HOW DO WE PASS ON OUR MINING MEMORIES TO THE NEXT GENERATION? We will feature 4 blogs, 1 each Monday, themed around ‘mining education’ in the next month. We will show how our Mining Museum has been engaging with children and also ask how we can pass on those memories
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Dowty or Dobson?
We delved deep into our artefacts listings and found this little beauty. A nice example of a Hydraulic Prop. There were two main suppliers of hydraulic props, Dowty and W E & F Dobson Ltd. Dowty began making hydraulic pit props in 1948, by 1957 they had made their millionth
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