A new art exhibition focused on the fall of coal mining is set to open at Bishop Auckland's Mining Art Gallery. Titled The Last Cage Down, the collection explores the demise of the collieries ...

The art installation sits just off the Great Allegheny ... Abandoned Mine Reclamation to convert the former Westmoreland Coal Co. mine entrance off Brick Hill Road into a usable historic area.

A former coal miner is looking for a public space to take his private collection of mining memorabilia. Roger Monks, 86, started work at Allerton Bywater Colliery in Castleford aged 15 and retired ...