A digital photograph taken on the day the last shift was worked at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire. The image shows the profile of miner Gary Ward (nicknamed Taffy). This photograph was taken as he was being interviewed for the local news.
Production ended at Kellingley Colliery on the 18th December 2015, 50 years after coal was first brought to the surface in 1965. Around 450 miners lost their jobs. Kellingley Colliery, known as the Big K, was the largest deep pit in Europe, at it’s peak it employed over 2000 miners.
