"To be here at the museum, surrounded by the rich and precious history of coal mining is very poignant indeed.” In 1984, Yorkshire had a total of 56 collieries – with 15 in Wakefield District ...
Perhaps to transport this delicious coal, entrepreneurs built The ... s postwar story is much the same as those of mining villages across South Yorkshire . The collieries, which employed most ...
Four decades ago coal was king in these former ... on employment in the coalfield region. Former mining areas in South, North and West Yorkshire now have 60,000 people working in more than 1,000 ...