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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKE0 - The miners' strike of 1984“1985 was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the Conservative government of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to reduce the power of the trade unions
File under: Trade Unions,NUM, flying pickets, Conservative government, Tories, industrial dispute, British history, NCB, pit closures, pits,pay restraint,unofficial strikes,Cortonwood Colliery,NUMs Yorkshire Area, Arthur Scargill, NUM strategy, Margaret Thatcher, police,pickets,British industrial relations,defeat,trade union power,coal industry,UK Coal,coal mining areas
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKE3 - The miners' strike of 1984“1985 was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the Conservative government of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to reduce the power of the trade unions
File under: Trade Unions,NUM, flying pickets, Conservative government, Tories, industrial dispute, British history, NCB, pit closures, pits,pay restraint,unofficial strikes,Cortonwood Colliery,NUMs Yorkshire Area, Arthur Scargill, NUM strategy, Margaret Thatcher, police,pickets,British industrial relations,defeat,trade union power,coal industry,UK Coal,coal mining areas
More info at https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/coal-not-dole-the-legacy-of-the-miners-strike
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JCMKE7 - The miners' strike of 1984“1985 was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures. It was led by Arthur Scargill of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) against the National Coal Board (NCB), a government agency. Opposition to the strike was led by the Conservative government of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to reduce the power of the trade unions
File under: Trade Unions,NUM, flying pickets, Conservative government, Tories, industrial dispute, British history, NCB, pit closures, pits,pay restraint,unofficial strikes,Cortonwood Colliery,NUMs Yorkshire Area, Arthur Scargill, NUM strategy, Margaret Thatcher, police,pickets,British industrial relations,defeat,trade union power,coal industry,UK Coal,coal mining areas
More info at https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/coal-not-dole-the-legacy-of-the-miners-strike
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDAE - The Beethoven Mk 7 is a 100-shot capacitor discharge exploder, enclosed in a robust 'Noryl' moulded case. It is designed particularly to meet the requirements of blasting in gassy underground coal mines. The Mk 7 has an integral digital ohmmeter which can be used to measure the total circuit series resistance. The d.c voltage required to initiate the detonators is supplied by a hand operated generator which charges a capacitor.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDAH - Mine rescue or mines rescue is the specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of mining accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions.
Altofts Colliery manager, W.E. Garforth suggested using a gallery to test rescue apparatus and train rescuers in 1899 and one was built at his pit in Altofts West Yorkshire. It cost £13,000. He also suggested the idea of a network of rescue stations. The first British mines rescue station opened at Tankersley in 1902. It was commissioned by the West Yorkshire Coal Mine Owners Association.[8] Its building is grade II listed.
In the United Kingdom a series of disasters in the 19th century brought about Royal Commissions which developed the idea of improving mine safety. The commissions influenced the Coal Mines Act of 1911 which made the provision of rescue stations compulsory. By 1919 there were 43 stations in the UK but as the coal industry declined from the last quarter of the 20th century many were closed, leaving six as of 2013, at Crossgates in Fife, Houghton-le-Spring in Tyne and Wear, Kellingley at Beal in North Yorkshire, Rawdon in Derbyshire, Dinas at Tonypandy in Glamorgan and at Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire. The MRS Training centre at Houghton-le-Spring opened in 1913 is one of the six surviving British rescue stations which are operated by MRS Training and Rescue. It is a Grade II listed building.
Mines rescue featured in the 1952 film The Brave Don't Cry which was a testimony to the Knockshinnoch disaster. Mine rescuers have often been recognised in Britain by the award of gallantry medals.
In Britain, mines rescue teams may be called to investigate holes in the ground that have appeared because of land surface subsidence into old mineshafts and mine workings
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDAK -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAGDAN -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT5B -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT82 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT8W -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT90 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JAXT92 -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2DDW6DA -
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K3XNAD - Dalkeith is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River Esk. It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1540. The settlement of Dalkeith grew southwestwards from its 12th-century castle (now Dalkeith Palace). Dalkeith has a population of 12,342 people according to the 2011 census.
The town is divided into four distinct areas: Dalkeith proper with its town centre and historic core
Eskbank (considered to be the well-heeled neighbourhood of Dalkeith with many large Victorian and newer houses) to its west
Woodburn (primarily a working class council estate with pockets of new housing developments) to its east
and Newbattle (a semi-rural village with its abbey) to the south.
Dalkeith is the main administrative centre for Midlothian. It is twinned with Jarnac, France. In 2004, Midlothian Council re-paved Jarnac Court in honour of Dalkeith and Jarnac's long standing link.
On the north-eastern edge of Dalkeith at Woodburn is the Dalkeith Campus (completed 2003) “ housing both Dalkeith High School and St David's Roman Catholic High School plus community leisure facilities
Twin town Jarnac
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy R9GTAY - Badgers and the law
If you're concerned that someone has done something illegal to a wild animal, please call RSPCA 24-hour Cruelty line on 0300 1234 999 - or contact the police.
Badgers are protected and so are the setts (burrows) they live in. Under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, in England and Wales (the law is different in Scotland) it is an offence to:
Wilfully kill, injure or take a badger (or attempt to do so).
Cruelly ill-treat a badger.
Dig for a badger.
Intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy a badger sett, or obstruct access to it.
Cause a dog to enter a badger sett.
Disturb a badger when it is occupying a sett.
But there are exceptions. Licences to undertake some actions can be issued if it is justified, for example where a badger sett is found on a proposed site for a road or housing development.
Bulldozing a sett in the way of a new road would risk killing or injuring the badgers, so Natural England or Natural Resources Wales may grant a licence allowing the badgers to be carefully excluded, making them move elsewhere in their territory.
For information about the badger cull visit our Bovine tuberculosis page. Defra's policy on reducing bovine tuberculosis can be found on their website.
THE RSPCA 'Living with badgers' factsheet provides more information and detailed advice is available in Natural England's advisory leaflets.
Protecting badgers
Badgers were given some limited protection in 1973 but weaknesses in the law meant that badger setts were still being dug, bulldozed, blocked or the animals cruelly killed.
The RSPCA successfully campaigned for better protection and help enforce the law by assisting with police investigations or prosecuting people involved in wildlife crime such as badger digging and baiting.
Undercover RSPCA inspectors have helped bring a number of successful badger digging cases before the courts.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 9118629599 - 'Thirty Four is the ninth Fibonacci number and a companion Pell number. Since it is an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, 34 is a Markov number, appearing in solutions with other Fibonacci numbers, such as (1, 13, 34), (1, 34, 89), etc..
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35 is the atomic number of selenium.+34 is the code for international direct-dial phone calls to Spain.
Thirty Four is a book by William Hastings Burke about Berlin, Hitler and his bunker.
Amidst the giddy chaos of Berlin, Hitler toys with death in his bunker. The golden boy of Nazism, Hermann G\u00f6ring, looks set to succeed as F\u00fchrer. But his bid for power ends with a cyanide capsule in a gaol cell in Nuremberg. And there history signs off on Hermann. Yet buried in the footnotes sits the extraordinary story of Hermann G\u00f6ring's little brother, Albert.
A defiant anti-Nazi, Albert G\u00f6ring spent the war years busting the persecuted out of concentration camps, smuggling them across borders and funnelling aid to refugees throughout Europe. He did everything to undermine his brother's regime. But by 1944 the Gestapo were hunting him down like a dog. Did Hermann step in and save his brother?
Enter William, a twentysomething from Sydney, Australia, who stumbles upon the tattered pieces of Albert's history. Shelving plans for a Ph.D., William sets off on a three year odyssey across eight countries and three continents to piece together the puzzling life of Albert G\u00f6ring.
Forget staid biography. Think seat of your pants travelogue mixed with a Spielberg eye for storytelling and you start to get a taste for the energy William brings to the page. Delivering the kind of must-read story that turns history on its head, Thirty Four gives us a new hero. Standing alongside Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg is the G\u00f6ring history forgot.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYCT - Old Maroon Coal Mining Conciliation Scheme Guides
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYD4 - Old Maroon Coal Mining Conciliation Scheme Guides
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYDY - Miners black Safety Telephone AT&E Wigan, Certified for GB National Coal board use
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYF1 - Industrial Mining Winding Gear Indicator - Men On Raise Steadily, from Astley Green Pit, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4726413997 - 'Mining in Cornwall has a long history and began in the early Bronze Age approximately 2,150 BC. It ended with the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall closing in 1998. Tin and later also copper were the most productive of the metals extracted. Some tin mining continued long after mining of other metals had become unprofitable.
Tin is one of the earliest metals to have been exploited in Britain. Chalcolithic metal workers discovered that by putting a small amount of tin (5 - 20%) in molten copper an alloy called bronze was produced that was easier to work and harder than copper. The oldest production of tin-bronze is in Turkey about 3500 BC but exploitation of the tin resources in Britain is believed to have started before 2000 BC, with a thriving tin trade developing with the civilisations of the Mediterranean. The strategic importance of tin in forging bronze weapons brought the southwest of Britain into the Mediterranean economy at an early date. Later tin was also used in the production of pewter.
Cornwall was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean. However, it is likely that the tin trade with the Mediterranean was controlled by the Veneti. Britain was one of the places proposed for the Cassiterides, that is Tin Islands.
As South-West Britain was one of the few parts of England to escape glaciation, tin ore was readily available on the surface. Originally it is likely that alluvial deposits in the gravels of streams were exploited but later underground working took place. Shallow cuttings were then used to extract ore.
Diodorus Siculus around 1 BC had this to say about ancient tin mining in Britain. 'They that inhabit the British promontory of Balerion by reason of their converse with strangers are more civilised and courteous to strangers than the rest are. These are the people that prepare the tin, which with a great deal of care and labour, they dig out of the ground, and that being done the metal is mixed with some veins of earth out of which they melt the metal and refine it. Then they cast it into regular blocks and carry it to a certain island near at hand called Ictis for at low tide, all being dry between there and the island, tin in large quantities is brought over in carts.'
By the 19th century, the areas of Cornwall around Gwennap and St Day and on the coast around Porthtowan were among the richest mining areas in the world and at its height the Cornish tin mining industry had around 600 steam engines working to pump out the mines (many mines stretched out under the sea and some went down to great depths). Adventurers put up the capital, and the mines would hopefully return them a profit.
During the 20th century various ores became briefly profitable, and mines were reopened, but today none remain. Dolcoath mine, (Cornish for Old Ground), the 'Queen of Cornish Mines' was, at a depth of 3500 feet (1067 m), for many years the deepest mine in the world, not to mention one of the oldest before its closure in 1921. Indeed, the last working tin mine in Europe, South Crofty, was to be found near Camborne until its closure in March 1998. An attempt was made to reopen it but the mine was then abandoned. There have been local media reports in September 2006 that South Crofty is being considered for re-opening as the price of tin has soared however the site is now part of a Compulsory Purchase Order (October 2006). On the wall outside the gate is some graffiti dating from 1999:
'Cornish lads are fishermen and Cornish lads are miners too. / But when the fish and tin are gone, what are the Cornish boys to do?'
Many old mine buildings with a chimney for the steam engine exhaust dot the Cornish landscape today. This one has been sensitively restored and put to residential use.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 3834522449 - 'Pit face coal cutting machine.
The Midlothian area of Scotland was once the heart of a large coal mining area. After the decline and defeat of Arthur Scargill, the man who was described as mad for suggesting that 20,000 miners jobs in the UK may go. The true figure was in excess of 40,000. He may have been militant, but he was not mad.
Shame the victors get to write the history eh?
Midlothian is left with some towns and villages with remnents of those heady days. One is Dalkeith:
www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4241055295/ worth a visit if you are in Edinburgh.
(c) Hotpix Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWN5 - Coal Mine Grant, Ritchie and Company Winding engine (largest in Scotland) Midlothian Mining Museum, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEMWNG - Coalface Cutting Machine at the Midlothian Mining Mine Museum, Scotland UK, near Dalkeith and Vogre Country Park.
