Archives from the Lancashire Coal Mining Museum
- Made:
- 1815-01-01-1996-12-31
The archive collection consists of thirty-six boxes of material including mining disaster ephemera, NUM branch records, personal memorabilia, photographs, minutes, reports, leaflets, correspondence, poems, certificates, pay tickets, slides, remembrance cards, memoirs, rule books, posters, newspaper cuttings, 7" record, college notes, drawings and maps relating to coal mining within the Lancashire region.
The archive reflects donations by individual members of the public who used to work in the mines or had relatives employed in the coal mining industry. The archive also includes some administrative records of the Lancashire Coal Mining Museum at Buile Hill.
Details
- Extent:
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13.4 linear metres
- Identifier:
- YA2002.19
- Access:
- Open access.
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Series 1: Salford Mining Museum & Art Gallery - Administrative & housekeeping papers; Wet Earth Colliery Group; Croal Irwell & Clifton Country Park Series 2: Collieries Series 3: Lead Mines Series 4: Miners (including National Union of Miners papers) Series 5: National Coal Board Series 6: Mining Societies and Institutions Series 7: Mining Education Series 8: Miscellaneous business records 8/1: James Owen 8/2: Barton Fuel Works 8/3: R. White & Sons (Engineers) Ltd., Widnes 8/4: Wigan Coal & Iron Company 8/5: Oldham & Sons Ltd., Denton 8/6: Miscellaneous Series 9: Posters 9/1: Safety 9/2: Rules & Regulations 9/3: Miscellaneous Series 10: Maps Series 11: Miscellaneous literature and papers Series 12: Miscellaneous - Peat and manufactured fuels
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