The Great Northern Coalfield
The Great Northern Coalfield

Author: Aidan Doyle

Publisher: Northumbria University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781904794110

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'The Great Northern Coalfield' explores the story of mining across this millennium span, and serves as a guide to the collections related to coal held in the North of England Open Air Museum at Beamish.

Art of Mining
Art of Mining

Author: Douglas Glendinning

Publisher:

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9781857951806

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Thomas Harrison Hair (1810-1875) made paintings of the coal mines of North-East England in preparation for his book of etchings: Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham, 1844. The book became well known, but the watercolours have rarely been reproduced. These delicate and evocative colour images of the Great Northern Coalfield vividly capture the scenes that the artist witnessed on his travels through the mining communities of the North-East.