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I do hope Admins. allow this post in support of an ordinary NE lad with a story to tell.
I am not a business and self-published. The production of the book was completed as the result of my totally unsupported 100% sole effort.
I am proud of my heritage, being the son/ brother of Northumbrian coal miners. My book inc. 100 pages of growing up in tough times in a NE coalcommunity. It does have some historic merit and in support of that Beamish Living Museum will be stocking my book from Jan. next year. Feedback is fantastic.
Price is ÂŁ9.99p. +ÂŁ1.99p p&p. but as a thank you, I will do free p&p for members of this site.
It'd make a great Xmas stocking filler/gift for those with an interest in the era and subject.
Please PM me for further questions or info.
Thank you.
Some photographs for you all. Enjoy.
coal.faithgrace.co.uk
Looking for any information about the Shirebrook Pit Cage Disaster that happened in 1907 as I believe the Arthur Burton that was killed along with two other men was married to my Great Grandmother at the time. Found this about it
http://www.dmm.org.uk/pitwork/html/sbcage.htm but wondering if there is a memorial anywhere to those that died. It was reported alot in the Nottingham papers after it happened and during the inquest into the accident. Thanks in advance for any help, just have to find out where Arthur was buried now.
Interesting info on a Wikipedia page:
"In 1346, Edward III of England requested that miners from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire accompany his expedition to France,[3] during the first part of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. "
A new Facebook Group has been created dedicated to the Hetton Colliery Railway and the approaching bicentenary of its opening.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/hcr200 Feel free to join and be kept posted of the coming events starting with John Banham's online talk Adventurers and Pirates - The Hetton Coal Company, 1820 on Thursday 19 November 2020, from 10.30am to 11.30am
This is being organised by Durham County Records Office, booking is now open at their online shop. đ·
Does anyone know a website(s) and/or link to a historical timeline(s) of UK mining - in terms of technology, advances, legislative, economic/political, social history, miners & communities- or maybe even separate ones for those headings?
Some pics of my Late Fathers items which i helped him find over the years, couple of items i purchased after his death in 2018.
My Father was born in Whitehaven and at 16 went to Solway to do his underground training. At 18 he underwent more training and became a face worker down Haig Pit. He left a few years later after a friend was killed and joined the Army. My Family has a long history associated with the coal mines, stretching back several generations in Cumbria and the North East.
Hereâs a poem about the closing of Brodsworth Pit in Doncaster , itâs called âGoneâ
Gone - the darkness and the grime , the heat the dirt and the slime.
Gone - the laughter, the mates , and the hot canteen , the showers the lockers and the scrubbing clean.
Gone - the dust the bile and the smell that makes you ill, the face the gate and the roof that can kill.
Gone - the Union , the strike and the rage , the defeat the humiliation, the wage.
Gone - the deputy the Over-man and the Boss , the Union man who was always at a loss.
Gone - the certainty ,the dignity and the grit , the friendship, the community, The Pit .
Thanks for reading .
Hi, got this rare piece of mine shaft testing equipment for sale if itâs of interest to anyone?? Itâs a Worsley Mesnes Ironworks mine shaft speed recorder for testing brakes. In original box. Asking ÂŁ95 (I can post for ÂŁ12.50 extra)
A tribute and a lament to the passing of coal...