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Title: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: RootsChat on Saturday 17 May 03 18:13 BST (UK)
Durham Mining Museum has information on Collieries together with Mining disasters in the North of England.
www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: audrey on Monday 18 April 05 07:15 BST (UK)
Quote from: RootsChat on Saturday 17 May 03 18:13 BST (UK)
Durham Mining Museum has information on Collieries together with Mining disasters in the North of England.
www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm
this is the link for coal mine disasters
audrey
Title: Link: Durham Mining Museum
Post by: Chairlady on Tuesday 14 June 05 07:15 BST (UK)
Lots of information about the mines of Co. Durham, including "In Memoriam", mine owners, disasters and names of the men killed.  Lots of useful information if your family has mining history.
http://www.dmm.org.uk/mindex.htm
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: geordie on Monday 22 August 05 01:34 BST (UK)
The site address you give is, of course, correct for 'disasters' - ie. more than 5 men killed at one time.
For lesser numbers, eg. an individual death, the details appear on the page for the particular colliery.

Bob Lewis.
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: Nick Carver on Monday 22 August 05 12:00 BST (UK)
Some of my rellies were in mine management. Has anyone seen any relevant links?
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: geordie on Monday 22 August 05 22:11 BST (UK)
Hi Nick,
That site - the Durham Mining Museum - www.dmm.org.uk - has just about everything you would ever need about mining in Co. Durham.
There are also links to other similar sites for other areas, but none as comprehensive as is that one.
Bob Lewis.
 
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: hollycochran on Thursday 22 December 05 00:14 GMT (UK)
We have a number of histories of coal mining villages in the Easington district and coal miner's lives at:

http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com (http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com)

Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: Paradismus1 on Friday 21 December 07 23:05 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Nick Carver on Monday 22 August 05 12:00 BST (UK)
Some of my rellies were in mine management. Has anyone seen any relevant links?

Hi Nick,
The site everyone's talking about also deals with various classes of mining managers.  If you go to http://www.dmm.org.uk/certs/index_a.htm you can use the letters along the top of the page to search the index for holders of mining certificates some of them countrywide.  There is also a very enlightening sample examination paper for a mining management certificate on the same site.  It takes some navigating to find the information you seek but it's worth the effort.  As everyone says it's a very good site for ining info.

Dennis
Title: Re: Links: Durham Mining
Post by: JayG on Saturday 17 April 10 21:06 BST (UK)
Durham County Record Office have been indexing there mining holdings & now have an online search facility
http://www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/pages/CoalminingandDurhamcollieries.aspx

I've found several relatives listed.

Jay