Two loyal animals finished their final shift at Wearmouth Colliery on October 16, 1970 and prepared to settle down to a well ...

"You can go to other colliery mining museums but they tend to be the early 20th Century story, whereas our story is the 1970s and 80s when it was a super-pit," he said. Despite huge opposition ...

We step back to one of the North East’s most famous towns, Ashington, in the 1970s and ‘80s, and recall some of its people ...

A photographer is trying to find people she documented doing industrial work during the 1970s in Stoke-on-Trent. Between 1977 and 1979, Janine Wiedel photographed miners at Florence Colliery ...

Volunteers estimated about £2m was needed to restore the machinery at the former Astley Green Colliery, which closed in 1970. It was feared the wrought iron latticework could rust and become ...