December 2015
Susan Meakin - Looking For Info About My Great Grandfather James Birch, Ostler, Brookhill Colliery?
Trevor Negus - Would Police Enquiries be made underground into deaths at Nottinghamshire mines?
Scott Brandom - William Ernest John Brandom was Killed by a Fall of Roof at Hucknall No 2 Colliery 1949
David Clifton - Locating A Mine In The Allerton Area
Julia Cherrett - Thomas Bletcher was injured at Welbeck Colliery and was admitted to Mansfield General Hospital where he died Christmas day 1955
Steve Franks - Coal Mine Closure List
John Kelly - Mines Rescue - I worked at Rotherham Mines Rescue Station till its closure
Pauline Brian - Thomas Smedley died 3rd Dec 1909 Frickley Colliery, South Elmsall, Barnsley
Diana Fassino - A bit of History! Author - When the Cat Had My Tongue
BBC News - Kellingley, the UK's last deep-pit coal mine has closed
Ian Harris - Alans Data Base, Ross Parkin and David Hardy, Silverhill Fatalities
Andy Fawkes-Williams - Tracing Pit Check numbers
Ray Conn - Ray Conn, trying to get in touch with my cousin, Rob Conn, in New Zealand
Richard Bailey - Robert Barker Moved To Kent Coal Mines But Was a Colliery Under-Manager in Notts C1919
Chris Upton - Thorseby Colliery Book Launch And Exhibition
Eric Minard - Ilkeston man recalls days working in mines rescue team - Ilkeston Advertiser
Rosemary Muschamp - My grandfathers half brother, Charles Revill, b 1878, drowned at the age of 20 around 1900
Andy Stevens - I am researching the men who came to work at Treeton Colliery, South Yorkshire
Carl Goug - Ilkeston Rescue Station - My grandad, William Denis Gough, was awarded a medal for bravery
Nick Yorkshire - Is there a database of men who were part of Allerton Bywater Mines Rescue
November 2015
Bob Bradley - Bilsthorpe Half Wheel - Opening Ceremony 13th November 2015
Kim Collinson - Drift Mines in South Wales - is Eckington mine still operational?
Brian Ross - BBC - My Grandfather Hugh Wilson Died in a Mining Accident at Burngrange About 1940 - Any information
Michael Nind - Oaks Colliery Explosion 1866,4 More Names
Martin Rushton - West Stanley Colliery Disaster 1882
Karen Chadwick - My Maternal Grandfather, Herbert Adlington Died at Desford Colliery 1961
Neil Healey - My great, great, grandfather Frederick Fletcher died in the 1866 Oaks Pit Disaster
Dennis Devon - Gedling Colliery - I was a Pit Bottom loco driver From Jan 1969 to March 1971
R. Reeve - My great great grandfather John Benjamin Reeve was killed at Manvers Main, 1884
See Also Ilkeston Rescue Station
Bob Bradley - Additions made to Glossary
Brian - Type 6 Lamp - Where can I get a wick - How do I fuel it?
David Page - I am retired and my pen-name is Harry Riley - Harry enjoys writing mystery novels and short stones, particulariy with a twist in the tail and often with a suggestion of ghoslly intervention.
Gerald Booker - Hi do you have any detail about Spitehill Colliery?
Jane Booth - Jane Booth - Information Sought About My Great Grandfather James Fitzpatrick
Margaret Annable - Information On Derek Norman Frearson, Killed At Snibston 1949 aged 19
Alan Beales - Yorkshire 1290 additional entries for 1825 - 2011
Bob Bradley - List of Coal Seams in UK
Tony Mellors -
Newton Collieries for Bob Bradley
Christine Longmate - My Father, Richard Done, Was Accidentally Killed At Mansfield Colliery, 1952
Ben Wall - Wallsend Mining Disaster 1835, what happened to Cuthbert Reavely's wife after the event?
Nick Longley - The 'Apedale Footrail Inrush, 1923, has now been re-opened
Neil - Is There A List Of All The Miners That Worked At Oaks Colliery?
Shaun Chapman -
Cube Pit (Ventilation Shaft ), Felling, Gateshead
Bryan Appleby - Mining Accidents - William Jackson, Hucknall No 1 Colliery, 1868
Christine Hewitt - Wilfred Hargreaves Died Hartley Bank Colliery, Netherton, Yorkshire 1918
Terl Bryant - The 1945 Fauld Explosion
Friends of Hemingfield Pit
Phillip Arthur Lofts - Illustration Copyright?
1852, Hemingfield Pit (also known as Elsecar Low Pit), Barnsley, Yorkshire - 10 killed in explosion
October 2015
John Fretwell -
Creswell Colliery Chimney
Peter Davies - Oaks Disaster - Where Are The Baker Family Buried?
Jill McMinn - Query, my dad worked at the Bedwelty Pit, South Wales as a boy
Alan Winstanley - Death Of A School Boy, He Fell To His Death, Wigan 1980s
Carol Wilson - Death at Ladywash Lead Mine 1952
Louise Dale - My Dad Worked At Florence Colliery
Doreen Hann - Key No 1159 Bilsthorpe Colliery
Wayne Handley - Wayne Handley - Thomas Bartholomew, 42 of The Green, Royston, died at Barnsley Beckett Hospital
Ian Quincey -
Shirebrook Colliery
Davey - Davey Lamp, Where Do I Add The Fuel?
Simon - Clock - ' Presented To Noel Bailey By The Bullcroft Main Colliery Officials August 5th 1929'
Ian Jackson - The Bryan Family - Bradford Pit - I'd like to make contact with Michael Green
Alison Darlison - Arthur Walker Was My Grandfather, he died at Annesley Pit April 1940
Alan Andrews -
Retired Miner / Studying Degree In ART And Mining Book Related Project
Sir William Jeffcock - More Documentation Oaks Explosion 1866
Bob Wadsworth - Mining Engineers - James Ashton Twigg, Jacob Ashton, William Deakin Wadsworth, Godfrey and John Pogmore, John Gorell Barnes and William Stratford Dugdale.
Andrew Wood - Old Mining Rebreather, Any Information?
Maureen Crofts -
Harry Crofts Mine - Who was Harry Crofts?
Victoria Cotterill -
Stanley Hayes - Shelton pit
Dennis Devon - Were the pit-ponies taken out of the mine during both of the 70's strikes?
Jane Leatherland - My dad, Geoffrey Weston, was HMI 1971 to 1975 and was at the Markham Disaster in 1973
Alan Curtis - Louis Clifford Storey, aged 14, killed at Mansfield Colliery 24 Dec 1918
Edie Sisson - Watnall Colliery
Mineworkers Pension Scheme - We are campaigning to get the 50/50 surplus split of the mineworkers pension renegotiated
Alan Beales - Another 61 Names Added To The 1932 Yorkshire Fatalities List
Helen Foreman - David Foreman thinks the mystery man is Gordon Sloper, an assistant superintenden
Tony Mellors -
Newton Collieries for Bob Bradley
Richard Earnshaw - Deaths at Hucknall No 2 Colliery, Wilfrid Robert Eley Killed 1949
Ms. Cathryn Weaver - Isabella’s Recommendation - History at Home: A Guide to Genealogy - by Andrea Davis
Cynthia Gault - Lilian Jones would like to know if someone has written a book about being a nurse at the time of the 1931 Bentley Pit Disaster
Dennis Devon - Re: Gedling Colliery
September 2015
Heather Parkinson -
Terminology - Haulage Boy Underground
Peter Erman -
I am the great, great, grandson of John Bullin, Master Sinker
Paul Glasby - Mining Accident - Tristam Poundal Died At Langley Mill 1882
Bill Shaw - The Oaks Disaster - We are now in a position to start accepting donations to the Oaks Disaster Memorial Fund
Keith Seaton - My great, great, grandfather Philip Scothern died in the Clay Cross Pit Disaster aged 47
Les Adams - Information About My Father William Adams, Coatbridge Mines Rescue Station
Dorothy Bond - My father Herbert England, Aged 37, Died Woolley Colliery, South Yorkshire 1952
David Linzner - My grandfather John Greasley was killed at Woolly Colliery (Barnsley) 1938
Davie McCreadie - Dalquharran Colliery, Dailly, Ayrshire
Alyson Mannion - In the mid 1970s a local Mines Rescue Man, Dennis Concannon of Rawmarsh, was killed down Silverwood pit
Josey Gaisford - Hapton Disaster 1962, My Cousin Robert Dunston Was Killed In The Disaster, Was It His Wife Who Was Expecting Their 2nd Child
Steve - Derek Thorpe Died at Rossington Main 1964
Anne Caine - My Grandfather, George Rimmington, was killed at Glapwell Colliery Nov 28th 1918
Michele Renhard - My grandfather, Charles Cyril Renhard, was killed at Harworth Colliery 1951
Keith Eveson - Information Wanted, My Father Charles Eveson, Worked As Deputy At Silverhill Colliery
Alyson Mannion - Warren Vale Colliery, Yorkshire. 20 December 1851, Explosion Killed 52 Men And Boys
Andy Evans - A disastrous explosion occurred at the Hanley Deep Pit, 1st Sept 1883
BBC News, Scotland - The Great Knockshinnoch Mine Rescue - By Gillian Sharpe
Demelza Davies - Archive Inquiry - My Grandfather, Henry David Saywood, was a Miner
Marjorie Peers - My husband, Frank Peers, was nearing the end of his shift on October 16th 1953 - FIRE
Ann Featherstone - Portland Road, Cotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire
August 2015
Charles Coward - Links between owners of Llay Main colliery and Firbeck
Kathryn Osborne - My G, G, Great Grandfather was Cain Mayer, one of those killed in the accident
Dennis Devon - Gedling Colliery, a few questions
Bill Shaw - Does anyone have , or know of anyone who’s relatives were a victim of the Oaks Colliery Disaster, Barnsley, 1866 - Oaks Disaster, 150th Anniversary
Brendan Fisher - Pinxton, industrial land at some point - perhaps a colliery?
Peter Shields - Oaks Burial Locations, we have indexed all the burials in the Council Cemeteries
Tony Callaghan - Wilfred Brearley's Death, Altofts Colliery 6 June 1932
Richard Warren - My grandfather Joseph Harrison Warren lived in Church Gresley, South Derbyshire until 1926
Neil Willis - Trace Ramcroft Colliery Miners
David Hall - Moses Smallwood killed At Cadley Hill 1914
Val Hardy - Alans Data Base, My Son, David Hardy, Died At Silver Hill, 1985
John Round - Teversal - In all the years since, its colliers and underground fitters that I remember the most, and usually with a smile
Jane Nicoll-Jones - Thomas Barber, Age 14, Died Car House Colliery, Yorkshire, Sept 1883
Bob Bradley - 1893 the Tibshelf Ambulance Brigade was inspected by Queen Victoria at Windsor
July 2015
Martyn Chappell - Looking For Info., Newton Lane or Newton Colliery, Wrenthorpe area of Wakefield
John Round - From 1964 to 1968 I did an engineering apprenticeship at Calverton
John - Frederick Lebeter Killed At Digby Colliery, Coal Gas Ignited By Naked Light 1924
Chris Moran - Looking For A Photo Of A Class I Mechanical Certificate
Ayrshire Pit Accident - Dailly, Seven Miles From Girvan
Bob Bradley - Photo - Opening 'Ollerton of Yeasteryear' final display 29 July 2014
John - Frederick Lebeter Killed At Digby Colliery, Coal Gas Ignited By Naked Light 1924
Bob Bradley - The Life Of A Mine Depends On
Brenda Thomason - Trying To Trace John Millington who had two sons who died in the Wood Pit Explosion Haydock, Lancashire 1878
Alan Beales - Inquest Reports From Newspapers - Re Cossall Fatal Accidents
Jane Davies - Miner Who Walked Into The Canal - The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Lawrence Clayton aged 27 years
Chris Webster - Looking For Info, my Grandfather, William Webster, 1885-1952, lived in Cotmanhay and worked at the Shipley Collieries
Bob Bradley - List of Collieries And Owners 1285 - 1599 and on
Jane Davies - My Grand Dad Thomas Joseph Clayton From Oswaldtwistle
Alan Beales - Inquest Reports 101 - 131 From Newspapers - Gedling Colliery Fatal Accidents
Bev Richardson - Tom Senior, My Great Grandfather And Wilfred Senior My Great Uncle Worked At Upton Colliery
Paul Mansfield - Asbestos in safety lamps
Chris Howkins - John James (a stower) was killed Lower Duffryn Colliery, Newport, 1882
Sandish Shoker - Trying to contact Robert Bradley - Stuart Tomlins - The end of mining in Nottinghamshire.
June 2015
Rosemary Dolman - Looking For My Dad's Name Disc, Alfred Desmond Harris. He Worked At Griff Clara Pit, Newdigate Pit And Retired At Baddesley Pit
Donna Johnson - My grandfather, Kenneth Wright, was killed at Summit Colliery, 28/10/1954
David Smythe - Rossington - I am researching the geology and hydrogeology for local residents objecting to a possible drilling and fracking site at Misson
BBC News, Sheffield & South Yorkshire - Hatfield Colliery, near Doncaster, closure announced
Danny Taylor - How High Was The Bradford Colliery Headgear?
Bob Bradley - Hatfield Colliery - A very large fall, as high as a house, stopped the only working face
Terry Holbrook - Do You Have Any More Details Of The Location Of Norman Colliery?
Harry Lowe - Old Pocket Watch - Thomas Greensmith Presented By The Workmen Of Annesley Colliery 1871
Steve Elliott - My grandfather, Edward Knowles, was allegedly killed in a roof fall in one of the north Derbyshire mines (Markham or Renishaw Park)
Stuart Wigman - R Wigman Was Killed In The Ruffled Shaft Accident
Alan Smith - Looking For Info - Joseph Wainwright Was The Mine Manager During The 1880 Disaster
Colin Hart - HM Inspector reports, Loftus Mine Fatality, Cleveland
Alan Beales - Inquest Reports From Newspapers - Re Gedling Colliery Fatal Accidents
Miners Voices - Proposed demolition of Highhouse No2 Winding gear and Winding Engine House at Auchinleck, Scotland
BBC Scotland - The Big Clean Up - BBC Scotland - 13 June 2015
Alan Beales - 395 Additional Names For Yorkshire Fatalities 1930 To 1942
Ian Ware - Newcomen Pump Engine at Elsecar, Photo Gallery
Elsecar Colliery, Yorkshire - My Dad, Cyril Charles Ware, and the Newcomen Pump Engine
Richard Stevenson - Annesley/ Shafts
Roland Laycock - My father, Roy Laycock, was Injuries at Welbeck
May 2015
Rich Headey - Rusty Dudley
Paul Smith - Sidney Marshall And Clifford Smith Killed Down Yorkshire Pits, 1938 and 1948
Alan Hart - When Did Shonky Pit Catch Fire?
Ben Houfton - My Great Uncle, John Plowright Houfton, from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire
Ian Ware - Protector Type 6 Lamps - I would be grateful for some advice
Andy Cawthera - Thomas and Alfred Cawthera were killed in 1870 at Four Lanes Colliery
George Barnard - Maurice Sochachewsky, Are We Related?
Jill Gray - Syson relative looking for Carole Dick
Carole Cockeram - Looking for information about my Granddad Thomas Robinson
Vincent John Hewitt - My great-great granddad, Cain Hewitt, died at Lidgett Pit in 1894, I would love to write a short book on the colliery and maybe a few others.
John Rigley - My uncle, Gershom Rigley, lost his leg as the result of an accident with a pit pony. The Duchess of Portland asked the doctors to check his leg, they amputated it?
Mary Magee - Mines Bentley Pit, Also would love to find any history on the Rutter family down the pits
Freddie Plater - My Ancestor, Matthias Garbutt Was An Ironstone Miner From Sleights
Darren Harper - Hi . . . Great site but . . . I was looking for info on the Warsop Main disaster in 1953
Meg Carson - Cumbria Mines Middle 1850s, Perhaps 1870s, Around Arlecdon, Frizington, And Whitehaven
Robert Bradley - Pit Pony Gallery increased in size
April 2015
Roddy Greig - George Laycock, Roof Collapse At The Houghton Mains Colliery In January 1935
Alan Hutchison - Where can I view editions of the coal news?
Barbara Cast - Memoirs of a Nottingham childhood, of life as a young miner and of the privations and horrors of The Great War.
Colin Briggs - Joseph Evans, My Great-Grand-Uncle, Born 1856, Died Rotherham Main 1910
Charmaine Brimble - My Husband's Grandfather, Arthur George Brimble Was A Miner Most Of His Adult Life Possibley At Creswell Or Langwith
BBC News - 15 April 2015 - Soma mine bosses appear in Turkey court on murder charges
Philip Mills - Thomas Mills Killed Underground 1931 - 1935, In A Derbyshire Coal Mine
Paul Bolton - Alan's Data Base - Manton Pit
Ken Hunt - Fatality at Ireland Colliery, William Nichols May 1934 and Levi Nichols March 1924
Maurice West - Looking for a device or transformer to light a workmans lamp - South Derbyshire Mining Preservation Group
Dr. N.M. Wilson - Trying To Contact Keith Fletcher
Robert Maxwell - My Grandfather, Alex Rowat Maxwell, Was A Coffin Bearer In The Dumbreck Disaster
Alan Beales - Annesley, A Selection Of Inquest Reports
March 2015
Louise Birkett - Coleorton Publication (From The Estates Office)
Nick Monaghan - Alan’s Data Base - Some of my Ancestors
John Lowe - Alan’s Data Base - Upton Colliery June 1940, Jack (John) Foster Died 12 days later
Margaret Wilson - Billinge Mines - My Great, Great Grandfather, William Callon, Was A Mining Surveyor
Lead Mining - Blackcraig, Dumfries and Galloway
Petros Tsaparas - Looking For Information About The "Penitent"
Wayne Clifton - Hucknall - Looking For Pictures of the shunting loco that was used to shunt the coal trucks between the pit top and the local sidings
David Haworth - Robert Bradley's history of Shirland Colliery - 50 Years Since Shirland Colliery Closed
Wayne Clifton - Looking For Pictures Of Hucknalls Emergency Winder
Eve Parry-Jones - My Great Grandfather, Jason Parry, Died In The Albion Pit Disaster, 1894
Gordon Ramsay - I am trying to obtain info and photos of Backworth Mines and Village
Barbara Cast - Pit Death - Young Teggatt, we reached our mate but alas he was dead
Alan Beales - Moorgreen Colliery, Inquest Reports
Paul Waite - Welbeck Colliery - My Grandfather, Richard Giles
Neal Potter - Creswell Pit Chimney, When Was It Taken Down?
Barbara Kirton - Welbeck, Mining Photos
Laura Bullivant - Ilkeston Mines Rescue - My Dad, Paul Bullivant
Bernie Ayton - Fatal Accidents Shireoaks Colliery, John Ward, Sinker, 1855
Robert Bradley - British Coal Wound Up, 1997
North Devon School of English - Thank you for the interesting information about Paul Robeson
Kate Currington - My Grandad, Thomas F Green, died following an accident at Denby pit around 1959
Robert Bradley - A Mining History - Book 7, 1995 begun
Pamela Wat - Mine Explosion Barnsley 7 May 1947 - Do You Know The Names Of The Miners Who Made A Remarkable Recovery In Barnsley Becketts Hospital?
Edward Marshall - Map of Notts and Derbys Coal Mines
Paul Wyton - My late grandad, Levi Lakin, was a miner at Upton Colliery, Yorkshire, for many years and was involved in a pit disaster sometime in the early to mid 1950s
Graham Hatton - Looking For Photographs of Moorgreen Apprentice Training Centre
Tony Mellors - Bob Bradleys 1914 Page Tunnelling Corps
Alan Beales - Shireoaks Colliery, Inquest Reports
February 2015
Peggie Richardson - Trying To Contact Vern Prescott Of Ontario Canada Re. William Stenson
Graham Pare - Researching my Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Family History
Michelle Kennedy - Criggleston Disaster 1941 - Lloyd, Bernard and James Fox Died In The Disaster
George Bell - 62 Pictures of Shireoaks
Alan Beales - A New Section, Inquest Reports
Lewis Knight - 3 Photos In Memory of Ludovic Berry, a very brave man from the Wigan area
Looking For Information - J Abbot Miners Lamp, Gateshead, c1870
George Bell - 22 Pictures of Shireoaks
Trevor Armstrong - George Barrington Knowles, With The Hardwick No2 Rescue Team - Not Sure Where Or When It Was Taken
BBC News - 2010, Century Of Mining Ends At Welbeck Colliery
Sue Mitchell - Looking for a picture of an old poster, the MINES RESCUE poster for INGS ROAD Wakefield
Joanne Jennings - My Great Grandfather, William Wilson, died in a pit accident at Babbington Colliery 1920s, 30's
Matthew White - Any Information, Keith Patrick Walton was killed at Rawdon 17 Apr 1969
Judy Storer - Looking for help, my dad, Philip King of, Mansfield was killed at Crown Farm 25 April 1976
Robert Bradley - Pit Ponies, Gallery And An Ostler's Job
BBC News - Kellingley Colliery is set to close in 2015
Rob Street - Bradford Colliery - A Friend Of My Father, Emlyn Williams, Died There 1950s
Julie Hughes - Looking For Information, Daily Herald Award To Marine Colliery Rescuers 1927
John Evans - Frickley Colliery - Some photos attached
January 2015
Gillian Anwyll - Family History - My Great Grandfather John James Rowland, Temple Normanton mine
Malcolm Grattan - Any Info About Thoresby From 1953 To 1990 – Also How Many People Lost Their Lives At Thoresby Colliery
Christine Tidswell - Family History - Thomas William (Tom) Tidswell Was A Coal Miner in Yorkshire sometime between 1919 to 1931
Frank Bunting - Update - A Bunting working for John Fletcher of Smalley around 1748-64
Andrew Brown - Family Tree - North Derbys, any info Bunting, Raynes, Ashmore and Ball, 1840 - 1911
Elliott Mills - Looking For Photos Of Lound Hall Or The Surrounding Properties
Michael Stamper - Wolf Miners Safety Lamp, When Would It Have Been In Use?
Mandy - Photo Of My Dad, Babbington Men Meet Hucknall Men
Charlotte Brown - Looking For Information About The Homefire Plant In Keresley, Coventry
Karen Megginson - Looking for info., Frickley Colliery Disaster 28 Dec 1931, some photos attached
Malcolm Clarke - I am a cousin of Doris Una Ball on the Palmer side and would like to contact her daughter Maureen Taylor
Alan Beales - Midland District Miners Fatal Accident Relief Society
Alan Beales - 50 more names added to 1914 admissions to Nottingham General Hospital
Alistair Hutchinson - "To The Dressing Station!" Fatally Injured Shunter's Order To Driver - Sad Shipley Colliery Case - Shipley Colliery, January 23, 1922
Robert Mee - Sun Inn at Eastwood
Debra Hulse (nee Newton) - Henry Newton, died aged 33 after an accident at Wollaton Colliery Nottingham on 11 Oct 1888
Kate McDonald - Talk to Southeast Northumberland Branch of Parkinson's UK
Alistair Hutchinson - Family History - George Arthur Wright Crushed By Wagons Shipley Colliery 1922
Steve Hough - My father, Edward Arthur Hough, his brother and my Grandfather were colliers at Williamthorpe
Robert Bradley - Bilsthorpe Heritage Museum Is Open - No Charge For Entry
Robert Bradley - The Surveyor’s Job At A Coal Mine
Sandra Turner - Arthur Dunbar, died as a result of an accident at Hickleton Main colliery 1945 - Also
Cuthbert Dunbar died as the result of a roof fall at South Kirkby colliery 1902
Robert Bradley - Manton Colliery Closed 1994 After 93 years
Kate Roberts - I am trying to find information on the history of a field in New Brinsley, Nottinghamshire
Jo Walton - What happened to children of a mining family in the 1930s when they lost both parents
D M Dean - Thornhill Mining Disaster 1893 - The Dewsbury Reporter had a picture of Queen Victoria with two of her close relatives
1877, 22nd October - Blantyre, more than 200 killed in explosion
Lorna Morris - Are there similar websites for other coalfields/mines?
Robert Bradley - Ollerton Closed 1994, After 69 Years
Robert Bradley - Rufford Closed 1993 After 82 Years
