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Newspaper Articles about Whitburn Colliery

DateHeadline(s)
 16 Aug 1882  The Fatal Occurrence At Marsden Colliery
Inquest
 29 May 1891  Official Notice
Whitburn Coal Co. Ltd.
 20 Jan 1893  News and Notes
 28 Sep 1895  Sad Fatality At Whitburn Colliery
 08 Dec 1899  Official Notice
Whitburn Coal Co. Ltd.
 07 Aug 1900  Fatal Accident At Whitburn Colliery
 08 Aug 1900  Whitburn Colliery Fatality
 18 Jan 1911  The North-East Coast
Electricity At Collieries
 03 Jun 1916  Memoir Of The Late George May
 07 May 1919  Miners' Strikes
No Work with Conscientious Objectors
 04 Nov 1924  Prop In Wrong Wheel
How A Marsden Man Met His Death
 27 Aug 1925  Miners in the Workhouse
 08 May 1926  News
 03 Dec 1927  A Durham Colliery Dispute
 20 Dec 1927  Durham Colliery Notices Withdrawn
 14 Feb 1928  A Durham Colliery Dispute
8,000 Men Affected
 03 Nov 1928  Aged Miners' Homes
 23 Mar 1929  New Appointment
 15 Jun 1929  Gift To Ex-Manager
 25 Jan 1930  Pithead Baths
 08 Feb 1930  Romance Of Welfare
 22 Mar 1930  Pithead Baths
Views of Welfare Committee
 27 Dec 1930  Welding In Boiler Repairs
 10 Feb 1931  News In Brief
 10 Feb 1931  Unemployed Man Killed By Train
Fatal Dash At Whitburn
 11 Feb 1931  Death Ends Day's Hunt For Work
Tragedy Of Whitburn Railway
 08 Nov 1931  57 Years' Service
Whitburn Colliery Official Retires
 08 Apr 1932  Labour and Wages
North of England
 12 Aug 1932  Labour and Wages
North of England
 18 Aug 1933  1,000 Miners' Lightning Strike
 30 Aug 1933  Sympathy Strike of 4,000 Miners
 31 Aug 1933  South Shields Strike Ended
 01 Sep 1933  Classes For Pit Boys
Sunderland Authority's Arrangement
Safety In Mines Education
 26 May 1934  Miner Builds Coble
 20 Jul 1934  Labour and Wages
North of England
 10 Aug 1934  Labour and Wages
North of England
 19 Oct 1934  Labour and Wages
North of England
 09 Nov 1934  Notes from the Coal Fields
Northumberland and Durham
 21 Dec 1934  Labour and Wages
North of England
 29 Dec 1934  Durham Pit Dispute
Threatened Strike of 5,000 Miners To-day
 11 May 1935  Jubilee Plans
 12 Jul 1935  Notes from the Coal Fields
Northumberland and Durham
 28 Feb 1936  "Men Risking Lives"
Dangerous Marsden Cliff Path
Scene Of Recent Landslide
 21 Aug 1936  Labour and Wages
North of England
 04 Sep 1936  Notes from the Coal Fields
Northumberland and Durham
 25 Sep 1936  Labour and Wages
North of England
 22 Oct 1937  Labour and Wages
North of England
 01 Nov 1937  News
 15 Nov 1937  Whitburn Miners' Windfall
Additional Sums In Their Pay-Notes
 19 Nov 1937  Labour and Wages
North of England
 11 Feb 1938  Labour and Wages
North of England
 23 Sep 1938  Labour and Wages
North of England
 30 Sep 1938  Labour And Wages
North of England
 07 Oct 1938  Labour And Wages
North of England
 01 Aug 1941  Miners' Restricted Output
Damages for owners
 17 Jul 1942  Threatened Closing Of Colliery
Inquiry Ordered By Minister
 29 Jul 1942  In Durham Pits
Fatal Accident Rate "Serious"
 04 Nov 1944  News in Brief
 24 May 1945  Durham Colliery to be Closed
 12 Nov 1945  News in Brief
 18 Feb 1946  News in Brief
 07 May 1947  Cost Of Winders' Strike
Output Drops By 69,000 Tons
 17 Jan 1949  Durham Strike Continued
 16 Feb 1949  Claims against miners
 14 Mar 1949  N.C.B. Withdraw Claim
 31 Dec 1949  Plan For Whitburn Colliery
 27 Feb 1954  1,800 Miners on Strike
 08 Mar 1954  Miners' Strike Spreads
3,500 In Protest About Overman
 20 Mar 1954  Union call to end strike
 03 Jul 1954  Coal Board withdraw summonses
Durham men to work extra shifts

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