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South Yorkshire Pits
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Author : Warwick Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2001-10-01
South Yorkshire Pits written by Warwick Taylor and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10-01 with History categories.
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.
Pits
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Author : John Threlkeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Pits written by John Threlkeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Coal trade categories.
Pits
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Author : John Threlkeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Pits written by John Threlkeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Coal mines and mining categories.
Pits 1 and 2 have been out of print for a number of years, but due to continued demand, we are now producing a compendium of both volumes which tells the complete story of the growth and development of mining in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Included are chapters covering the evolution, boom and war, strife and hope nationalisation, and victory and decline of the mining industry. Through the use of first class accounts, hundreds of photographs and illustrations, this compendium reveals how mining played such a dominant part in the lives of many people from the Yorkshire area. Covered is the disastrous 1984/1985 Miners' Strike and subsequent pit closure programme, and looks at the effects that the strike had. Above all. this book is a tribute to coal miners and their families. Key Points * Tells complete story of mining in the 19th and 20th Century. * First class personal accounts * Highly Illustrated * Re-Printed in a combined volume due to popular demand Author Information
South Yorkshire Mining Disasters
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Author : Brian Elliot
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2006-10-31
South Yorkshire Mining Disasters written by Brian Elliot and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-31 with History categories.
In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities. The Husker pit flooding of 1838 in which 26 young girls and boys were killed shocked Victorian society and and was a significant factor in the 1842 Report on Employment of Women and Children in Mines; but earlier, long forgotten disasters are also explored. The Barnsley area was particularly hard-hit during the middle decades of the century with major mining accidents, usually great explosions of firedamp occurring, for example, at Lundhill Colliery (189 men and boys killed); Oaks (361 fatalities, Britains worst pit disaster) and Swaithe Main (143 dead). Scenes of grief, mourning and remarkable heroism provided spectacular copy for Victorian newspapers and magazines such as The Illustrated London News, focusing on the very uncertain and dangerous life of the miner. Despite the importance and widespread occurrence of South Yorkshire mining disasters, which also included dreadful winding accidents and gas emissions, their story has never been told in a single volume.
Yorkshire Mining Veterans
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Author : Brian Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Release Date : 2005-09-30
Yorkshire Mining Veterans written by Brian Elliott and has been published by Wharncliffe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with History categories.
Yorkshire Mining Veterans is an extraordinary collection of stories told by the Veterans of the mines. Their memories span nearly a century from the early 1900's to the great strike of 1984/85 as well as the pit closures of the 1990's. Miners all across the Yorkshire region from the Selby Coalfield to the old West Riding area in and around Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster and Sheffield share their experiences with the reader.Brian began his research prepared to explore the many roles of miners, working conditions and their way of life, but interviews uncovered more remarkable stories, especially relating to the period before nationalisation. Getting a job often meant leaving school on Friday and starting work either in terrible conditions on the pit top screens, described by a 99 year old veteran as 'Miltonic' or 'on the haulage' in the cold pit bottom. Incredibly, one man described his work as a young trammer in the 1930's, painfully pushing tubs along a low underground roadway using a candle as his source of light, 'a throw back to conditions a century or more earlier'. A sprightly 93-year-old described an occasion when. as a young lad, he worked naked alongside his father and refused to make himself to make himself 'descent' when the lady Mayor made a VIP visit.Set chronologically according to the age of the miner, the author profiles each of the 47 veterans and tells their individual stories based on his interviews with them. Their stories, all previously untold, together with a superb collection of photographs makes fascinating reading.
Pits 2
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Author : John Threlkeld
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Pits 2 written by John Threlkeld and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Barnsley (South Yorkshire, England) categories.
Coal Miners
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Author : Brian Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Coal Miners written by Brian Elliott and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with History categories.
There have been many books published about the coal mining industry of Britain but relatively few about the miners themselves. This book is unique in that it concentrates on the miner, his family and his work through a careful selection of illustrations. Although most of the images are photographic, and therefore relate to the latter part of the nineteenth to the closing years of twentieth century, use is also made of much earlier sources, from woodcuts and engravings to illustrations in contemporary journals and magazines. A good deal of the material has come from the author's own collection, accumulated over many years of research; and also from archive sources. The selection is wide ranging, covering the traditional coal mining regions of Britain, from Scotland and northern England, through the midland coalfields and to Wales, as well as images from smaller coalfields such as Cumbria and Somerset. Today, coal mining is a virtually a lost industry and the men, women and children involved in what was once Britain's most important economic but most dangerous activity deserve both recognition and celebration.
The Industrial Legacy Landscapes Of Sheffield And South Yorkshire
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Author : Ian D. Rotherham
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017
The Industrial Legacy Landscapes Of Sheffield And South Yorkshire written by Ian D. Rotherham and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Industrial revolution categories.
South Yorkshire Mining Villages
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Author : Melvyn Jones
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-07-30
South Yorkshire Mining Villages written by Melvyn Jones and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-30 with History categories.
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.
The History Of The Yorkshire Miners 1881 1918
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Author : Carolyn Baylies
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-02-28
The History Of The Yorkshire Miners 1881 1918 written by Carolyn Baylies and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
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.