Please note that we have temporarily paused our iconic Underground Tours until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine. The Museum remains open with a brand-new Time Tunnel experience now bookable. Underground Tours can now be booked and will be back on 2 April 2025.
This black and white photograph shows miners outside St Hilda’s colliery, South Shields waiting for a meeting taking place during the 1926 General Strike.