Safety Alerts and HSE Reports Yesterday we looked at manriding accidents. Today we are drawing your attention to HSE (Health and Safety Executive) recommendations arising from the Silverwood and Bentley fatal accidents and other analysis arising from the more widespread introduction of Underground Locomotive Haulage into coal mines following the
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Manriders: Accidents and Fatalities Inevitably when transporting large numbers of men over long distances underground, from time to time, accidents occurred. There were occasions when there were serious injuries and fatalities. In Nottinghamshire, Bob Bradley on the Healey Heroes sites records an accident at Blidworth Colliery on the 2nd March
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“Paddy In, Belts Out” Taking inspiration from this postcard of Brian’s (Brian Morley, Mining Artist – Brian’s postcards will be on sale again when the Museum reopens), we are featuring Manriding in our blogs this week. Over the week, we will look in more detail at Manriding in pits in
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Look what we’ve found. How many ex miners have seen one of these? We couldn’t resist sharing this training manual. It comes from the Culture North Lanarkshire museum. To see it as a slideshow in its full glory click on the link below https://www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/SIModes/Detail/14223 It’s an absolute gem of mining
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This is a drawing of me when I got buried. “We had just fired the ripping, got back to lip and found the shots had blown three props out from under Bull bar. I went under the lip and started digging out to reset the props when some of the
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Brian Morley, mining artist. Born in Nottingham on January 30th, 1937, Brian started at Linby Colliery aged 16 and worked in the pit bottom. Brian went in the Army for 3 years in 1957. When he came out of the Army he started at Moorgreen Pit; his job was ‘ganging’
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“I am a tunneller, I must look after the others first”. Sapper William Hackett VC, 254th Tunnelling Company, June 1916. When we hold our two minutes silence at 11.00am today, we will all take this opportunity to recognise the bravery of everyone who fought for their country. We at the
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How many of our miners have heard of ‘clay-kicking’ or ‘ working on the cross’? One of the main advantages the British tunnellers had was the use of the technique called ‘clay-kicking’. Clay-kicking was a lot quieter than normal mining methods and silence could mean the difference between life or
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The role of miners during World War 1 If like many of us you too have been fans of the recent TV programme Peaky Blinders, you will have seen Arthur and Tommy having nightmares and flashbacks of their wartime experience. During WW1 both characters were ‘Moles’ or tunnellers. Although Tommy
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On this Remembrance Day, we would like to also remember the Nottinghamshire miners, who had to fight for the right to fight for their country during World War 2. The Ex and Retired Miner’s Association successfully campaigned a couple of years back to have the contribution made by the miners
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