Draft Constitution
Latest revision, for comment
Please return your responses
to the Chairman
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As of May 2009, the WMS/WMPT pages www.welshmines.org
now reside on a dedicated host. During the transfer some reorganising has occured, so if you had links or favorites to specific pages, these will now need updating.
Note also that the officers of the society can be e-mailed using editor@welshmines.org
etc., see links right.
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For details of our insurance, visit the
BCA web site.
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Want to learn about the Welsh
Mines Society ?
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Caver Fatality in Coal Mine
Download and read Coal Authority report.
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The WMS is a member of the National Association of
Mining History Organisations (NAMHO). To see what they do,
click
here !
Next NAMHO conference, to be held at the Miners Institute, Coalpit Heath, South Gloucestershire
4th - 6nd June 2010
Hosted by South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group, Friends of
Ram Hill Colliery and Hades Caving Club.
Download flyer - More details here later in year
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Comments or suggestions about these pages ?
please email
Mike Munro Webmaster.
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Visit the web pages of the Welsh
Mines
Preservation Trust
Visit the Welshmines.org guestbook and leave a message...
David Bicks old books
Click here for list of those
available for purchase
'Spirit of the miners'
Since replaced by
'PLWM'
David
Bick's field notes Compiled during research for his publications including
'The
Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales'
NOTE : This is still currently 'under construction' -
update in progress 2009
Read David Bick's very first book - 'The Bick Wagon'
Made available with help and approval of William Bick.
Contains several references to Davids mining adventures
Just got on the Net ? Struggling to find what you want in the mining
history arena ? Then click here
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Like to discuss mining history with other like minded individuals ?
Then sign on to the
Mining
History Network discussion list.
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The Mining Journal
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| About the
Welsh
Mines Society
The Welsh Mines Society arose in June 1979 out of an informal
meeting of subscribers to David Bicks' Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales. Sadly
David died in January of 2006, (Obituaries : by GWHall
& SJSHughes) but his influence on the research and preservation
of Welsh mining history will never be lost.
From the start our ambitions have been modest enough - we never
set out to do anything in particular, and, judging by attendance's (to
our twice yearly field meets), we have succeeded pretty well.
Although we sought to do so little, much in fact has been done.
Several (mining) sites have benefited from our labours, we have hosted
NAMHO, and the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, born of the WMS in 1991,
has achieved a great deal. In addition, several members have worked
closely with Cadw and the Royal Commission on Historical Buildings in recording
and preservation. And during the last 40 years our interests have
broadened into slate and even coal as well. |
