The Message below Appeared on the Gloucester history Pages
 P.S. Please note that the Forest of Dean Local History web site is now
 www.forestofdeanhistory.org

 Regards David
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> > 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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> > Tel: 01594 563165
> >
> >
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