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This may be of interest to the mining enthuisiasts on the site.The Northern Mine Research Society are society of mining enthuisiasts dedicated to exploring and recording the mining heritage of northern britain. Inevitably there is a concentration on mining in the pennines (particularly the lead mines but also the extensive and scattered coal mining areas of the pennines) but their interests spread through out the mining areas of Yorkshire, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Scotland and some times further afield. They produce an excellent series of memoirs annually entitled British Mining (the current issue Bristish Mining 81 includes a paper by Mike Gill "Towards a chronology for Britains coal industry from 1854 onwards" and John Goodchild" Expanding markets served by the principal West Riding Coalfield before c.1850") and specific memoirs covering subjects such as diverse Britsh Mining 76 - "Ingleton Coalfield" or Birtish Mining 74 - "Keighley Coal")Oh aye, membership (including two issues of British Mining) is a snip at £15.00 (see website for details)Mike Gill a very active member and leading mining historian has produced a list of Yorkshire Mines of coal and other stratafied minerals (fireclay, ganister, ironstone, sand, sandstone and whinstone) from a variety of sources that esentially provide a chronology rather the traditional location based list. He has scoured a variety of source including List of Mines, Mines Inspector's Reports, Guide to the Coalfields, Coal and the Coal News. A huge undertaking.The 'lite' version is available on the NMRS website (http://www.nmrs.co.uk/ see online resources) and an explanation of the list here http://www.nmrs.co.uk/listinfo.htmI have extracted the mines located in Leeds and stuck on the attached spreadsheetTrust that this is of interest and hats off to Mr Gill for his efforts

Apologies this isnt going to work .......... unfortunately forum set up only to take images and not other data sets.If you are interested, it only takes 20 minutes to copy/paste each page of the list direct to an excel sheet ....... then a simple matter of filtering out the mines located in Leeds

grumpytramp wrote: Apologies this isnt going to work .......... unfortunately forum set up only to take images and not other data sets.If you are interested, it only takes 20 minutes to copy/paste each page of the list direct to an excel sheet ....... then a simple matter of filtering out the mines located in Leeds I was going to say, 'other stratified minerals' sounds a bit deep for Sunday afternoon, and then realised the pun - but its a good one anyway!This will be of interest to many of us I think - thank you, I never cease to be amazed by the diverse areas of interest people show on here, it's wonderful!

Does anyone know if there are any surviving remains of Harton Colliery?

mcnab wrote: Does anyone know if there are any surviving remains of Harton Colliery? Not heard of that one - didn't mean Halton did you?

grumpytramp wrote: Mike Gill a very active member and leading mining historian Trust that this is of interest and hats off to Mr Gill for his efforts Mike did excellent work on Dales lead mines and anything I did not understand I used to write and ask him.It IS of interest and thatnks for that!

The Parksider wrote: mcnab wrote: Does anyone know if there are any surviving remains of Harton Colliery? Not heard of that one - didn't mean Halton did you? Sorry just realised it is near Durham!