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This regularly expanding blog provides very detailed background on a range of aspects of the Selby Coalfield https://selbycoalfield.home.blog/
Some of it is technical and perhaps of interest mainly to those with mining experience but many posts cover the social and political context as well. One is about how miners recruited from the closing pits in South Yorkshire had to choose whether to travel to Selby each day or whether to re-locate to the new houses built especially in the various villages where the pit heads were located.
The site is organised under the following headings –
Geology
History
Public Inquiry
Politics
Workforce
The Selby Mines
Selby Mines rescue
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Recent Additions 2025
A Royal Visit
Selby Before the Miners Strike
A day at Gascoigne Wood Mine
The East Coast Mainline and the Selby Coalfield
The 12 million tonnes year 1993-94