The National Mining Museum Scotland is often contacted by people carrying out family research. Please download a guide for starting your research into your coal mining family history, what NMMS might be able to provide and what other good sources of information are out there. Although the ...
Industrial Revolution, Scotland, whose chief product had been textiles, began developing the industries of shipbuilding, coal mining, iron, and steel. In the late 20th century, Scotland concentrated on electronics and high-tech industries. The North Sea has also become an important source of oil ...
technically in breach of procedures until the system was changed in 1961.1 Until the National Power Loading Agreement came into force in 1966, grievances often centred around piece-rates and a high level of typically brief unofficial disputes characterised the coalfields of Scotland, Wales, and ...
There had been earlier ‘private’ surveys, such as that of John Macculloch in Scotland and Richard Griffith in Ireland, but De la Beche's was the first national survey to receive direct government funding. So with De la Beche, geology (as opposed to mining engineering) became a paid ...
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From there, the trail led north up to the lead mining region around the Fever River and the bustling commercial center of Galena. In the 1830s, the most-traveled roads in northern Illinois ran from Chicago southwesterly to Ottawa, which was often the head of navigation on the Illinois ...
“The party was on a Saturday night and several days before, Scotland Yard people were sent with bomb dogs to smell the house.” For some reason, a third-floor bathroom was locked after the dogs had cleared it, and no one could use it until the Princess’ arrival. ...
Steam engines needed coal to run them, somining coal was very important. Working in coal mines was hard, and sometimes entire families would do it just to earn enough money. There were also mines for iron and tin in different parts of Britain. ...
25.4.1: The Shift to Coal The advancement of the steam engine dramatically improved the efficiency of coal mining during the Industrial Revolution, making coal a cheaper, more abundant, and easily available source of energy. This resulted in labor conditions that triggered influential unions and in...
climate conference, to hear that the consequences of those efforts haven’t been uniformly good. Powered by offshore oil and gas, and a redundancy-haunted grave for a dozen heavy industries, from coal mining and shipbuilding to steel manufacture, Scotland has a somewhat chequered ...