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Scottish mining villages
« on: Monday 12 May 08 02:36 BST (UK) »
Came across this site by accident it has a wealth of information.
www.mining-villages.co.uk

Click on to Scottish mining villages then onto area..have just had a look at Clackmannanshire and Stirlingshire, newspaper reports re pit accidents post 1855, so many family names  :(

Horrendous working conditions and so many young children working in them...

Just have a look...patvp
Hall (Dunblane) Robertson (Clackmannanshire) Sneddon (Clackmannan) Cramb (Perthshire) Marshall (Clackmmannan) Michie (Clackmannan) Stewart (Perthshire) Ferguson (Perthshire) McKay (Perthshire) McLaren (Perthshire) Moir (Perthshire)
West Yorkshire - Allott, Riley, Charlesworth, Barker, Harper, Rubery, Darlison, Vaughan.

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Re: Scottish mining villages
« Reply #1 on: Monday 12 May 08 15:57 BST (UK) »
Yes I found the site a while ago - the maps are excellent.

Diddy.
Cooks -(Clackmannanshire); Erskines - (fife); Youngs - (Dunfermline); Charltons - (Tyneside ); Skillings - (N.Norfolk); Legg - (N.Yorks, Tyneside) ; Carter - (Durham); Miller -(suffolk); Pattinson -(Lincs)

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Re: Scottish mining villages
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 13 May 08 13:14 BST (UK) »
This site is well worth reading - terrible conditions these people had to work in.
Alexena
Campbell, Phimister, Thain - Findochty, Banffshire
Smith(Bo), Bain, Imlach - Portessie, Banffshire
Phimister - Caithness
Robertson, MacPherson - Sleat, Skye
MacLennan - Ross & Cromarty
Mackintosh, Shaw - Inverness

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Re: Scottish mining villages
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 29 August 10 23:22 BST (UK) »
I cannot seem to open www.mining-villages.co.uk
When I try, it says untitled document on the tab at the top, and says Done, but the page is blank.
This works though: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/
e.g. http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/5.html

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Re: Scottish mining villages
« Reply #4 on: Monday 30 August 10 20:13 BST (UK) »
suspect in 2 years the address has changed...

Diddy  ;D
Cooks -(Clackmannanshire); Erskines - (fife); Youngs - (Dunfermline); Charltons - (Tyneside ); Skillings - (N.Norfolk); Legg - (N.Yorks, Tyneside) ; Carter - (Durham); Miller -(suffolk); Pattinson -(Lincs)

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Re: Scottish mining villages
« Reply #5 on: Monday 30 August 10 20:37 BST (UK) »
Thanks for replying as yes it has been a long time.
Here's another:
http://www.almondvalley.co.uk/V_home.htm
Shale Villages a project by Almond Valley Heritage Trust, Millfield, Livingston, West Lothian EH54 7AR.
Tel 01506 414957 includes  The Villages - a comprehensive list of worker's housing provided by Scotland's shale oil companies, with maps, images and descriptions - and The Projects, a diary of the work being undertaken with Shale Village communities to record, research and celebrate their special heritage
"Shale Families", a new three-year project part funded by Museums Galleries Scotland, was begun in May 2010. Initial objectives are to digitise a substantial range of oil company records to provide a powerful resource for research into family histories. This will form one element of a comprehensive new website offering a range of digital research resources including a much extended gazetteer of shale oil-related sites.
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