What was "New" during 2001!

• 15th December 2001
• Another topic added to Education section on "Coal - its origin and occurrence".
• More photographs of the West Stanley Disaster Memorials added to the Memorials section.


• 1st December 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities and colliery details.
• More Mines Inspectors reports have been added to the disaster reports section.


• 1st November 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities, colliery details and maps.
• New features added to colliery detail pages:–
• Additional information provided on the sources of the information on the page
• A new section for related links to other pages of interest relating to the colliery – both on this site and elsewhere on the internet.
• For the larger collieries the employment figures are also shown graphically so that the fluctuations in manpower can be more easily seen.
• More Mines Inspectors reports have been added to the disaster reports section.
• New section on Days Out of an Industrial Heritage flavour.


• 22nd October 2001
• The text of another Mines Inspectors report (1951 - Weetslade Colliery) has been added to the disaster reports section.


• 3rd October 2001
• The text of another Mines Inspectors report has been added to the disaster reports section.


• 1st October 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities, colliery details and maps.
• Navigation added to the bottom of each web page.


• 1st September 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities, colliery details and maps.


• 26th August 2001
• Images from the former Wearmouth Colliery site added to the memorials section
• The text of two more Mines Inspectors reports have been added to the disaster reports section.
• Additional terms added to the list of mining occupations section.


• 18th August 2001
• Details on more collieries provided, including some links to an 1928 map of the collieries of Durham and Northumberland.
• New section added to hold the maps of the coalfields. These maps are gradually being linked to the colliery information pages.
• The text of the report into the 1942 Murton disaster has been added to the disaster reports section.


• 5th August 2001
• Details on more collieries provided, including links to an 1807 map of the collieries around the Tyne and Wear.


• 30th July 2001
• New area added to Gallery section for Old Mining Prints, pictures from old postcards of a number of collieries added.


• 29th July 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities and colliery details.
• Pictures of some collieries added to colliery detail pages (more to come!).
• Pictures of some of the Miners Lodge banners added to colliery detail pages (more to come!).
• Mining fatalities details now split into separate pages for the first two characters of the surname - to reduce loading times
• Mining Occupations from 1825 added to Education section


• 21st July 2001
• Two Usworth Colliery memorials added to the memorial pages.


• 1st July 2001
• Redesign of the colliery information pages.
• Enhancements to other pages to cater for differences between Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
• Regular update of mining fatalities and colliery details.


• 4th June 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities and colliery details.


• 20th May 2001
• New section for Educational Material added.
• Text of the Mines Inspectors Report into the Eppleton explosion added to Disaster Reports


• 8th May 2001
• Newsletter contents page added.


• 6th May 2001
• New section for the Disaster Area: Disaster Reports, this will house the Mines Inspectors Reports into Mining Disasters. We have started the section off with the report into the Easington Disaster of 1951 - this year being the 50th Anniversary. Other reports will be added over the coming months.
• Regular update of mining fatalities.


• 22nd April 2001
• Additional images for the New Hartley disaster have been added to the Memorials section.


• 20th April 2001
• Bibliography provided by S. M. Linsley now available.
• Pitman's Bond from 1770 added to Archives section.
• Corrected an error from the update of mining fatalities.


• 17th April 2001
• Re-orded the menu structure to make the categories more "logical"!
• New page added for Family Historians to help them in their research
• New areas added to Memorials section for colliery memorials, thanks to Mr. Gargett from Gloucester for sparking the idea off.
• Update of mining fatalities.


• 7th April 2001
• New areas added to Gallery section for Miners, and Pit Ponies


• 1st April 2001
• Regular update of mining fatalities.


• 28th March 2001
• Pitman's Bond from 1766 added to Archives section
• More photographs added to Gallery section


• 26th March 2001
• The website has moved to another server, unfortunately there may be some teething problems, please bear with us for the next few days - if this causes a problem for you then please let us know.


• 10th March 2001
• Details of more Collieries added, 170 are now listed (with varying amounts of detail!)


• 20th February 2001
• Events calendar calendar updated with a link to pictures from our exhibition at Ferryhill


• 10th February 2001
• Events calendar updated


• 4th February 2001
• Picture story from The Picture Post of 1939 illustrating the life of a Coal Miner added to the Gallery


• 1st February 2001
• Alan Vickers has transcribed Mining related articles from the Illustrated London News and has given his permisssion for us to include them in our Archives section
• Additional links to other sites of interest added


• Extended the coverage of the Collieries section


• 17th January 2001
• Obituaries section added to Archives section
• Obituaries of William Reid Clanny, John Buddle, George Stephenson added
• 'Story of the Locomotive' added to Archives section. Covers the early history of George Stephenson


• 13th January 2001
• 'What's New' page added - accessible from most parts of the site
• Archives section split into two areas: History, Biography
• Biography of William Reid Clanny added to Archives section.