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P.S. Please note that the Forest of Dean Local History web site is now
www.forestofdeanhistory.org
Regards David
> Memorial to victims of mining accidents in the Forest of Dean.
>
>
>
> The Forest of Dean Local History Society is pleased to announce that we
have
> been awarded a grant of £11,737 from the Local Heritage Initiative. LHI is
a
> partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, Nationwide Building Society
> and the Countryside Agency.
>
> The grant will enable the Forest of Dean Local History Society to produce
a
> Roll of Honour to the miners and quarrymen who lost their lives whilst
> working in the Forest of Dean. The information will form the major part of
a
> professionally produced CD ROM, which will be available from the beginning
> of 2005. The database of around 600 mining fatalities has been compiled
over
> several years by Dave Tuffley, Ian Winstanley, Ron Beard and Averil Kear
> together with additional entries from members of the public. The earliest
> fatality we have recorded is 1797 and details of all the miners' names,
> circumstances of their accident and the mine involved will be included.
The
> CD will also include photographs of the mines where the fatalities took
> place with a brief history of each.
>
>
>
> A further database of around 4,500 freeminers will also feature on the CD.
> We shall be giving details of applications from their start in 1838 to
> around 1960. The index comprises name, residence, age and date of
> registration.
>
>
>
> The index was transcribed by volunteers at the Gloucestershire Record
Office
> from original registers of Freeminers received from the Gavellers Office
in
> Coleford, and gives a unique number for each entry which will enable the
> public to view copies of the original certificates held at the Record
> Office. The original certificates give extra details about the freeminers
> such as date of birth and mine where worked, together with a signature or
> mark.
>
>
>
> The information included in this database will also be available on the
> Record Office intranet website archives.gloucesterhsire.gov.uk and on the
> Forest of Dean Local History Society website www.forestofdeanhistory.co.uk
>
>
>
> The grant we have received will also go towards equipment to help the
> Society record this information both photographically and in the design of
> the CD. For those without computers we also intend to produce four leather
> bound volumes containing the same information, which will be housed in the
> local libraries.
>
>
>
> We shall also be using some of the money to mount an Art Exhibition to be
> staged at the Dean Heritage Museum in the autumn of 2004 and we hope to
> liase with the Ramblers Association to provide a way marked route and
> leaflet covering some of the sites where fatalities occurred.
>
>
>
> Finally but by no means least we shall be commissioning a permanent
memorial
> to these miners and at this stage would welcome all sculptors, woodcarvers
> and metal workers residing in the Forest of Dean who might be interested
in
> submitting designs to contact me for further information. (Averil Kear
01594
> 563165)
>
>
>
> You can keep up to date with our progress in the production of this long
> overdue Roll of Honour to our Forest of Dean miners by logging on to the
> Forest of Dean Local History Society website www.forestofdeanhistory.org
> Information on this project and details of all other LHI projects
throughout
> England as well as details of how to apply for grant can be found in the
LHI
> website www.lhi.org.uk
>
>
>
> Averil Kear
>
> Chairman
>
> 2003
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>
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> Tel: 01594 563165
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