Miners Collection (page 7)

Five foot woman does coalmans job. Mrs. Pittock is a bright and willing little woman and when the coalman employed by Mr. E

Coal has been found in King street, the main street of Brynmewr, Monmouth. April 1950 P017823

Pit pony Robin takes his first look at the surroundings at Ladyshore Colliery which he last saw 14 months ago, held by blacksmith William Heaton (left) and Jess Taylor. January 1948 P017815

Coal Mining A man training a pony. for the pits. May 1936 P017818

Woman wheeling a wheelbarrow filled with a sack of coal at Bentley Lane in Walsall, Staffordshire. April 1968 P017825

Louise tipping coal through a grid to a conveyer at an open cast coal working at blackburn, March 1944 P017824

Coal Mines underground scenes. March 1946 P017830

Coal Mining underground scenes. February 1957 P017828

Coal Miners. Herbert Skeels, 46, is a power loader at Eppleton Colliery, Co. Durham. Herble, as his mates call him, has been a miner for 31 yrs, 22 of which have been at Eppleton. April 1977 P017752

Coal miners. The Hill miners family. Left to right front row, David Kimber (son in law), Graham Hill Son, Michael Hill (son), Thurlow Hill (father), Davis Hill (Son), Mark Hill (son)

Coal Mines underground scenes. March 1946 P017833

Opencast coal mining. Workers extracting coal from the earths surface using large vehicles. February 1947 P017826

Coal mining underground scenes at Ollerton Pit in Nottinghamshire. January 1944 P017837

Coal Miners underground scenes. A miner pushing a cart loaded with coal along the track April 1936 P017831

Coal Mines Underground Scenes. October 1941 P017839

Coal Mines underground scenes: Miners at work. January 1944 P017836

Coal Mines underground scenes. Workers having a break. December 1937 P017829

Coal Miners: Three miners come up with a smile left to right, Fred Robson, John Lowerson and Andy Boyle. March 1978 P017897

Queen Elizabeth II, dressed in her mining outfit, visits Rothes Colliery in Scotland 1st July 1958

Miners celebrate their pay rise with a drink February 1975 75-00903-002
Miners celebrate their pay rise with a drink.. February 1975 75-00903-002

Miner Jim Abbott was told that Usworth Colliery was to close as he left his shift

Ex-Pitman Charlie Wilson and his wife Margaret beside their coal fire with the free coal they receive from the Coal Board

Apprentice miner Paul Weedy and colleagues celebrate their record breaking draw at Westoe Colliery

Pit ponies bullet, Darkie and Baldie, with pitmen George Oxley, William Armstrong and Bow Cowell, at the Marley Hill Pit near Gateshead in 1983, shortly before the mines closure

Miners celebrate their pay rise with a drink February 1975 75-00903-001
Miners celebrate their pay rise with a drink.. February 1975 75-00903-001

Miners Ron Oates (left) and Joe Olley hand in their lamps for the last time as Dawdon Colliery ceases to operate in July 1991. Ron had worked at the pit for 35 years, Joe 30

Two miners waiting outside the new social service centre at Burnhope colliery. 15th January 1935

Retired pitmen leaving the colliery for the last time, November 1946

A band of coal trimmers in about 1880. Their job was to level the coal on boats on the Tyne so they kept a balance. The large pointed shovels enabled coal to be shifted easily

Coal miner Joe Baksi (right) has a canteen lunch after a trip down the pit with Laurence Plover of the National Coal Board. May 1947 P009784

A North East miner standing by the pit shaft

Three of the 55 miners who retired from the Betty and Ann pits have their lamps checked for the last time in September 1946. Between them they had over 200 years of mining experience

Miners drawing their lamps for the last shift which will be worked as the Dunston Garsfield colliery, which has been condemned by the NCB as uneconomic

A gold cigar lighter, a replica of a miners safety lamp, to be presented to the Prince of Wales when he opens the new Mining Department of Armstrong College, Newcastle. 10th May 1929

Geordie miners at Houghton Spring Pit, 1893

Theres plenty of hot water on top, and this "Happy Pit"
Theres plenty of hot water on top, and this " Happy Pit" miner is making good use of it. March 1947 P011972

Nationalisation of mines at Penallta Colliery near Ystradmynach. January 1947 P018221

Miners straight from the coal face sitting down with women and children of the village at the canteen ( April 1946 P018218

Immediately after the vesting ceremony miners were waiting at the pit head to descend yet once again to the same coal face, yet inspire by new hope. January 1947 P018213

Eighty years old Joseph Brogan collecting his lamp prior to working his shift at the pit. Mr. Brogan has been awarded the B.E.M. for services rendered to the coal industry. January 1946 P018217

A party of housewives and men were invited to pay a visit to Tilmanstone Colliery, to see how the miner works. When the party arrived

A smiling miner at the end of his shift August 1947 P018212

Coalminers drilling in the pits. September 1952 C4567-001

Henry Price MP visits a coal mine. Workers above ground September 1952 C4560

Coalminers drilling in the pits. September 1952 C4567

Coal Mines underground scenes. Miners going to work by rail on a half mile trek to the coal face at one of the Manchester Collieries pits. December 1937 P017835

Area production manager John Mackie checking the roadway to the coal seam at Seafield Colliery. July 1984 P018141

David Baird, 29, sits at his Rolf Operator at Ormonde Colliery. This is the machine that is replacing the manual work in coalmining. May 1965 P018142

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