During Victorian times there was great public interest in
mining disasters and the Illustrated London News and the Graphic
among other popular magazines of the time dispatched an artist to
capture the scene at the stricken mine. The sketch was rushed back to
the office and a skilled wood engraver would make the plate to
produce the magazine.
The illustration in the header of this page is 'THE MINER' from
the Graphic of 1876.
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1871-04-02
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PITS AND PITMEN (The night
shift.)
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1871-19-02
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THE COLLIERY RIOTS IN YORKSHIRE
(Escorting prisoners to the Courthouse at
Barnsley.)
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1879-19-02
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THE COLLIERY RIOTS IN YORKSHIRE
(Examining the prisoners.)
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1871-11-03
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MINERS LEAVING THE PIT (Harpers
Weekly.)
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1871-25-02
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PITS AND PITMEN (Whipping the
pool.)
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1871-28-01
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PITS AND PITMEN (Pitmen hewing the
coal.)
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1871-28-01
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PITS AND PITMEN (Sections of the
shafts and workings of a coal mine.)
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1872-19-10
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THE MORLEY MAIN COLLIERY, Nr.
DEWSBURY. (After the explosion.)
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1872-23-11
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THE PELSALL COLLIERY Nr. WALSALL.
(Scene of the flooding.)
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1873-01-02
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THE COLLIERS STRIKE IN S. WALES.
(Tip Girls.).
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1873-01-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (A Sundays
amusement.)
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1873?
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (On a tip
collecting fuel.)
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1873-01-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (The
colliers Saturday night.)
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1873-03-01
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RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEER. (Talk
o'th' Hill, Staffordshire.)
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1873-03-01
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN
STAFFORDSHIRE (A man brought up.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (Exodus
of miners from Merthyr Tydvil.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (Tip
girls leaving the Dowlais works.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (Street
scene in Merthyr.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES.
(Sufferers in search of relief.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (View of
Merthyr and the village of Cefn.)
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1873-15-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (The
Cyfartha works and castle, the residence of Mr.
Crawshay.)
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1873-18-01
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (Interior
of a collier's cottage.)
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1873-18-02
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PITS AND PITMEN (Cleaning up after
work.)
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1873-18-02
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PITS AND PITMEN (Miners playing
quoits.)
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1873-18-02
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PITS AND PITMEN (The coal
district.)
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1873-27-02
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES (A group
of 'tip' girls.)
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1873-01-02
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THE COLLIERS STRIKE IN SOUTH
WALES (Tip Girls).
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1873-27-02
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES (The
Cyfartha ironworks.)
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1873?
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S. WALES STRIKE. (Amusements of
the colliers - stepping.)
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1873-08-02
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THE STRIKE IN S. WALES. (Coal
famine at Merthyr - 'A pennyworth of coal'.)
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1874-25-04
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ASTLEY DEEP COLLIERY, DUKINFIELD.
(Scene of the late explosion.)
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1874-28-02
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PRESERVING LIFE IN MINES. (The
Areophore apparatus).
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1875-13-02
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Dowlais
market place - coverted to the reception of pit
horses.)
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1875-13-02
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES.
(Dowlais, from the cinder-heaps.)
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1875-06-03
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES.
(Emigration agent in the Temperance Hall,
Merthyr.)
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1875-06-03
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THE LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Waiting
for relief outside the workhouse, Merthyr.)
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1875-06-03
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Shop -
Dowlais Market, Milkmaids, Taff Vale, The Stage - Witch,
Beck o' Plough - Dowlais, The Audience, Locked Out -
Cyfartha, Sweeping a chinmey at Dowlais, Useless
Now.)
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1875-08-05
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BUNKERS HILL MINE. (Scene of the
late fatal explosion.)
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1875-18-12
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THE SWAITH MAIN EXPLOSION Nr.
BARNSLEY. (Finding the dead bodies.)
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1875-18-12
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THE SWAITH MAIN EXPLOSION Nr.
BARNSLEY. (The colliery.)
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1875-27-02
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Mass meeting
of the locked out Mountain Hare, Merthyr.)
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1875-27-02
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. Miners
breaking stone on the Brecon Road.
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1875-27-02
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Miners
breaking stone.)
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1875-27-02
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (On the
tips.)
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1875-27-02
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LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Bringing
home the spoils.)
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1875-27-02
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DOWN A COAL MINE DURING THE
LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Our artist dons miners
dress.)
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1875-27-02
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DOWN A COAL MINE DURING THE
LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (The stables.)
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1875-27-02
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DOWN A COAL MINE DURING THE
LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (A perlious passage.)
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1875-27-02
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DOWN A COAL MINE DURING THE
LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Floor rising.)
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1875-27-02
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DOWN A COAL MINE DURING THE
LOCKOUT IN S. WALES. (Danger signal.)
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1876-15-04
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THE MINER.
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1877-18-04
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THE
FLOODED COLLIERY AT TROEDRHRIW. (Cross section of the
'stalls' showing the imprisoned men and their rescuers at
work).
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1877-18-04
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THE FLOODED COLLIERY AT
TROEDRHRIW. (Lateral section of the mine and
workings).
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1877-03-11
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BLANTYRE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. (Call
for volunteers for the exploring parties.)
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1877-03-11
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COLLIERY ACCIDENT AT PEMBERTON,
WIGAN. (The first rescue party who were all
killed.)
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1877-03-11
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THE BLANTYRE COLLIERY EXPLOSION
Nr. GLASGOW. (View of the pit, view of No.2 pit, bringing
water up No.1 pit, reading the list of killed.)
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1877-03-11
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT
BLANTYRE. (General view of the district, Shacklers
descending, some of the volunteer explorers, volunteer
shacklers waiting to descend.)
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1877-20-10
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WIGAN.
(View of the colliery.)
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1877-20-10
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WIGAN.
(Bringing up the dead.)
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1877-20-10
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THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT WIGAN.
(Identification of the dead.)
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1877-28-04
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FLOODED COLLIERY AT TROEDRHRIW.
(Carrying the rescued miners from the pit
mouth).
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1877-28-04
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FLOODED COLLIERY AT TROEDRHRIW.
(General view of the Tynwyydd.)
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1877-28-04
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PLAN OF THE WORKINGS IN THE
TROEDRHRIW PIT.
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1877-28-04
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THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN S. WALES.
Sketches of the Troedrhriw colliery.
(Pontypridd.)
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1877-28-04
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THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN S.
WALES. Sketches of the Troedrhriw colliery. (Exterior of
hut.)
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1877-28-04
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THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN S.
WALES. Sketches of the Troedrhriw colliery. (Waiting for the
verdict.)
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1877-28-04
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THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN S.
WALES. Sketches of the Troedrhriw colliery. (Interior of
hut.)
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1877-28-04
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THE FLOODED COLLIERY AT TROEDRHRIW
(Some of the rescuers and sufferers. Thomas Ash, William
Parsons, William Casher, Gwillym Thomas, Mr. TE Wales,
Government Inspector, Isaac Pride.)
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1877-28-04
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THE FLOODED COLLIERY AT
TROEDRHRIW (Some of the rescuers and sufferers. Edward
Williams, Abraham Dodd [Happy Dodd] and William
Rawlings.)
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1877-28-04
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THE FLOODED COLLIERY AT
TROEDRHRIW. (In the Hospital).
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(Scene at the pithead.)
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(The workers underground.)
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(The men.)
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(The men resting and waiting.)
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(The communication hole.)
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1877-28-04
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THE TROEDRHRIW COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
(Outside the Shanty Hospital.)
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1878-12-10
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THE ABERCARNE COLLIERY EXPLOSION
(Mr. Simpson's bowl on the Princess landing-stage,
Liverpool.)
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1878-21-09
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THE ABERCARNE COLLIERY DISASTER.
(Scene at the pit mouth after the explosion.)
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1878-21-09
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THE ABERCARNE COLLIERY DISASTER.
(Turning the canal into the pit.)
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1878-21-09
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THE GREAT COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN
MONMOUTHSHIRE. (Scenes at Abercarne.)
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1878-21-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (An awkward
passage.)
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1878-21-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (At the end of
the 'goaf'.)
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1878-21-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (At the pit
brow - working the coals).
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1878-21-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (Surveying
under difficulties.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. ('Against the
collar'.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (A difference
of opinion.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (A low
travelling and 'Holing' at the bottom.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK AT COAL MINES. (At the
spinney top and Vegetation below.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK IN the COAL MINE. (Repairing
a 'garland' in the shaft.)
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1878-28-09
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WORK IN the COAL MINE. (Sinking
the shaft.)
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1878-12-10
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WORK IN the COAL MINE. (Early
morning - giving out lamps.)
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1878-12-10
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WORK IN the COAL MINE.
('Screening'.)
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1878-06-?
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EXPLOSION AT WOOD PIT, HAYDOCK,
LANCASHIRE. (The colliery.)
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1878-06-?
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EXPLOSION AT WOOD PIT, HAYDOCK,
LANCASHIRE. (Rescuers coming up.)
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1878-06-?
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EXPLOSION AT WOOD PIT, HAYDOCK,
LANCASHIRE. (Tea and sandwiches for the
explorers.)
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1878-06-?
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EXPLOSION AT WOOD PIT, HAYDOCK,
LANCASHIRE. (Collecting for the orphans.)
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1870-07-?
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EXPLOSION AT WOOD PIT, HAYDOCK,
LANCASHIRE. (Four scenes of the disaster and portrait of
John Turton, Manager.)
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1879-03-05
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THE MINERS STRIKE IN DURHAM.
(Great mass meeting at Twizwell.)
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1879-10-07
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THE GREAT COLLIERY STRIKE IN
DURHAM. (Colliers playing at 'school'.)
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1879-10-07
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THE GREAT COLLIERY STRIKE IN
DURHAM. (Summoning collier's wives to a mass meeting in
Boldon.)
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1879-25-01
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DINAS COLLIERY RHONDDA VALLEY.
(Scene of the late disaster.)
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