Mining and Heavy Industry

Mining - General links

• National Union of Mineworkers.

• Mining Memorabilia and Mining History

• Various Mining Links - National Association of Mining History Organisations

• Mines Rescue

• Coal-Mining History Resource Centre

• The National Coal Mining Museum

• Mining History Network

• Mining Disasters A huge database of names.

Wales

• National Coal Mining Museum of Wales - for information on the Welsh coalfields.

• University of Swansea - South Wales Coalfield Collection.

• Welsh Mining Disasters

• Slater's 1880 Directory in the Maesteg/Llynfi Valley Area of Mine Owners & Collieries

England

• 19th. April, 1898.The Whitwick Colliery Disaster

• Durham Virtual Mining Museum

• The Durham Miners' Project -Mining in the Durham Area Recorded by the Communities Themselves.

• Somerset Coal Mine Ancestors

• Somerset Coalfields Around Midsummer Norton

• Radstock Village Museum, Somerset

• Altofts Colliery Explosion

• Cornish Mining

• The Peak District Mining Museum

• Whitby Jet

• Whitby Jet Heritage Centre

• Coal and Ironstone mining in North Derbyshire

• Victims of the Wood Pit Explosion, Haydock, 1878

Scotland

• The National Coal Mining Museum for Scotland.

• Scottish Mining Villages includes details of disasters

• Fife Pits

Women & Mining

• Female Mining Deaths: 1851-1913 - England

• Women and The Pits

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