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Frankie Clough, left, actor Leslie Sands, centre, and Bebby Bell on the set of Escape from the Dark circa 1950s
Pupils at a special training school for boys at Pelaw Main Betty Pit, near Birtley, learn about the care of pit ponies during a lesson given by W. Adamson in 1942
Durham Miners Gala Harold Wilson and leaders of the miners union lead the march
Miners down a mine shaft sitting eating drinking and Smoking in the shaft in Whitehill Colliery. This was a rare mine because there was no gas there
Durham Miners Gala March past the balcony with Harold Wilson George Brown and Jim Callaghan waving
Durham Miners Gala Harold Wilson makes a speech to the crowded square
Miners down a mine shaft sitting eating drinking and Smoking in the shaft in Whitehill Colliery this was a rare mine because there was no gas there The colliery was first mined by monks in the 12th
Lord Thomson with W. E. Spooner after successfully making petrol from coalLord Thomson with W.E. Spooner after successfully making petrol from coal and testing in a plane at Stag Lane February 1929
A stay down strike in a Colliery in the coal foelds of England June 1959
Coal Miners sit inside the mine at Penallta Colliery in South Wales October 1991
The practice of using young boys down the pits was abolished earlier this century. These young boys were still at school but were taken down a coal mine to learn about the workings of a pit
Coal Miners of Guyderbottom pit near Barnsley which is one of the smallest in the country September 1969
Coal Miners of Guyderbottom pit one of the smallest in the country seen here traveling from the coal face via the small gauge railway
Coal Miners stopping for a cigarette break at the Whitehill Colliery 1947
A miners banner being raised in preparation for the march through Bedlington and the annual Miners picnic in 1961
Crowds mingle with the balloons and banners at the Northumberland Miners Gala at Bedlington as they await the marchers in June 1968
With billowing banners the Northumberland miners march to Attlee Park to hear the guest speakers at Bedlington picnic in June 1963
The light-up project was brought in to increase output from machines such as the one in the picture at Westoe Colliery in 1967
Determined not to be "out of it"the favourite pet of one of the minersDetermined not to be " out of it" the favourite pet of one of the miners squeezed himself into the picture, after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit, Throckely, Northumberland