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Mines - Emails

Martyn Chappell - Looking For Info., Newton Lane or Newton Colliery, Wrenthorpe area of Wakefield
Malcolm Grattan - Any Info About Thoresby From 1953 To 1990 – Also How Many People Lost Their Lives At Thoresby Colliery
Ken Laws - Looking For Information, Pumping Station Early 1950's Regent Pit Shaft, Coxlodge Colliery, Gosforth
Russ Hamer - Colliery Memorial Group, We Need Plans For The Surface Buildings, Specifically The Koepe Towers
Kerry Hartshorn - Any Information - Beechwood Colliery in Derbyshire????
Russel Walters - Where Is Catty Pond, Is It Linked To Catty Pit?
Barbara Baker - Were there just two mine shaft in Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Bryan Maloney - I Am Looking For Any Photos Of Cossall Coal Mines In Nottinghamshire
John Dye - Was Winding Wheel at Renishaw Park Colliery powered by electricity?
Christopher Baker - Gedling Colliery - GNR Railway In Train Simulator 2014, Looking For Gradient Profile
Anita Pryor - Any Information about East Pool Mine, Cornwall during WW2, which was kept open for tungsten.
Peter Gurd -Would Radford fatalities appear under Wollaton - Can you identify and locate High Holborn colliery?
Jason Bufton - Any Information - Spital Colliery, Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Barrie Eckford - Memorial? - Acknowledgement of Bradford Colliery Existence.
Ian Hill - Looking for Robinettes drift mine. When it opened / closed, who owned it etc
Sidney Jones - Can You Identify These Yorkshire Collieries?
Jacquie Maxted - Which of the Shipley Pits would have been referred to as ‘Waterloo Pit'?
Ben Hyder -Looking for Photos of Portland Colliery

Margaret Bunch - Any Information - My great grandfather, William Cambell/Campbell, died Bunns Lane Colliery, Dudley, West Midlands, 1842
Gareth Parfitt - Looking for a new copy of the book 'One Saturday Afternoon' about the Albion Colliery Disaster, Cilfynydd, by R Meurig Evans
Jacquie Yeates - I am looking for some historical images of Kirkby
Ray Wright - Silverhill Colliery - my father “Charlie Wright “ had a roadway named after him off the central return airway.
Pat Robson - Looking For Information About An Old Mine Test Shaft, East Of North Road, Hetton
Kevin Walters - Looking for a survey map of seams worked
Amanda Durgan - St John’s Ambulance Accident Club 1874, Tibshelf Colliery, Derbyshire
Billy Williams - Any Information, Welsh Drift Mine, 1930s, Glynneath Area ‘Come Here To Die’
Rowland Daley - Where Was Denby Hall Colliery? Any Pictures?
Miss Kelly - Looking For More Information Bradford Colliery, My granddad, Henry Bairsto, wrote a book on his experience in the colliery
Damon Donaldson - Wigan, where are the Britannia Pit and the other two unnamed shafts?
Louise Brandwood - Moved to Bickershaw Collery - Would like a photo of the colliery for the house
Graham Watts - Kilburn Colliery - My Grandfather, William Wilson, was blamed for a fatal accident
Keith Sellors - Looking for details of fatal pit accidents at Pyehill Pit, Jacksdale
Mary - URGENT - Why was this pit called The Burley Pit - Apedale?
Val - Looking for Cotgrave Underground Maps
Bill Saxton - Looking for photograph and information on the New London Pit, Nottinghamshire
Scot - Looking for information / photos on Oakthorpe Colliery and Newfield Colliery near Donisthorpe
Frank Box - Trying to find information on Cronton Colliery
Phil Wild - 'Who do You Think You Are' Carr Bros and J Carr & Co

Mrs Pauline McKay - Looking For The FIlm Of Pleasley Colliery Made In 1940s
Judy Hamer - Bilsthorpe Colliery Memorial Gates – Who Was George Lancaster?
Mike Coxon - Why Was Part Of The Stanley Pit Head Gear Left In Place Until The Late 1980's
James Reeve - Looking For Detailed Plans Or Photos Of The Old Mapperley Coal Screens Site
Ron Wilson - Is it possible to visit the Trimdon Grange Colliery where my Grandfathers worked as children?
James Fildes - Looking For A Pit Near Bradford Colliery, 1970s
Helen Coan - Looking for a picture of Manners Pit, Ilkeston, for the Disney Family book I'm writing
Tony Douglass - Any Information About Pentrich, The Missing Colliery
Philip Robinson
- Joseph Robinson Killed 1917 - Looking For Copyright Free Photos of Underwood Pit
June Hope - Lookin For The Full Newspaper Article On The Wharncliffe Woodmoor Disaster 1936
Mervyn Robbins - Nutbrook Colliery Ventilation Furnace Cupola - are there any others?
Stephen Hill - Can you tell me the name of the pits around Burradon c1871?
Paul Wrobel - Looking For Old Firbeck Colliery Photo's For The New Information Centre
Tracy Ashall - Pretoria Pit Diasaster 1910, Is there going to be a 100 years service?
Andrew Lovell   - Looking for pictures of Rufford Colliery
Tracy Nicol - Trying to find a mine that was in Rishton, Lancashire
Avis Whileman - Why was Parkhouse Colliery, known as Catty Pit?
Margaret Carroll - Looking For Information About Iron Ore Mines Around Whitehaven About 1875
Lauren N. Bowen - I am a medical researcher looking into mining explosions dated near the 1700s or before
Keeley Jopson - Imperial War Museum. Looking For Photo of Bickershaw Colliery around 1940
Alison Hill - When Did Kilburn Colliery Open, Close Then Re-Open?
Gemma Whelan - Any Information About Selby Colliery And Surrounding Mines?
Scott - Any Information On The Two Coal Mine Shafts At Stanton-by-Dale?
Tony Holmes - Clipstone Colliery, did the locos come out when the pit closed?
Maureen Crofts - Do you have any information on Ramcroft Colliery? My father was a ripper there.
Val - My ancestors were miners; which mines were in the Denby Ripley/Kilburn area in the 1830's?
Justin Parkes Farme Colliery, Rutherglen - Rotative Newcomen Engine
Allan Foster - Was Trowell Field on the same site as the later pit?
Mickey121 - What was the name of the street where the Bradford Pit mine shaft used to be?
Paul Burdett - Help - Making a Documentary Called the Coalfields of North East Derbyshire
Colin Ryan - Looking For Information Pomfret or Pomfrit and Bradford Pit Records
John Ellis - Looking For Information Millfield Colliery in 19th Century
Christine - Looking For Information About Moorgreen Colliery
Dortha Steele - Eastwood Coalmines. Does Nigel Harrison Still Have his Eastwood Site?
Janell Sharp - Looking For Information, The 1914 Explosion At Henry Ellison And Co. Works
Kev Bannister - Did Oxcroft Colliery in Stanfree in Derbyshire Have a Logo or Badge?
Andrew Burton - Bestwood Colliery Nottinghamshire
John Brackenridge - Is "The Brave Don’t Cry" on DVD? Knockshinnoch Mining Disaster.
Louise Cairns - When Was The Diggle Flash Formed?
Barry Collins - Any Old Photos of Coal Wagons From Cadeby or Barnborough?
Tom Barber - Thomas Philip Barber of Barber Walker and Company Collieries
Ruth Tait - Pollington Colliery
Another Pit in the Ilkeston Area - Little Hallam Beauty Spot, but which pit is it?
John Bishop - Looking for info and photos on Blidworth from its sinking until about 1957
Wayne Stocks - Looking for Harworth Headgear Installation Photos or/and Video
Lisa Deakin - Looking for a photo of Pollington Pit, Brinsley
Lee Alexander - Is This The Hetty Shaft?
Carol Blackwood - Aiming To Create A Snowdown Colliery Memorial Sculpture
Barry Yeardley - Looking for a Drift Mine Near Barnsley, Early 50s
Colin - Summit Pit, any more photos
Keith Burton - Looking for Information About Cotgrave Colliery Coal Washing Plant
Alan Wake - Looking for Photos and History of Watnall Brickworks
Linda Stringer - Silverwood Colliery - American Relative Sinks Mine. Any Info?
Cameron Ingram - Moving to and Living in Kippax, a former mining village in West Yorkshire
Diane Spargo - Any Information, James Spargo and The Antegloro Coal Mine?
Marc Stephens - Mine Shaft Locations - Beswick area, Manchester
David Haycock (DLA Architecture) - Firbeck Main Colliery - Does anyone have any knowledge of the series of ‘mine owners’ from 1913 onwards?
Alex Keatings - Where can I get information about the Lindsay colliery disaster in Kelty 1957?
David Haycock (DLA Architecture) - I am an architect working in Wakefield, with an interest in the Firbeck colliery.
June Withers - Are they making a film about Tower Colliery, Glamorgan, staring Catherine Zeta Jones?
Eddie Bristow - Rufford, Sherwood & Welbeck Brick Yards in the 40s early 50s. My father Herman (Harry) Bristow was a fireman in the kilns.
Susan Bradley - Who owns the Diglake Colliery and Boyles Hall Colliery?
Susan Bradley - How do they make sure old shafts are safe?
John Potts - The Weigh Bridge and Weigh Office at Cotgrave is Missing
Richard Bartrop What Are They Doing At Pinxton Colliery 1902?
Jane McCauley Morgan - Babington Nottingham - Tony Greaves
Rachel Naylor - Any Photos of Harry or Barry Naylor Langton Colliery 1963-65?
Jonathan Hunt - Woodside Pumping Station Near Ellistown
Toot25 - Looking For Photos Of South Leicester Colliery Near Ellistown
Wendy White - Looking For a Picture of Shipley Pit Bottom
Kevin - Looking for Pictures Of Cortonwood Colliery
Sam Leek - Do any parts of the Warsop Collier still exist?
Mrs C Carroll - Roscow Mines - New Lester Colliery and Peel Hall Colliery in Bolton?
Tony Eaton - Is there a history book about Bentley Colliery?
Neville Greenhalgh - Cotgrave Colliery - underground working
Karen Spake - Looking For Information On Either The Gater Family Or Talk O'th Hill
Obillyeagl
- Whereabouts was Stones Pit
Sue Copestake
- Looking For Millfield Colliery Ilkeston 1860,S
Mrs C Carroll - Thorneyhurst Colliery
Tim Do Any Working Collieries Have Open Days?
R F Pickford Any Information about Coed Gwydy Mine 1918 +
Philip R. Leese I could use Photos of Mow Cop and Harriseahead
Tom Evans How could the mining practices of Elsecar colliery be reconstructed from the current remains.
Janette Looking For A Photo of Baton Colliery, Shotts, Lanarkshire
Mary Semple Vanished pit, the “Doctor's Pit" Motherwell
Angela Ganss Interpretation board for the Moorgreen Colliery country park
Gail Holman Manvers Main Colliery
Dave Lloyd When did the Griff coal field first start?
Ron Booth I need photos of Radford and Wollaton Collieries
Sally Help!! I need pictures of Hicky Main
Maggie Blakey Looking For Old Pictures of Clowne Mines For A University project.
Keith .M. Muscroft Any Information about Thorpe Hesley Pit near Rotherham or Big Ada?
Val Canning
John Thomas Rigley, Babbington Colliery
Tony Elliott Looking for pictures of the Backworth and Earsdon area, the mines and the dollywasher.
Mick Atack Looking for underground plans Markham Colliery
Elizabeth Hodgson Babbington Colliery, Cinderhill



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Rescue Stations - Emails

Catherine Burton - Researching Coal Mine Canaries
Kirsty Bond - When Did The Mines Rescue Station in Houghton le Spring, Tyne and Wear Open?
Neil Willis - Looking for information, Mines Rescue George Henry Willis 1907-1983 Electrician and eventually chief electrician
Helen Martinez - Erewash Museum - Ilkeston Mining Exhibition - Require images of the Ilkeston Mines Rescue Station and/or the men that worked there.
Lynn - Looking For Pictures of Coatbridge Mines Rescue Station
Phil Clifford - When Was Ilkeston Mines Rescue Station Opened?
Sue Medley - Can anyone remember the film which was made at Mansfield (and another Stations I think) - it was probably in the early 60s and was called 'Call for Action' - a documentary shown on BBC?
John Harrington - Information about Emergency Winders wanted.
Graham - Any info on any stations in South Wales, particularly around the Blackwood /Oakdale/Crumlin area.
Philip Robinson My grandfather, Oswald Robinson, was a Mines Rescue worker at the Central Rescue Station at Houghton-le-Spring. Is there an online list of employees at this station with dates?
Dave Holden Any Pictures of Boothstown Rescue Station on Ellenbrook Road?
James Brown
George L Brown was at Mansfield Mine Rescue station in the 40's and 50's
Peter Bonser
Albert James BONSER, Mansfield, Ilkeston and Chesterfield Stations.
Ken Sinclair
I am the colliery safety/training officer at Ellington Colliery (UK Coal) in Northumberland.
Lloyd Boardman North Staffs Coalfield - I intend to publish




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Disasters/ Explosions etc. / Deaths - Emails

Vikki Jowitt - Help University Project, Lundhill Colliery and the Explosion in 1857
May L Anderson - Auchengeich - Can I Get A Copy Of The Inquiry Report?
Susan Bradley - Looking for 2nd inquest, Diglake Flooding 1895, took place in the 1930s
Jim Wilson - West Stanley Mining Disaster
Alan Creswell fire of 1950, Can you tell me where Frederick Barker was born?
David Barnardo - Where can I find Mrs C Lamb's book on the Minnie Pit Disaster?
Sam - Any Information, Thomas Mountford Killed Chatterley Mine 1919
Pam Abercrombie - Looking For A Book About The 1860 Burradon Mine Accidend
Mary - Where can I find names of killed miners, Grassmoor Derbyshire 1933?
Terry Bostock - Looking for names of those killed in the 1880 Fair Lady disaster
Stewart Buxton - Looking for Richard Temprell and Creswell Pit Disaster 1950
Roy Gasken Looking for a list of the victims of the Chatterley Whitfield 1881 Disaster
W.T. Hollins - Where can we get a copy of the Lundhill explosion by P.H. Holland 1859
Lorraine Ash - Brownhills, Staffordshire, a feeling of devastation
Gaye Wilson - I would like a copy of the Memorial photograph Mossfield disaster 1889
Eddie Auld - Was There a Backworth Mine Disaster Around 1895 to 1900?
Mrs B Jones - Looking for the grave of Mr. George Manley, Sneyd pit explosion 1st Jan 1942
David Clifford - Where was Seggenth Pit and when was the disaster.
Fionn Who died in the Markham pit disaster 1973?
Jane Looking for survivors of the Markham pit disaster 1973
Ashley Price Minnie Pit Disaster, Newcastle-Under-Lyme Museum.
Kaye Thompson Trying to find out more about Edward Thompson who was in the hotseat for the mine accident at Chatterley Whitfield 1881
Eliot Reeves Mining explosion figures
Dave Stretton Any information re:1939, 28th October, Valleyfield, Fife 35 killed?
Carol Van De Sande My Grandad And The Sneyd Pit Disaster
Next Stop Productions Shipley Coppice Colliery Disaster 1943
Bob at Kansas, USA Knockshinnoch disaster, were the bodies ever recovered?
Brian Pover Two of my great uncles died in the Diglake Disaster
Revd June Steventone I am thinking about having a special service in 2008 to mark the centenary.
Karen Wright
- Creswell Pit Disaster, Lawrence Brady, area 5 rescue team, any information?
Marion Hebblethwaite - Ezra Clarke Rescuer, Holditch Colliery Explosion 1937, is there a memorial?
Audrey Murray - Michael Coal Mine Disaster 1939
Debbie Monaghan Monaghans of Leigh I believe my grandfather was killed in a pit accident in the Leigh, Lancashire area, possibly during the war years.
John Watts Info on colliery accident Bestwood Colliery Nottinghamshire
Don Stowell Talke o' the Hill disaster - 1866
Harry Dobson
Mining Fatality Harry Dobson, 1958
Mary Warner
Pit Disaster in Fife, possibly Knockshinnoch Castle
Fleetham 7
Any Information About The Linday Pit Explosion 14 Dec 1957?
Susan Bradley
I am setting up a website specifically about the men who died in the Diglake flooding in 1895
Ian Blairs
My great-grandfather died at Minnie Pit instead of going to the Chester Races
Elizabeth
Any Info About My Grandfather, Fred Hooley He Worked At The Bradford Colliery 1925 - 37
Keith Lockey
My father 'Nipper' was killed in 1956 at Bedlington 'A' - Northumberland.

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