It’s 45 years since the coalfield was dealt another blow with the news that Boldon Colliery was likely to close.

We really wanted to help and to replace those men who went to fight and to protect Ukraine,” Nadiya Moskalenko told NBC News.

From October last year, Louise and Andy turned their attention to Sunderland, looking for memories from miners and their families of Herrington Colliery, Hylton Colliery, Ryhope Colliery ...

Ex-miners from Maerdy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, brought original colliery banners as they came together for the procession at 09:30 GMT on Thursday - many of them having taken part in the original march ...

The gallery, known as the Coal Town Collection, will showcase over 100 images from Mik’s Coal Town archive, offering an intimate look at the coalfield communities of Ashington and the decline of ...

WEDNESDAY marked the 40th anniversary of the miners’ return to work after 12 months on strike. That day, in 1985, the defeated Barrow colliery pit men ... Faye Litherland (not her real name) is an ...

Deep in the Mojave National Preserve lies an old open pit mine where workers dug and drilled for gold and silver from the late 1800s to the 1990s. Miners are back at the Colosseum Mine today—but ...

Coalfield delegates narrowly voted to end the strike and miners returned to work from March 5. A line of police contains pickets in a side street opposite Allerton Bywater Colliery, August 1984 The ...

Wayne Rooney has urged Manchester United to sign Danny Welbeck after the 34-year-old striker netted Brighton’s winner against Newcastle in the FA Cup on Sunday. Welbeck came through the United ...

Miners at Goldthorpe Colliery in Barnsley returned to work in ... which closed in 1990 The 65-year-old recalled how on the day he how wrote down his feelings of going back to work and sealed ...

Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners ... colliery site. "My wife and son who was in a pushchair walked alongside me. The lads were all subdued and overwhelmed really," he said. The 65-year ...

After a long and acrimonious fight, which divided communities and left families on the breadline, miners went back to the pits two days later. All the workforce at Grimethorpe Colliery walked out ...