Webmaster Ian Winstanley

BACKGROUND:- Detail from the St Helens Mining Monument by

Thompson Dagnall

WHAT'S NEW 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.

IMAGES of MINING General views, above and below ground Images of Mining in WIGAN Images of Mining in ST HELENS Images of Mining in HAYDOCK Images of Mining in ASHTON-in-MAKERFIELD Images of GOLBORNE COLLIERY 1989 Images of ALBERT COLLIERY OPENCAST SITE (late 1970's) WOMEN in the PITS

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