#British coal

[dyinginfandom]

Came across some beautiful finds today when I popped into a charity shop I frequent

This is a coal miner carved from British coal. I grew up in an old coal mining market town so things like this are really interesting to me

This meanwhile is a Wales association of pewter works model of the rocket created by George Stephenson. He was buried in the town when he died at Tapton and our train station has a statue of George holding one of the rocket models in one hand,

This model of the rocket is what caught my eye and then when I went to pay one of the guys asked if I noticed the British coal carving which I hadn’t due to my sight loss (dark items on a dark shelf don’t really stand out, I spotted the rocket because of the slight metallic glint in the lights) but with how beautifully carved it is I couldn’t not buy it too.

Hope you have all had a good day week month year

[fianne-0123]

you're telling me that not a SINGLE PERSON on tumblr has talked about mummy joe?? the orphan short is totally something u would read on here

*this post was made before kid vampir *this was the first mummy joe post to ever land on tumblr

[filmap]

Fresh Mimi Cave. 2022

Park Coal Harbour Park, 323 Jervis St, Vancouver, BC V6C 3P8, Canada See in map

See in imdb

[georgefairbrother]

On February 18th, 1981, a BBC headline announced something that would be unthinkable three years later, 'Thatcher Gives in to Miners'.

"…Mrs Thatcher's Conservative Government has withdrawn plans to close 23 pits in its first major u-turn since coming to power two years ago. President of the National Union of Mineworkers Joe Gormley is confident the government's intervention will avert the threatened national miners' strikes…"

After crisis talks in Whitehall between union leaders and Energy Secretary, David Howell, the government agreed to reduce coal imports from eight million to 5.5 million tons and to reinstate higher operating subsidies.

NUM President Joe Gormley stated that as a result of commitments given, he would not be recommending a strike despite overwhelming support for industrial action from within the union membership.

Not everyone was happy;

"…The next day the NUM told all miners to return to work after the executive voted to accept the concessions made by the government and coal board by 15 to 8, with one abstention. Some left-wing pits maintained unofficial stoppages and there were pickets outside the NUM headquarters in London…"

When the government confirmed an injection of 300 million pounds in industry support, the unofficial action was called off and rebel pits were operating again by 20th February. Just over a year later, Joe Gormley secured a 9.3 % pay rise for miners, and was replaced by Arthur Scargill as NUM President.

In a 2002 BBC documentary, a former Special Branch officer claimed that Joe Gormley was a security services informant during the 1970s, having become concerned over the increasing influence within the NUM of left-wing militants.

Arthur Scargill opined,

"…The history of our movement is littered with people in leadership positions who were either connected with Special Branch or connected with the State..."

Joe Gormley was awarded a Life Peerage in 1982, and passed away in 1993.

[goodoldroyalty]

The future King George VI, second on the left, on HMS Cumberland after coaling.

‘There was no favouritism to protect the King's son, who had to haul coal along with the rest of the crew, leaving him covered in soot after heaving the filthy bags to stoke the engine. Albert 'became like all the rest, "a red-eyed demon with flashing teeth" labouring in the pitch-black hold of a dingy collier, where the bags were sent down in slings to be filled and shot skyward again before the next lot came down.

A photograph of Albert on the Cumberland shows him looking more like a runaway chimney sweep's boy than a prince of the realm. His face is covered in grime from the coal dust after a morning spent hauling bags of coal to the engine room.

A cloth cap is pulled over his ears and hair. The dark soot around his face makes his eyes seem exaggeratedly wide and bright. His clothes are pitch black. It was clear that he was given no special favours. It is probably a more realistic image of life on the Cumberland than the better-known portrait of him, all scrubbed and polished, earnestly standing to attention in his smart dark naval uniform.’

Geordie Greig - Louis and the Prince: A Story of Politics, Intrigue and Royal Friendship (1999)

[vintagepromotions]

'For progress in the Future - Save Now'

Wartime poster reminding the public to save resources (c. 1940). Artwork by Eric Fraser.

[thunderstruck9]

Albert Houthuesen (British, born Netherlands, 1903–1979), Jo Parry, Welsh Collier, 1935. Oil on canvas, 147 x 116.5 cm. National Museum Wales, Cardiff

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Canadian mining company has been fined more than $16 million for polluting waterways in B.C.'s East Kootenay.

The B.C. Ministry of Environment has imposed three administrative penalties on Teck Coal Limited, a subsidiary of Teck Resources, citing the company's failure to have water treatment facilities ready by a required date to limit emissions of nitrate and selenium from its Fording River operations in the Elk Valley.

The ministry says administrative penalties are monetary fines issued by the government instead of by the court on individuals or companies who violate requirements of environmental laws and regulations. Such penalties are usually issued when non-compliance continues following warnings and violation tickets.

The largest fine, at $15.48 million, was handed out for Teck Coal's failure to activate its Fording River South water treatment facility near Elkford, B.C., by Dec. 31, 2018, as required by the provincial permit for the discharge of wastewater.

The ministry says the facility treats effluent from the Swift, Cataract and Kilmarnock Creeks — all tributaries of the upper Fording River. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[hazel-of-sodor]

Presenting the Great Western Railway's 57xx pannier tank! Duck has appeared before, but was never quite finished, or given a proper release. Now he is here with 8 of his siblings.

[iabgunner]

I LOVE FOSSIL FUELS‼️

[rollforjackass]

saw a tweet about john constantine mourning the queen of england. i am spitting in your mouth and not in the fun way

[ulthaddouk]

Redundant Industrial Heritage in Britain: Snowdown Colliery an adaptive re-use exercise.

The images of this post are part of my dissertation entitled as written above and is an attempt to conciliate between the hostile built heritage and the environmental reclamation. The political speech of a nation’s lost industry, is displaying a major conundrum regarding collieries and other mining sites. Yet prosperous businesses involving local communities are able to set aside the environmental stakes of post mining site management and ownership economic concerns and other challenging phenomenons peculiar to the British culture. The aim of the study is to expose the relevant paradigm with a real case scenario, to discuss its successes and failures and to set a model of adaptive re-use in coherence with the conservation strategies of modern derelict heritage in a challenging environmental setting. It is also our responsibility, as architects, to revisit and think adaptive re-use of industrial redundant sites and disadvantaged areas like British collieries.

[sheltiechicago]

Paul Cocksedge suspends over 2,000 pieces of coal in Liverpool Cathedral

British designer Paul Cocksedge has created a sculpture made from high-carbon coal, which was hung and illuminated inside Liverpool Cathedral as a comment on our fossil fuel dependency.

Named Coalescence, the installation consists of more than 2,000 pieces of coal with a combined weight of over half a tonne, which according to Cocksedge is the amount of coal consumed by a 200-watt light bulb if illuminated for a year.

[marginal-notes]

One of the sad facts about “no such thing as heaven” is that while I really want to make Fire Nation military apparatus explode in interesting ways, different from canon, I don’t have a good explanation for how any of the kids would know engineering. Zuko left the Fire Nation before he could be exposed to the regular hell that’s maintaining a coal powered ship. He has no idea that they could stop the drill by turning the boiler rooms into makeshift pressure bombs or a dozen other ways to mess with the engine pumps.

[wolffyluna]

Me, when I'm talking to other Australians: yeah, I don't like the way our economy relies so much on coal and cattle, especially considering the environmental impact

Me, talking to British people worried Australia will destroy their industries: [standing on a pile of coal, riding a well muscled grass fed bull] I'm sorry sweaty :) it's called comparative advantage :) you just wouldn't understand :)

[rickchung]

2022 Vancouver Fall Home Show x VCC West x Waterfront. (via Jenn Chan)

Coastal Lounge designed by Studio Haines Interiors.

Blue Grouse Wine Cellars booth.