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My Dad Was A Miner 1890 to 2012


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Lesley Garrett and The Grimthorpe Colliery Band.

Lesley Garrett and the Grimthorpe Colliery Band ,...

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British Coal NCB

Trainee Engineer "but" training suspended during...

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Tallie Discs. After 28+ years just found my original brass tallies.

Info: Prior to going down the pit, you would give...

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National Mining Museum Scotland.

A live link can be found in the comments box...

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Woolmet Training Centre Midlothian Scotland

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04 01 73

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Nottingham

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Exhibitions - London - 1947

Part of the "Miner Comes to Town" exhibition in...

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Customs and Traditions - Christmas - Sheffield

Trainee miners decorating a Christmas tree at...

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Coal Miner Training Hostel, Birley Colliery Sheffield 1947

Trainees eat breakfast at the training camp before...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Trainees - Sheffield - 1947

Hopeful trainees take notes during classroom...

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Coal Miner Training Hostel, Birley Colliery Sheffield 1947

Trainee miners take the lift down to the coal face...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Astley - 1948

Miners coming off shift by way of the...

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Creswell Colliery fire.

Volunteers filling sandbags to seal off a fire at...

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Royalty - Duke of Edinburgh Moseley Common Colliery Visit - Manchester

The Duke of Edinburgh about to descend into the...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Merthyr Vale - 1979

Miners leaving the Merthyr Vale Colliery, near...

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Miners Dispute - Brodsworth

The scene underground at the South Yorkshire...

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Miners Mardy Colliery

NUM members after carrying out safety work at...

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FINAL FAREWELL TO GRIMETHORPE

FINAL FAREWELL TO GRIMETHORPE AS MINERSMARCH...

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ELLINGTON PIT PONY

FLAX, THE FINAL PIT PONY WORKING IN ABRITISH COAL...

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British Industry - Gold Mining - Tyndrum - 1996

John Stalker, Director of Fynegold Exploration...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Bilsthorpe - 1997

The final shift on the last day of the 70 year old...

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POLITICS Coal 1

Something to celebrate at last for the British...

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Ellington Miners/wait

Miners from the 90 year old Ellington Colliery in...

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French General goes down the Mines

General de Gaulle in coal miners clothes

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Royalty - Weddings Rings - Clogau Gold Mine, Wales

Edward Edwards, of Bontddu, Merrioneth, Wales, at...

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Royalty - Queen Elizabeth II - Silverwood Colliery - Rotherham

The Queen during her visit to the Silverwood...

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Politics - Margaret Thatcher - Wistow Colliery - 1980

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves before...

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CHANCELLOR/Miners 01

Chancellor Gordon Brown (centre) tries a miners...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Independent Operations - Calder Grove - 1947

Bramwell Pashley at work at the coal-face in the...

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British Industry - Coal Mining - Trainees - Sheffield - 1947

Hopeful trainees check that their lamps are...

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Mining - Working Ponies - Cannock Colliery

Pit ponies comes to surface at Cannock Colliery

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Industry - Brodsworth Colliery

An aerial view of Brodsworth main Colliery, near...

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Industry - Colliery

A coastal colliery.

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Industry - Colliery

An aerial view of a colliery.

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Boxing - Dai Dower - Abercynon, Glamorgan

Shock haired, smiling Dai Dower, the Welsh...

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