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Never trust the ground beneath your feet
It’s only by chance that nobody was hurt. Absolutely stunning aerial imagery from Network Rail, via The Landslide Blog. Over the last week, an incident of major proportions has occurred in the U… more →
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Coal, Goals and Ashes
wrote 3 days ago: Publication Day: Coal, Goals and Ashes: Fryston Colliery’s Pursuit of the West Riding County FA Chal … more →
China colliery blast kills 27 miners
wrote 1 week ago: 12 May 2013 Last updated at 00:00 ET Rescue teams have been bringing the dead and injured from the m … more →
China colliery blast kills 27 miners
wrote 1 week ago: 12 May 2013 Last updated at 00:00 ET Rescue teams have been bringing the dead and injured from the m … more →
Death in the darkness
wrote 3 weeks ago: How five men lost their lives in a Castleford colliery fire in 1891. Coal mining in the late ninetee … more →
The lady's not returning
wrote 1 month ago: On the day of the funeral of barronnes Thatcher,a gathering of many ex miners held a private commemo … more →
Belgium
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wrote 1 month ago: I joined some friends old and new for a long weekend exploring some of the best abandoned locations … more →
On this day...... Part Three
wrote 1 month ago: Herbert Attwood, John Simms, William Gould 9th April 1908 Three men on this day were awarded medals … more →
Kensington and Harold colliery band ‘an insult to mining communities’
wrote 1 month ago: Blacking up was ‘not appropriate’ The newly formed Kensington and Harold colliery band h … more →
A trip down the pit...
wrote 3 months ago: Coal Face It has to be said that the idea of spending four-and-a-half hours in a small, dark hole di … more →
Never trust the ground beneath your feet
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wrote 3 months ago: It’s only by chance that nobody was hurt. Absolutely stunning aerial imagery from Network Rail … more →
Language of the underground
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wrote 3 months ago: Our good mate Peter ‘Pedro’ Cutler has struck gold again. This transcription of an artic … more →
Portrait of a Doncaster Miner!
wrote 3 months ago: A miner pictured after finishing his shift at Markham Main Colliery, Armthorpe, Doncaster, circa 199 … more →
#233 Mothballed
wrote 3 months ago: Harworth Colliery. Not doing much at the moment. Harworth pit head … more →
old Mine
wrote 4 months ago: The South Leicestershire Coal Company opened its colliery in 1874. The South Leicestershire Colliery … more →
Pit's closure, no big deal for Maltby villagers
wrote 5 months ago: In the early 80′s, there were 12 pits in the Rotherham area employing 10,250 people. Today, Ma … more →
Maltby Colliery faces uncertain future
wrote 5 months ago: The future of the 540 miners at the Maltby coal mine remains uncertain a month after owners Hargreav … more →
A Monument to Coal-Mining in Germany's Ruhrgebiet
wrote 5 months ago: A desolate former coal-mining industrial region isn’t a usual candidate for a place to visit. … more →
Exxaro Mining & Weltevreden Pan
wrote 6 months ago: “…They were taken by surprise when one day the mining firm Exxaro, which legally operate … more →
Walsall Wood 1911, before and beyond
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wrote 6 months ago: This article is the fourth – and final (at least until the 1921 census comes out…) part of blo … more →
