The name of the community changed to Durham after the mining area on Lookout Mountain was purchased by the Durham Iron and Coal Company. After the first shipment was made in 1892, the mining of ...

signalling the end of coal production in County Durham. The company Banks Group attempted to extend the mine but were thwarted by a local campaign. Banks Group's attempt to convince Durham that ...

There are tens of thousands of abandoned mines in the UK according to the Coal Authority (Getty ) Through most of the 20th Century, the small town of Seaham in County Durham was home to three ...

Mr Price's 40 paintings produced during the 40th anniversary year of the 1984-5 miners' strike depict former colliery sites as they are today which he said were "silent spaces once central to ...

The project is being led by the Mining Remediation Authority in partnership with Durham County Council, according to Environment+Energy Leader. It will use geothermal energy that will then be ...

Today marks the end of an era, with the closure of one of England's last commercial coal mines. The Bradley Mine in County Durham has operated for almost 200 years. But now, after plans to expand ...

The cathedral has an association with the coal mining industry dating from the early 1800s. The exhibition is being staged in collaboration with the Durham Mining Communities Banner Groups Association ...

Driving round the Durham coalfield in the mid Nineties ... GPO public broadcasts and a rare chance to see some of the Mining Review films the coal board made themselves. From 1947 to the mid ...

The Durham Miners’ Gala is classed as the ... know that Ashington in Northumberland ‘was classed as the largest coal mining village in the world’. The famous Ashington & District Male ...