Mining Collection (page 9)

Gwalia: Ghost town western Australia. The ghost town. April 1977 77-02062-001

Mining: Industry: "Britains Ugliest Beauty Spot": Blaenau Ffestiniog
Mining: Industry: " Britains Ugliest Beauty Spot" : Blaenau Ffestiniog, a Welsh slate mining village, where the giat slag heads of Slate tower high above the roof tops

Durham Miners Gala - Ray Gunter (right) and Harold Wilson watch the crowd pass by

Durham Miners Gala - Morris dancers join in on the fun

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Members of Burradon and Weetslade Lodge, with their band, wait for the bus to take them to the gala, where they were among the early arrivals

Bedlington Miners Picnic - A study in concentration from Cowpen and Crofton band

Durham Miners Gala - Durham Coal Queen Jean Robson joins in on the march

Durham Miners Gala - Jim Callaghan kisses a young woman

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Youthful admirers for mr. William Kinghorn, of Coldstrean, a member of the Whitley Bay and District Pipe Band

Durham Miners Gala - A pipe band leading the Houghton Lodge during the march

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Leading the procession down to Hunters Field are Mr. Clement Attlee and Mr. Arthur Horner Sec. National Union of Mineworkers

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Miners and their families marching to the picnic ground

Durham Miners Gala - Harold Wilson enjoying the parade

Bedlington Miners Picnic - lawrence Daly, general secretary of the NUM, second left, Dr. David Owen, ex-Foreign Secretary, centre

Durham Miners Gala - getting ready for the big day: Jimmy Stephen gives Big Geordie, a fibreglass pitman, a final brush up

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Michael Smith, aged, 14, of South Shields, June Dulson, 15, drum major, of Boldon colliery and John Macbeth, 14, of Sunderland

Bedlington Miners Picnic - Youngster dance in the main street of Bedlington

Bedlington Miners Picnic - The Northern Pipe Band arriving in Bedlington for the Northumberland Miners Picnic

Durham Miners Gala - Harold Wilson leaves the platform followed by his wife

Arthur Scargill. President of N. U. M. the National Union of Mineworkers. May 1984 P005460
Arthur Scargill. President of N.U.M. the National Union of Mineworkers. May 1984 P005460

Miners leader Arthur Scargill in jovial mood outside Manchester High Court after he lost his action for wrongful imprisonment against South Yorks police

Author Scargill, President of the miners. September 1973 P005458

Arthur Scargill President of the NUM Miners Union. November 1978 P005459

Miners: Mine rescue team: Fire at Monckton No. 3 and 4 Colliery Nr. Barnsley. Pictured at the pit head after completing an arduous shift sealing off the burning seam are men of Monckton No

Astley Green Colliery. Women sreeners at Astley Green Pit cleaning the coal of dirt as it passes them on a conveyor belt at the pit head. April 1951 P005127

Cliviger, near Burnley. John Albanese, from Sicily, clearing the main conveyer belt. December 1952 P005137

Coalman refuses to deliver bad coal. Mr. Donald Law, who is employed by Mr. Thomas Henry Brayford of Hazel Grove, stockport, sorts through a typical bag of coal, about a third of it is stone

Collieries: Garswood Hall. August 1958 P005141

Huncoat Colliery reconstruction: A new central loading station has been made to concentrate the loading of the coal from the coal faces. Miners operating the new loading system. September 1950 P005134

Distribution to Durham miners of the N. C. B of £50, 000
Distribution to Durham miners of the N.C.B of £ 50, 000, plus grants from unions affiliated to the County Mining Federation Board, is being staggered throughout the week

Ignoring the incoming tide and the flying spray, "coal harvesters"
Ignoring the incoming tide and the flying spray, " coal harvesters" work on the rocks near Newbiggin at the weekend

A modern day miner looking at and old miners lamp

Twenty five years old Norman Chambers, a coal hewer and putter, is moving to Marley Hill Colliery now the last pit in the North West Durham coalfield

Large machinery at work at Acorn Bank opencast coal site at Bedlington

Miners at Sacriston Colliery, near Durham, step out in the new Day-Glo orange workwear

Twenty two tons of stone drops into a "Euclid"carrier
Twenty two tons of stone drops into a " Euclid" carrier. There is no waiting - in a few seconds the carrier is loaded and off it chugs to help build a man made mountain of stone

The great excavator was walking on to the site when the 1, 100 ton dragline machine began operations on the Ewart Hill opencast coal workings at Bedlington

Its thumbs up from miners at Ellington colliery, Northumberland, where the millionth ton of saleable coal was raised at the pit today

Seacoal gatherers at work on a Northumberland beach

Conveyor belt operator Fred Bolton watches as the 1, 000, 000th ton of coal comes from the combined collieries at Lynemouth and Ellington

At the end of Marley Hills High row, a pit heap and pit workings. A typical mining village scene

A miner ready to start his shift wearing traditional clothes

A miner, Mr. Allan Hedley, washes in a tin bath with water boiled on the only fire in the house by his landlady, Mrs. Alice Lawson

Part of the village of Longhirst Old Colliery which has few modern amenities. Though a TV set graces the living room of their home (right) Mrs. Evelyn Dixon has to help husband Tom with his bath

These miners relaxing after a hard day at work in their local working mens club

The ritual that will soon be only a memory of "the bad old days"
The ritual that will soon be only a memory of " the bad old days" - retired miner Basil takes a dip in the tin bath in front of the fire

Mrs. L. Wilkinson prepares the bath for her miner sons at hartford Village

Roof conditions at Murton Colliery are so serious that the face has been abandoned. Stone has virtually buried the conveyor along the whole 210 metre length

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