Newspaper cuttings relating to Coal Mining in Marple Area
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Title
Newspaper cuttings relating to Coal Mining in Marple Area
Description
Miscellaneous Stockport Advertiser headline reports on A4 paper about coal mining in Marple Area from 1858 to 1875 .
Numerous newspaper cuttings relating to Ludworth Coal Mine:
1964 - 1975 : information and photographs about working of Ludworth mine by Alf Gee;
1978 - 1981 : information about subsequent mine owners, Geoffrey Du Feu and Anthony Lodge, later also Rod Thackeray, and their working of the mine, their unsuccessful proposals for further open-cast mining once seam exhausted and their final working-out of all coal from the seam; exhibition and paintings by Thackeray related to the mine;
1989 - 1991 : proposal by Rod Thackeray to reopen the 200 yr old drift mine and fervent local oppostion to it; application finally withdrawn due to owner's ill-health and slump in coal prices;
2021 : Memories of Ludworth Moor Colliery.
Numerous newspaper cuttings relating to Ludworth Coal Mine:
1964 - 1975 : information and photographs about working of Ludworth mine by Alf Gee;
1978 - 1981 : information about subsequent mine owners, Geoffrey Du Feu and Anthony Lodge, later also Rod Thackeray, and their working of the mine, their unsuccessful proposals for further open-cast mining once seam exhausted and their final working-out of all coal from the seam; exhibition and paintings by Thackeray related to the mine;
1989 - 1991 : proposal by Rod Thackeray to reopen the 200 yr old drift mine and fervent local oppostion to it; application finally withdrawn due to owner's ill-health and slump in coal prices;
2021 : Memories of Ludworth Moor Colliery.
Identifier
COA/01/012
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Louiset
Files
Collection
Citation
“Newspaper cuttings relating to Coal Mining in Marple Area,” Marple Local History Society Archives, accessed April 18, 2024, http://marplelocalhistorysociety.org.uk/archives/items/show/2578.