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The Story of Treeton Colliery

Author: Tom Rossington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop

Author: Ken Wain
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445639777
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters.

The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire

Author: Ken Wain
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445639750
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 192

The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918

Author: Carolyn Baylies
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100088421X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538

Book Description
First published in 1993, The History of the Yorkshire Miners 1881-1918 is concerned with the workers in the Yorkshire coal industry, their union, and the broader mining communities in which they lived from the formation of the Yorkshire Miners’ Association in 1881 through to the end of the First World War. The period covered is of considerable importance for the consolidation of the Yorkshire Miners Union, and indeed for the building of a national miners’ federation and an international miners’ organisation, in both of which the role of Yorkshire’s leadership was central. The decades straddling the turn of the century were characterised by volatility in the mining industry, which was reflected in a number of strikes. Carolyn Baylies traces these general processes and focuses, in detail, upon a number of episodes during which union struggles and community involvement coalesced. She explores the dynamic between district and local levels of the union, and the tensions that accompanied a progressive rationalization of bargaining machinery. This book will be of interest to students of history and sociology.

South Yorkshire Mining Villages

Author: Melvyn Jones
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473880793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, had to be housed near to the collieries where they worked. Small residential colonies were built near the new collieries, existing rural villages expanded, new satellite villages were established and completely new mining communities were created, the later ones carefully planned and laid out in the form of geometrically designed estates. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the physical and social development of these very varied mining communities, drawing on a wide variety of sources. It is the first book to cover this subject and includes topics such as the settlement that was specifically built for blackleg miners, the development in one village of a large Welsh-speaking colony, how Earl Fitzwilliam housed his colliers and their families and the views of well-known writers like Fred Kitchen, Roger Dataller and George Orwell on the colliery villages. The book will be of great interest not only to readers living in South Yorkshire but also to the descendants of South Yorkshire miners now living in other parts of the country and elsewhere.

South Yorkshire Pits

Author: Warwick Taylor
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1783036990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
The last 150 years has been the most tumultuous in the industrial history of South Yorkshire, and at the heart of this has always been mining and its allied industries. South Yorkshire Pits takes us from the beginnings of the industry, where land ownership brought wealth from what lay beneath it. Here, we have a concise record of the sinking, operating and eventual closure of the pits which, in January 1947, were taken over by the National Coal Board. There is also a clear record of the social and employment conditions under which the mines were operated, including child and female labour and the legislation abolishing them. This is an indispensable reference work for all interested in South Yorkshire's mining industry.