The South Yorkshire Coalfield
Title | The South Yorkshire Coalfield PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Hill |
Publisher | Tempus Pub Limited |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780752417479 |
Coal has been mined in South Yorkshire for hundreds of years. Today, little remains of an industry that employed many thousands. This publication traces the development of the mines from before 1850 through to nationalization and the formation of the NCB.
South Yorkshire Mining Villages
Title | South Yorkshire Mining Villages PDF eBook |
Author | Melvyn Jones |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2017-07-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1473880793 |
Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from other parts of the country, had to be housed near to the collieries where they worked. Small residential colonies were built near the new collieries, existing rural villages expanded, new satellite villages were established and completely new mining communities were created, the later ones carefully planned and laid out in the form of geometrically designed estates. This copiously illustrated book explores the history of the physical and social development of these very varied mining communities, drawing on a wide variety of sources. It is the first book to cover this subject and includes topics such as the settlement that was specifically built for blackleg miners, the development in one village of a large Welsh-speaking colony, how Earl Fitzwilliam housed his colliers and their families and the views of well-known writers like Fred Kitchen, Roger Dataller and George Orwell on the colliery villages. The book will be of great interest not only to readers living in South Yorkshire but also to the descendants of South Yorkshire miners now living in other parts of the country and elsewhere.
The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire
Title | The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Wain |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-06-15 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1445639750 |
Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters.
The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop
Title | The Coal Mining Industry in Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Wain |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2014-09-15 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1445639777 |
Once employing thousands, with many collieries dotted all over the area, coal mining in the East Midlands has all but gone. Once tens of thousands depended on mining. Ken Wain tells the story of mining, its triumphs and disasters.
The Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield
Title | The Geology of the Yorkshire Coalfield PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Henry Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 898 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Coal |
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The South Yorkshire Coalfield
Title | The South Yorkshire Coalfield PDF eBook |
Author | G. B. D. Gray |
Publisher | |
Pages | 19 |
Release | 1947 |
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Helping communities build a better future: community development in the South Yorkshire coalfield
Title | Helping communities build a better future: community development in the South Yorkshire coalfield PDF eBook |
Author | South Yorkshire Coalfield Partnership |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1999 |
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