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Blaenau Ffestiniog is a historic mining town in the historic county of Merionethshire, Wales, 13th May 1968
Pit-head bathes at the Hamstead Colliery in Hamstead, South Staffordshire. 24th August 1937
Miners at the Cannock Wood Pit handing in their Davy Lamps and lanterns at the end of their shift. May 8th 1939
Norman Cornish, the Spennymoor pitman artist who has never had an art lesson in his life, is to be paid £ 1000 by Durham County Council for a giant canvas of the Durham Miners Gala. Circa 1959
Ashington Hirst County Middle School. December 1970
Colliery worker Spence Skillet Richardson has lived in Tenth Row, Ashington for more than 50 years. He was not the first person to find a house there, but he will certainly be the last to leave
Long rows of houses, Ashington. Circa 1961
The last shift at Cotgrave Colliery, returns to the surface. Circa 1992
A miner below ground at Cotgrave Colliery for the final shift before the mine is closed. Circa 1992
Miners of the Bullclliffe Colliery near Wakefield seen here coming off shift. 30th July 1963
Ravensworth Ann Pit, Birtley, where a lightening stoppage occurred yesterday involving, with the Betty Pit, 1, 200 miners. 21st March 1936
North Seaton Colliery. 18th September 1939
A group of miners enjoying a meal after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit in Throckley near Newcastle. 1st March 1942
The shot hole driller looks like a modern Hercules in modern industry, Daily Mirror Published Picture Wednesday 15th May 1935, Pages 16 & 17
West Cramlington Colliery, Northumberland. 11th December 1958
Coal miners Phillip Jenkins (left) and Chris Lee seen here at the Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales. 23rd March 1983
Miners Strike 1984 - 1985, Pictured. Chief Supt. Bryan Meadows, shows damage to one of South Yorkshire Police Horse Boxes, at Sheffield Stables, Wednesday 7th November 1984
Horse and cart pulling coal through the sreets of London. Franklins Coal June 1955
Miners at Coventry Colliery seen here working at the coal face. 5th March 1987
Coal - Wales - Penallta Colliery at Hengoed - 23rd June 1970
Big coal klondyke in Barmulloch Glasgow, as the local residents dig for coal in the bing, which is being flattened by bulldozers, October 1971
Tyne and Wear County Industrial Archaeologist Ian Ayris on some of the perfectly preserved wooden railway tracks that were buried beneath colliery spoil from the former Lambton Cokeworks in
Archaeologists digging up a perfectly preserved wooden railway which had lain buried beneath colliery spoil at the site of the former Lambton Cokeworks in Sunderland on 16th October 1996
Miners working at the coal face at the Frances Colliery in Scotland. 2nd March 1983
Roy Bella battles with an Octopus on beach in Malta stars in film Seven Cities to Atlantis November 1977
A coal miner at Ellington Colliery in Northumberland sitting in the locker room after his shift November 1999
Coal miners John Derbyshire front and Vinc Higson give each other assistance to get clean in the pithead baths following a shift underground at Mosley Common Colliery Lancashire England August 1954
Women Coal screeners with soot covering their faces at Lyme Pit in Lancashire coming off shift wash in the pithead showers November 1948
Coal Queen Arlene puts a stop to swear-words at the coal face. The 1, 800 pitmen at a Yorkshire colliery were on their best behaviour yesterday-for they were hosts to a coal queen
Ryhope Coal Companys new model mine for the instruction of boys at Oxclose, Durham. Here they are coming out of the drift mine
Gwalia: Ghost town western Australia. 72 year old Carly Garbellini.April 1977 77-02062-007
Staff and part time members of NCB Mines Rescue Station Ashington are to do a sponsored stretcher carrying for the South Atlantic Fund
Bedlington Miners Picnic - These girls are doing a spot of high kicking to the music of the marching bands at the annual miners picnic
Miners from the record breaking Brenkley Drift: Included are Mr. Joe Thomas, manager (right), Alan Wilson (centre foreground) and Danny Hogg (front right)
This 15 ton "Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner"This 15 ton " Joy Sullivan continuous miner continous miner" has been imported from the United States for experiments in British mines
Edward Robson washing in an old tin bath. This will probably be the ast time he will use it because the new pit-head baths open today
Faceworkers Jim Watson, aged 56, of Parkside, Seaham and underground development worker billy Stephenson, of Winyard Street, Dawdon in the sauna at Dawdon Colliery
Donna Douglas (black coat) who is appearing in "Cinderella"Donna Douglas (black coat) who is appearing in " Cinderella" at the Civic Hall Barnsley (she plays " Cinders ) and Ken Platt (Buttons")
Victoria Adams ("Posh Spice") and David Beckham announce their engagementVictoria Adams (" Posh Spice" ) and David Beckham announce their engagement, January 1998
The reflection of a member of the Home Guard. Seen here in a puddle at an un-named colliery. Circa June 1940
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers at TUC Conference, Bournemouth, Tuesday 6th September 1988
Members of the Russian delegation paid a visit to a colliery during their visit to South Wales. Seen here with Welsh students and colliery officials. 18th November 1942
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
President of the National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill speaks to miners at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 5th January 1985
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers. 20th July 1990
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
Barry Kent, left, the acting assistant manager, and David Duke, the colliery mechanical engineer, at East Hetton Colliery
