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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NCB TRAINING CENTRES – CAREER HIGHWAYS FOR AMBITIOUS RECRUITS
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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THEY DIDN’T GET TO BE OLD MINERS WITHOUT USING THE YOUNG UNS!
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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REMEMBRANCE AND RESISTANCE – The Derbyshire Miners Convalescent and Holiday Home
This is our last blog about the Derbyshire Miners Convalescent and Holiday Home. REMEMBRANCE We are REMEMBERING and celebrating the pleasure that it brought to so many mining families! RESISTANCE We are REMEMBERING the actions of RESISTANCE that took
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HOW IT ALL BEGAN – THE DERBYSHIRE CONVALESCENT HOME AND HOLIDAY CAMP
This is the full history of the origins of the Derbyshire Miners Convalescent Home and Miners Holiday Camp and this text is taken from the Derbyshire County Council Records Office website. Follow this link for the article: CalmView: Overview 19th century beginnings – Derbyshire Miners Association involvement A convalescent
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Skeggy Miners Holiday Camp. “Can you see the Wind Mill yet”
For our Mining Blog this week we are sharing a wonderful account of a visit to Skeggy Miners Holiday Camp by Eric Eaton in the early 1950s. I spent a few holidays at Skegness Miners Holiday Camp, in my childhood with my family, Mam, Dad, brothers and
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AT LAST! SEASIDE HOLIDAYS FOR MINING FAMILIES WHO COULD NOT AFFORD THEM
“The Camp will provide accommodation for nearly 1,000 people and will enable families whose means have hitherto prevented it, to have a seaside holiday.” In 1939 the Sheffield Telelegraph advised its readers of an ‘exciting experiment’ taking place in Derbyshire, the creation of a Miners’ Holiday Camp at Skegness.
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