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.