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2024Coal MiningPublications
June 6, 2024

Latest monograph published

British Mining No. 117 - Cliviger Coal Mines by Jack Nadin The Cliviger area of Lancashire lies between Burnley in the north and Cornforth, near Todmorden in the south and comprises the Upper Valley of the River Calder. Mines exist on either side of the valley taking coal from the Arley,…
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2024Coal Mining
January 14, 2024

Plans of collieries

We have been sent a number of coal mine plans for the website by Lee Reynolds who copies these from the originals. These plans are presented using an app which allows you to zoom in/out with your scroll wheel and drag by holding down your mouse's left button and moving…
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2023Coal MiningMetal MiningQuarries
December 5, 2023

Database of Mining Deaths & Injuries

After a long time in preparation, the first part of our database on UK mining deaths and injuries is now available covering the years 1900-1991. The data, supplied mainly by Ian Winstanley with additions by Ray Lawrence, NMRS records and others runs to 86,701 records and is fully searchable. The…
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2023Coal MiningMemoirsMetal MiningPublications
November 16, 2023

Latest copy of British Mining published

British Mining No 116 – Memoirs 2023 Papers in Memoirs 2023 are: Tunnelling for the Tournaisian – Phillip J. Murphy Pont Ceunant Electricity Generating Station – Nigel A. Chapman Mechanisation in Area 7 of the East Midlands Coalfield – 1958, Ralph A. Tebbut Excavation of Fron Goch Lead Mine, Devil’s Bridge, Mid Wales…
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2024
February 3, 2023

The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3)

The Third International Early Engines Conference (IEEC3) Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life: 22-24 March 2024 Please note that the Northern Mine Research Society are only a sponsor of this conference. Conference Details and Call for Papers Building on the success of our previous conferences, we are delighted to confirm…
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2020Coal MiningMetal Mining
September 15, 2020

Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979

Accident & Disasters Reports 1658-1979, provided by Ian Winstanley and the Coal Mining History Resource Centre, have been added to the website. While there are around 740 of these, they are not a complete list. Each report, created from various sources like the official report, articles in the Colliery Guardian,…
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2019
June 18, 2019

Obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy

We are pleased to announce a new resource in the form of over 1700 obituaries of members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy covering the period 1892-1968. They were collected by the late David Dixon as part of the research towards his doctorate on technical education in metalliferous mining.…
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2019Coal Mining
January 6, 2019

Coal Mining History Resource Centre

Ian Winstanley, the founder of the Coal Mining History Resource Centre has supplied us with all his data and research and permitted us to publish this on our website, following the closure of the CMHRC website. With the amount of data, it will take quite some time to carry this…
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Coal Mining
July 28, 2018

A miners life in the 1950s

We are please to have been given permission to reproduce here, part of Jack Gale's autobiography, relating to the time he was employed at Middleton Broom Colliery, Leeds, from 1951 to 1959. He provides a valuable insight into how coal mines were worked and the life of a miner, in…
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Database search page
Coal MiningMetal MiningSmelting
May 21, 2018

Database of Mining Information

We are pleased to announce the release of a database of mining information compiled by the late Alasdair Neill. The database contains over 76,000 entries and is fully searchable. Thanks are due also to Mike Gill who took on, and completed the enormous task of converting well over 6,000 pages of…
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