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  The Museum of Cannock Chase

Apedale Heritage Centre and Coal Mine

 Big Pit : National Mining Museum of Wales

 Coal Mining History Resource Centre

Back Country Living Museum

http://info.ex.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet Mining History Network . Homepage The Mining History Network is an information resource for mining historians. It includes an international contact list, mining history news such as forthcoming conferences, bibliographies, and references to Prof. Roger Burt's mining history work

http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/ri2142.htm Coal Mining Records in the Public Record Office, UK

http://www.pathway.net/twdarb/coalminer/ To the COALMINERS Mailing List. The pages are not fancy, just informative.This site includes links to COALMINERS and COALMINING related web pages through out the world. Owned by Tom Darby.

http://www.ex.ac.uk/~pfclaugh/mhinf/contents.htm Peter Claughton's Mining History Page Details of events, research and work in progress in the field of mining history and archaeology. Concentrating on research related to WALES AND SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Including the metalliferous mines of North Devon and West Somerset, the Crown silver mines in Devon, North Devon Anthracite and the Pembrokeshire Coalfield.

http://www.archiesplace.com/mining/ Miners reunited. The site to get in touch with former workmates.

http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/ri2142.htm COAL MINING RECORDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.

http://www.ncm.org.uk THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of COAL MINING for ENGLAND, Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

http://www.dewhirst.ndirect.co.uk/ Mining in Brosley.

http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/mines.htm Cornish Mining History.

http://www.cornwall-online.co.uk/history/history1.htm Cornish History.

http://www.beer-genealogy.freeserve.co.uk/mining/coal_mining_in_kent.htm Coal Mining in Kent.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dcook104433/HISTORY/index.htm Wheatley Hill Colliery, Durham.

http://www.personal.u-net.com/~brocross/home.htm  David Kitching's Home Page. Industrial History and Archaeology, particularly the coal mining industry in Cheshire Poynton Collieries History.

http://www.readman.freeserve.co.uk/bhhistory.htm BlackHall History Page Blackhall Rocks, Blackhall Colliery.

http://www.seaham.com/town/seaham.htm In one explosion on the 8th September 1880, 164 men and boys lost there lives at Seaham Colliery. Messages were left by those trapped by the explosion were heartrending.

http://www.haig1.freeserve.co.uk/ Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK Haig Pit was Cumbria's last deep coal mine. When it closed in 1986, it ended 700 years of mining history in the area.

http://cbr.nc.us.mensa.org/homepages/north_east_england_hist. Coal Mining and Railway History in North Eastern England.

http://www.abridgewater.freeserve.co.uk/104.htm Mining history in Derbyshire.

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/fulltext.ma1905/apxt.htm The Snaefell mine disaster.

http://www.dmmweb.btinternet.co.uk/dmmweb/mindex.htm DURHAM MINING MUSEUM. The Friends of Durham Mining Museum has been set up to found and maintain a mining museum to retain the knowledge and history of those that helped drive the industrial revolution and all that followed.

http://www.coalville.org.uk/interest/snibston/snibston.htm Mining in the Snibston area.

http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.smith30/ National Mining Memorabilia Association. Commonly collected types of mining memorabilia: Paranumismatics - This group constitutes a very wide range of tokens, checks and medals spanning over 350 years of British Mining History. Such items are usually categorized into one of the following groups; Carriers, Commercial & Truck Tokens, Checks, Tallies, Motties, Tickets, Passes or Tokens, Medals and Awards, Lamps - Miner's lamps are one of the most popular types of mining memorabilia that are collected and studied. They are usually categorized into one of the following groups, Flame Safety Lamps, Electric Safety Lamps, Naked Flame Lamps. Badges.

www.moorebooks.co.uk MIKE MOORE MINING AND CAVING BOOKSELLER.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.tuffs Home of Cleveland Iron mines.

http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~rstephen/Living.Easton.html LIVING EASTON. Bristol UK. This Web site is a community resource containing information on Living Easton's activities, and details of materials available to Living Easton Members.

http://www.jnadin1.50megs.com/index.html LANCASHIRE MINING HISTORY particularly pits in the north east of the county.

http://communities.msn.com/RobinsonFamilyHistory&naventryid=100 Follow the OCCUPATIONS Link from the home page and then the COALMINING link for Mining in Durham in the early 18th. cent.

http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bmd.htm The British Mining Database consists of a number of websites covering mines throughout the UK and Ireland. There are also separate pages listing societies, useful sources, etc.

http://www.swinhope.demon.co.uk/genuki/Collieries/index.html GENUKI Collieries in Northumberland and Durham. Compiled by Brian Pears

http://www.imadge.demon.co.uk/ The Woodhorn Colliery Museum holds a major collection of their work and this site, created as part of Museums and Galleries Month 2000, has assembled these works into an internet gallery to promote the work to the widest possible audience. Visitors to the internet gallery will be able to browse the entire collection and read a brief history of the group.

http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/deanhist The Royal Forest of Dean is steeped in history, from ancient megalithic sites through to the industrial revolution and the coal mining of the 20th Century. Through these pages you can step back in time and work forwards to see how the modern day Forest of Dean developed.

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/paraguay/678/pitlasses.html "Wigan's Pit Brow Lasses" Taken from an account written by Frank Hird in 1910.

http://www.isle-of-man-newspapers.com/mines/page1.htm The Mines of The Isle of Man.

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/micobwright/tokenlist.html A site for anyone interest in mining tallies.

http://www.j31.co.uk/index.html Tour of 15 Yorkshire mines.This bit of the Web describes 50 square miles of England.... a cluster of small towns and villages east of Sheffield, south of Rotherham, and west of Worksop\Bassetlaw.

http://www.martin.bott.btinternet.co.uk/mining.htm Martin Botts catalogue of books on mining and related industries.

http://www.healeyhero.fsnet.co.uk/rescue/menu.htm Philip Healey Mines Rescue History of Coal, Mining, Ponies Pits The Rescue Stations Working on the Station Life on the Stations People, Individuals and Groups Emergencies List of Disasters Technical, gases, breathing apparatus, lamps Miscellaneous, Badges, models, Tokens, Rocks Being Creative Clocks, paintings, sculptures etc Vehicles Glossary of Pit Terms Communications.

Visit the following sites for references to all kinds of mining subjects

British Mining Database <http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bmd.htm>

Shropshire Mines Trust <http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/smt.htm>

Snailbeach Mine <http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/sbeach.htm>

Tankerville Mine <http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/tanker.htm>

Bersham Colliery <http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bct.htm>