• John Brass was a manager and later director of Houghton Main Colliery Co Ltd. According to the Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory he was "one...
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  • J. Brass (born ca. 1948), American organizational theorist Eleanor Brass (1905–1992), Canadian writer John Brass, rugby player John Brass (colliery manager)...
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  • John Brass (born 1946) is an Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer. John Brass may also refer to: John Brass (colliery manager) (1879–1961)...
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  • faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit. The soundtrack for the film was provided by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the...
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    Brass & Jones 1937, section B, Report by Mr John Brass. The Colliery Guardian 1934. Williamson 1999, p. 119. Williamson 1999, p. 169. Walker, Brass &...
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    Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Gresford, near Wrexham. The North Wales Coalfield, of which Gresford was...
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  • Stanford Main No. 2 Colliery, also known as Paxton Colliery, was a coal mine located at Paxton, New South Wales, Australia. The mine was named Stanford...
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    actor Edward Clark (1888–1962), conductor and BBC music producer John Brass (colliery manager) (1879–?), President of the Institution of Mining Engineers,...
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    Easington Colliery is a village in County Durham, England, known for a history of coal mining. It is situated to the north of Horden, a short distance...
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  • of Grimeworth Colliery brass band Uncle Gaylord, Athelstone's brother a football pools winner who considered himself posh. Number 12 John Willy Woofit...
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    century the town was dominated by mines with the largest being Polkemmet Colliery – a large coal mine, discovered in the town in the late 1800s – but this...
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    The Felling Colliery (also known as Brandling Main) in Britain, suffered four disasters in the 19th century, in 1812, 1813, 1821 and 1847. By far the worst...
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    renowned euphonium performer with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and Arthur Taylor, a British brass band concert producer who served as the master of...
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  • mill may be seen in the museum at Whitehaven where Spedding was manager of the collieries of Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet. A steel disk was rotated at...
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  • the Engineering Council. It merged with the National Association of Colliery Managers, effective from 23 October 1968. In 1995 it merged with the Institution...
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    The Hartley Colliery disaster (also known as the Hartley Pit disaster or Hester Pit disaster) was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, that...
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  • two explosions at the West Stanley colliery (variously known as West Stanley pit or Burns pit). West Stanley colliery was a coal mine near Stanley. It opened...
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    Steve Abbott (musician) (category English music managers)
    Billboard. 14 December 1996. "Brassed Off is coming to the Royal Albert Hall with a live score by the actual Grimethorpe Colliery Band". www.digitalspy.com...
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  • Brasswire Company of Staffordshire. By 1806 his second son, John Henry Vivian, was made manager at Penclawdd. In 1808–1810, land at Hafod was leased from...
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    behind brass bands, in processions dubbed "loyalty parades". Scargill led a procession accompanied by a Scots piper, back to work at Barrow Colliery in Worsborough...
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  • TV Series) as father of Melody / Harmony Parker Brassed Off (1996) as McKenzie, the colliery manager The Missing Postman (BBC Television Film in two parts;...
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    the colliery site is the Power House, brought to the museum from Houghton Colliery. These were used to store explosives. Alongside the colliery is the...
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  • the powerhouse ended up at the Hebburn No.2 Colliery, in the South Maitland Coalfields. Hebburn Collieries also bought the two motor-generator sets. The...
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  • wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Brassed Off (1996), following the members of a colliery brass band, still struggling to survive a decade after...
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    workers who moved into the area on the sinking of the Yorkshire Main Colliery. The colliery was created by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, which bought...
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    William John Harris, Mechanic, Philip & Son Ltd. Harry Harrison, Senior Foreman, McMichael Radio Ltd. John Harrison, Pump Attendant, Dumbreck Colliery. Samuel...
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    Museum manuscripts no. 33635-33728 & EG 3099F-3123F. John Murray. Cornwell, John (2005). Collieries of Somerset and Bristol. Landmark Publishing Ltd....
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    was in 1289. Coal was mined in Poynton from the 16th century and the collieries, under the ownership of the Lords Vernon from 1832 until their closure...
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    Kevin Keegan (category English football managers)
    Armthorpe in Doncaster (then in the West Riding of Yorkshire) to work in a colliery, where he married Doris and they had three children: Mary, who was two...
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  • William Lane, Coal Miner, Brodsworth Main Colliery. Victor Ernest Lane, Inspector (Engineering), Telephone Manager's Office, Nottingham. Robert Langton, Lamptrimmer...
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