Mine Workers

The Peel Web
Personal accounts of Working Conditions in the Mines
The 1842 Mines Act
Illustrations of Conditions in the Mines

Haig Colliery Mining Museum
Coal Mining Disasters 
Advertisement of The Queen Mother's message of sympathy after the Wellington Pit Disaster of 1910. 
Haig Pit Disaster, 1922.  Check out the Newspaper accounts of the disaster, photographs and diagrams.

 

Photographs of child mine workers in America

 
The Life of a Coal Miner
Turn-of-century Coal Mining Machinery
 


Search The Victorian Web for information on the life of mine workers.

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