Pic of the week: Tears at end of deep coal mining in UK

This is the soot-stained, down-trodden face of one of 60 miners completing the final shift at the Kellingley Colliery in north Yorkshire yesterday.

UK's last deep coal mine Kellingley Colliery capped off - BBC News

End of an Era: England Closes Its Last Deep-Pit Coal Mine - WSJ

Wife of coal miner hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Children of the Dark: Huskar 180 - AroundTown Magazine

Why did Margaret Thatcher close all the mines when the UK still uses a lot of coal and now imports it? - Quora

New light on the day darkness fell on Kellingley

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