Links to Other Mining Sites
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Links to Other Mining Sites |
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For the serious researcher, the following site contains much information and offers the facility to purchase more detail should you require it. The Coal Mining History Resource Centre.
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Other related sites of notable interest (in no particular order of importance, they are all valuable reference sites) :-
Site dedicated to the Yorkshire Main Colliery
The North Staffordshire Coalfield research site
Have a look at the Dutch based Rebreather site - fascinating details about many types of breathing apparatus.
A new site by Andrew Collis giving a brief history of the Harriseahead and Newchapel areas of Staffordshire. Details on the site include history relating to the local collieries.
Visit the Mining History, Research and Exploration site.
Visit the Durham Miner Project - A scheme run by Durham County Council to train historians to preserve County Durham's Mining Past. See details of the FREE courses being run this year.
Puddle Productions is an independent broadcast and media production company founded in 2000 by John Mason and Hilary St John. Based in County Durham in North East England and maintaining links with major TV Producers, Puddle Productions works independently on documentary, drama and training films, from 'Brass & Banners' a history of the Northeast coalfields, to training films for the nuclear industry and underwater footage on diving wrecks and wildlife. Check out their web site
Check out the site for the Cornwall Mine Rescue Organisation
View 'state of the art' pit props and other equipment at Penny Hydraulics Mining Products and Services
The North Country Web site has a good page covering the New Hartley Pit Disaster of 1862
Check out the current day Mines Rescue Service Ltd web site.
For the definitive old and out of print book search go to abebooks.co.uk
The Durham Mining Museum - An excellent site with masses of information
The National Mining Museum of Wales, Big Pit, Blaenafon
The South Wales Coalfield Collection. An on-line archive of facts and images relating to the South Wales Coal region
Bedwas Navigation Colliery. David Harris's excellent site packed with information about the South Wales colliery at Bedwas.
Jack Nadin's Lancashire Coal Mining History Page
Michael Martin's site dedicated to the Pits and Miners of Fife, Scotland
The Forest of Dean Collieries - information resource by Ian Pope
A Coal Mine Dad? - Bill Riley, an ex-miner, has put together this site to record 'the more down to earth aspects of working below ground'
The Miners Reunited - A database of ex-UK Miners. Search for a colleague or add your details.