A near photographic image of Elsecar Main by artist Peter Watson c1970s prior to last shift underground in 1983. Original National Coal Mining Museum Elsecar Heritage Centre John Tanner Lynn Dunning #miningheritage
Bill Birch's visit to the National Coal Mining Museum National Coal Mining Museum: A deep dive into coal mining's history through exhibits & an underground tour. Insightful & free. #CoalMiningMuseum #MiningHeritage
Brilliant former miners as guides National Coal Mining Museum. This image probably back in the Yorkshire Mining Museum era. Guess I was one of the first visitors🙄 Lynn Dunning Miners Strike Neal Seargent #miningheritage
A plea for help this morning Sophia one of our student volunteers is looking for an image of the Foulshiels Colliery, #Stoneyburn and #Bents , #WestLothian to tell the story of the pit and the community for #MiningLandscapes We have exhausted all our usual sources #miningheritage
The future reflected in a legacy of the past captured by Walter Shankly from #Coalburn #Lanarkshire
#coal #AMD #mininglandscapes #pollution #miningheritage #blacktogreen #windturbine
An interesting landscape legacy of mining you don’t see very often today, the pigeon loft #Kinneddar Park Lofts #Comrie #Fife
#coal #miningheritage
Love this time of year when ploughing reveals little clues to historic land use. Looking southwest over the River Forth carseland to Ferryton #Clackmannan where the #Alloa #Coal Company worked the Cherry and Splint coals in the 19th century.
#mininglandscapes #miningheritage
Today we honour the resilience and hard work of coal miners around the world. 💪⛏️
#CoalMinersDay #MiningCommunity #HardWorkPaysOff #Resilience #MiningIndustry #MinersLife #CoalMining #IndustrialHeroes #MinersSafety #MiningHeritage
Boy miner hooks on rope a tub. Working on haulage a common first underground job. My dad, 14, worked in cold pit bottom loading and unloading. Trapped fingers, broken bones not unusual and occasional fatalities.
Lynn Dunning Ex Miner Mining Landscapes Mining Heritage East Midlands
It's #WorldHeritageDay !
World Heritage Day, first established in 1982 by ICOMOS, was followed by UNESCO adoption during its 22nd General Conference. Now celebrated annually on April 18th. Today is the day! 🎉
#worldheritage
#miningheritage
#celebrate
#CelebrateWithUs
More of the #Comrie story and the potential #blacktogreen energy transitions. The re-profiled #bing will eventually be grassed, grazed by sheep and home to a solar farm and the mine water is a stable 16C and viable for geothermal heat.
#coal #miningheritage #mininglandscapes
'Exploring the ancient bond between early humans and earth's jewels at Ngwenya Mine. A testament to our early mining endeavors, illuminated by nature's touch. #ThrowbackThursday #AncientMining #NgwenyaMine #HistoricJourneys #SunlitHeritage #MiningHeritage #EarthTreasures '
This frankly boring pic of an unassuming #manhole cover #BridgeofAllan #Stirling hides an interesting history, it’s where the water from Airthrey #copper mine drains into the modern sewer system #FerrousFriday #miningheritage #explore
