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 Photographs of pits, pitmen and pit brow lasses

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wpeC.jpg (22980 bytes) Tyldesley miners outside the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike. wpe1.jpg (56653 bytes) Cleworth Hall headgear and colliers
wpe16.jpg (39517 bytes) Pit Brow lassies and colliers Nook Colliery 1920's wpe2C.jpg (16501 bytes) August 1950, bus in lodge at Nook Colliery
wpe1A.jpg (63397 bytes) Tyldesley miners,  their wives and children picking coal probably 1921. wpe11.jpg (21392 bytes) Coal picking during strike, probably 1912, off Common Lane 
wpe2C1.jpg (37417 bytes) Aerial view of Astley Green Colliery St Georges 1940.JPG (291304 bytes) Tyldesley Home Guard with St. Georges Colliery in background., about 1940
pit brow 1952.JPG (105152 bytes) Pit brow lassies at Astley Green 1952 chanters coll.JPG (98028 bytes) Trolley bus to Atherton passing along Tyldesley Road with Chanters Colliery in background
nook st.JPG (75206 bytes) Gin Pit with Nook Colliery headgear ramnsdens.JPG (91999 bytes) Coal wagon in Tyldesley Goods Yard, Well St. about 1911