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Dec 2013
Noel Newbury - Monty Visits Coalfield - Frank Newbury escorting Monty at Mansfield Colliery
Robert Bradley - Snibston Colliery (Leicestershire) Closed 1979
Robert Bradley - Langwith Colliery (North Derbyshire) Sunk 1876-1880 Closed After 99 Years
Alison Lukstin - Ada was the daughter of a coalminer hewer, Francis William Pease 1855 -1910
and Jane Ann Read 1858-1935
Garth Gregory - My grandfather, Harold Kirk (1896-1965) worked as a Derbyshire miner - Also we have a beautiful cutlery canteen set inscribed Markham Collieries
Ryan Mansell - My Grandfather Richard Mansell Died at Treeton Colliery, Rotherham, Yorkshire 1957
Carol Aldis - My Father, William Hutton, Was A Bevin Boy Based In Knutton, Staffordshire, There Was An Accident In Which His Mate, Jim Carr, Or Barr Was Killed, Any information?
Xanthe Parkin - My g-grandfather, Mark Kenworthy, was a miner in Silkstone, Barnsley became a grocer, Deputy Mayor, Killed himself 1909.
Hoyland Silkstone Colliery Accident, 23rd November 1907
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Janet Ede - Colwick Locomotive depot and Coal
Catherine Burton - Researching Coal Mine Canaries
Diane Bartram - Any Info - My great uncle, Arthur Roe, died in the pits in Burton Upon Trent 22 Dec 1929 aged 17
Vivien Small - Does anyone know Thomas Newton who worked at Wollaton Colliery circa 1958?
Nov 2013
Siebe Gorman mining smoke helmet from the 1930's on eBay, Click Here for more details
Enoch Edwards Story, Pit Boy to Politician, campaign flyer 1906
Vicki Webster (nee Shaw) - My mum’s dad, Joseph William Crooks died Selston pit in 1951, any more information?
The Government has guaranteed the concessionary fuel allowance to hundreds of former miners - Nov 2013
Free Coal Victory For Former Miners - Nov 2013
Cauldhall Opencast Coal Mine Given Green Light - 19 Nov 2013
Jobs secured as Hargreaves takes over five Scottish Coal mines - 6 July 2013
Kirsty Bond - When Did The Mines Rescue Station in Houghton le Spring, Tyne and Wear Open?
Sutton Colliery Disaster, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. 21st February 1957
Kevin Joyce - Looking For Pit Closure Dates In/Near Kimberley Notts That Could Have Sent My Great, Great Grandfather (William Sheldon) B. 1859 Up To County Durham
Mining Adverts 1957 - Robert Bradley
Michael Rochester - I'm thinking of buying a property at the south end of Bilsthorpe village
Ormonde Colliery (North Derbyshire) 1970 - Closed After 60 Years - Robert Bradley
National Power Loader Agreement, 1966 - Robert Bradley
Nationalisation, 1947 - All the large mines in the country were Nationalised - Robert Bradley
Brinsley Colliery 1950 - Merged with Selston Colliery After 78 Years - Robert Bradley
Avenue Colliery 1950 - Closed After 68 Years - Robert Bradley
Grassmoor Colliery 1950 - Merged with Williamthorpe - Robert Bradley
Lodge, Newthorpe, (Nottinghamshire) Was Closed 1960 After 82 Years - Robert Bradley
Pinxton Colliery 1950 - Closed After 120 Years - Robert Bradley
Bond's Main Colliery Closed After 52 Years - Robert Bradley
Ripley Colliery Closed 1949 After 94 Years - Robert Bradley
Blackwell A Winning Colliery (North Derbyshire) 1969 - Was Closed After 97 Years - Robert Bradley
Robin Keen - Fatal injury statistics - How many miners died in 1933 and 1953?
Nailstone Colliery (Leicestershire) Closed 1968 - Robert Bradley
Holmewood Colliery (North Derbyshire) Closed 1968 After 95 Years - Robert Bradley
Swanwick Colliery (North Derbyshire) 1968 - Was Closed After 102 Years - Robert Bradley
Part of Pinxton Collieries Was Closed 1968 - After 58 Years - Robert Bradley
Kirkby Summit Colliery Was Closed 1968 - After 88 Years - Robert Bradley
Don't Burn Coal - It is too Precious - Robert Bradley
Denby (Drury-Lowe) Colliery Closed 1968, After 126 Years - Robert Bradley
Alfreton Colliery (North Derbyshire) Closed 1968, After 82 Years - Robert Bradley
Jenny Stanier nee Taylor - Any Information - My Father, Harry Adin Taylor died at Cotgrave colliery in 1965
8600 names now in Yorkshire Fatalities section - 12 more names added to Derbyshire - Alan Beales
Oct 2013
Church Gresley Colliery (Nottinghamshire) Closed 1967, After 133 Years - Robert Bradley
Langton Colliery (Nottinghamshire) Closed 1967, After 123 Years - Robert Bradley
Bestwood Colliery (Nottinghamshire) Closed 1967, After 95 Years - Robert Bradley
Val Birkett - John Tasker, an ancestor, was killed in a pit explosion in 1755 at Gen Lane ward Green Barnsley
280 more names added to Yorkshire Fatalities, 1926 - 1928 - Alan Beales
Many more names added to Yorkshire Fatalities, 1809 - 1849 - Alan Beales
Two more names added to Leicestershire Fatalities, 1722 and 1732 - Alan Beales
- Cortonwood Coalmining Memorial Park And Gardens Funding Campaign -
Mark Haines - Frank A Harris died at Snowdown Colliery 1960s - Any Information?
My grandfathers, my father and at least one uncle worked at Tilmanstone Colliery - Erica Boorman
Marie Dickinson - My Gandfather Norman Fieldsend was Killed in Glapwell Colliery about 1943
Kevin Wright - Photo of coke oven and large shovel device on crane, do you know the date?
Carol Cheshire - Albert Enoch Jones, Land Lord of the Railway Inn was injured at Langwith Colliery 1904
Cossall Colliery (Derbyshire) Closed After 93 Years - Robert Bradley
Coppice Colliery (Derbyshire) Closed After 91 Years - Robert Bradley
Woodside No1 Drift (Derbyshire) Closed After 13 Years - Robert Bradley
Jillian Williams - Charles Crann died at White Horse Colliery 30 Dec 1857 - Where was the mine?
Mike Christensen - Advice on sources, particularly the WWII opencast workings just north of Ashby de la Zouch
Morton Colliery Closed After 102 Years
Shirland Colliery Closed After 100 Years - Robert Bradley
Radford / Wollaton Colliery Closed After 65 and 91 Years Respectively - Robert Bradley
Mapperley Colliery Closed After 93 years - Robert Bradley
Swadlincote Colliery Closed After 83 years - Robert Bradley
Jason Thorpe - Any Photos of my dad, Harry Thorpe, at work? He worked at Moorgreen from 1971 to 1983-84
Cotes Park Closed After 113 Years - Robert Bradley
Sep 2013
Park House No4 Colliery Closed After 97 Years - Robert Bradley
Bretby Colliery Closed After 86 Years - Robert Bradley
Stanley Colliery Closed 1961 After 58 years - Robert Bradley
1958, Blidworth (Nottinghamshire) the largest conveyor of its kind in the world at 1¾ miles long, carrying 3,000 tons of Top Hard coal a day
Anita Pryor - Any Information about East Pool Mine, Cornwall during WW2, which was kept open for tungsten.
Dunfermline Press - 22 Sep 2013 - Flood fears at abandoned West Fife opencast mines
Tony Bracher - Re: Mr Jeffrey Bracher, Bevin Boy Glamorgan 1945 - 1947
Sacriston Colliery 1839 - 1985
Mansfield General Hospital - Admissions of injured to miners 1949 - 1950 (Under Construction)
Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States - the Centralia Pennsylvania underground coal fire which has been burning for more than 40 years - Thanks to Matthew Taylor for bringing this to my attention
Barry Knapper – Link to Interactive Map of the old railways which among others duties, served all the mines in North Staffs
Alan Beales Database now 477 names in Yorkshire section
Keith Fletcher - I am the last of a long line of generations of South West Durham miners
Clydesdale Colliery Mine Disaster, 417 died, South Africa 1960 - Lionel Thomas
Robert Bradley - History of Mining Reached 1955
Aug 2013
Bernard Shaw - Coal News 1967 - They revealed their secret weapon - a five-leaf clover!
David Townend - I left school in 1957 at 15 years old and worked at the Newmiller Dam drift mine
Photo of Albion Colliery - Keith Jones
