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The Mining Blog

Look what we’ve found!

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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From Pitman to Mining Artist

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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A “NEW USE FOR THE CANARY”

This text and the photographs are taken from the online sour...

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