The Northern Echo | Coal Mining http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/ The Northern Echo /history/mining/coal/ en-gb Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:20:24 +0100 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:20:24 +0100 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/850268/?type=rsslogo The Northern Echo | Coal Mining http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/ Miners among guests at museum day http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/4244609.Miners_among_guests_at_museum_day/?ref=rss MINERS past and present paraded though a museum to celebrate the opening of its latest attraction. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:57 +0100 f1704edfb3b41c79f07c11fc04ff97a5 Apple tree memorial to last pit pony http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/4135242.Apple_tree_memorial_to_last_pit_pony/?ref=rss AN apple tree has been planted in memory of the North- East’s last working pit pony. Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:01:03 +0000 3d05cfca45a5ca6658fdc7dd583ca7ad Schoolchildren relive tragic mining explosion http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/4109095.Schoolchildren_relive_tragic_mining_explosion/?ref=rss PUPILS have dressed in traditional mining clothes to help them understand one of the North-East’s worst pit disasters. Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:23:15 +0000 b10c194598f232426414d0c5141484cf Mine history to go on show after grant http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/4053854.Mine_history_to_go_on_show_after_grant/?ref=rss MORE than 100 pieces of mining history will go on public display for the first time, thanks to a charitable grant. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:58 +0000 4cfa494ec7b850eb1199e1072e95ad2d Centenary tribute to 168 workers who died in mine http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/4048574.Centenary_tribute_to_168_workers_who_died_in_mine/?ref=rss CHURCH bells will toll 168 times to mark the 100th anniversary of one of region’s worst coal mining disasters. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:47:46 +0000 da0753ed06e2a90f7ddec4e96b5d52a3 To hell and back http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/3184212.To_hell_and_back/?ref=rss Fifty seven years ago today, more than 80 men and boys were killed in an explosion at Easington Colliery. Tommy Houghton, now 93, the last surviving member of the Rescue Brigade, talks, for the first time, to Marjorie McIntyre about what he saw that day. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:07:29 +0100 b8148851a6cf930734ed606a3a9cbb1e The miners who never came home http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/3183937.The_miners_who_never_came_home/?ref=rss It was the eerie sound every mining community dreaded. The alarm which signalled an accident underground and summoned miners from their homes to join rescue teams. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:06 +0100 c1eb9ce51258b0a188f4b16ce5470ca9 Black day for village http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/3183924.Black_day_for_village/?ref=rss Residents were first alerted to the tragedy by a muffled bang followed by a loud roar from Burns Pit, West Stanley, at 3.45pm on February 16, 1909. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:32:13 +0100 72cf72d7992128153c34e294e9b31d26 Mining a seam of memories http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/3183916.Mining_a_seam_of_memories/?ref=rss "TERROR-stricken they ran, tripping over a body" and the carcass of a pony that had been blown from its limbers, only to find one route blocked by a collapse. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:26:34 +0100 3151c52fed15e1968be96b61f3816cd1 The beam in the eye of the pit http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/mining/coal/3183911.The_beam_in_the_eye_of_the_pit/?ref=rss Thursday, January 16, 1862: THE Hester Pit's backshift are at work, the foreshift on their way outbye: the first 16 men at bank, eight more in a following cage. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:25:00 +0100 ad3459c9f880f99766629b13d2184764