They were the homes of lead miners or slate workers in the last century.

Troops are sent into Talargoch in Flintshire to deal with an industrial dispute involving lead miners.

Defoe gives an eye-witness account of a lead miner's family and of the miner himself at work.

He was a lead miner, businessman, and was elected sheriff of Iowa County.

Young estimated the wages of north-country lead miners at 7s 6d (37 p) in 1771.

Young commented that the lead miners of the Dales had finished their underground work by noon or one o'clock.

It is thought that Goatchurch Cavern was explored by lead miners in the 19th century.

It was first recorded in 1736, and explored by lead miners in the 19th century.

LIFE was hard for a Teesdale lead miner in the 18th century.

Wisconsin was dubbed the "Badger State" because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and 1830s.