The Brutal Reality For Coal Miners in History

[@lisasharf1442]

My grandfather was a coal miner for 44 years. I don’t know when he started, but he was born in 1900, so he could well have been one of these kids (he worked in Ohio, though). He had terrible breathing issues (both emphysema and black lung), and was was disabled for most of my life. He died in 1978, the day after my 18th birthday.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Wow, thank you for sharing. I cannot imagine working in those conditions for 44 years 😳 …. They were built much tougher back then but that still didn’t prevent the suffering.

[@lisasharf1442]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos I remember my mom telling me that the whistle was only blown twice a day, in the morning and at quitting time. If it blew any other time, it meant someone had been killed. All you could do was wait until your family did or didn’t come home. One time, there was an explosion inside the mine. The whistle blew and this time it was my mom’s uncle (not sure if it was my grandfather’s or grandmother’s brother).

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

ugh ! that's just awful. We are so lucky to be living in the times we are now. There are still coalminers and I'm sure its still not an easy job, but one hopes a little safer in the whole.

[@LordStraightBanana]

My grandfather was born around the same time in South Wales. He was in the mines his entire working life, I recall him in his 80’s never having full use of his hands from a lifetime of mining, he couldn’t bend any his fingers at all. Four of my uncles mined, one died of emphysema, one lung cancer and one was killed in the mines from a gas explosion. The other drowned. Life was so much harder back then.

[@daarom3472]

this goes to show that basically 0.1% of the world was priviliged, and 99.9% was disposable whether white or black or asian.

[@joanneroot8990]

Great pictures! Very sad

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you for watching 🤗

[@hummel6364]

Minecraft is proof that the children long for this

[@frostyjim2633]

Hey kids, today we're gonna play a NEW kind of video game!

[@ginettemorin2]

It's hard to watch and hard to believe that these photos captured working conditions of ''only'' about 100 years, not 1,000 years, ago... Heartbreaking!

[@daarom3472]

for the lower classes in industrial society the period between 1850 1900 was probably worse than the centuries before. The ruling classes used slave labour in the colonies and pretty much slave labour at home to fill their pockets. While not legally "owned" these men either worked or their families would starve. Not saying being a Medieval peasant was great, but at least you worked outside and had some form of local community/village life. There was extreme violence but not at the level of modern wars with millions of soldiers.

[@ginettemorin2]

@@daarom3472 I agree and it's all very sad. Have a nice day.

[@kingdommanlegacyministries7769]

Our hats off to many who worked & slaved in order to not only make a living but to also provide a commodity for others. It seems difficult to almost impossible to get a 14 year old or even a 20 year old to cut the grass. Times have indeed changed. Time for parents to take back their God given roles.

[@rw8733]

Fascinating. Lovely music, too. Thank you as always 😊

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you 🤗

[@youngbess1]

My family from Wales were all coal miners.

[@iantobanter9546]

My Grampa and uncles were Rhondda colliers- working the same seam that crossed the Atlantic to out crop in Pennsylvania. Many Welsh colliers emigrated to continue working that seam. Here in Wales it was known as the Rhondda 2 ft 3ins. My great uncle died from fall of roof at Bodringallt colliery in 1920. My grandma refused to let my dad and his brother work underground so they joined the navy and served throughout World War 2. They then worked in the factories that replaced the pits.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Wow that’s a great story … thank you for sharing 👍🏻

[@kurd_daily]

I feel really greatful right now

[@frostyjim2633]

These pictures make you wonder how they accommodated their LGBQT+ child employees.

[@DukeCannon]

Liked, subscribed Great Channel

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Thank you for your support !

[@DukeCannon]

In process of binge watching now. Lol

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Binge away ! ... lol

[@76JStucki]

Uhhh. I don’t think there’s ever been a time I would want to be a coal miner

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Fact.

[@GeraldDzara]

@@AmazingHistoricalPhotos Once you work underground, you realize that there is nothing else like it.

[@Toledo1940]

I was born in 1940. By then, Child Labor Laws had been enacted to protect kids.

[@seandelap8587]

They really knew the meaning of hard work back then and took nothing for granted unlike today

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Different times indeed... and somehow we still don't seem to be grateful for the times in which we are fortunate to live.

[@bornwithgoal]

the first boy closed open the door job. had a nice position , for 0.75 cent he had equivalent of 27 usd today.

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

There is no amount of money to breathe in that coal dust down there IMO

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

Everyone is glad that it's not like that now though!!!

[@MutorbuW]

Happy⚓️ships!

[@andreesimpson4232]

That is real hard labour 😮

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Right ? I'm not sure many people know how lucky they are nowadays.

[@LCdrDerrick]

See, this is why the Tesla is the dirtiest vehicle in human history. Not it's degrading battery is the only main problem! The even bigger problem is, that in any powerstation only up to 35% of the even dirtier coal's energy is transformed to current. But then you haven't already calculated the transforming, transporting, loading and discharging losses in! The oil however, comes up almost voluntary. With petrol/diesel engines you could at least use the waste energy for heating your car! Yes, the petrol has to be distributed first, but that is also the case with current. So, whenever you see one of these Tesla Hipsters, give him a whipping, he deserves it.

[@IonJaap-x5g]

If you think nowadays coalmines are better, nah. My father was a miner and i was with him in every mine visiting when he was on waterpumps and the work was off, like sundays and so... it was pretty hard experience when i realized i could't even open the doors by myself (airpassing kept the doors shut and were made to big for my 13yrs old ass) Thou, it was in Europe, not Pennsylvania

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Wow ... thank you for sharing ... I can't imagine what that would have been like for miners throughout history

[@davidschumaker8107]

Man I thought that I had it bad having to do chores after weekend morning cartoons!

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

lol

[@nofilter.906]

For those who dont understand or cant relate,....when you do repeated actions for days,weeks,months OR LONGER,your body becomes accustomed to what your doing,basically it's no longer hard or " foreign " to your body.your use to it.... So a job thats very difficult to person with a sit down at a desk job,is not to a person who does the job daily.........I'm talking the WORK,not the danger of this job...

[@AmazingHistoricalPhotos]

Agree with your point about getting used to the hard work. It's basically muscle memory and conditioning. The dangerous environment however is the main element of concern.