From hundreds of coal mines in an area traditionally associated with coal, especially in the valleys, there are now only two pits working and some 30,000 men can only reflect on their previous life as a miner. This book consists of the pick of some 7,500 photographs, many taken underground, and of 39 collieries across the coalfield. They portray the very pulse of the area: the pits which were so very much the life blood of the valleys; colliery buildings; men riding conveyors to work; coal cutters ripping out the coal; photographs of the men at work and so on.
- ISBN10 1843060159
- ISBN13 9781843060154
- Publish Date 31 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 September 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Horizon Press
- Imprint Landmark Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English