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Background imageMining Collection: Seaham Colliery CCX_14349_02

Seaham Colliery CCX_14349_02
Seaham Colliery, Seaham, County Durham. Begun in 1849, it was producing coal into the 1980s before final closure in 1993. At it height, in 1914, the colliery employed 2

Background imageMining Collection: Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_055

Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_055
Elsecar Low Pit Colliery, Hemingfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Background imageMining Collection: Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_052

Elsecar Low Pit Colliery 28940_052
Elsecar Low Pit Colliery, Hemingfield, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Background imageMining Collection: Delivering a dragline excavator JLP01_08_001556

Delivering a dragline excavator JLP01_08_001556
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. A Pickfords low loader transporting a W90 walking dragline excavator to Whitley Bay opencast coal site

Background imageMining Collection: Housemans Shaft Engine House at South Phoenix Mine DES01_02_010

Housemans Shaft Engine House at South Phoenix Mine DES01_02_010
The roofless shell of Housemans Shaft Engine House at South Phoenix Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. List entry number: 1140490. Photographed by Eileen Deste. Date range 1960-1976

Background imageMining Collection: Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08786

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08786
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE

Background imageMining Collection: Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08782

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08782
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course following the completion of opencast mining on the site

Background imageMining Collection: Mining PDA01_02_01_00001

Mining PDA01_02_01_00001
Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire. A miner operating a piece of machinery in Ladywash Mine near Eyam. The Ladywash Mine was originally opened as a fluorspar mine but is often

Background imageMining Collection: Men of Steel sculpture PLA01_05_053

Men of Steel sculpture PLA01_05_053
Stadium of Light, Millenium Way, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The sculpture " Men of Steel" by Graeme Hopper

Background imageMining Collection: Men of Steel sculpture PLA01_05_051

Men of Steel sculpture PLA01_05_051
Stadium of Light, Millenium Way, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. The sculpture " Men of Steel" by Graeme Hopper

Background imageMining Collection: Chimney Stack 35082_002

Chimney Stack 35082_002
Redruth, Cornwall, 2021. Pedn-an-drea Chimney Stack, built for a pumping engine at a tin and copper mine

Background imageMining Collection: Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008795

Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008795
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of scrapers at work during the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course, following the completion of opencast mining on the site

Background imageMining Collection: Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008791

Reshaping the land JLP01_08_008791
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of scrapers at work on a spoil heap during the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course

Background imageMining Collection: Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08779

Reclaiming the course JLP01_08_08779
Whitley Bay Golf Course, Whitley Bay, NORTH TYNESIDE. A view of the restoration of Whitley Bay Golf Course following the completion of opencast mining on the site

Background imageMining Collection: Bentley Grange shaft mounds 20721_047

Bentley Grange shaft mounds 20721_047
Bentley Grange, Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Shaft mounds formed as the spoil heaps of a series of pits used for iron ore mining

Background imageMining Collection: Opencast mining JLP01_08_000355

Opencast mining JLP01_08_000355
A view of an unidentified opencast coal mine with Laing excavators extracting coal in the foreground. This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John

Background imageMining Collection: Ironstone mining 28657_015

Ironstone mining 28657_015
Tankersley Park, Barnsley. Ironstone mining shaft mounds, 2015. SK3498

Background imageMining Collection: Ironstone mining 28657_011

Ironstone mining 28657_011
Tankersley Park, Barnsley. Ironstone mining shaft mounds, 2015. SK3598

Background imageMining Collection: Elsecar Colliery workshops 28940_029

Elsecar Colliery workshops 28940_029
Elsecar Colliery workshops, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographed in May 2017

Background imageMining Collection: Cross Fell lead mine 28543_061

Cross Fell lead mine 28543_061
Disused lead mine & spoil heap on Cross Fell, Cumbria. Photographed in June 2014

Background imageMining Collection: Levant Mine DP167182

Levant Mine DP167182
Geevor Mine (Levant Section), Levant Road, Trewellard, St. Just, Cornwall. General view of the mine buildings silhouetted against a dramatic twilight cloudscape, from the south-west

Background imageMining Collection: Mine entrance DP143584

Mine entrance DP143584
Haggs Mine, Nentsberry, North Pennines. View along tunnel towards the mine entrance. This mine was in operation by the 1730s and was finally abandoned in 1958

Background imageMining Collection: Shadwell Quarry 21551_23

Shadwell Quarry 21551_23
Shadwell Quarry, near Much Wenlock, Shropshire. The basin of the quarry has filled with water and the limestone quarried here has helped to give this a rich blue colour

Background imageMining Collection: Levant Mine DP167181

Levant Mine DP167181
Skip Shaft Headframe, Geevor Mine (Levant Section), Levant Road, Trewellard, St. Just, Cornwall. The Listed 1960s headframe from the east, with the engine houses behind, lit at twilight


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