More on UK mining history

Posted on October 29, 2011 by

http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/index.html

Developed by Ian Winstanley this is 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.  There are dozens of historical photos on site, and a useful list of mining terminology http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/literature/glossary/index.html

West Riding of Yorkshire coat of arms.

Image via Wikipedia

You can also read the edited version by Ian of the CHILDREN’S EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION 1842.  REPORT by JELINGER C. SYMONS Esq., on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in the Mines and Collieries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and on the State, Condition and Treatment of such Children and Young Persons.

 

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