Coal Gallery

National coal strike - demands of miners 1912

National coal strike, to secure a minimum wage that lasted from February to early April 1912. This table shows how the wages differ per day in Great Britain and Ireland during 1910, of boys, youths, men and women.
1912

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Wrights Coal Tar Soap - WW1

Advertisement for Wright's Coal Tar Soap from the Great War showing a soldier and his wife or sweetheart bidding farewell to each other. Rather ruining the romantic moment, he asks her to remember to send him some soap! Date: 1915

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Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire

View of Bestwood Colliery, near Bestwood Village, Nottinghamshire. The colliery closed in 1967, but the surviving headstock and winding house, and vertical steam engine of 1873, have been preserved as part of the local industrial heritage

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