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 Newsletter Contents Newsletter Contents 

Members of the Friends of Durham Mining Museum receive a newsletter that provides information on the Museum and articles on the history of the Durham Coalfield. We aim to produce the newsletter four times a year (depending on submissions).

Here we list some of the articles printed in the newsletter.

  • Winter 2005
    • Coal Magazine 1948
    • 1815 Heaton Colliery Inundation
    • The Coal Board has a Ghost

  • Winter 2004
    • Elswick Rescue Station
    • Training of Boys

  • Spring 2004
    • They Scooped The Pool (1948)
    • Carbide Lamps

  • Winter 2003/4
    • 1941 - An infinite resource!
    • 1842 - Of the trappers
    • 1948 - Port carved from rocky reef

  • Summer 2003
    • 1933 - Training of boys
    • 1946 - School for Ponies
    • 1842 - Habitations of the Colliers

  • Winter 2002
    • Man-Riding Haulage System in Durham Mine
    • 1960 Safety Campaign Cartoons
    • Horden Colliery Sinking
    • Electric Pump at Tyne Main Colliery
    • Thrislington Miners Welfare Hall
    • Poem - The Hartley Calamity
    • 1947 N.C.B. Financial Results

  • Spring 2002
    • Help Wanted!
    • Usworth Colliery
    • The Method of working at Wearmouth Colliery
    • Steam driven delivery truck
    • The Trapper Lad
    • Hours of Work Agreement, July 16th, 1920
    • The Consett Iron Co. Collieries, 1892

  • Autumn 2001
    • Brandling Main Explosion
    • Old Wooden Pumps found in Rainton Colliery
    • The Winning of Murton Colliery
    • A Pit at Pallion
    • Byers Green Parish - 1894

  • Spring 2001
    • Wolf Pieler Lamp
    • Thomas Burt
    • Power Operated Machinery 1700-1900
    • West Pelton Colliery Alma Pit
    • The Black Heroes (poem)
    • Blackhouse Pit near Birtley

  • Summer 2000
    • The advent of the Fireman
    • DAMHA and Haswell
    • Leasing Agreement for Lumley 2nd Pit, 1791
    • The Bonnie Pit Lad (poem)
    • New Brancepeth Colliery, account of No. 3 Pit sinking
    • Anthracite and Beer
    • The Sinking of Hartley Colliery shaft

  • Spring 2000
    • Haswell Lodge Banners
    • Recollections
    • Haswell Colliery History

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