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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
Villagers at Lochgelly, hard at work digging for top quality coal from an old seam, February 1972
A woman and children join in the coal dig at the new Kilmarnoch site, May 1971
Miner George Purcell and wife Brenda, pcitured with baby daughter Caroline at Bilston Glen Colliery in Loanhead. Midlothian, Scotland, January 1972
The Queen visits Rothes Colliery in Fifeshire, Scotland. 1st July 1958
The people of Craghead in County Durham are taking the chance of a bit of free coal by digging down into the slag heaps around the village on 10th October 1969
A right foot shuffle from jack Charlton with 62 year old Louisa Ramshaw the the Horden Colliery Lodge during the Durham Miners Gala in July 1980
Flint Knapping at the Peter Grimes flint mine in Norfolk May 1935
Open Cast Mine where a truck is being loaded with tin ore in Ardlethan New South Wales Australia
Miners start shift at main shaft at Kalgoorie mine Golden Mile Kalgoorlie West Africa
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of the Labour Party, down a coal mine in June 1957 Gaitskell fought a tireless campaign within his own party to reform outdated principles
Coal Miners return to the surface after a hard day digging for coal in the mines April 1951
Margaret Herbison Labour MP for North Lanark in fur coat answers questions by miners before unfurling the NCB flag at Baton Colliery Shotts Nationalisation of coal mines January 1947
Welsh Miners at this pit near Caerphilly were not too impressed with the fashion on show January 1971
World War Two. Women employed by the LNER (London North Eastern Railway) to recover coal dropped by passing trains on the railway lines January 1943
Coal Miners Memorial Service for King George VI Death after his death February 1952
Pitprops being hammered into position under the steel roof supports at Whitehill Colliery Owned by the Lothian Coal Company
Modern Coal Handling and Storage Facility port of Gladstone australia industry
Series of large haul packs iron ore mine at Mount Newman in Western Australia
Iron ore truck unloading ore at the primary crusher at Sishen iron ore mine
Crushing and screening complex at Ardlethan tin mine in New South Wales Australia
Miners drilling wall of a stope underground broken hill in New South Wales Australia
Copper anodes being casted at copper smelter at Mount Isa
Mine Rescue Services carry a miner wearing an oxygen mask on a stretcher into a pit cage after he picked up an injury Circa 1965
Suez Crisis August 1956 Private Dick Rudge (19) of the Royal Artillery got a pleasant surprise when his family and fiancee travelled from Shoreditch to Southampton on a coal lorry to give him a
Miners from Aberdare in South Wales holding up the wall of the Boot Hotel March 1954
Coal Miner James Turner from Newcastle who drives an electric shuttle car down the mine in 1947
Coal storage and handling facility in Newcastle New South Wales Australia
Miners leaving Whitburn Colliery in July 1954
Unloading the tubs at Eltringham Colliery, Prudhoe. January 1949
The 75ft high coal washing tower at Bates Pit, Blyth just prior to demolition, February 1961
The last shift going down at Burradon Colliery, November 1975
Miners going into the Coalcleugh fluorspar mine at Allendale, near Hexham, Northumberland in March 1950
Miners are seen at the entrance to the drift before entering the Coalcleugh fluorspar mine at Allendale, near Hexham, Northumberland in May 1950
The end of the tunnel of Coalcleugh lead mine at Allendale, near Hexham, Northumberland where miners are busy clearing a fall approx half a mile in
This is fluorspar being examined by mr. Eric Richardson at the Coalclough Lead Mine in Allendale, near Hexham, Northumberland in May 1950
Miners Union: Joe Gormley and George Rees. January 1975 S75-0383-001
Resident of Marble Face, Western Australia, a remote mining town 64 year old Paddy Blair. April 1977 77-02061-023
Sister Ada Starkey, one of the thirty four nurses helping to give miners a proper nursing service at the pithead, attending to sixteen year old coal miner Cyril Ainsworth at Church Gresley in
Sir Ian McGregor Chairman of the National Coal Board telling the media of the breakdown in their talks with the Miners Union Strike Action
Arthur Scargill NUM talks to miners in rally in London 1984
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher underground At Wistow Mine Site in Selby February 1980
Arthur Scargill marches with miners in demonstration 1984 during strike
The part owner gives a hand in unloading the tubs at Eltringham Colliery at Prudhoe
Mr. Richard Jones with the last tub from Nettlesworth Colliery