Webmaster Ian Winstanley

BACKGROUND:- Detail from the St Helens Mining Monument by

Thompson Dagnall

BUT FIRST A MESSAGE FROM MY SON:- Hi there, The endless gloomy news cycle has prompted me to publish 'B-spine', my own tale of dystopian futures and eco-doom, on Amazon Kindle. B-spine is a cyberpunk-inspired biotechnical police procederal thriller inter laced with enough action and strange bits to keep you turning pages. It is now available on Amazon.co.uk for £2.21, Amazon.com for $3.45 and various European Amazons for Euro 2.99. Just search 'Cam Winstanley' on your local version. 'B-spine' is one of over a million books on Kindle so left alone, it'll sit there undiscovered, gathering digital dust. What I really need are genuine readers giving it 3, 4 or 5 stars plus reasons why other readers should read it. I say 'genuine' as Amazon come down hard on authors who populate their own reviews section with made up rave reviews. I need people from a geographically wide area who regularly write Amazon reviews to say something positive. Could you please take a few minutes out of your busy lives to do four things:- 1. Click 'Look Inside' to read a few pages: 2. If it's your thing, buy it from Kindle, read it and write a review. If you don't own a Kindle, you can down load free readers for iPad, Android, Mac and PC here: 3. If it is not your thing then tell someone else about it if you think they would like it: 4. Finally, if you tweet or Facebook, please give me a plug. My good friend Pat had already shouted out his followers. That's it. I realise I've got my work cut out to market this but if you could just spread the word, that'd be a huge help to me. Thank you, Cam.

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.

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