Media Summary: The claustrophobic conditions and back breaking work involved in shifting the stone into the goaf in one of the UK's The machine that shifts the stone in the main heading at Ayle Colliery. Originally used for tunnelling the Hydrox Digger has been ... An early start on a winter's morning at Ayle Colliery,Northumberland. Raymond Miller battles the freezing temperatures to get the ...

The Last Pit Hewing Coal - Detailed Analysis & Overview

The claustrophobic conditions and back breaking work involved in shifting the stone into the goaf in one of the UK's The machine that shifts the stone in the main heading at Ayle Colliery. Originally used for tunnelling the Hydrox Digger has been ... An early start on a winter's morning at Ayle Colliery,Northumberland. Raymond Miller battles the freezing temperatures to get the ...

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The Last Pit. Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery.
The Last Pit  Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery
The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The cutter.
The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The scraper box.
The Last Pit. Shifting stone at Ayle Colliery.
The Last Pit.On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. Hand filling.
The Last Pit. The Hydrox Digger at Ayle Colliery.
The Last Pit. Junction of 20 West. Ayle Colliery.
The Last Pit. Photo montage with creepy music.
The Last Pit. 6.30 am at Ayle Colliery, Northumberland Cumbria border.
The Last Pit. Winter morning at Ayle Colliery.
Coal miners at Ayle Colliery, the North's Last Pit.
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The Last Pit. Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery.

The Last Pit. Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery.

Mining

The Last Pit  Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery

The Last Pit Hewing coal at Ayle Colliery

Mining

The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The cutter.

The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The cutter.

Coal

The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The scraper box.

The Last Pit. On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. The scraper box.

A slusher, or scraper box extracts

The Last Pit. Shifting stone at Ayle Colliery.

The Last Pit. Shifting stone at Ayle Colliery.

The claustrophobic conditions and back breaking work involved in shifting the stone into the goaf in one of the UK's

The Last Pit.On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. Hand filling.

The Last Pit.On the coalface at Ayle Colliery. Hand filling.

Coal

The Last Pit. The Hydrox Digger at Ayle Colliery.

The Last Pit. The Hydrox Digger at Ayle Colliery.

The machine that shifts the stone in the main heading at Ayle Colliery. Originally used for tunnelling the Hydrox Digger has been ...

The Last Pit. Junction of 20 West. Ayle Colliery.

The Last Pit. Junction of 20 West. Ayle Colliery.

The Clayton locomotive draws a set of

The Last Pit. Photo montage with creepy music.

The Last Pit. Photo montage with creepy music.

Coal

The Last Pit. 6.30 am at Ayle Colliery, Northumberland Cumbria border.

The Last Pit. 6.30 am at Ayle Colliery, Northumberland Cumbria border.

Daybreak at the North's

The Last Pit. Winter morning at Ayle Colliery.

The Last Pit. Winter morning at Ayle Colliery.

An early start on a winter's morning at Ayle Colliery,Northumberland. Raymond Miller battles the freezing temperatures to get the ...

Coal miners at Ayle Colliery, the North's Last Pit.

Coal miners at Ayle Colliery, the North's Last Pit.

Portraits of miners and

@The Last Pit . Along with Nic Broomhead and Jez Cooper we visit the Norths last working colliery.

@The Last Pit . Along with Nic Broomhead and Jez Cooper we visit the Norths last working colliery.

60 year old Jez Cooper is one of