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Mining

Big Meeting web site

British Mining Database

Coal Authority

Coal Mining History Resource Centre

Coal Mining Oral History (Durham County Council)

Durham Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association (DAMHA)

Durham Miner Project

Elemore Colliery Website

Fife Mining Heritage

Fife Pits

Florence Mine, Cumbria

Haig Colliery Museum

Honister Slate Mine, Cumbria

List of the collieries in County Durham and Northumberland compiled by Brian Pears

Mine Water Information and Links

Mines Rescue UK

Mining History Network

National Coal Mining Museum for England

National Mining Memorabilia Association

North East Derbyshire Coal Mines

North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

Peak District Mines Historical Society

Scottish Mining Museum

Scottish Mining Site (McPitz)

Shropshire Mining - including Meadow Colliery

UK Headgears Site - photographs of existing headgears

Victoria Tunnel Information site

Welsh Coal Mines

West Cumbria Mines Research Group

Wheatley Hill Heritage Center

Yorkshire Main Colliery web site

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Archives

Durham Record Office

NEEMARC - North East of England Mining Archives and Resource Centre A new resource for mining research currently being set up, check the link for background information

Tyne & Wear Archives - User Guide 19a - Records held on the Coal Industry

Tyne & Wear Archives - User Guide 19b - Records held on Individual Collieries

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North East Village History

Bearpark Web Site

Blackhall Rocks / Blackhall Colliery Web Site

Brandon & Byshottles Parish Archive

Cockfield, County Durham

Derwentdale Local History Society

Ferryhill Virtual Tour

Great Lumley Village History

Irish and British Villages

Lingdale & it's History

Seaham, County Durham

Shildon, County Durham

Skelton-in-Cleveland

Sunniside Local History Society

Swalwell Today and Yesterday

Ushaw Moor

West Auckland, County Durham

Wheatley Hill Heritage Center

Wheatley Hill History Club

Wheatley Hill, County Durham

Witton Gilbert, County Durham

Witton Park, County Durham

Woodland, County Durham

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General History

BBC Local History site - UK Legacies

History & Heritage in County Durham

History Of Yorkshire and North East England

Scottish Railways - includes the North British line into Northumberland etc.

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Local Visitor Attractions

See also our Days Out Section for sample leaflets

Beamish Open Air Museum

Bowes Railway

Florence Mine, Cumbria

Honister Slate Mine, Cumbria

Killhope - The North of England Lead Mining Museum

Ryhope Engines Museum

Tanfield Railway - The Worlds Oldest Existing Railway

Timothy Hackworth - Victorian and Railway

Tom Leonard - Ironstone Mining Museum

Wheatley Hill Heritage Center

Woodhorn Colliery Museum

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Local Sites

Community Heritage (Durham County Council)

County Durham

East Durham Website

Lambton Locomotives Trust

Langley Park Community Website

Newcastle Walks - walks around Newcastle

North East of England's Official Website!

North of England "Virtual Communities"

Structural Images of the North East contains a large online catalogue of images of structures from the North East of England

Sunderland, England - "the Virtual City"

Victoria Tunnel Information site

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Local Newspaper Sites

Berwick Advertiser

Evening Chronicle

Gateshead Post

Herald and Post

Hexham Courant

Northern Echo

Shields Gazette - now part of SouthTyneside Today

Sunderland Echo

The Journal

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Miners' Compensation & Help Groups

The Durham Mining Museum has no connection with any of the following organisations, these links are included here as a public service.

Durham Miners & Mechanics Compensation Help line

Miners' Advice Centre and Mining History

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