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Click here to visit the Black Gold project. It is the main official centre-point for the creative works designed to highlight and mark the 50th anniversary of the Auchengeich mining disaster. |
| If you like poetry and stories, you will hopefully enjoy visiting my site. Rose Potter |
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Painting in the Miners' Offices at Berry Hill. by the artist, pit man's son, Paul Fillingham. Contact Paul |
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You Could visit a Mining Museum :-
| Yorkshire Main An excellent site lots of pictures and information. We need more sites like this to keep memories alive. | |
| Scottish Mining Villages The site was set up to gather information on some of the mining towns and villages in Fife, Lanarkshire and other areas of Scotland. We hope you find this information useful and please call back -the site is a work in progress and we are adding new material all the time. |
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Fife Mining Heritage Society |
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The Haig Colliery Mining Museum |
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The City of Greater Lithgow Mining Museum Inc. |
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| The Durham Mining Museum has been set up to found and maintain a mining museum to retain the knowledge and history of those that helped drive the industrial revolution and all that followed. The museum will be focused on the mining history, heritage and culture of the Durham Coalfield in particular, as well as mining in general. |
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| National Coal Mining Museum, Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield, UK More of a site about the museum, so very useful if you are going to visit it. The Museum is near Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK. |
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A great day out for all ages. This special attraction was created at the site of Staffordshire's Apedale Mine. For further prices and details please contact Les Mason on Tel 01785 813417. |
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For more information you could read :-
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Hector Tyler's book 'The Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Severn'. Back in 1918 a miner vanished; there was an extensive search of the mine but he was never seen again. His name was Thomas Severn, Under Manager at Mapperley Pit, Derbyshire. For more information click here ISBN 978-0-9557146-0-3
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Hersden, Chislet Colliery Village, published in 2003. It is the story and history of a colliery and its people brought from all corners of the UK to man a colliery in Kent and the village built to house them. It includes The Birth of the Kent Coalfield, The mineworkers welfare fund and the pit head baths, Chislet Colliery Welfare Association, The Silver Band, The School, Church, Growing up in Hersden, a mining trainee, Kent pit language, to name a few, with many photos of the colliery and village events. A more compressive description can be found at buylocalbooks.co.uk. Ross Llewellyn |
| Andy Paterson Long-time mining and social historian and author, Andy Paterson lives in Errol in Perthshire. Copies of Andy's book "A Blast from the Past" can be purchased directly from him at: BlantyrePast@aol.com Andy can also be contacted by phone on 01821 642592 |
The book contains maps, photographs and detailed plans of several coal mines in and surrounding Smalley. Further details about the book can be found on the following web pages:-
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I need more information. This site started off as Philip's scrap book but it is now ready to expand. |
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