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Coal Mining | Durham Records Online Library

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 …

Coal mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Durham Mining Museum

Welcome to the Durham Mining Museum website. All the available information is shown in the categories and menu options shown on the left of each web page.

Coal Mining and Durham Collieries - Durham Record Office

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 ...

Durham Mining Museum - List of Mines

This site hosts the Durham Mining Museum website

BBC - Nation on Film - Coal Mining

Take a journey down the North East's coal mines using remarkable archive footage.

History of coal mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 ...

BBC - Archive - Coal Mining in Britain - The story of ...

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.

Coal Mining in North East England

A short history of coal mining in Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne from Medieval times to the 1990s

Coal Mining | eBay - Electronics, Cars, Fashion ...

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.