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| Some carpenters are trained, as well. | A view into the colliery's workshop. | The day of the face workers' exam. | The colliery's fire brigade. |
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Photos of Friedrich Heinrich colliery in the 1950s - part 3 ! |
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Special thanks go to Armin Mesenhol for sending and explaining the photos to me. Please click on the photos' small versions in order to enlarge them and to get the corresponding background information. ATTENTION: The pictures' explanations can now be found UNDER the large versions. |
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| Some carpenters are trained, as well. | A view into the colliery's workshop. | The day of the face workers' exam. | The colliery's fire brigade. |
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| The colliery's room for inhalation. | A x-ray unit in the medical centre. | Another view into the medical centre. | The colliery even ran a library. |
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| Sta. Barbara in a church close to the colliery. | New residential areas have been built. | Some of them with detached houses... | ...and others with apartment houses. |
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| This is the Alte Moerser Street. | This photo shows the Ebert Street. | This is how the miners lived in the 1950s. | In the kitchen of one of the miners' apartments. |
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| The residential home for the miners. | And another one for the apprentices. | The workers' "Kasino" is a pub. | The miners could come here for bowling. |
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| Additionally there is a miners' choir. | And a miners' band, as well. | Pigeons - the miners' traditional pets. | The school for the young ladies. |
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| Here they learned how to wash correctly. | A nice performance of the girls. | The children got presents for Christmas. | St. Martin's Day was celebrated, as well. |