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From: Mark Smith <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 16 June 1999 15:43
Subject: Re: Closed collieries
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adrian Pearce <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 16 June 1999 01:22
>Subject: Closed collieries
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>
>>Hi Group
>>
>>Does anyone possess a list of UK collieries and the years that they
>>closed?
>>
>>The Shropshire Mines Trust is building up a pictorial display to
>>supplement its working engines, mining artifacts etc that it takes to
>>various steam rallies and shows. We wish to produce a big list of
>>collieries and when they closed.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>Adrian
>>
>
>Adrian,
>
>Last year Colin Jackson issued a private publication (very basic) listing
>2,200 now closed British collieries. The gazetteer is in an A-Z format and
>mainly covers those collieries in existence since c.1870. Each pit is
>located with reference to the early (1947) NCB Area and Districts system.
>Most entries include sinking and closure dates plus the name of each pit's
>principal pre 1947 owner. This publication is available, I think from Cap
>House and maybe a couple of other mining museums. Alternatively I have
>Colin's Home address if you wish to contact him directly.
>
>Although Colin's reference list is an invaluable source of basic
information
>it is hardly complete. Ray Lawrence's two volume work "The South Wales
>Coalfields Directory" (private publication 1998, currently out of print)
>lists details of 1,764 pits, drifts and shaft names in South Wales alone.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark Smith
>
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