THREE hundred and forty years ago the learned German writer Agricola, enumerated, in the first book of his treatise, De re metallica, the various branches of knowledge that ought to be acquired by ...

A REPORT, by Dr. John Haldane, on the causes of death in colliery explosions, with special reference to the Tylors-town, Brancepeth, and Micklefield explosions, was published in a Blue-book a few ...

USHAW Moor’s original colliery village overlooked the actual colliery about three-quarters of a mile to the west of the present village and was the scene of a troublesome strike in the 1880s.