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    COAL MINING

    Jun 30, 2020 2 minutes

    A century ago coal employed about 1.2 million people in the UK. Many of the websites featured this month can help you find out more about the wider state of the industry – from the coalfields of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales, Lancashire, Yorkshire or the Scottish Central Belt – to individual pits, and from the generation of Bevin Boys who were conscripted to increase production during wartime, through

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