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Each man for himself - prospectors at West Wylam digging for coal during the fuel shortage in February 1952
Chef Frank Boggie of the Albany Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland, almost met his match when he cooked up Shrove Tuesday pancakes. Workman Willie Duffy reconed anything Frank could do, he could do better
Doc Rosecrans a gold prospector on Superstition mountain, Apache Junction, Arizona. Where he digs for gold and searches for the legendary lost Dutchman mine
Mr. Jim Rees at Beamish Museum with a full scale replica of George Stephensons Locomotion No.1 on 3rd May 1989
Holding a firemans shovel, the Mayor, Coun. Frank Mavin, celebrates the Stephenson Railway Museum launch with train driver Richard Swales on 2nd May 1987
Repair squads at work in Liverpool, Merseyside, in filling up a crater caused by a Nazi bomb dropped in a recent raid. Picture taken 20th October 1940
Trainee miner seen here at work. Part of the Daily Herald Youth in Industry Feature 6th April 1954
From today citizens of Newcastle will see tangible evidence of the preparations for the 1929 North-East Coast Exhibition to be held on the Town Moor
Steam powered Excavating Machine, aka Steam Navvy, at Beamish Museum, Beamish, County Durham, 18th August 1970. Designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil
Manager Joe Harvey and players, clear snow from pitch at St James Park, home of Newcastle United Football Club. 1st February 1963
Wheeling them in... Scissett Middle School pupils get ready to dig in as they set off to plant a daffodil each around the school bus bay
World War Two - Second World War - Steel workers tend to the furnaces keeping up vital war production of the metal. 01/07/1940
Housewives of Forge Row Aberavan seen here building their own road. March 1953 D1204-001
Kirklees Mayoress Mrs Barbara Walker plants a tree at Beech School, Golcar. 12th March 1986
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Lansbury estate, which was to be a Festival of Britain showpiece in Poplar. There would be an exhibition about building research
Coal Dump, Northampton Street, Birmingham, Wednesday 9th February 1972
Scavenging for Coal, Hednesford, Staffordshire, Monday 31st January 1972
Teessiders use shovels to dig themselves out of the snow. Middlesbrough. 14th December 1981
A combination of dig and push helps to free a lorry trapped on the Teesside to Hartlepool road, Middlesbrough. 28th December 1968
Residents of Rothesay Grove, Nunthorpe, join forces to clear a way through the snow. Middlesbrough. 18th March 1979
Three young children playing in a deserted airfield. May 1947
A "Ditching"party of Women of the Volunteer Land Corps at work digging a deepA " Ditching" party of Women of the Volunteer Land Corps at work digging a deep drainage ditch in the fields at Cheshunt Herts ( )
West Bromwich Albion footballers Laurie Cunningham and Cyrille Regis with West Brom fans at The Hawthorns, 29th January 1979
Crofter, Callum MacLeod, 63, shoulders his shovel after another days work on the road... his OWN road, 29th April 1973. It weaves two and a half miles through two lines of hills
Alison Ashby, nine, and fellow pupils from Marley Hill School are helping to clean up Sunniside Station and some of the line which is part of Tanfield Railway on 5th October 1986
Fireman Andrew Arnold, stokes up the Tanfield Rambler on 28th August 1997
All games were called off and Coventry Citys groundsman Gordon Pettifer could only look on as his precious Highfield Road pitch lay beneath a blanket of snow. 8th February 1991
Cardiff - Old - Library - Dr Who actor Tom Baker and Lisa Jenkins of Neath, with the time capsule before it was buried in the foundations of South Glamorgans new county library in Cardiff
Miner Arthur Knox, 21 and his friend 23 year old Anthony Proudlock digging for coal at Washington F Pit in February 1972 during a fuel shortage
Collieries. September 1947 P009829
Road Sweeper. January 1952 P012318
Two women who were serving coal at the emergency coal dump at Chiswick. They are Floe Powell (left) and her friend Ellen Stacey. They volunteered to help their men folk. February 1947 P017804
Mrs. Ethel Comeny Stoker, seen here feeding the boiler. October 1952 C5925-001
Fuel for the boiler of an old steam engine is shoveled on by Peter Weightman one of the enthusiasts who has helped to renovate old steam engines for the beamish Museum
A band of coal trimmers in about 1880. Their job was to level the coal on boats on the Tyne so they kept a balance. The large pointed shovels enabled coal to be shifted easily
Coal Mines under ground scenes: Workers at a pit in Manchester shovelling out coal from under the water. January 1948 P017834
Some young people dressed as miners at Beamish Museum
