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Alex Mills

Alex Mills Auchinleck NUM

Alex Mills is one of the last great trade union men to represent the miners their families and communities. For over 60 years he has worked tirelessly for the rights of others as an NUM delegate and as secretary of the retired branch of the retired and redundant miners. More

Knockshinnoch Disaster

1950 Cover of Coal Magazine

On Thursday 7th September 1950, an inrush of 60,000 tons of peat and moss engulfed the workings of Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, New Cumnock trapping 129 miners on the backshift. As word of the disaster spread round the mining communities, hundreds of men, women and children gathered at the pithead. Over the next 36 hours, a huge rescue operation was mounted involving hundreds of miners and Mines Rescue Brigades from all over Scotland.More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Barony A-Frame at twilight

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Alex Mills black and white at Barony

Johnny Templeton & Alex Mills

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Kames Towers after redevelopment.

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Alex Mills at the Barony Colliery

Cumnock Chronicle

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Newspaper clip from 1923 about death of George McComb

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You will be paid in full - Chronicle press cutting

Cumnock Chronicle

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Activest blasts delays to compensation scheme as scandalous

Cumnock Chronicle

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Alex Mills holding pigeon circa mid 1970's

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Miners Lawyers should return any unfair fee's

Cumnock Chronicle

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Miners to take fight to Blair.

Cumnock Chronicle

Kames

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Daily Record front page 20th November 1957

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Daily record inside front page 20th November 1957

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Gerry Boland photograph

Gerry Boland & Johnny Templeton

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Robert Lowe photograph

Robert Lowe &  Johnny Templeton

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Dick Boland photograph

Dick Boland & Johnny Templeton

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Nally Murray photograph

Nally Murray & Johnny Templeton

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Peter Fyfe photograph

Peter Fyfe & Johnny Templeton

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Tommy Mackin photograph

Tommy Mackin & Johnny Templeton

Gerry Boland

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Miners waiting to go underground

Glasgow Herald and Evening Times.

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Rescue Brigades wait to go underground

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Robert Lowe

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Women wait at the pithead for news

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The community gather at the pithead.

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At Muirkirk cemetery

Glasgow Herald and Evening Times

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Bringing the bodies up the pit

Glasgow Herald and Evening Times

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Mines Rescue wait to go down the pit

Glasgow Herald and Evening times

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People gather at the pithead

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Kames pithead before redevelopment.

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Kames Entrance

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Women wait at the pithead.

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Kames pithead before redevelopment.

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Kames pithead before redevelopment.

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Bringing the mens bodies up the pit

Glasgow Herald and Evening Times

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Daily record to be identified

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Recue Brigade at the pithead

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Women at the pithead

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Tommy Mackin

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Kames underground scene before development

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Kames before reconstruction

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Miners wait to go underground

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Newspaper cutting.

Gerry Boland & Daily Mail?

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Women at the pithead

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The funerals

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AM - Early Years

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Sorn Mine

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Kames Colliery DisasterKames Colliery Muirkirk

On 19th November 1957 at 7.30pm a coaldust explosion rocked the 6ft section of the West Mine Kames Colliery Muirkirk, killing 17 men. It was one of the last major explosions in the coal mining industry.More

The 1824 Kilmarnock Address

"An address to the colliers of Ayrshire at the formation of the colliers association on 29th October 1824 at the formation of the colliers association".

When this pamphlet was originally published in 1824; Coal miners were emerging from over 200 years of slavery and bondage. In 1799, an act of Scottish parliament freed the miners but the introduction of the Combination Acts in 1799 and 1800 prevented them from combining to form unions. However this did not prevent the miners in Ayrshire from organising unions and they had a well organized and disciplined network of delegates throughout Ayrshire and Lanarkshire in the early parts of the 18th century.More