This postcard is dated April 1908. Princess Royal Colliery was a major employer both for Bream and the surrounding villages. At this time there were no Pit Baths. The Miners covered in coal dust from their work would walk home back up the hill to Bream in their work clothes. Although the caption says "Princess Royal Colliery" this is actually a photo of Flourmill Colliery Bream. Flourmill did become part of the Princess Royal but was always referred to by it's original name. The drams which can be seen lined up in the photo were pulled approx. 1 mile above ground to the Princess Royal Colliery on the Whitecroft Road by an "endless cable" passing beneath the Bream - Parkend road

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