Yorkshire Coal Crisis (1919)

Item title reads: “Near Leeds - The Coal Crisis - Jack the Handyman - is keeping the pumping machinery going both above and below ground. Near Leeds, Yorkshire. MS. Sailors stand smoking as they wait to enter the mines. Pit Head is seen behind them. MS. Sailors entering cage, cage descends. MS. Sailors operating steam machinery. MS. sailors operating steam machinery. WS. Sailors by the cage seen from below. CU Sailor from “HMS Lion“ with a miners pick. MS Sailor operating machinery. MS Sailor operating machinery. N.B. Sailors keep coal mines in operation during coal strike. - MD FILM ID: 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