Welcome to the UK's largest and most comprehensive website concerning the history of coalmining - including a searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths....

 

Ashton-in-MarkerfieldNational Database of Mining Deaths in Great Britain compiled by <a href=Ian Winstanley" id="database"/>National Database of Mining Deaths in Great Britain compiled by <a href=Ian Winstanley" id="poems"/>Mines location maps in Great Britain and the Isle of Mann1842 Royal Commission ReportColliery Scrapbook

A day in the life of...

A day in the life of Tommy Shotton, a coal miner in 1939, working onthe night shift from midnight to 8.00am. His life was typical of that ofmany thousands of coal miners of his time.

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