Families picking coal from a colliery soil heap. The early 20th century photograph shows men, women and children standing on the piled up waste material produced by the mine, they have paused from looking for coal to take home for fuel to look towards the camera. A policeman is at the back of the photo. The photograph is likely to have been taken during one of the early 20th century miners strikes

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