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Gallery 6

Typical Colliery working conditions in the early part of the 20th century.
Shaft & Surface

All of the pictures in the following galleries are used with the permission of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and are taken from the book “A Pictorial History of 100Years of Progress of the NUM-Derbyshire Branch-1880 to 1980”.

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Shaft Side Pit Bottom
Loading Tubs Onto Cage
Early Manriding Cars
Workmen Going to Pit Bottom at End of Shift
Underground Pitbottom
Miners Coming of the Cage at the Surface in 1910

 


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