For a few weeks the Mining Blog will be celebrating the coal mining industry’s brass band tradition. Following Vesting Day in 1947, when the NCB became the employer of over 800,000 people and the owner of 950 pits, it also found itself the owner of a number of brass bands;
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The Nationalisation of the Coal Industry was barely a year old before ambitious plans for developing the training of new recruits was unveiled. Coal News announced in February 1948 ambitious plans for the establishment 0f juvenile residential training centres. These centres, planned to be run in cooperation with
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Alan Spencer, the current Notts NUM General Secretary, shares his recollections of his early years in mining with the Mining Blog. “I started my 37 years in the mining industry at Welbeck Colliery in 1974 just after the 74 strike. I started as everyone did in North Notts at Lound
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