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May 2013

New Section - In The News

Political Pressure To Save Britain's Last Coal Mines - May 2013

Gas From Coal - Oil Industry Expert Reveals Plans To Extract Gas From Coal Beds In Wales

Altofts Rescue Training Gallery, 1907 - Philip Wyles

'Bevin Boys' - Fife Miners Honoured - May 2013

April 2013

Ian - Photo Newcastle Pit, Nottingham

Alan Beales Database - Burial details of some of the men who died in pit accidents.

Bob Bradley - History of Coal Mining now up to 1930s

March 2013

Malcolm Roebuck - Photo Gallery - Memories of Teversal Colliery 1959 - 1980

Lofthouse Colliery Miners Remembered at Services - 21st March, 1973

Malcolm Roebuck - Memories of Teversal Colliery 1959 - 1980

Eckington Colliery Explosion - 17 Jan 1871

Brenda Joan Craddock - Artist. Apart from painting collieries, my hobbies have included paintings of local scenes, our local Miners Welfare display many of my prints

February 2013

Hatfield Colliery Landslide, South Yorkshire - February 2013

Daw Mill - Fire Could Close Mine, 28 Feb 2013

Geothermal Heating - Water from abandoned coal mines to provide up to 40% of Glasgow's heat.

Bob Bradley - History of Coal Mining now up to 1897

January 2013

Bob Bradley - History of Coal Mining now up to 1887

December 2012

Memories of Golden Valley By Doris Una Ball

Arthur Scargill loses London flat case

Oxcroft Colliery, Gas Explosion, 6 killed, 7 injured, 6th April 1919

Krakow Salt Mine - Photo Gallery Photos by Pete Ballan

Maltby Colliery Closes Dec 2012

Alan Beales Database - Admissions of Injured Miners to Nottingham General Hospital - Up to 1933 so far

Bob Bradley - A Major New Section - Part 2 - Up to 1860 so far

Drawings, Plans - Teversal Group of Pits, Silverhill, Sutton, Pleasley and Teversal Collieries - Robert Bradley

November 2012

Chimneys - The invention of the fireplace and chimney changed it all - Gallery

Jonas Todd and Sam Scorer, Glebe Pit, Washington - by Alan J Sharkey

Mr. Johnson, Butty, was in the habit of keeping powder for blasting purposes in his house - Dr David Woolliscroft

Children working down the pit, 1821 - Robert Bradley

Admissions of Injured Miners to Nottingham General Hospital 1846-1950

 

October 2012

Bob Bradley - A Major New Section - Part 2 - The Continued Rise Of The Industry To 1914

Brookhouse Colliery - 1958 'Overwind' Incident

Trepaner At Ormonde Colliery, Coal Magazine, 1956 - Philip Wyles

Alan Beales Database - Yorkshire, 1891 - 1899, another 963 names

Bob Bradley - A Major New Section - comprehensive history of mining in the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Coalfields

 

September 2012

Alan Beales Database - Yorkshire

Alan Beales Database - Nottinghamshire

Wharncliffe Disaster,1883

Alan Beales Database of Fatalities in the Midland Coal Fields

July 2012

The Welsh Coalfield

Death In Pits For The Heroes Of War

Albion Colliery Disaster, Cilfynydd, Wales. 290 dead - 1894

Fatal Accidents, West Hallam, Stanley and Shipley Collieries, Derbyshire

Cecil Raikes Locomotive was a steam engine used at Shipley Coppice Colliery

Ilkeston And Heanor, Where Coal Was King

Glamorgan pits were extremely difficult to mine

Tower Buy Out Bid - 1995

Beginning a new section - Some Information From Wales

Who are the UK's 21st Century miners?

Then and now: The Mines Rescue Service

Some pages are being enlarged

Miner Sacked For His Protest - D.A. Mackie

June 2012

Maltby, Yorkshire, 27 killed

May 2012

Doris Una Ball - Memories of Golden Valley - (An Extract)
Wallsend Colliery Explosion 1835
Universal - Senghenydd, Glamorganshire Colliery Explosion 1901
Windsor. Abertridwr, Glamorganshire, 3rd June 1902, 6 killed

April 2012

Carbon Capture - Clean coal must stay high on the agenda

March 2012

Photos, Enoch Edwards from Bill Edwards

Down The Old Coppice Colliery

Gallery - Collieries Around Mapperley (Derbyshire)

Kent Waiting Miner's new home, Fowlmead Country Park

February 2012

Photograph Galleries

Mapperley Colliery, Derbyshire

December

Wilfred Plowman – WWI "Y' know I left school at thirteen, y' can leave school at it if y' got a job.

September

Ince Moss Colliery Disaster 1871, 6th September.

John Gillon leased a mine from Colonel Carrick Buchanan of Drumpellier in 1869

Commonhead, Airdrie, 18 killed in explosion 1850, 23 July

Wishaw Colliery, 9 killed in firedamp explosion, 1849, 13 August

August

Whitwick, a Disaster occurred on the 19th April 1898 Killing 35 Miners

July

Cobb Collection, A series of photos taken in the East Midlands Coalfields in the early 1900s – Thanks to Elaine Sarson

Maurice Sochachewsky, Information from Tony Quinn
Walker Colliery Explosion, 1887. Northumberland. 8 lives lost.

June

New Winning Pit at Denby, c 1981, Mark Heath and Erika Belcher

April 2011

Manners Pit, Ilkeston, 1905, Colliery Explosion, 3 died
Poem Auchengeich - William J. Parkinson.

March 2011

Charles Sharkey - Rescue Brigadesman - Auchengeich Colliery Disaster in 1959
Malcolm Roebuck - Was a Safety Officer at Sherwood Colliery and has a collection of photographs
Darren Haywood - Notts Exminer's Photostream