Brian Elliott
@belliottauthor
Coalmining. Local & family history. Maps. Photography. Art. Barnsley lad. Donny based. Welsh links. Grandad x4. Next book: Miners and the Great War April ‘25.
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Boy miners’ daily wages, Wath Main Colliery near Rotherham Lynn Dunning National Coal Mining Museum
Morning meander through the old village. Tall example for #WallsOnWednesday and a mini one for #WindowsonWednesday 🇬🇧Global Doncaster City & Lynn✈️🚄 #doncasterisgreat
Kitted to commemorate his first shift underground: Welsh boy miner. Featured in my ‘Coalminers’ book. P&S History Rosie Crofts Rebecca Carney-Lawther 📚 Lynn Dunning #Coalminingheritage
Micro pub in busy Bakewell. Mind the step. And mine’s a Chippy IPA 🍺 🙄 #AdoorableThursday Ian McMillan
Really proud and pleased about publishing my ‘Coalminers’ book a few years ago courtesy of Pen & Sword Books . A pictorial testimony. Do support publishers direct, independent bookshops, libraries & museum shops when you can. Thank you. P&S History Ian McMillan National Coal Mining Museum Experience Barnsley Museum
A perfect street name for #FerrousFriday Elsecar Heritage Centre one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution Ian McMillan
Back to school: Shroggs Head Infants, Darfield, Barnsley in 1931. (Featured in one of my Darfield & Wombwell books) Ian McMillan Barnsley Archives & Local Studies
Aspects of my early childhood in a Barnsley pit village in next issue (12 Sep) of #MemoriesOfBarnsley magazine. Thank you Mr Downie for painting a bit of my street. And yes I haven’t changed much 🙄. P&S History Lynn Dunning Paul Stebbing Rosie Crofts Rebecca Carney-Lawther 📚 Ian McMillan
Back to school (2): Hemingfield Infants. C1920s. Wombwell, Barnsley. Worth a few zooms. Couple of boys with ties, girls with large ribbons. Names in vol 1 Darfield & Wombwell book. Paul Brookes Barnsley Archives & Local Studies
Ex Scottish miner Thomas James Hardie (1856-1915) in Trafalgar Square 1913. Elected for West Ham 1892, sat in Commons among top hatted MPs in flat cap and ‘pit clothes’. Now in Sunday best. Lynn Dunning Ian McMillan
Still pleased with this image of ancient All Saints, Darfield from the churchyard grave of the great champion poet of the working classes Ebenezer Elliott. Taken by me 25 years ago. Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher Ian McMillan Paul Brookes
Underneath the arches, by a train of tubs: underground Dearne Valley Colliery c1970s. Little Houghton, Darfield Barnsley. A drift. Note the pump man’s lamp. And painted brickwork! #AllMetalMonday National Coal Mining Museum Ex Miner Neal Seargent Ian McMillan Barnsley Archives & Local Studies Lynn Dunning