Colliery Pins and Buttons

Looking upwards from the Coal Staithe at Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland, Northeast England

Cefn Coed Colliery, settled in the Neath valley, now a museum for people to explore the local Welsh heritage, once it would of supplied coal to the world over. A gem of South Wales.

Coal mine

Great Western Railway saddle tank 1340 Trojan at the Didcot Rail Centre, Oxfordshire. This locomotive was built by the Avonside Engine Company in 1897, largely seeing service in the South Wales docks. It was finally sold to a Midlands colliery before finishing its working life. It has now been fully restored by the Didcot Rail Centre and can be seen here on the traverser in front of the engine sheds building up a head of steam in preparation for shunting duties.

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Image of the Cutter Building at Woodhorn Museum, a former Colliery at Ashington, Northumberland (UK)

Silhouette image of one of the winding tower heapsteads at Woodhorn Museum, a former Colliery at Ashington, Northumberland (UK)

Silhouette image of the winding tower heapsteads at Woodhorn Museum, a former Colliery at Ashington, Northumberland (UK)

HDR image of one of the winding towers at Woodhorn Museum, a former Colliery at Ashington, Northumberland (UK)

HDR image of one of the "jack engine" room at Woodhorn Museum, a former Colliery at Ashington, Northumberland (UK)

An almost forgotten memorial to an almost forgotten industry. This memorial marks the site of Cambois Colliery in the old Northumberland Coal Field. The colliery has long since closed and the memorial is becoming overgrown and neglected; a sad outcome after the toil, sweat. tears and loss of life in this once proud industry.

This cool treasure hunt design is excellent for special occasions such asB. for working in a diamond mine. Perfect for miners and miners who mine nature's treasures.

A countryside scene in County Durham, Northeast England - with the colliery of the local open air museum in the background and sheep in the field in front

Celebrate the Fabulous Ash Vegas...ahem we mean Ashington!

bates pit, blyth power station, cowpen, cambois