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Collapse NCB - National Coal Board, later British Coal Corporation - 1574-1994NCB - National Coal Board, later British Coal Corporation - 1574-1994
Expand A - Pre-Vesting Colliery Companies superseded by the National Coal Board - [1672]-1972A - Pre-Vesting Colliery Companies superseded by the National Coal Board - [1672]-1972
Expand B - National Coal Board East Midlands Division - 1948-1967B - National Coal Board East Midlands Division - 1948-1967
Collapse C - National Coal Board North Derbyshire Area - 1956-1989C - National Coal Board North Derbyshire Area - 1956-1989
Expand EST - North Derbyshire Area Estates Department - 1967-1977EST - North Derbyshire Area Estates Department - 1967-1977
Expand FIN - North Derbyshire Area financial records - 1968-1982FIN - North Derbyshire Area financial records - 1968-1982
Expand IND - North Derbyshire Area Industrial Relations Department - 1956-1986IND - North Derbyshire Area Industrial Relations Department - 1956-1986
Expand MIN - North Derbyshire Area Mining Department records - 1958-1987MIN - North Derbyshire Area Mining Department records - 1958-1987
Collapse PHO - North Derbyshire Area photographic collections - [20th cent]PHO - North Derbyshire Area photographic collections - [20th cent]
Expand 1 - Photographic collection, mainly of North Derbyshire collieries - [20th cent]1 - Photographic collection, mainly of North Derbyshire collieries - [20th cent]
Expand 2 - Aerial Photographic Surveys of the North Derbyshire Area Coalfield - 1947-19792 - Aerial Photographic Surveys of the North Derbyshire Area Coalfield - 1947-1979
Expand 3 - Photographic negatives of National Coal Board North Derbyshire Area - [mid 20th cent]3 - Photographic negatives of National Coal Board North Derbyshire Area - [mid 20th cent]
Expand 4 - Slides of collieries and other coal mining related buildings and equipment - [late 20th cent]4 - Slides of collieries and other coal mining related buildings and equipment - [late 20th cent]
Collapse 5 - Photographs, largely unidentified, of colliery workings and equipment in the North Derbyshire area and East Midlands region - [mid 20th cent]5 - Photographs, largely unidentified, of colliery workings and equipment in the North Derbyshire area and East Midlands region - [mid 20th cent]
1 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit supply gate looking in at 50 yards from coal face, with coal on right hand side - Apr 1954
2 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating rib protected supply gate looking in at 200 yards from coal face - Apr 1954
3 - Photograph of unknown colliery's gobside supply gate looking in at 300 yards from coal face - Mar 1954
4 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit with rib protected supply gate roundhead - Mar 1954
5 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit with gobside supply gate - Mar 1954
6 - Photograph of advancing unit gobside supply gate looking in at 100 yards from coal face - 1954
7 - Photograph of unknown colliery's conveyor belt and pit props - [mid 20th cent]
8 - Aerial photograph of unknown colliery showing sidings, head gear and other surface buildings with spoil heaps in background - Sep 1960
9 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit with crush area and tension end of face - Apr 1954
10 - Photograph of unknown colliery equipment - [late 20th cent]
11 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit with gobside supply gate looking in at 200 yards from coal face - Apr 1954
12 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit with gobside supply gate looking at 320 yards from coal face - Apr 1954
13 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit loader gate and conveyor belt looking at 100 yards from coal face with coal on right - Apr 1954
14 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit with pit props and conveyor belt looking 10 yards from roadhead and coal on right - Mar 1954
15 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit loader gate with pit props and conveyor belt looking in at roadhead with coal on left - 1954
16 - Photograph of metal pit props - [Jun 1954]
17 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit general view of coal face with pit props - 1954
18 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with chains and pit props - 1954
19 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with pit props - Mar 1954
20 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with pit props - Mar 1954
21 - Photograph of pit props at an unidentified colliery - [mid 20th cent]
22 - Photograph showing Upton Colliery (South Yorkshire) coal wagons and colliery outbuildings with crane - May 1949
23 - Photographs (3) of pit props at an unidentified colliery - Jun 1954
24 - Photograph of mining equipment at unidentified colliery - Jun 1954
25 - Photograph of pit props and bars at an unidentified colliery - Jun 1954
26 - Photograph of unknown colliery's pit props and conveyor belt - Jun 1954
27 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with pit props - Jun 1950
28 - Photograph of mining cutting equipment at unknown colliery's coal face with pit props - Apr 1951
29 - Photograph of mining cutting equipment at unknown colliery's coal face with pit props - Apr 1952
30 - Photograph of pit props and conveyor belt at unknown colliery - [mid 20th cent]
31 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit crush area with old pack and slit to supply gate with pit props - Mar 1954
32 - Photograph of unknown colliery's advancing unit on gobside crush area near supply gate with collapsing pit props - Mar 1954
33 - Photograph of unknown colliery's retreating unit's roadhead at supply gate end with face on right hand side - Mar 1954
34 - Photographs (7) of unknown colliery's coal face with conveyor belt and pit props - Oct 1951
35 - Photograph of unknown colliery's long wall cutting machine with simple up curved jib - [mid 20th cent]
36 - Photographs (4) of long wall cutting machine with hinged bracket and curved jib starting to cut unknown colliery's coal face - Oct 1951
37 - Photograph of long wall cutting machine with hinged bracket and curved jib starting to cut unknown colliery's coal face - Sep 1951
38 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - Sep 1951
39 - Photographs (5) of long wall cutting machine with hinged bracket and curved jib starting to cut unknown colliery's coal face - Oct 1951
40 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with conveyor belt and pit props - Sep 1951
41 - Photograph of long wall cutting machine with hinged bracket and curved jib starting to cut unknown colliery's coal face - Sep 1951
42 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - Oct 1951
43 - Photograph of long wall cutting machine with hinged bracket and curved jib starting to cut unknown colliery's coal face - Oct 1951
44 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - Sep 1951
45 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with conveyor belt and pit props - Oct 1951
46 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with conveyor belt and pit props - Oct 1951
47 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - Oct 1951
48 - Photographs of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - Oct 1951
49 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face with conveyor belt and pit props - Oct 1951
50 - Photograph of unknown colliery's pit props and conveyor belt - [mid 20th cent]
51 - Photograph of mining cutting equipment - [mid 20th cent]
52 - Photograph of mining cutting equipment - [mid 20th cent]
53 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coalface with pit props - [mid 20th cent]
54 - Photograph of thick coal seam showing German type pit props and bars with armoured chain conveyor belt - [mid 20th cent]
55 - Photograph of coal face of unidentified colliery with pit props - Oct 1951
56 - Photograph of Barnsley seam with underground tracks and pipes looking up 140 yards from coal face - May 1944
57 - Photograph of pit props and other equipment at unidentified colliery - [mid 20th cent]
58 - Photographs (5) of mining cutting equipment - [mid 20th cent]
59 - Photograph of coal cutting machine mounted on an armoured coveyor belt in a cutting position - [mid 20th cent]
60 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal face behind the coal cutting machine, after cutting 60 yards - Sep 1951
61 - Photograph of unknown colliery's coal seam worked under difficult conditions with wooden pit props in foreground - [mid 20th cent]
62 - Photograph of coal cutting machine mounted on an armoured coveyor belt showing special bracket - [mid 20th cent]
63 - Photograph of unknown colliery's cutting machine being used underground - [mid 20th cent]
64 - Photograph of cutting machinery - [mid 20th cent]
65 - Photograph of unknown colliery's seam worked under difficult conditions showing coal face overcutting with a down curved jib - [mid 20th cent]
66 - Photographs of coal cutting machine mounted on an armoured coveyor belt - [mid 20th cent]
67 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground tub and rail system - [mid 20th cent]
68 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground tub and rail system - [mid 20th cent]
69 - Photograph showing unknown colliery's gate at face ripping depth - Jul 1946
70 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground rail system - [mid 20th cent]
71 - Photograph of thick coal seam showing German type pit props and bars with armoured chain conveyor belt - [mid 20th cent]
72 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - [mid 20th cent]
73 - Photograph of unknown colliery's waste edge showing results of caving - [mid 20th cent]
74 - Photograph of Dobson pit props - [mid 20th cent]
75 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground rail system - [mid 20th cent]
76 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground rail system - [mid 20th cent]
77 - Photograph of unknown colliery's tub train taking miners down to the coal face - [mid 20th cent]
78 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground rail system - [mid 20th cent]
79 - Photograph of Barnsley seam with underground rail system and miners taken 250 yards from the coal face - May 1944
80 - Photographs (4) of unknown colliery's pit props in use underground - [mid 20th cent]
81 - Photograph of miner adjusting pit prop underground - [mid 20th cent]
82 - Photograph of unknown colliery's surface arrangement at shaft top after reorganisation, with focus on headgear - [mid 20th cent]
83 - Photograph of unknown colliery's surface arrangements at shaft top before reorganisation, with focus on headgear, chimneys and rail system - [mid 20th cent]
84 - Photograph of unknown colliery's locomotion shed and sidings - [mid 20th cent]
85 - Photographs (4) of conveyor belt and pit props at unidentified colliery coal face - [mid 20th cent]
86 - Photograph of the pithead baths and canteen at Annesley Colliery with spoilheaps in background - [mid 20th cent]
87 - Photograph of unknown colliery's underground rail system - [mid 20th cent]
Expand SCI - Scientific Department records - 1970-1974SCI - Scientific Department records - 1970-1974
Expand SEC - North Derbyshire Area Secretary's Department - 1959-1986SEC - North Derbyshire Area Secretary's Department - 1959-1986
Expand STA - North Derbyshire Area Staff Department - 1970-1988STA - North Derbyshire Area Staff Department - 1970-1988
Expand SUR - North Derbyshire Area Surveying Department - 1968-1989SUR - North Derbyshire Area Surveying Department - 1968-1989
Expand D - National Coal Board South Derbyshire Area - [mid 20th cent]-1990D - National Coal Board South Derbyshire Area - [mid 20th cent]-1990
Expand E - Individual collieries post-vesting - [mid 19th cent]-1994E - Individual collieries post-vesting - [mid 19th cent]-1994
Expand F - Opencast Executive - 1948-1994F - Opencast Executive - 1948-1994
Expand G - Coal Products Division - 1930-1981G - Coal Products Division - 1930-1981
Expand H - Title deeds and agreements of the National Coal Board - 1574-1976H - Title deeds and agreements of the National Coal Board - 1574-1976
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist

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