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"Unearthing the Dirty Secrets

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Dirty Collection: All Indian Rodeo in Tygh Valley, Oregon. Clint Bruisehead of Warm Springs tribe bulldogs this cow
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Dirty Collection: Miners working at the coalface, South Wales
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Dirty Collection: Folly Ditch, Jacobs Island, (c1878). Creator: Unknown
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Dirty Collection: Coal miners in shaft lift, South Wales
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Dirty Collection: Miner at Geevor Tin Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall
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Dirty Collection: Antique map of New Zealand in the 19th Century, 1873
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Dirty Collection: Volvo 240 GL Sweden
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Dirty Collection: Flags of the German Empire
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Dirty Collection: Actress Diana Rigg in a scene from the televison programme The Avengers 1965
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Dirty Collection: They say cleanliness is next to Godliness - but I say its next to impossible
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Dirty Collection: World map from 1520
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Dirty Collection: Map of Panama 1864
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Dirty Collection: Map of the world according to Strabo
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Dirty Collection: Free to Roam. Southbank, Middlesbrough 1970s
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Dirty Collection: Athletic young man in shorts with ball lying on a stone floor
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Dirty Collection: Coal miners
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Dirty Collection: Suffragettes Pankhurst and Gawthorpe Rutland 1907
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Dirty Collection: Land Rover Discovery V8
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Dirty Collection: Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
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Dirty Collection: Large White Pigs – Rear view, showing curly tails
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Dirty Collection: Punch cartoon: Faraday Giving His Card to Father Thames (engraving)
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Dirty Collection: Two young men sorting through a pile of scrap metal
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Dirty Collection: Wild and Woolly Motocross multi multi 2008
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Dirty Collection: Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) adult, foraging for food in flowering desert, Kgalagadi N. P
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Dirty Collection: Glapwell Colliery, Mining
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Dirty Collection: Glapwell Colliery, Mining
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Dirty Collection: Welsh miner in coal mine pushing truck
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Dirty Collection: the southern states usa map
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Dirty Collection: William Hogarth Gin Lane
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Dirty Collection: Hands Full. Southbank Middlesbrough 1970s
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Dirty Collection: A miner at work underground in a coal mine. August 1984 P017840
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Dirty Collection: Balloting for the coal strike, Wheatsheaf Colliery, Pendlebury, January 1912, (c1920)
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Dirty Collection: Young man wearing an open plaid shirt in a backyard
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Dirty Collection: Women brickmakers in the Black Country
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Dirty Collection: Miners at the pit bottom, Tirpentwys Colliery, South Wales
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Dirty Collection: Woman washing clothes in a river
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Dirty Collection: Middle white pig JD 16021 Standing in the water © John Daniels / ARDEA LONDON
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Dirty Collection: Coal is unloaded onto large piles at the Ulan Coal mines near the central New South Wales
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Dirty Collection: The bottom sawyer in a saw pit cutting a timber log into pla
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Dirty Collection: Chimney sweep, London, 1926-1927. Artist: McLeish
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Dirty Collection: Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz He raised his manacled hands
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Dirty Collection: Victorian Scrap, Pears Soap
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Dirty Collection: London Slums, Twine Court (b / w photo)
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Dirty Collection: Alfred Demaszure (Left) engine driver and Andre Devos, fireman seen here on the footplate
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Dirty Collection: Children Expression December 1963 Three Young boys who
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Dirty Collection: Tyne Bridge at Newcastle upon Tyne
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Dirty Collection: Children with IRA graffiti, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Dirty Collection: Oil derricks on the shore near Baku Azerbaijan


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"Unearthing the Dirty Secrets: A Glimpse into Coal Miners' Lives in South Wales and Cornwall" Step back in time to witness the gritty reality of coal miners as they ascend from the depths of shaft lifts, their faces smeared with soot. In South Wales, these brave souls toiled tirelessly, risking their lives daily for a livelihood that sustained communities. Venture further into Folly Ditch at Jacobs Island, circa 1878, where an unknown creator captures a scene shrouded in mystery. The air thick with grime and uncertainty, this image hints at a world hidden beneath layers of dirt. At Geevor Tin Mine in Pendeen, Cornwall, a lone miner stands amidst rugged terrain. His weathered face tells tales of perseverance and determination against all odds. These men battled darkness and filth to extract precious minerals that fueled industries far and wide. The coalface was their battleground - blackened hands digging deep into the earth's core. In South Wales, miners worked relentlessly under treacherous conditions to meet the insatiable demand for coal during an era when energy needs knew no bounds. Travel across oceans to New Zealand through an antique map from 1873. As explorers navigated uncharted territories on distant shores, they encountered lands untouched by civilization's cleansing touch – raw beauty concealed beneath layers of untamed wilderness. In Sweden's Volvo 240 GL lies another tale entwined with dirt – not just physical but metaphorical too. This iconic vehicle symbolizes resilience; its sturdy frame defying weariness despite traversing rough terrains year after year. A Punch cartoon depicts Faraday offering his card to Father Thames – perhaps suggesting that even great minds recognize the inherent connection between science and nature's dirty secrets flowing within rivers' veins. But cleanliness is also elusive; it slips through our fingers like grains of sand as we strive for godliness.