Hauxley Colliery

[janwhin]

The excellent Durham Mining Museum has come up trumps again with an article about Hauxley Colliery from the "Colliery Engineering" of May 1931.....quite a few photos too.www.dmm.org.uk/colleng/3105-01.htm

[Coquet]

this series Janwhin?

http://www.dmm.org.uk/gallery/h019-009.htm

that face above looks very low.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/colleng/3105-01.htm

[janwhin]

That's it Coquet.....I remember my dad saying it was like working underneath a table

[Coquet]

This one went under the hammer last week at Dix Noonan Webb:

http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive...s&lot_id=98433


B.E.M. London Gazette 1 January 1966. ‘Samuel Murray, Underground Datal Worker, Hauxley Colliery, National Coal Board.’


"Chairman of the Chevington Drift Branch of the N.U.M."

Born Radcliffe 1909, died 1984, if I have the correct person from the BMDs and 1911 census.

[Alan J.]

Sam Murray was the NUM branch secretary at Hauxley and was actually a stoneman on the mothergate caunches of the group face training unit.
I remember him being given this award as Hauxley was then just entering it's last year of existence. The reference to him being the chairman of the Chevington branch would come from his time at Broomhill Colliery prior to Hauxley.

[Coquet]

So was he training men in heading work? If so I wonder where they picked up the datal reference?

Anyway, nice medal. The working man's MBE, and not common at all.