WE MUST REMEMBER As we reach Remembrance Sunday, the Nottinghamshire Mining Museum wishes to remember all those who lost their lives working in the coalmining industry in Nottinghamshire, all those who died as a result of industrial accidents and diseases and all those who lost their lives in their
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BLOG 7 – NATIONALISATION THE MINERS’ DREAM REALISED – VESTING DAY – JANUARY 1947 “We were told we were dreamers and would never live to see the day” “For the common good.” Notts Miners Herald King Coal’s New Era – Nottingham Journal, 6 January, 1947 Herald King Coal’s New Era
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BLOG 6 – REHABILITATION pre Nationalisation “The rehabilitation problem in coal-mining is a very big one because the accident rate is so high (five times higher than the average industrial accident rate), the injuries are of a severe type, and there is no really light work to offer disabled men.”
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BLOG 5 – DEATH AND TRAUMA “In the nineteenth century, many miners were ‘cured’ by having the problem amputated. The limited skills of some colliery surgeons and more general the inability of orthopaedics to carry out the complex repairs to limbs that came in the post-war period meant that amputation
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Blog 4 – 20th Century – Health and Welfare “…the public was appalled by the contrast revealed during the sessions of the Sankey Commission between the wretched living conditions of the mining families on the one hand and the exorbitant wartime profits and royalties earned by the owners and landlords
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Throughout the 19th century coal miners and their families, including those in Nottinghamshire, faced hunger in the bad times and poverty and hardship when the economy boomed. In addition, major mining disasters claimed thousands of lives. Miners and their families also had to face intimidation and bitter opposition to
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“To most of the owners of 1840, their men were hired hands, little better than sub-human. The intolerable conditions in which so many men and boys worked did not impinge upon the consciences of the owners because they knew little, and usually cared less. The owners had to do with
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Our blogs this month, feature excerpts from a presentation by one of our Directors, Ann Donlan. Ann charts the relationship between the appalling poverty found in 19th and 20th century coalmining communities and the dangerous nature of a coalminer’s working life and the industrial and political campaigns waged to improve
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The Brian Morley Exhibition at the Nottinghamshire Mining Museum has now closed its doors. Eric Eaton, Chair of the Museum said, “We should like to thank all the many visitors who took this final opportunity to view the Brian Morley Mining Artist Exhibition, at the Nottinghamshire Mining Museum.” Brian’s drawings
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Before 1906, rescue work was left to volunteers from the colliery at which the disaster occurred, led by mining engineers from neighbouring collieries. A Royal Commission appointed in that year recommended that Central Rescue Stations manned by full time brigades should be provided in every coalfield by the owners, and that each
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