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Barry Kent, left, the acting assistant manager, and David Duke, the colliery mechanical engineer, at East Hetton Colliery
General view of Ellington Pit, Northumberland. Circa 1987
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
Enrolling special constables during strike. London citizens rally to the call for volunteers. Pictured, special constables receive their armlets
Disused tin mine near Postbridge, Devon. 1929
Blaenau Ffestiniog is a historic mining town in the historic county of Merionethshire, Wales, 2nd October 1970. Our Picture Shows
150 coal workers march to save Kirk opencast site, 15th October 1988
The winter of 1946 - 1947 Coal being loaded from the pit tubs onto waiting empty lorries at the Cannock and Leacroft Colliery at Cannock
Miners coming off shift at Hamstead Colliery, West Bromwich to the news that the mine is to close in 1965. 22nd January 1962
A typical Black Country scene of the 1920s
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visits the Mosley Common Colliery, Lancashire. The Duke rides in a bucket (or " hoppit" ) down the 975 yard shaft with Mr C.H Richards (manager no 4 pit)
Miners soon after leaving work at Montagu Colliery, Newcastle, cast their votes at the Montague Miners Welfare Hall Polling Station, Newcastle
Proper training for boys joining the mining industry. Picture shows a class at the Easington Residential Training Centre being given a practical lecture on various types of pit lamps. Circa 1948
Christina Johnson with Jack Harrison and their competition paintings. Pitman artist Jack Harrison, the former deputy at Ashlington Colliery won second prize
Artist Norman Cornish. Circa 1989
Three German miners admire the work of Norman Cornish, the Durham miner artist, at his exhibition in the Stone Gallery, Newcastle
A miner returns his lamp to the lamp room for the final time as the last shift at Cotgrave pit clocks off. Circa 1992
Mr Joe Gormley (left) with George Rees, Vice President of South Wales Area National Union of Miners at the Lady Windsor Colliery, Ynysybwl, Wales 21st January 1975
Deep Pit colliery, east Bristol, closed in 1935. Circa 1900
The rescue team at Hanham Colliery, Gloucestershire before the end of World War 1
The Hamstead Colliery Fire of 4th March 1908, killed 26 men in one day. When a fire broke out there were 31 miners in the pit, 6 escaped before poisonous fumes built up in the roadways
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
The first bar of gold at Dolaucothi Gold Mine with day shift workers. Afternoon and night shifts are also being worked. February 1938
Up-to-date methods in coal mining are portrayed by this picture of a modern pit-head at Dudley. February 1939
Follonsby Colliery, White Mare Pool. Circa 1935
Coronation Pit in County Durham. 1st February 1939
A prestigious award made to an East Cleveland mining museum could mean supporters not having to dig so deep into their own pockets in future
Mine manager Alan Chilton lights the way forward at the Tom Leonard Mining Museum. 8th June 1992
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
The Tom Leonard Mining Museum. 30th May 1983
For years this fine Ironstone mining ambulance housedchickens. But now it has been restored to its former glory and given a place of pride in Skinningroves Tom Leonard Mining Museum
A miners kitchen, complete with cast iron range, clip rugs and Victorian chairs, is being set up at the Tom Leonard Mining Museum
Lord Shuttleworth, Chairman of the Rural Development Commission paid a visit to the The Tom Leonard Mining Museum in Skinningrove. He is pictured with the museum manager Alan Chilton in the mine
Work has started on a new museum which will tell the history of Clevelands ironstone mining industry. The Tom Leonard Mining Museum at Skinningrove is a memorial to the Evening Gazette reporter in
Two budding miners - Kelly Plews, left, and Martin Robinson - pose outside the Tom Leonard Mining Museum. 27th January 1983
Opal mining at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. 25th September 1977
MP Tony Benn seen here during a trip to a North West Colliery 11th November 1977
A mine of information... thats these pupils from Golcar Junior, Infants and Nursery School, who dressed up as Miners Through The Ages
Lead Mine, Rhydymwyn, near Mold, Flintshire, Wales, 5th March 1938. Miners return to surface
The National Miners Strike 1947 Miners at Ryhope, who have decided that striking winders must not be allowed to resume work at the pit, watch the idle pithead 6 May 1947
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in mining clothes on a visit to Rothes Colliery in Fifeshire, Scotland. 1st July 1958
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
