One Man Coalmine (1936)

Northumbria. Shots of Edward Jacobson walking along the entrance tunnel to his one man coalmine. Various shots of Mr Jacobson, bare chested but wearing a safety helmet, mining the coal seam with a pickaxe. He pushes a coal barrow into the pit. The sign over the shaft reads: “Hesleyside Colliery“. He pushes the coal truck back out of the drift and up a short incline. He brings truck to a halt and tips out a load of coal. N.B. This is an adit mine - a horizontal mine into the side of a hillside. FILM ID:1222.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-195