Mining and Heavy Industry

Mining - General links

• National Union of Mineworkers.

• Lots of mining links

• General Mining Links

• Coal-Mining History Resource Centre

• The National Coal Mining Museum

• Mining Histroy Network - information exchange, discussion group; if this does not connect, go to the Exeter University site and search under mining.

Wales

• National Coal Mining Museum of Wales - for information on the Welsh coalfields.
• University of Swansea - South Wales coalfield collection.
• Welsh Mining Disasters

• List of mine owners and collieries from Slater's 1880 directory in the Maesteg/Llynfi valley area

England

• Durham Mining Museum - virtual museum

• The Durham Miners' Project - multi-media web site of mining in the durham area recorded by the communities themselves.

• Somerset Coal Mine ancestors

• Somerset coalfields round Midsummer Norton

• Radstock village museum in Somerset

• Altofts Colliery Explosion

• Cornish Mining

• The Peak District Mining Museum

• Whitby Jet

• Whitby Jet Heritage Centre

• Coal and Ironstone mining in North Derbyshire

Scotland

• The national coal mining museum for Scotland.

Women & Mining

• Female Mining Deaths: 1851-1913 - England

• Women and the Pits

• Mines Rescue

• 19th. April, 1898.THE WHITWICK COLLIERY DISASTER.

• List of miners that died at Markham colliery

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