Alan Davies
@pitheadbaths
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Miner, art student, coal miner, art student, coal miner, mining museum curator, author, pilot, coal miner, archivist, colliery manager, 55 yrs mining historian
Lancashire NOT Gtr Manchester
Joined June 2012
Involved in a lottery funded project, Westhoughton Pretoria Pit Disaster (1910 344 killed) primary schools collaboration. Ten schools to do, five so far, great kids. May have ten guided walks to do after Christmas, to be decided 👍😁⚒ #mininghistory #PretoriaPit #Westhoughton
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Friend of mine was at the Lancashire Mining Museum Astley Green Colliery fireworks display tonight, she took these pics 👍😁⚒ #lancashireminingmuseum #museums #fireworks @mining_museum
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There aren't many Robert Ryder St Helens pit headgear bottles around, spotted one today at Bulldog Antiques Wigan. I now have three, first one bought 30 years ago. About 100 year old. Click photo to see all of the bottle. #bottles #bottledigging #StHelens #mininghistory
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Fascinating presentation on ancient mining @WiganMuseum by a certain lady from Barnsley Joann Fletcher @ImmortalEgypt I knew a bit already but now I'm really up to date! #archaeology #mininghistory #Egyptology
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Watching @BritishBakeOff new series, terrible quick fire split second editing is absolutely manic. Headache territory, switched off 👎👎👎#bakeoff #greatbritishbakeoff
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Pretoria pit disaster walk. Saturday 6th Sept, 10am. Meet Pretoria Memorial end of Broadway off Newbrook Rd Atherton. Walking shoes or boots recommended. I will guide you through the events of that fateful day when 344 men and boys lost their lives. £4 #Pretoriapit #Overhulton
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Been suggested he's holding a track gauge rather than pick blade
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The earliest British miners banner is on display at the People's History Museum Manchester. C 1830, used by lead miners at Ashover Derbyshire. Detail has a man holding a pick head and pocket mining compass #leadmining #mininghistory #miners #Derbyshire
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"Phurnacite Men" keyrings c 1970's, given out at Solid Fuel Advisory Centres. Phurnacite Coal Products Ltd produced the anthracite based smokeless fuel at Abercwmboi, near Aberdare, Wales from 1942 #mininghistory #Wales #Coal
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Oasis logo themed tram stop at Heaton Park Manchester during the concerts #OasisLive25 #OasisManchester #Oasis
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Oasis merchandise on sale in front of Manchester Central Library, Heaton Park concerts over the next few days #Oasis #Manchester #ManchesterGigs #OasisManchester #oasislive25
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Pretoria pit disaster walk. Saturday 12th July, 10am. Meet Pretoria Memorial end of Broadway off Newbrook Rd Atherton. Walking shoes or boots recommended. I will guide you through the events of that fateful day when 344 men and boys lost their lives. £4 #Pretoriapit #Overhulton
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Stall at Tyldesley Carnival today, our local Mosley Common Colliery background. Website included a pic of the Tyldesley miners banner, wonder if it's at the Museum of Labour History Manchester https://t.co/5IaX76iVCZ
#Tyldesley #miningcouture #mininghistory
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Day after The Hotspur Press building of 1801 burned down, close to Oxford Rd station Manchester and modern high rise flats. #architecture #listedbuildings #arson #fire #Manchester #HotspurPress
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I was in Manchester yesterday when The Hotspur Press newly listed grade II building of 1801 burned down, close to Oxford Rd station and modern high rise flats. Latest theory is arson, greedy developers waiting in the wings 😱👎 #architecture #listedbuildings #arson #fire
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Miners efforts in WW2 recognised. Ministry of Fuel and Power poster ‘We cut the coal’. Churchill speech extract from the Conference of Coal Owners and Miners, Westminster Central Hall, 31st October 1942. 5000 miners died at work during WW2 #mininghistory #WW2 #miners #coal
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New gates at the Higher Lane Lodge entrance to the grounds of Haigh Hall Wigan. A reminder of the areas 600 years of mining activity. Designers took casts of a pick and shovel I have then cast them in bronze. Bit blingy in gold! 😱⚒ #mininghistory #Haigh #Wigan
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Very nice addition to the mining library, 1927 copy of Der Bergmannsfreund, The Miner's Friend, 277 illustrations and descriptions of mining accidents and how to avoid them. Looks like I was lucky 😱⚒ £10 on AbeBooks #mininghistory #German #Bergmänner #kohle
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There's more to @Warrington than meets the eye, even the shopping arcade doesn't have any closed units. The town hall by famous architect Gibbs dates to 1759, Coalbrook Dale gates of 1862 were made for an exhibition and intended for Sandringham 👍🧐 #Warrington #architecture
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