What's new?
25 September 2022 - Update to the details of the Tynewydd disaster page. Links to other sites page updated to remove broken links
23 August 2022 - New picture aded of John Henry Thorne and a photo of a rescue party exiting a WWI dugout added to Mines Rescue and the Great War
16 August 2022 - Reference link added to Individual Tales of Heroism highlighting the heroic deeds of Frederick Beckett, Thomas Begg and Jack Ledgar at Hem Heath No.1 pit
01 September 2020 - Reading list updated
09 August 2020 - Site migrated from Google Classic to Google New Sites. Some functionality lost in translation (lists) but these will be updated shortly.
09 February 2020 - Images of two commemorative plates added under Miscellany
25 January 2020 - various 'housekeeping' updates including a re-write of the list of disasters. All disasters listed now on one page and sorted by date.
26 December 2019 - Reading list updated
04 December 2019 - Picture of the Tunnellers Memorial added together with a link to the Tunnellers Memorial site
14 October 2019 - Additional information added relating to John Henry Thorne and Joseph Outram
04 October 2019 - New page added to Miscellany with image of North Staffordshire Colliery Owners medal
16 September 2019 - Links page updated to remove broken or out of date links
04 September 2019 - Walter Clifford page updated to include a new image of his 'Staffordshire Knot' medal complete with the 9 bars for the disasters he was involved with. Hamstead 1908 disaster page updated to include images of the Gold medal awarded to Walter Clifford.
20 July 2019 - Bibliography list has been deleted and all my books and publications can now be found on the Reading List page.
Rescue Stations page updated with new photographs and a link to the British Listed Buildings site
15 July 2019 - Updated text description for the picture of Pit Ponies - Jamage Colliery
30 November 2018 - Bibliography page update to include "The Valley of the Shadow"
24 August 2018 - New page added giving details about Sgt Arthur Thomas Winborn, first Instructor/Caretaker of the first mines rescue station at Tankersley from 1903 and Bibliography page updated
09 August 2018 - Bibliography updated to include Ian McMurdo's excellent book on the Knockshinnoch disaster and the addition of several excerpts from papers presented to the Institution of Mining Engineers between 1908 and 1919
23 July 2018 - Links page updated
26 June 2015 - Bibliography updated to include "Theatres of War" by William Cooke. Excellent chapter detailing the Podmore Hall (Minnie) pit disaster of 1918
6th November 2011 - Bibliography updated to include "Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres" by Sir Robert H. Davis.
12th September - Links page updated to include the Yorkshire Garlands site (Mining related folk songs)
9th September - New page added with picture of Foxfield No.1 Mines Rescue Team
13th April - Links page updated
10th April 2010 - Site relocated (previously at www.users.waitrose.com/~philipclifford)