The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. Miners faced death from collapsing mines, oxygen deprivation, and haulage ...

Little miner's lamp handmade from a spent cartridge shell. Made and used by my cousin Ernest Jones when, as a World War 2 prisoner of war, he was forced to work in the copper mines at Helmstedt ...

I grew up in South Wales and was surrounded by the coal mining industry. Journeys always had a back drop of pit heads and slag heaps. The work of the miners was arduous, dirty and some times fatal.

A former miner lit a cathedral's Christmas tree to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1984 strike. Durham Cathedral's 17ft (5m) tree was illuminated by Jackie McCowliff during the annual Lighting of ...

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Prior to the 1920s, miners wore a soft cap made of cloth or canvas with a leather brim and lamp bracket to hold their light. But in 1919, Edward D. Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the ...