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Ron Andrews, 72, Coedely Colliery
’I got to the point
where I considered myself to be
what felt like Olympic athlete-fit.
I was one of maybe 30 colliers on a face
that would shift a minimum of 20 tonnes per
day, every day.
There were men who were doing 40 tons a day.
They were that good and they were that
strong.’
Photograph: Richard P Jones
Vision Fountain
Kings of the underground: the last coal
miners of Wales
Portraits of Welsh miners and their
relatives are on display
in Kings of the Underground at the National
Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
More than 40 colliers’ faces were captured
using photogrammetry,
which converts 2D images into 3D images,
at community centres across the South Wales
Coalfield
G
Wed 23 Nov 2022 08.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/23/
kings-of-the-underground-the-last-coal-miners-of-wales
Ivor England, 84, lodge secretary at Maerdy
Colliery
’My father became a miner.
My uncles became miners.
So it is, the tradition of coal mining.
All males in my family were coal miners.
You also were working with men who you
respected,
who felt the same as you,
the sons and the grandsons of miners and
proud of it.
Always been proud of the fact
that these are hardworking people.’
Photograph: Richard P Jones
Vision Fountain
Kings of the underground: the last coal
miners of Wales
Portraits of Welsh miners and their
relatives are on display
in Kings of the Underground at the National
Waterfront Museum, Swansea.
More than 40 colliers’ faces were captured
using photogrammetry,
which converts 2D images into 3D images,
at community centres across the South Wales
Coalfield
G
Wed 23 Nov 2022 08.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/23/
kings-of-the-underground-the-last-coal-miners-of-wales
coal miner / miner
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/23/
kings-of-the-underground-the-last-coal-miners-of-wales
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/23/
kings-of-the-underground-the-last-coal-miners-of-wales
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/apr/18/
the-dust-goes-through-my-veins-portraits-of-former-welsh-coal-miners-in-3d
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jan/26/
merthyr-tydfil-merthyr-rising-fashion-street-style-tom-johnson-charlotte-james
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2015/oct/12/
south-africa-gold-mine-lawsuit-silicosis-miners-photography
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/04/britains-
last-miners-uncertain-future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/17/
margaret-thatcher-funeral-easington
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/18/
gleision-mine-manager-charged-manslaughter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/07/
miners-strike-memories
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/oct/28/
northerner.davidward
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/miners-strike-1984-85
coal miner / miner USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/07/
1210051981/coal-miners-black-lung-silica-dust-rule
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/11/
1193439568/coal-miners-say-new-limits-on-rock-dust-could-save-some-lives
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/04/
1185524447/coal-miners-would-be-protected-from-black-lung-disease-
under-proposed-silica-rul
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/
1139992968/alabama-coal-miners-strike-20-months
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/
675253856/an-epidemic-is-killing-thousands-of-coal-miners-
regulators-could-have-stopped-it
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/
678045923/fatal-disease-outbreak-among-miners-spurs-
house-hearings-on-coal-mine-dust
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/
624317640/fundamental-shift-needed-to-protect-miners-from-deadly-black-lung
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/22/
613400710/new-studies-confirm-a-surge-in-coal-miners-disease
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/
537057946/as-coal-jobs-fade-a-mining-county-struggles-to-redefine-itself
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/
505577680/advanced-black-lung-cases-surge-in-appalachia
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/us/
as-wind-power-lifts-wyomings-fortunes-coal-miners-are-left-in-the-dust.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/12/
462695139/in-kentucky-coal-country-a-mining-life-in-flux
National Union of Mineworkers
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/oct/11/
tradeunions.uk
safety laws USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/23/
670147046/how-a-1968-disaster-in-a-coal-mine-changed-the-industry
helmet USA
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/04/
1185524447/coal-miners-would-be-protected-from-black-lung-disease-
under-proposed-silica-rul
buildup of methane gas
USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/23/
670147046/how-a-1968-disaster-in-a-coal-mine-changed-the-industry
tear through,
explode
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/23/
670147046/how-a-1968-disaster-in-a-coal-mine-changed-the-industry
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