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Dec 2019
Ilona Streeting - Ironbridge Power Station and Littlebrook Power Station Brought Down
Sheryl Moore - Worldwide Mining Disasters Project on WikiTree, a Free Genealogy Site
Patrick Robertson - Keep the Momentum Going. The Local Paper Printed My Letter in Yesterdays Issue
Robert Bradley - Women in Underground Mining Again in 21st Century
Robert Bradley - Power Stations
Ian Winstanley - Alphabetical List of Mining Victims in Great Britain, Pre 1840
Nov 2019
Robert Bradley - A Unique History From My Work Diaries - Under Construction
Roland Laycock - One of the best songs to come out of the miners strike
Patrick Robertson - Update, trying to get a mining memorial in place in Workington
Alan Beales - More Information, Fatalities at Digby Colliery 1886 - 1928
Alan Beales - More Information, Fatalities at Eastwood 1835 - 1878
Oct 2019
Alan Beales - More Information, Fatalities at Broxtowe 1901 - 1930s
Alan Beales - More Information, Fatalities at Giltbrook Pit 1840s - 1860s
Alan Beales - More Information, Fatalities at Bilborough Pit 1700s - 1800s
Alan Beales - More Inquests - Brinsley Colliery, Nottinghamshire
Jim Henry - Cardowan Memorial Stepps Unveiled 19-Oct-2019
Jim Henry - Whin Hall Memorial, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Updated
Jim Henry - More Photos, Fauldhead Colliery Memorial, Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire
Jim Henry - Patna - The Heritage of Patna
Jim Henry - Dalmellington Community Council presented a Miners Hutch and Bench to the Parish
Sep 2019
Jim Henry - Gorebridge Memorial - Midlothian Unveiles Today, Saturday 28 Sep 19
Robert Bradley - More Newspaper Stories 1800 - 1878
Ilona Streeting - 'Knocky-up boards' saved from ex-miners' homes
Jim Henry - Gorebridge Memorial - Midlothian
Jim Henry - Whin Hall Memorial Airdrie
Aug 2019
Kathryn Morton - Tower Colliery Disaster - Youtube Link to the Folk Song "The Bells of Rhymney"
Roger Morton - Big Pit National Coal Museum, Blaenavon, Wales - A Trip in August
Mansfield Mining Museum - Rolland Laycock, Signs - Exhibition of Art Work by Brian Morley a self taught artist and ex-miner
Mansfield Mining Museum
Robert Bradley - List of Nottinghamshire Collieries
July 2019
Jim Henry - Extra Pieces for Wallyford, a Short Way East of the Main Memorial
Robert Bradley - More Notes and Pictures in Surveyors Section
June 2019
Robert Bradley - More Newspaper Stories from 1861 - 1898
Roger Morton - Old Pit Photos
May 2019
Robert Bradley - New £165m Coal Mine in Cumbria
Martyn Fretwell D&B - What do the initials B.A. in B. A. Collieries stand for?
The Independent - UK goes more than 100 hours without using coal power for first time in a century
Apr 2019
Jim Henry - St Catharine's Episcopal Church, Cadzow Crescent, Bo'ness
Robert Bradley - 1873, Appleby and Co sold Renishaw - Joseph Wells died suddenly aged 57
Robert Bradley - Aberfan Report 4 August 1967 - November 1967, Coal Industry Bill
Pat Marshall - Email From Mapperleyhistory Site - Sydney Moore Died at New Coppice 1903
Jim Henry - Stanrigg New Memorial, Greengairs Rd, Wattston
Alyssa Riggs - Janey’s Recommendation for Family History and Genealogy
Jim Henry - West Wemyss, 5 Miners Killed by a Sea Mine During WWII
Robert Bradley - Bilsthorpe - Normal Deaths
Robert Bradley - Additions to 'Newspaper Stories'
Jim Henry - Crossgates Community Garden, Fife
Mar 2019
Roger Morton - Pit Bricks
Jim Henry - 5 Miners Killed by a Sea Mine During WWII at West Wemyss in Fife
Feb 2019
Jim Henry - The Lantern Window, St Joseph's Church, Mayberry Place, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire
Jim Henry - Appeal to Readers for Help in Finding All of Scotland’s Mining Memorials
Robert Bradley - Kent Coalfield
Jim Henry - Shotts (The Backshift) - Shotts, North Lanarkshire
Jan 2019
National Mining Museum Scotland is a 5 star visitor attraction.
We're raising funds to open the Undercroft, an iconic and crucially important part of our site, to the public. Please help make this happen!
Robert Bradley - Apedale Underground Workings
Jim Henry - Miners Call for National Memorial at Scottish Parliament - ITV
Jim Henry - National Mining Memorial Centre, NMMS, Lady Victoria Colliery Newtongrange, Scotland
Robert Bradley - Eckington Drift Mine in North Derbyshire Unexpectedly Closed on 10th Jan 2019
Robert Bradley - The Last Deep Bituminous Coal Mine in Germany Closed in December 2018
Jim Henry - Bilston, Midlothian, Entry and Information
Jim Henry - Uddingston Window
Women's Suffrage -The Right of Women To Vote
Undersea Coalmine Proposed, Cumbria - April 2018

Dec 2018
Random Images from - Facebook - Coalmining in All Areas
Woodhorn Museum
David Baddeley - My Friend Klaus Worked at Prosper Haniel Coal Mine in the Ruhr Area of Germany
Robert Bradley - Women in Mining
Andrew Purcell [coalmining in all areas] - Old Roadways
Oct-Nov 2018
FaceBook [coalmining in all areas] - 1st December 1860, an explosion at the Black Vein Colliery at Risca killed more than 140 men and boys and 28 pit ponies.
Jim Henry - St Joseph's Church, Blantyre
Jim Henry - Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital in Buckhaven in Fife
Jim Henry - Blantyre Mining Disaster, 1877 - Stained Glass Windows in St Joseph's R.C. Church in Mayberry Place, Blantyre
Bill Edwards - Photo of Enoch Edwards, Mayor of Burslem. Circa January, 1900.
Robert Bradley - Williamson Wharmby, Mines Rescue and Family
Colin Womble - Southgate Pit Fatality - 1902 - Death of William Wright Driffill
Aug 2018
Emails Suspended for a few weeks
Jim Henry - Child Miners Memorial, Danderhall, now has cut out shapes of miners and 2 benches
Tim D Schomer - Asfordby Mine Pumping Station
Robert Bradley - Oil Museum 2017
Graham Byram - Charles Byram Death, 30-09-1936, Fryston
July 2018
Roy Priest - Fair Lady Pit Explosion 1880 - Thomas Edwards
Brian Robinson - The Robinsons, More Photo
Susan Simcock - Thomas Galley and Joseph Galley, White Barn Colliery, Staffordshire
Paul Lockwood - Where is This Mining Memorial Please?
Anthony Mercer - Looking for info about my granddad, Leonard Marshall, injured in a roof fall at Brodsworth
Sue Sproats - Lofthouse Colliery death, George Hodgson
Ian Sweet - Miners' Lamp Memorial
Robert Bradley - 17th Century Iron Works At Bulwell And Kirkby
Closure of Thoresby Colliery, BBC East Midlands News 10 July 2015
Robert Bradley - Dirt Tipping 2
Robert Meikle, Balck Coal Miner 1950s, Gedling - Photo Courtesy of Karen Miekle
Peter Hewes - Silverhill Colliery Management
Carole Lewis - George Denman, a steel worker, was born in Rotherham, he passed away 1915
Colin Womble - Thomas Womble, Clowne Miner Killed at Shireoaks Colliery 1939
Alan Sarson - My dad, Bertie Sarson, aged 13 at Manner's Colliery
Alan Sarson - My dad’s brothers, Charles and John Sarson were killed in 1923 at West Hallam Colliery
Tessa Safhill - Portland Fields, Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Colin Womble - Verses That Told of a Pit Disaster - Blackwell B - Nottingham Evening Post 8 Feb 1940
Anthony Hopkins - My Father, Edward Arthur Hopkins
David Burton - Error - Edward Growny Evans Died 2-11-1915 at Wharncliffe Woodmoor
June 2018
Emails Suspended for a few weeks
Margaret Moxom - Pottery Riots 1842
Eva-Russell - I'm a librarian reaching out to you - our library is helping children trace their ancestry and create a family tree.
Bill Edwards - Enoch Edwards was Born 10 April 1852
May 2018
Pat Robertson - Some More Photos - Whitehaven
Wendy Fisher-Holt - Diglake, Benjamin Knight
David Bradley - John Stale Killed in Newhall, Derbyshire Area 1840 - Fire in Pit
Rebecca - Miner George Mansell Killed New Hucknall Colliery 1890
Patricia - Deaths in Clay Mining around Stannington/Sheffield 1910 -1921
John Harwood - I was a Bevin Boy - Moorgreen Colliery, 1945-48
Cathy Budworth - Where Can I Get a Markham Colliery Print
Jim Henry - Fauldhead Colliery Memorial Kirkconnel
April 2018
Les Matthews - Wilfred Matthews, 10 St Michael Street. (Teversal Colliery 1955)
Jo Catley - Job Millership - Micklefield Pit Disaster 1896
Susan Ross - Cutts Family Lundhill 1857
Raymond Cole - Clifton Pit, Spelling of Name, my Grandad, Longdon Not Longden
The Guardian - UK runs without coal power for three days in a row - 24 Apr 2018
Robert Bradley - Barnsley Detachment, Tankersley Brigade – Photo 1908
Robert Bradley - Strata Names
Beverley Croasdell - My Uncle George Stanyard was Killed at Whitwick Pit in May 1962
Bronwyn Farina - John Snowdon, Hartley Pit Disaster, Northumberland, 1862
Peter Whattler - Colourful Coal Names
Robert Bradley - World War 2 (in Progress)
Colin Womble - Colliery Accidents, Blackwell 'B' Winning Pit
Alan Roberts - Mining Disaster victim Albert Roberts, 106 Leeming Lane, Mansfield, 1920
Peter Smith - Further to Meave Jepson's Enquiry Here is a Photo of Whiteley Colliery, Marehay
Jonathan Taylor Brittunculi - Terminology - 'Pitter'
Ann Rusby - Bert Russell Killed at Gauntley Pit, Wigan, Lancashire, in 1915
March 2018
Emails Suspended for a few weeks
Alan Beales - Database - Gypsum Mines - Plaster Pits
Robert Bradley - Dirt Tipping
Robert Bradley - Winding Through The Ages
February 2018
Jim Henry - New Memorial at Millerhill Midlothian
Alan Sarson - Photo - North Midland Mines Rescue
Meave Jepson - Any Information About Whiteley Pit, Derby Road, Ripley
Paul Dale - Mini Pit Disaster, 1918, my Great Grandad Henry Dale
Ceri-ann Hooper - Looking For Info About My Great Grandfather, Osborn, Great Western Colliery
Steve Elliott - Harry Elliott - Pleasley Colliery 1966
Sandra Yorke - DEATH AT MOORGREEN - Joseph Mellors killed 1884
January 2018
D S Deepak - Kind attn: Robert Bradley, I am a 70 year young mining engineer from India
Sheilah - My Paternal Grandfather, William Albert Jay, was a part of the Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station
Linda Knights - I believe my grandfather, Nathan Inger, was killed at Markham
Michael Glover - Lives of the First World War - 1918 Mini Pit Disaster
Silla Mitford - Minnie Pit - My Father
Paul & Ren Whiten - William Grant died in 1866 at Moor Hall Colliery, Eckington, Derbyshire
Kevin Weaver - William Grant died in 1866 at Moorhall Colliery, Eckington, Derbyshire
Robert Bradley - Tom M Neal died at Pentrich Colliery,19 December 1910
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