Renowned sculptor Graham Ibbeson is returning to his roots with a new sculpture trail at the National Coal Mining Museum. “My ...

Perhaps to transport this delicious coal, entrepreneurs built The ... s postwar story is much the same as those of mining villages across South Yorkshire . The collieries, which employed most ...

Coalfields across the country, including Kellingley in North Yorkshire and Thoresby in Nottinghamshire, are featured in the exhibition. Kellingley was the last UK coal mine, which closed in 2015 ...

THE former Yorkshire area vice president of the National Union of Mineworkers and a man who played a pivotal role during...

One mile down under the North Sea, with temperatures that can reach 40C, Boulby Mine can be found near the village of Staithes in North Yorkshire. It is one of only two places in the UK where the salt ...

Boulby Mine, near the tourist village of Staithes, North Yorkshire, is one of only two places in England where the salt used on the country's roads is mined. It produces hundreds of thousands of ...

sculpture made from two decommissioned pit wheels has been unveiled in a West Yorkshire town to celebrate its rich coal mining heritage. The 2.5 tonne structure on Wakefield Road in Featherstone ...

As industrial reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post — the biggest newspaper covering Britain’s biggest coal field — my first experience of mining communities came during the 1974 strike which brought ...