Have you any further information re:1939, 28th October, Valleyfield, Fife 35 killed?

Many Thanks
Dave Stretton ex NCB

Thanks for that the Coal Mining Museum have since contacted me and I have found the information on the following site:-

Michael Martin's Site

Hi.
Don't know if you can help, but do you have any information on any stations in South Wales, particularly around the Blackwood /Oakdale/Crumlin area area.
I'm trying to find out everything about OAKDALE colliery, including it's mine rescue team.
I worked there for over 15 years, and still live in the village.
I've recently started to collect all sorts of memorabilia relating to the pit, and of course this includes the rescue teams.
The pit was in existence from 1908 until 1989, so there would have been several teams over the years. ANY information and or photo's would be MOST welcome. I will of course be willing to pay for items, since at the moment I haven't got any swops.

Any OTHER Oakdale items also welcome!! 

Hope to hear from you.
Thanks.
Graham.

Hi
I am an undergraduate student at the University of Leeds and I was just wondering where you have managed to collect all this data from. Do you know how many mining explosion there have been in this country over the past 100 years. Could you point me in the right direction to find this information??

thank you very much for your time

Eliot Reeves

Came across the picture of Bradley Mine Near Bristol

Not heard of a Bradley Mine in this area
- Thought it might be a new one
- Thought it might be a different Bristol (eg USA)

However
I think you will find the reference is "Near Bilston" in Staffordshire

see Staffordshire Past Track

Hope that helps

Regards
David
Chairman
South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group

Derrick Hardwick - Building Consultants & Surveyors

Thanks Davis, sorted it.

Hi,

My name is Ron Booth and I worked at Radford and Wollaton Colliery until they both closed.
I am writing a book on Radford people, and hope to have printed, and all the profits will go
to The Nottinghamshire Royal Institute for the Blind, who's H.Q. is in Radford.

Has anyone any photographs of the above pits, or a photographs of the Radford area, that they could send me a copy.

I have had two little booklets printed for this worthy cause in the last two years.
My wife and I have supported the blind for forty years,

Hi Can I first congratulate you on a great web site, brought back many memories to me.

I worked for 17 years in Leicestershire mines, sadly all now gone.

I now work full time for British Gas, but at week ends I work at the former Snibston Colliery in Coalville Leicestershire, a former colliery that is now a science museum and surface colliery tour.

I still have a number of the old colliery buildings, headstocks and quite a collection of colliery machines and equipment that I take tours around the site, giving talks about mining through the ages. Starting in the early 1800`s when George and Robert Stephenson sunk the shafts at Snibston.

What I would like to do is quite ambitious and I don't know if you could help by putting a piece on your web site, is that I should like in our lamp room, to make a display board, with tallies from as many collieries as possible, to show exactly how vast and the number of mines that the UK had and have now lost forever.

I know this is a massive task, but if you could put a piece on your site asking if any former miners, that if they should have a spare tally that they could spare it would be for display purposes only and would not be disposed of at any time, and that they would be kept permanently at the museum. if they could supply any personal details I will also record this in a file.

I.E: Name, position at the mine, starting age and dates worked from / to.

Yours sincerely.

Nigel Moore.
84 Bardon Road ,
Coalville,
LEICESTERSHIRE,
LE67 4BJ.

The Newcastle-under-Lyme Museum and Art Gallery (at Brampton Park) has a display about the Mines Rescue Service in Staffordshire. In the display cabinet there is a large blue Sevres Vase presented by the President of France. I'll have to check the details again next time I visit but I think the vase was presented to members of a Rescue Team after (I think) the Minnie Pit disaster of 1918. There must have been a strong link between the mine/rescuers and France. Does anyone know what that link was? The museum's records don't have this information.

Thank you.
Ashley Price

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