Early morning walk along the old straight road.

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Purple haze. #thicktrunktuesday

Over the old style and across the field to the busy farm (minding the gleaning geese) though. So much to enjoy in this 1959 Tunnicliffe illustration for Ladybird books.

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

Well, stores and garden centres have been displaying their festive wares for a while, so here’s a sort of all the year round place. Zoom. 🙄 #AdoorableThursday

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

Looking down when out and about the other day. Old stone setts New stone setts Old stone setts New… #StoneOnSunday

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

Wages office, Houghton Main Colliery in 1982, no computers, Marilyn and Christine doing the work. Darfield/Wombwell, Barnsley

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

A graceful conifer complements a peaceful ☺️ country churchyard at Ashford in the Water, Bakewell, Derbyshire. #thicktrunktuesday