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National Union of Mineworkers, Northumberland area: Burradon colliery branch

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Date: 1888-1967
History: The National Union of Miners was established in 1863 and comprised the Durham Miners Association, The Northumberland Miners Mutual Confident Association, the Amalgamated Association of South Staffordshire and the South Wales Sliding Scale Associations. In the 1880s control of the union passed to the Northumberland and Durham leaders and by 1902 only these two districts remained members. They had been united in their opposition to the eight-hour day, which would have reduced the hours of boys, but increased the hours of hewers, but in 1907 Northumberland joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which had accepted the eight-hour day.The Federation was renamed the National Union of Mineworkers in 1945 and the Northumberland Miners Mutual Confident Association became the Northumberland Area of the NUM. Burradon Colliery was owned by Burradon & Coxlodge Coal Co. Ltd. until 1929, then Hazelrigg & Burradon Coal Co. Ltd. until the vesting of the National Coal Board in 1947. It closed in 1975.
Places:
  • Burradon, Northumberland
Functions, occupations and activities: Labour and Trade Union movement > Mining unions
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C49806 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O21318 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1888-1949: minutes 1924-31, 1934-39, 1945-49, hewers' average books 1888-1908
Tyne and Wear Archives
Acc 1691
NRA 27632
2
1890-1967: minutes 1931-67, accounts
Northumberland Archives
NRO 0577
See NRO 0577
3
1888 - 1949: minutes, Hewers' average books, financial documents and corresp.
Tyne and Wear Archives
TU.NUM3