Mexborough and Swinton Times August 9, 1947

President of Wath Main branch of the National Union of Mineworkers, Coun. Andrew Beattie (third from left) distributes cigarettes and tobacco to a German miner and his wife at Essen-Katternberg during the British miners’ tour of the Ruhr coalfield.. A colleague from the NCB’s West Midland Division looks on.

Coun. Andrew Beattie, Wath miners president, examines the inscribed souvenir pit measuring stick he received from German miners during his tour through the Ruhr coalfield.