December 2016
Jago Parker - My Great-Grandfather, William Thomas Parker Was a Durham Miner
Brenda Storey - Looking For William Street, Trimdon Grange, County Durham
Lesley Jones - Charles Greasley Died 1890, aged 47, whilst mining in the Mitchell Main Colliery
Mary - My Uncle, Barrie Nightingale, Died at Arkwright Colliery, 1966
Stu Monaghan - Bickershaw pit deaths, 1942 - Can you forward my E-mail address to Lizzie Podger
Peter Colloff - Old Tallie From Silver Hill Colliery - Disc Number 124
Gordon Fairlie - My late mum and dad’s house on Manners Road, Ilkeston Rescue Station.
I have found a huge underground room, the training shelter - And the hose box from the original 1926 /1940's fire engine.
Jim Henry - Blackridge Bothie Memorial, West Lothian.Trying to find out what happened to it when the railway was built as it is mentioned in the EIA for the railway line.
Alan Beales - Inquest Reports, Turkey Field
Roy Foulkes - Stanley Site Memorial Tub - West Hallam, Derbyshire
Margaret Goulding - My Grandfather, Charles Whitham, Was a Miner in South Yorkshire 1880-1930
Lynn Donnell - Fatalities in the Coal Field - Goldthorpe Pit South Yorkshire
Carole H - Martin Heavey - Bentley Pit Disaster, 1931
Dan - Looking For North Staffordshire seam diagram
Roy Foulkes - I believe the photo is a guy called Jack Buxton from Langley Mill
George Bell - Shireoaks Strongman, Jamie Reeves, goes for the World Strongman Title, 1988 Plus More Photos of Shireoaks Colliery
Alan Beales and Bob Bradley - Stories
David Page - Harry Riley and Brian Fretwell's New Eastwood Digest - Volume 2, to be launched at Eastwood Town Council Chambers Dec 13th 2016
November 2016
Stephen Sullivan - Worksop Library - Worksop Library - Manton Accident - Thomas Perkins Not in Database
Stephen Sullivan - Worksop Library - Worksop Library - Manton Accident - Thomas Perkins Not in Database
Jim Henry - Bilston Glen and Mauricewood Penicuik Memorials
George Bell - More Photos of Shireoaks Colliery
Dave Lodge - Looking for a photo and info about Barry Lomax killed in mining accident 2 Apr 1977, at Peckfield Colliery Micklefield. Court Case number 24922607g
Ken Townend - Crigglestone Colliery and the Townend Family
Jean Crossman - Looking For Info - Hartshorne, Hobson, Disney, Stainsbys and Harts of Stanley, West Hallam, and Heanor - And - Family @ Rossington Pit - Charles Ernest Wright, his wife Florence Lucy Wright they died 1992 and their son Ernest Wright born 1920
David Le Roy - Mine Accident Information - Eppleton I think, 1950s
John Eagan - Was there a scheme whereby ex-miners were "requested" to return to the mines before the 1943 Bevin Boy scheme started?
Trevor Armstrong - Photo, My grandfather, George Barrington Knowles, born in 1876, with the Hardwick No2 Rescue Team
Pye Hill Choire - YouTube Video of the Pye Hill & District Male Voice Choir
Dave Lodge - Looking For a Photo and Info about Barry Lomax killed in a mining accident 2 Apr 1977, at Peckfield Colliery Micklefield
Barrie Lewis - Hucknall’s monument honouring fallen pit-workers
Matt - Alans Data Base - Hucknall Memorials
John Hill - Changing Pump at Woodside Pit, Ex-British Coal men, Tony Lee, John Hill and Mick Taylor
Mark Smithers - Looking For Hi-Res Photo of 'Albert Edward' at Firbirk Collliery
Tim Elliott - Looking for Photos - I worked at Arkwright Colliery North Derbyshire
Marie Hunt - Arnold Local History Group
Robert Randall - Alans Data Base - Edward (Ted) Randall Died at Clipstone Colliery 1961
After 150 years, volunteers finally dig up the truth about
Barnsley mining disaster that killed 384
Maureen Spinks - Les Adams - Coatbridge Mines Rescue Station
Françoise Genty-Tilley - Data site on mine accidents and fatalities
Howard Benson - Photo from the Wath on Dearne Joint Rescue Station
Debbie Pawson - James Deakin was a miner at Manton Colliery sometime between 1939 and 1960
October 2016
Martyn Beardsley - Mining Occupations, Check Weighman?
Thi Minh Dao - Looking For More Information About Gr6s Flame Safety Lamp
Peter Turton - Alans Data Base - Mr Thomas Pilgrim of Mansfield Woodhouse Yorke Road
Jim Henry - Mining Memorials in Scotland - Prestonpans Mural - Wallyford, East Lothian, Scotland
Russ Purdy - High Park Colliery Accident 17 June 1945 - Arthur Cutts killed
BBC - Aberfan Disaster: 50th Anniversary Marked With Silence
Heather Wall - South Kirkby Colliery Deaths 1923 - Alfred Wall and James McNamara
 Josie Byrne - PIT BROW LASSES - On The Go theatre Co - I have just started to write a play about the Pit Brow Lasses
Oren B Orwin - Have you come across a mine owned by the Orwin’s
Mick McCusker - Alans Data Base - I think two men jumped down the shaft at Manton just before 1978
Roy Penman - Locomotives of Woodside Colliery 1952
Claire Johnson - Chesterfield Mine Rescue - Albert Johnson, My husband’s father is pictured on the left of this photo
Jim Henry - Andrew Fisher Memorial Cairn and Bench, Crosshouse village, By Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire
 Marian Tobin - Citizens Advice Bureau - Coatbridge Mines Rescue Station
John Eagan - My Late Father, John Eagan, worked at Firbeck, Maltby and Harworth Collieries. He Might Have Been a Bevan Boy
Theresa Merriman - My dad, William Merriman from Dublin, worked in Bilsthorpe Mine in the early 50's
Bill Rogers - Hartley Pit - Two photos taken of old glass slides I have
BBC - Battle of Orgreave: Inquiry decision due 'in October' 2016
David Redman - Bilthorpe Colliery, more information and photos
 Major Jane Kimberley - Picture of Salvation Army officer comforting a woman at Aberfan
Miners Strike 1984 - This was the most bitterly contested dispute, in modern history - 1984/85
September 2016
BBC - Nottinghamshire black miners' history project launched
Gail Higgs - How to find A. Darrell last known to be working at Kellingley
John Oliver - Mines Rescue - First Aid Competition, Mr J Hall's Medal 1932
Colin Rowland - Harry Rowland Died Down Moorgreen Pit 1960
Carole Pickin - David Barnardo - Mrs C Lamb's book on the Minnie Pit Disaster
Sean Brady - Thomas Feast Farby Saved the Lives of Eight Men at Sutton Colliery, 1899
Vincent John Hewitt - Edmund Hewitt Lidgett coal mine death 1895
Michael Glover - The story behind a poem - Lives of the First World War Blog
David Redman - I started work at Bilthorpe Colliery in June 1968
Gordon Fairlie - William Fairlie, Wally Fairlie as he was known around Ilkeston Mines Rescue Station
Gill Eades - Mining Ancestors - My Grandfather William Henry Smith, born in Selston 1872
Coral Orchard - Looking for my grandad's records, Eliza Bradley born in 1889
Alan Beales - Inquest, Mr. Gershom Marshall died Bilsthorpe Colliery 1936
Stephen Berrill - Where can I find mine plans for Silverhill?
David Slade - NCB Mines Rescue Service enquiry, Thomas H Linley
David Redman - Accident, Gershom Marshall Accidently Killed at Bilsthorpe 1936
Alison Walters - ‘In loving memory of the victims of the Rufford Pit Disaster February 7th 1913’
Elizabeth - Joseph Keith Barnes was My Uncle, he Died at Williamthorpe Colliery Age 18 in 1945
Terence Plummer - RE: Victoria, the only shaft I know of that once wound coal from three different levels
Edmund Birchall - New book MEN OF COAL
R Markham - Records - Do mining records exist (general employment)
Frank Bunting - I am writing a detailed article on Edward Bunting’s family for publication and need a copy of the 1739 Philip Hutchinson map of South Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire coalfields
Helen Bantock - Frank Smith born 1877 died 1946-7
Martyn Webb - Webb Family Research - My Grandfather, William Webb, was a coal miner. He moved to Monkton Row, Near Brierley Yorkshire sometime between 1881 and 1891.
Nicholas Kotarski - Arthur Kotarski Was Killed at Williamthorpe Colliery 1931, Boiler Explosion
Martyn Fretwell D&B - Bilsthorpe Colliery Brickworks
Karen Mcguinness - John Davis, should be Joe Davis, Killed Gedling Borrows Street
August 2016
Fred Southey - Wrong Pit! Albert Newbourgh Holding Little Duke, the Pony, at Shirland Colliery
Carole Pickin - My grandfather, James Humphries, was an employee, a contractor and a Mines Rescue Man at Hanley deep where he died in 1938
Katja Hock - I am about to project my new work on the side of the Newton Building and Nottingham Contemporary's side window on the 12th of Nov 2016
Jim Henry - Mining Memorials in Scotland, now on page 14, Woolmet and Monktonhall Collieries
Alyson Morley - My Father, Frank Morley Ilkeston Rescue Station, Medallion Presentations 1973
Jackie Barnard - Albert Prescott, B.1917, Lost An Arm In 1932, Possibly At Bickershaw Colliery
Steven Carter - Samuel Swingewood (my great grandfather) worked at Bilsthorpe Colliery (about 1935) then Sutton-in-Ashfield. By 1939 he was living in Sherwood
John Macdonald - We are setting up an Industrial Heritage Trail to Tell the Story of New Lount Colliery
Stephen Wilkins - Linby Winder - My Late Father, Joe Wilkins, Was a Fitter at Bentinck
Stephen Wilkins - Bentinck Winder - My Late Father, Joe Wilkins, Was a Fitter at Bentinck
Neil Keyworth - Derbyshire Falalities - Thomas Thornwill 1907 - Swadlincote
Edward Aveyard - Wakefield Pits
Jim Henry - Mining Memorials in Scotland, now 10 pages
George Bell - Shireoaks Iron Shafts - Two Cappings
Neil Williams - Alans Data Base - Desmond Hudson accident, Mansfield Colliery, 1984
George Bell - Photo, Shireoaks Colliery from the Canal about 1910
Girvan - The shipping of coal began from Girvan harbour in 1837
July 2016
David Martin - 1849 boat picture, where was this picture taken?
Jim Henry - Mining Memorials in Scotland
Teresa-Ann McNeillie - My father-in-law, Robert Fulton McNeillie, was killed at Barony Mine in 1975, how can I find his token number?
Ilona Streeting - Giant miner puppet takes first steps - BBC News
Andy Prada - "Engineering the Loos Salient 1915-2018" - Trying to get in touch with Elliott Mills
Chris Bradley - Alans Data Base - Philip King - I was with Phil shortly before the accident
Jigar Patel - Regarding the Study of Safety Detaching Hook
Eirwen Palmer - Ian Winstanley - trying to locate the 1842 Royal Commission reports
Sheron Boyle - Crigglestone Accident
Stephen Sullivan - Frances Charles Potts died 25th May 1962, Manton Colliery
Michael Glover - "Miners" is a poem by Wilfred Owen
He wrote the poem in direct response to the Minnie Pit Disaster in which 156 miners died.
Michael Glover - Lives of the First World War - 1918 Mini Pit Disaster
This is a breakthrough, miners who died or worked in the mines and survived during WW1 will now be renamed as the Other Empire Force and
The Regiment is - The Coal Industry and
The Rank of the miner is - Coal Mine Worker
Robert Bradley - Research Work - Are there any historical (or current) shallow workings that extend under our seas?
Jeremy Manners - Fauld Mine - My Family - J.C. Staton & Co. Ltd.
 Joan Smalley - Notts Miners Banners Trust - We are hoping to preserve or replicate the mining banners
Frances Carson - Alfred Blount Died Hartshay Pit 1930
Pam Jones - There is a photo, on your website, of the Territorials from Cwm in Aberystwyth, one of them could be my grandfather!
Nigel Butler - Your Website, Absolutely Amazing
Mary Hellewell - The Oaks Colliery Explosion, John Hellewell was my 2 times great-grandfather
Vicky - Oaks Colliery Disaster - Rhodes Brothers Memorial
Charles and Teresa Snarski - We knew your grandad, Crispin Hodgkiss
Steve Sutton - Alans Data Base, Thorney Abbey Rd., Blidworth
Charles Snarski - Medallion Presentations, 1973, Ilkeston Co-op
June 2016
David Page - Vol.2. Eastwood Nottinghamshire: times past and present
Katherine Keys - I have been fighting mesothelioma cancer for the past 9 years
BBC - 'Battle of Orgreave': Probe into 1984 miners' clash policing ruled out - 12 June 2015
Eesh Kumar Kintali - Query regarding use of wire mesh in safety lamp
Marilyn Tilley - Number 2 Colliery, Sherwood, Frederick Herbert Shaw killed Nov 1940
 Ken Anderson - George Claytor, Mines Rescue. Born Clays Cross 1877 and served in The Notts and Derby Sherwoods during WW1
Bevin Boys Association - Update Information - Bevin Boys Association
Michael Wolvin - NUM Cotgrave Mining Plates
Tim Bennett - When I was metal detecting in Mapperley I found a pit motty belonging to a Mr Howitt
BBC News - Boulby potash miner John Anderson killed in 'gas blowout'
Levi Cale - Hucknall No1 Colliery, Pit Death 1874
Gordon Elsey - Stephen Offer - Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Explosion 1881
Darren Gerrard - Stephen Offer - Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Explosion 1881
May 2016
Mary Swain - Crigglestone Mining Disaster, 1941 - I am the DAUGHTER of Robert Wilson White
Eric Savage Of The Mines Rescue Service, Cowdenbeath - An Account of Michael Colliery Fire
 Frances Watt - Permission to use Pit Pony Photo
George Bell - More Photographs Shireoaks Colliery
Brigitte Todd - Joseph Smith, died in the Rounds Green Pit Disaster 1846, what happened to his widow?
 Ane Ringheim Eriksen - Photo of Smoke Helmet in Use
Ian Shaw - Five Pits Trail North Wingfield, Looking for Photo's of the Railway Crossing, Highfields Crossing
Yvette Campbell - Error, My Grandfather, William Charles Buxton Died Swanwick Colliery 1951
Alan Beales - Fatalities, Grange Farm Cossall Outcrop - Additions to Gedling, Hucknall No 2 and Babbington
Sharon Bartholomew - Trying to find people who knew my Granddad, Ken Ashcroft, at Cronton Pit, Lancashire from 1946 until it closed
Steve - Teaching Kids About Genealogy and Family History
Chris Jepson - Frederick Ernest Jepson was the oldest miner to die in the Easington Mining Disaster in 1951
Maureen Wilson - Alexander Hardie died at the Margaret Pit, Newbottle 1922 aged 29
Jerry Rollinson - Shireoaks Record Breakers, 4 Names added to photo
Belinda Tate - Edward Marshall Killed at Hunstall Colliery, Derbyshire, 4 Jan 1876
Dawn Evans - Mining Accident - My father, Trevor Ashbridge, was killed at New Stubbin Colliery, South Yorkshire
April 2016
Lizzie Podger - Can you put me in touch with the Monaghan family Bickershaw/ Leigh
Cath Burley - My Father, Roland Bowler, Was a Bevin Boy in Nottinghamshire
Kath Walker - Re: Graham Coe - Firbeck Main Memorial Garden
Graham Coe - Firbeck Main Memorial Garden
Elizabeth Hawksworth - Mining Accident - Arnold Hodgkiss, Aged 19, Died at Cortonwood 1943
William Meese - Alans Data Base - Mr Albert Fletcher killed at Kiveton Park
David Stevens - Wanted Info and photos of Gedling
Zeita Stephens - Additional Information for Samuel Spriggs who died Worksop (Priory) St Mary 1874
Linda Bailey - 1907 Barrow Pit Disaster, Frank Dobson was my great grandad
Looking for Information, My Grandfather Vincent Glen Nam Died at Gedling Colliery 1965
Deborah Scales - Langley family in particular John Langley and Samuel Langley
Phil and Jean Robinson - Miner's Deaths, Statistics
Pat Barlow - General query - ‘on the cinder path’
 New Section - Wheels - Memorials - Looking for photos of Wheels
Christine Booth - Thomas Fowler was killed at South Kirkby pit 1944
March 2016
John Gill - Seeking Information on James Byrne - Killed in Pit Explosion, 1909 - 1911
Helen Gillespie - Question about Coal Engineer Training in 1875
Andrew Cooke - Looking for a list of Notts towns/villages/locations where the pit wheel still stands
 Caroline Frewin - A passionate new play 'Tinned Goods' Nottingham Arts Theatre next week 1st April
John Fletcher - Looking for a list that covers mining fatalities at Cronton Colliery, Lancashire
Steve Anastasiadis - A Guide To Free Genealogy and Family History Books
Andrew Mailer - Help please - Eccles Protector Lamp GR6S
Lesley Henderson - Do you have an estimate of the number of people Rescued by Mines Rescue
Andy Coupe - Felling of Ripley Colliery Chimney
Lucy Cann - Research - Miners' Strike of 1984-5
Bob Bradley - Mines Rescue Images
Andrew Fielding killed - Thoresby Colliery, Eruption of Hydrocarbons (gas, water, oil and coal) 1995
Liz - Death at Firbeck of 16 year old John Thomas Richard Heape, 1941
Chris Morton - I’m trying to find out where my late dad, William Patrick Morton, might have been a Bevin Boy
Pauline Broome - Alan's Data Base - My uncle, Cyril Dale, died in Harworth Pit 1958
Philip Hepworth - Tibshelf and Newton mining questions - 1934, My Grandfather Harry Smith, 59, was killed in a clay pit by a collapse of clay probably triggered by an explosive left accidentally in the clay.
David Bond - Looking for Information on Houghton Fire and Rescue Station
February 2016
Eunice Shaw (Nee Jones) - David Jones Died at Pilsley Colliery, Derbyshire 1918
Terry Calow - My Grandfather, Sidney Bramley, was Killed at Williamthorpe Colliery 19 Aug 1944
Paul Denton - 75th Anniversary of the Crigglestone Mining Disaster
David Lloyd - Looking For Information Annesley/Newstead Pits - And a few photos
 Kenneth Hayes - Picture of a Miner Bathing =>
Susannah Webb - Alans Data Base - My x2 great uncle Stephenson Hargreaves
Rob Grieves - Medals - Service Medals - 5, 10, 15 years
Rob Grieves - I’ve got some articles which might be helpful to Ken Sinclair
Jane Dodge - BBC INQUIRY - Making A Documentary For BBC East Midlands About Pit Closures In The Ilkeston Area 1966
Barry Robertson - Looking For Photos - Burngrange Pit Disaster, 1947
Jane Booth - Any Info, which Mine Did My G,G Grandfather and G,G Uncle work at? Chesterfield area
Claire Wandless - James Wandless, aged 16, killed May 1853 at Whitwood Pit, Potefract, Yorkshire
Pat Gerard - Woodside Colliery
Sue Gainey - My 2nd great grandfather William Rhodes is not mentioned in your list of those who died
Stefan Conner - Gibbs Rebreather
Lesleyann Callery - Frickley Pit - Looking for a list of miners that worked at Frickley and their pit check numbers
Anne King - My Great Grandfather, Jason Parry, Died in the Albion Pit Disaster, 1894
Alison Bridge - Stephen Pitchford Died on 24th December 1873
Peter Gardener And Alfred Chivers Fell Down The Shaft Ackton Hall Colliery 1958
Trev - Do You Have Any Photos of Glapwell Colliery? I Left Glapwell in 1972
Kellingley Colliery in Pictures - Visit Ian Castledine's Web Site
Barrie Mellor - Ings Coking Plant, West Yorkshire, Looking For Information
Gillian Brogden - Where Can I Buy A Nottinghamshire Area Miners Lamp?
Michelle Smith - My Great Grandfather, Arthur Baldwin, Was Killed At The Age Of 37 At Bullcroft Colliery
Hartley David Frederiksen - My Father, Peter Fredericton, Worked At Mosley Common 1946 To 57 and was North West Middle Weight Champion
Nick Pigott - Query about mine names
Paul Brown - Healey Hero Website - Thank you for the fantastic website you have created
January 2016
 Jago Parker - My Great-Grandfather, William Thomas Parker Was a Durham Miner
Jago Parker - Thomas Parker - Died Iveston Colliery 1943
Pat Pearson - Coatbridge Mines Rescue - Les Adams
James Hawksley - Fatality to add. My father Ernest Hawksley died at Whitwick Colliery 1942
Ellen Brown - The Kaitangata Coal Mine Disaster in New Zealand
Tracey Waters - My 2 x Great Granddad Edward Gill was apparently killed in an accident at Unstone Colliery
Bill McCue was brought up in a Scottish Mining Community
Richard Ault - Mining in North Staffordshire, Minnie Pit Disaster, 'Way We Were' edition of The Sentinel, Staffordshire
J. Darley - Looking For The NCB Paint Codes For Yellow And Blue
Maurice Dawson - Looking For More Information About An Art Deco Style, Iron Panel From Clifton
Maurice Dawson - Miner’s Lamp to Commemorate Thoresby Colliery Baths Ceremony 1949
George Humes - Crossfines Row - could you tell me the location please
John Heaton Gray - Hoyland Silkstone Colliery 23rd Nov 1907 - In Memory
J. Darley - Nostell Mines Rescue Team at Lofthouse 1973 - Who Are the 3 front men?
Glyn Bowen - Any Information - Mines Rescue Vehicle, Malta 1991
Gren Gaskell - My Dad, John Gaskell, Killed Bestwood Pit, 19 Sep 1940 
Brian Burbidge - Alans Data Base - Eric Brown, Calverton
Bob Bradley - Wilfred Robinson Died December 2013
Richard Waldron - Mining Injury, My Great Grand Father John Alvien Waldron Who Worked At Gedling
Horace Lister - Hapton Valley Explosion
Jeff Donson - Any Information About Denby Hall Pit Near Ripley Derbyshire
Roy Smith - Welsh Menu (Emails) I would like to get in touch with Andy Carroll
Sarah Kelly - My Grandfather, John Kelly, was injured in a fire around 1955 at the Bradford Power Plant
Chris Lloyd - Maypole Pit Disaster, 1908 - I am the great-grandson of Thomas Lloyd Who Died In The Disaster.
Mark Wilkie - Joseph Humble, New Hartley Colliery Disaster, Under-Viewer (Drapers Store)
 
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