Mining and Heavy Industry

Mining - General links

• National Union of Mineworkers.

• Mining Memorabilia and Mining History

• Mines Rescue

• Coal-Mining History Resource Centre

• The National Coal Mining Museum For England

• Names of Mining Victims in Great Britain

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

• The Whitwick Colliery Disaster 19th April 1898

• 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 Heritage Centre

• Coal and Ironstone Mining in North Derbyshire

• Victims of the Wood Pit Explosion in Haydock 1878

Scotland

• Scottish Mining Villages includes details of disasters

Women & Mining

• Searchable database of women at the mines of Devon & Cornwall

• Picture Gallery of bal maidens

• Picture Gallery of pit brow lasses

• Indexes of Cornwall, Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Forest of Dean children from the 1842 Comission on employment of Children in Mines

• Female Mining Deaths: 1851-1913 - England

• Women and The Pits

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