Visual Material and Quotations
The site uses visual material and quotations to illustrate and illuminate the text. Every effort has been made to acknowledge the appropriate source and trace the holders of the copyright for third party items used on this site.
Warm thanks to Tony Whitehead at Durham Records Online for permission to use the extract from Lest we Forget – The Miners’ Bond and to Emma Brennan at Manchester University Press for her help and kindness with relation to Robert Colls The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield, 1987.
Thanks also to Roy Lambeth at Durham Mining Museum and Andrew Curtis at the Heddon-on-the Wall Local History Society.
Warm thanks to Maj (ret) Anthony J. Step, Historian Buffalo Volunteer Rifles for providing material from the archives of the Buffalo Volunteer Rifles Military Museum in East London, South Africa.
Permission has been requested and is pending to use extracts from the following:
Peter Ford Mason, (2012) The Pit Sinkers of Northumberland and Durham, The History Press.
Michael Sill, (1974), Hetton-le-Hole: the genesis of a Coal Mining Landscape 1770-1860, Durham University e-theses
The author would welcome further information from anyone who has details of any mistakes or omissions.
Acknowledgements
This website started with the transcription of William English’s Journal. Warm thanks to Duncan English, William’s great-grandson who made available William’s poems and to Drew Thomas and Marie-Louise Rousseau-Thomas who collected copies on a visit to South Africa.
Special thanks to Nina Ellis for designing the website and help on technical issues, to Steph Ellis for encouragement throughout the project and Larry Cunningham (Mary Sarah Bevington’s great-grandnephew) for adding and managing the content on the website.
Warm thanks to Emma Smith, Verity Russell, Richard Barclay and Tim Bowler for reviewing the website and providing helpful suggestions for improvement.
A special thank you to Miles English for the original design concept for the website.