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BACKGROUND:- Detail from the St Helens Mining Monument by

Thompson Dagnall

SOMETHING NEW   WEEP MOTHERS WEEP. The story of the Wood Pit explosion 1878 THE UNFORTINATE COLLIERY High Brooks Colliery, Ashton-in-Makerfield. WITH HEARTS SO LIGHT The Story of the Quen Pit Explosions, Haydock, 1868 and 1869. HELL UNDER HAYDOCK The Lyme Pit Explosion, Haydock, 26th February 1930 SCARS A Collection of Original Poetry.  all by Ian Winstanley are now available on Amazon Kindle

THE COAL MINING HISTORY RESOURCE CENTRE Home of the UK's NATIONAL DATABASE OF MINING DEATHS AND INJURIES Compiled by Ian Winstanley HAS MOVED _________________________________________ What 'WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE' magazine said about the site.

THE DIARY OF ROGER LOWE Lancashire's Samuel Pepys

 

Roll of Honour Lists of names of men women and children who have given their lives or have been injured in the pursuit of coal. To date there are about 200,000 listed.

THE BRITISH COALFIELDS Notes on the coalfields produced in pamphlets by the NCB in the1950s giving a view of the future prospects for coal in the country.

PARKSIDE COLLIERY EMPLOYMENT LIST 1993 List of names of most of the final workforce at Parkside Colliery, Newton-le-Willows.

POETRY CORNER A selection of original mining poems

COLLIERY SCRAP BOOK