Black Diamonds (65 page)

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