Binley Colliery.
Entrance to Binley Colliery. 1920s
Binley Colliery.
Binley Colliery showing buildings, chimney and winding gear. 1920s
Birmingham Halfpenny Token
Birmingham 'Mining and Copper Company' halfpenny token, 1792 Diameter 32mm There is a seated figure on the obverse. The reverse features a stork and the cornucopia. Tokens such as this were produced from ...
Bishops' Bowl Nature Reserve.
Former Blue Lias limestone quarries, now flooded. 1970s
Cartoon
Ink cartoon of the Jephson Gardens featuring Arthur Scargill and a miner, signed by the artist, Ken Aitken, c.1980. Ken's cartoons on topical issues were published every week by the Leamington Spa Courier. ...
Copper Trade Token
These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. ...
Davy Lamp used by Coal Miners
This coal miner's Davy lamp was made in Leeds. It is made of metal with glass surrounding the flame. There is a corrugated metal cylinder above and a hook at the top. The Davy lamp was invented by Sir ...
Davy Lamp used by Coal Miners
The top half of a miner's Davy lamp with a brass base and fixings. The lamp has a thick glass surround for the flame and a fine metal mesh cylinder. There is a hook on the top of the lamp.
Dordon. Hall End Colliery
Hall End Colliery, Dordon. 1906
Dordon. Hall End Colliery fire
Fire at Hall End on June 6th 1910
Dordon. Hall End Cottages
Mining community scene at Dordon in North Warwickshire. 1920s
Exhall, nr Coventry. Colliery
Pithead and winding gear, Exhall, nr Coventry. 1920s
Exhall, nr Coventry. Colliery fire
Exhall Colliery fire damage. Crowd and policeman. 1916
Exhall, nr Coventry. Colliery fire damage
Exhall Colliery fire damage. Crowd of onlookers. 1916
Exhall, nr Coventry. Colliery fire damage
Exhall Colliery fire damage. Crowd of onlookers. 1916
Fossil Bark, Sigillaria ovata
Fossil bark, Sigillaria ovata,
Carboniferous Coal Measures (approximately 300 million years old),
Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Fossil Root, Stigmaria
Stigmaria is the fossilised root of a giant clubmoss which grew in Coal Measures swamps. The break down of these and other plants formed coal. Many fossils, including this one, have been found in coal ...
Fossil 'Wood', Calamites suckowi
Part of the stem of a giant horsetail-like plant that grew in Coal Measures swamps.
Newdigate Colliery, Bedworth, Warwickshire