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NfO synopsis: Tons of coal are being raised by miners from the sandy shore of Amble, Northumberland.
NfO synopsis: Over 1000 men resume operations at the pit head at Pooley Hall Colliery, Warwickshire.
NfO synopsis: Whitehaven mine explosion tragedy, miners’ children line up for food.
Women of neighbouring colliery villages oppose each other in spirited game of football.
Agile youth and stiff joined old age - in dramatic race to peg out their claims in newly discovered diamond "field". After 7 days feverish digging!
NfO synopsis: Miners return to work.
NfO synopsis: Sir Dawson Bates, Home Secretary for Northern Ireland, fires twelve simultaneous blasts at Orritor Quarry, Cookstown
Heavy death toll despite heroic rescue attempts in terrible gas explosion at Marine No 1 pit, Cwm.
NoS synopsis: Explosions in workings beneath the moving mountain result in heavy death-toll.
NoS synopsis: Twenty thousand people attend the funeral procession - 2 miles long - 20 hearses - of the Cwm pit victims.
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