Watercolour sketch labelled �Carrying Wood, Woodmen�. One of a set of 66 watercolours and pen and ink sketches of aspects of lead mining in the area...
Albumen photographic print showing a yard at a pit head including wooden sleepers, wooden pit props and winding gear.
Miners trapped under broken pit-props and rock. Despite improvements in technology and stricter health and safety regulations, mining remains a...
Engraving by Le Blanc showing the method of contruction of underground tunnels using wooden beams. Illustration from �De la richesse minerale:...
British coal mining - pitmen working a seam in a gallery with roof supported by wooden pit props. Photograph c1900. Card for a stereoscope.
Fire at timber yard, destroying 50,000 pit props, Fenwick Timber Yard, Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, 8th May 1972.
Height of blaze at the Seaton Carew timber storage yard, Hartlepool, 8th October 1974. Thousands of pit props burn like matchwood.
The latest victim of the treacherous sands of Sable Island; long famous as the graveyard of the Atlantic; the Greek freighter Alfios is seen firmly...
This picture shows a general view of the "Begici" coal mine near the Central-Bosnian city of Kakanj on October 13 after mining accident. Four miners...
Bosnian policeman speaks with mine at the entrance to the "Begici" coal mine near the Central-Bosnian city of Kakanj on October 13 after mining...
Bosnian miner walks past the entrance to the "Begici" coal mine near the Central-Bosnian city of Kakanj on October 13 after mining accident. Four...
Bosnian miners walk past the entrance to the "Begici" coal mine near the Central-Bosnian city of Kakanj on October 13 after mining accident. Four...
Sand sits in a mining pit at the Hi-Crush Proppants LLC facility in Whitehall, Wisconsin, U.S., on Thursday Sept. 10, 2015. A little-known offshoot...
Coal miner working a narrow seam, c1864. The miner is crouching on the floor and, with a pickaxe, is holing out or scuffling out the coal. He is...
Performer adjusts her props as she dances down the street during the Chingay SG50 National Education Show at the F1 Pit Building on February 14, 2015...
Large pile of logs from Canada being loaded onto trucks at Cardiff dock to be sent to various collieries as pit props.
Stacking pit-props at Bo'ness in Falkirk, Scotland. Bo'ness, short for Borrowstounness, was a thriving fishing port in the 19th century until nearby...
Teenage boys studying at the National Coal Board's school at Dungavel House in Lanarkshire learning how to erect pit props in a tunnel at a nearby...
Logs for pit props in mines being stored in a timber yard. Original Publication: Picture Post - 2001 - Re-Building Programme For Britain's Trees -...
Consignment of scandinavian pit-props loaded on to a train at a Tyneside docks. Original Publication: Picture Post - 38 - Tyneside - pub. 1938
The new hydraulic pit prop being positioned in a mineshaft of Highley Colliery in Shropshire. Unlike the old timber or steel props, hydraulic props...
Durham miner putting up a wooden pit prop which are rapidly being replaced with steel props, one of which is on the left.
Landgirls of the Timber Corps fell a tree in a forest near Bury St Edmunds. The wood from the trees that they cut down will go to make much needed...
Miner in the Cwm Gorse colliery, Pontypridd, Wales wedging in a pit prop. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8444 - Coal Production - unpub.
Miner from Highley Colliery, near Aveley, Shropshire. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8479 - Pit Props - unpub.
Worker unloads some pit props that have been lowered to the bottom of a shaft of Tilmanstone colliery in Kent. He is 1,565 feet below ground level....
Women's Timber Corps Training Camp At Culford, Suffolk, Land Army girls sawing larch poles for use as pit props, circa 1942.
Women On The Home Front 1939 - 1945, The Women's Land Army : Two Land Army girls sawing timber into lengths for pit props at the WLA training centre...
After almost 60 years of hauling pit props and timber at Blyth docks, this little green and black steam engine, with its copper fire box, has come to...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
The Cypriot owned SS Petros the day after there was a major fire aboard in which six crewmen were injured. The Petros was carrying 2,550 pit props...
On the stage a magician stands amidst props and candles In front of him is the orchestra in the orchestra pit In the auditorium and on the balconies...
Lumber-woman sawing pit-props near Ludlow - photo from 'Great War' magazine, vol. 156, UK, circa 1917.
Festival signs and props at the Glastonbury Festival site at Worthy Farm, Pilton are seen on June 20, 2012 near Glastonbury, England. Today would...
Chislet Colliery mine manager AE Sutton explains coal formations to volunteer coal miners, the roof of the mine supported by a pit prop at Chislet...
Coal miners wearing caps fitted with miners' lamps, and one sits on the mine floor to use a field telephone bedside a mining cart, one man sits...
The three-masted schooner sailing ship GAD, which has arrived at Tyne Dock with a cargo of pit-props.
