Londonderry Seaham & Sunderland 1854/55- ? The Past. Seaton and Seaham collieries came on stream in 1852. The docks a t Seaham Harbour were by now receiving coal …
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity.
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Coal Mining and Durham Collieries. Information about mining history and coal mining records in Durham County Record Office. Find out how to search our collections and ...
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Take a journey down the North East's coal mines using remarkable archive footage.
Due to its abundance, coal has been mined in various parts of the world throughout history and coal mining continues to be an important economic activity today ...
The story of British coal mining told through BBC radio and TV broadcasts from the last 70 years, with a gallery of images from the 1930s.
A short history of coal mining in Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne from Medieval times to the 1990s
This Shire book on coal mining tells how coal mines evolved from simple bell pits into extensive networks of shafts and tunnels extending deep underground.