Hi. Yukiko,
we have among our team a lady Joyce who is a present menber of the Friends
of chatterley whitfield which will eventually re open as a museum, and has
a lot of contacts, our small group is slowly gaining help from a number
of knowledgable people in the area although still in its infancy try our
site at http:/myweb.tiscali.co.uk/robertburden note no WWW. I will ask
next tusday,
Bob
>-- Original Message --
>Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:56:40 +0000
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
>From: yi4 <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Closure of industrial museums / Hamstead postcards
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>Hello.
>I am looking for somebody who used to work for
>Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum. If you know
>anyone, please let me know his/her contact details.
>
>I have been studying photographs of the British
>coal mining in the History of Photography,
>particulary historic postcards from early 20th
>century. I found a very interesting enlarged and
>framed postcard of Hamstead Disaster in the National
>Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.
>A curator told me that it was transferred from
>Chatterly Whitfield Mining Museum after it had been
>closed. I would like to know the context or
>background of the framed postcard: where it was
>put on, how it worked as a commemorative photograph,
>and who made it and kept it if possible.
>
>Any information would be deeply appreciated.
>
>Yukiko
>
>>===== Original Message From "The mining-history list."
><[log in to unmask]> =====
>>At 17:17 23/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>Does anyone have anecdotal evidence for the closure and the
>>>dispersal of the collections from Industrial Museums? Also the
>>>sending of museum artefacts to the scrap man. I am particularly
>>>interested in the UK context, but would be interested to learn about
>>>the problem elsewhere.
>>
>>
>>I was working in Staffordshire when Chatterly Whitfield closed, and
>>remember that many of the artefacts were sold at auction.
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