Take a nostalgic look back at life in the pits in and around Sheffield and relive the city’s industrial past with these distant memories.
5. Rossington Colliery Officials
Rossington Colliery Officials Photo: Peter Tuffrey collection
6. Flasks and torches
Manvers Main Colliery - 22 January 1974 Photo: Julia Armstrong
7. Leaving work
Manvers Colliery 8 Feb 1974 Photo: Julia Armstrong
8. Bell bottoms and hard hats
Editorial staff of the Morning Telegraph visit a colliery
12 October 1976 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers