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The steam locomotive is pulling a load of flat trucks loaded with mine tubs. Coal would have been carried in this way from the mine to a washery at...
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The two men standing on footplate are the driver and the stoker, whose job it was to keep the coal fire burning which produced the steam to propel ...
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"Manrider" train conveying men from the pit bottom into mine workings.
Lea Hall was the first colliery planned and sunk by the National Coal Bo...
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The locomotive is pulling a van and laden coaltrucks. A young girl is sitting on the roof of the cab, and in the distance the Post Office tower is ...
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An apparently neutral observer introduces himself in this pamphlet, claiming to weigh up the respective cases of the coal masters and miners' union...
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In 1831 the Potters' Union came out in support of North Staffordshire's striking miners.
Speculation
Reports speculated that...
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So-called 'blackleg' labour has been a controversial feature of industrial tension for generations.
Traitors
When North Staf...
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This single-sheet Miner's Manual was published in response to attempts by coal masters to crush the activities of organised labour. Th...
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The colliers of North Staffordshire were not the only mine workers to organise industrial action in 1831.
Tensions also arose across England and...
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Goldenhill colliery owner Robert Williamson, writing from Longport, here finds himself at the centre of an industrial dispute.
Combinati...
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Lantern slide with a view of Florence Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Named after the Duke of Sutherland's daughter, the pit was opened...
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Alvecote Colliery, Tamworth Brickworks and the Coventry canal can be seen in this photograph. Alvecote Colliery was known as Tamworth Colliery unt...
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