The Talk of the Toon

Picture Archive: Work & Industry

Miners Mr R. Bayles and Mr S. Watson, with pit ponies, in Cow Green Lead and Barytes Mine, Langdon Beck, County Durham (date unknown). The Cow Green mine was active from the 1850s to the 1950s.

Image: (c) Beamish, The Living Museum of the North.
Photo Number 15956. Used with permission.