1939. The scene of a flooding disaster 35 years earlier. 5th February 1939
Bates Pit, Blyth, threatened with closure, February 1986
Pithead gear at Craghead Colliery, October 1963
Waiting for the cage. Miners about to start their shift at Lambton Colliery. Circa 1920
Demolition of Wearmouth Colliery, October 1994
Shilbottle Colliery in March 1952. The new system of much larger mine cars is shown in operation, whilst one of the old smaller tubs moves along the gantry in the background
Jimmy Weatherby (left) and Alan Nelson unload equipment salvaged from Elemore Colliery, January 1974
Ellington Processing Plant which was threatening pits as it stockpiled coal. August 1993
Miner Jack Buxton, made redundant after 47 years on the closure of Burradon Colliery, November 1975
A miner at the entrance to Ellington Colliery with the Big E pit visible in the background
Pitmen Gerald Hargraves and John Smith mining the hard way at Wrytree Colliery in November 1980
Winding gear at the closed Byermoor Colliery site. February 1968
Miners (left to right) Eric Jones, Laurie Dixon, Ray Johnson and colleagues celebrate reaching Dawdons million tonne coal target just before the end of the financial year, March 1982
Lights go out in the Ellington Colliery lamp room as the pit closes in February 1994
James Callaghan MP at the Notts Miners Gala. June 1960
James Callaghan MP July 1958 marches in the South Wales Miners Rally in Cardiff
Flint Knapping at the Peter Grimes flint mine in Norfolk May 1935
Nine centimetre bucket filling 110 tonne haul unit with black coal at Ravensworth mine West Hunter Valley in New South Wales Australia
Bobby Chatham, a coal miner at Danderhall colliery in Midlothian, Scotland October 1992
Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Labour Party, down a coal mine in June 1957 Gaitskell fought a tireless campaign within his own party to reform outdated principles
