Coal Gallery

Coal and metals mining

Diagram of the exterior and interior of a Metalliferous mine. Date: 1859

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1850s, 1859, 19th, Century, Coal, Cross, Diagram, Exterior, Horse, Horses, Industry, Interior, Metalliferous, Metals, Mine, Mining, Pits, Section, Shaft, Shafts, Working

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. Reaching into the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as well as establishing dominance in Lincolnshire and North London. The Granary (goods-shed), shows at one end the canal at Battlebridge, London, under the centre of the platform the boats can thus come into the shed and have goods of all kinds to or from the railway trucks as the case maybe

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Alfred Gee, one-man coal mine, Cheshire - 5

Alfred Gee pushes a coal truck to the entrance of his one-man coal drift mine in Cheshire, England. Mr Gee did not wear a miner's helmet, and used a carbide (acetylene) lamp in the mine Date: 1971

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

1970s, 1971, 70s, Acetylene, Alfred, Carbide, Cheshire, Coal, Dig, Digging, Drift, Dust, Face, Gee, Lamp, Mine, Miner, Mining, Pick, Seventies, Shovel