Black Diamonds (65 page)
Authors: Catherine Bailey
Tags: #History, #England/Great Britain, #Nonfiction, #Royalty, #Politics & Government, #18th Century, #19th Century, #20th Century
19. Main Street, Wentworth village, 1905
20. Loversall Street, Denaby, 1903. The blockhouse containing the privy middens can be seen on the right-hand side of the street
21. Police evict miners and their families from tied housing during the Bag Muck Strike at Denaby in January 1903
22. Faceworkers hewing coal
23. A deputy below ground, 1912
24. A group of miners and a young child take a break while digging for coal during the 1912 strike. During industrial disputes the miners lost their coal allowance. Often, whole families would turn out to ‘pick’ the coal, an essential fuel for heating and cooking
25. A young miner. In the first decades of the twentieth century boys began work underground at the age of thirteen
26. Pit lads and pony
27. Queen Mary, accompanied by her Ladies-in-Waiting, views Silverwood colliery from a trolley, July 1912
28. George V and Billy, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam, enter the cage to descend underground at Elsecar colliery, July 1912
29. The morning of 9 July 1912. An ambulance wagon passes through the crowds gathered on the road leading to Cadeby colliery, following the disaster at the pit
30. A miners’ rescue team, similar to those deployed after the explosions at Cadeby. They are wearing Draegar smoke helmets. Hamstead colliery, 1908
