Employers controlled almost every aspect of a Canadian coal miner's life in the early 1900s. The company owned the stores and houses in the mining town and determined the wages and working conditions.

A coal industry "eyesore" which has blighted residents of a former south Wales mining village for decades could be brought back into use as housing. The pit-head baths at Llanhilleth have become ...

but the miners' filthy clothes had to be washed as well - a continuous back breaking chore for the women of the house. Walking through the pithead baths today, it is difficult to imagine the huge ...

Plans to build a new house which has triggered a warning from the Coal Authority, an expansion of the council headquarters in Bath ... and the environment in mining areas.” ...