Mining
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Mining
Image reference: E 101/261/21
Canvas bag and tally sticks, part of the accounts of Richard de Wigornia, the keeper of the King's mines in Devon, temp Edward II
Image reference: CO 305/23
Gold mining on the Leech River, British Columbia, 1864
Image reference: CO 305/23
Gold mining on the Leech River, British Columbia, 1864
Image reference: COPY 1/416
Miners working on tunnel support, 1894
Image reference: COPY 1/376
Pit brow girl, 1886
Image reference: COPY 1/435(ii)
Pit brow girls at work, Wigan Colliery, 1898
Image reference: COPY 1/450
Washing plant, De Beers diamond mines, Kimberley, South Africa, 1901
Image reference: COPY 1/452
Rescued tub from the Hartley Colliery disaster of 1862, photographed in 1901
Image reference: COPY 1/409
King Edward tin and copper mine, Camborne, Cornwall, 1904
Image reference: COPY 1/550
Disaster at Wellington pit, Whitehaven, 11 May 1910. Sleeper with message from victim James Moore which reads: 'all's well in this airway at 4 o'clock. 35 men and boys. J Moore'
