It is a bond forged during the miners' strike 40 years ago. One of the drivers was Wayne Thomas, who experienced the strike as a young miner and now, at 63, is vice-president of the UK National Union ...

An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village.

When Mike Jackson and 26 of his gay friends from London walked into a remote Welsh miner’s club, they were met with stoney cold silence. ‘The whole crowd stopped talking – then one person started ...

The faces of the stodgy, soot-laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines ...

Mining historian David Skoniecki describes the components of a carbide miner’s lamp during the Plymouth Historical Society presentation ‘The Tools that Kept the Miners Working’ at the First ...

David Hasselhoff has paid tribute to the victims of this week's mining disaster in South Wales. The Britain's Got Talent judge, who is currently dating 31-year-old Welsh girl Hayley Roberts, urged ...

If you were a child in the mid-20th Century, the odds are you hankered after an Austin Pedal Car. Over the course of 22 years one pedal car company helped revive both the economy and the wellbeing of ...

In this second in a three-part series of articles on Coal Creek history, as presented at the Coal Creek Miners Museum, 201 S. Main St., Rocky Top, Carolyn Krause draws on a recent talk by Knoxville ...