Mines Collection (page 25)

Children Winched Down
CHILDREN WINCHED DOWN A MINE SHAFT - children may be employed from the age of 5, girls and boys alike, working underground for shifts of 11 to as much as 18 hours a day

Boy Working at Coalface
OLDER BOY WORKING WITH A PICK Young men work as getters from age 18 : they work from as little as eleven to as much as 18 hours a day

Boy Working at Coalface
BOY WORKING A LOW SEAM Eighteen is the age at which boys are allowed to get coal, and they are at that age considered " three-quarters of a man (from the Report)

Girl Putting a Slype
GIRL PUTTING A SLYPE In low galleries, children crawl on hands and knees for 100 to 200 metres, hauling a slype holding up to 250 kg (from the official Report)

Children Putting a Tub
CHILDREN WORKING AS PUTTERS A girl and a boy haul a hutchie laden with 3-10 cwt (150-500kg) of coal from the coal-wall to the pit-bottom

Girls on Ladders
GIRLS CARRYING COAL UP LADDERS Mary Duncan began to carry coals when 12 years old... many have wrought from 8 years old, and know no other...can carry 2 cwt (100 kg+) - Report

Girl Carrying Coal
OLDER GIRL CARRYING COAL I carry a hundredweight and a quarter (60kg+) on my back, and am frequently in water up to my calves (Report)

Mines : Children Hauling
CHILDREN WORKING AS PUTTERS Three children hurrying - hauling a laden wagon through a low gallery, on hands and knees : boys and girls both did this work (Report)

Mines : Trapper Boy
A TRAPPER BOY opens & closes doors in the galleries : Everything shows the life of the little trapper to be one of the most solitary and painful description

Lowering Children Mine
Two children are lowered down the mine-shaft to the coal- face by a woman working a winch

Mining Messines Ridge
Royal Engineers mine the Messines Ridge under German lines, and place explosives, which when detonated on 7 June 1917, assist the British in taking Ypres

Crimea / Russian Mines
British ships Merlin and Firefly struck by Russian infernal machines (mines)

French Miners
French miners at Montceau-les- Mines, central France

Siberia Convicts
Convicts en route to the Kara gold mines, Siberia

Shaftesbury Inspecting
Lord Shaftesbury inspects the conditions endured by children working in a coalmine

Boy & Girls in Belgium
MINING Women and child workers at the Charbonnages du Trieu- Kaisin, Viviers, Belgium

Hungarian Salt Mines
A miner rests his pickaxe over his shoulder as he takes a break in the vast salt mines at Steinbruck (?), Hungary

Watch boy standing at the entrance to a mine
A watch boy standing at the entrance to a mine, keeping a lookout to avoid any accidents on converging tracks

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