Markham Main Colliery News Today

Celia said, “The leadership always capitulates and offers some sort of outcome where there have been no significant gains. My view is that they get co-opted into the establishment, and in this way they undermine working class struggles.”

Since opening in 1882 more than 200 pitmen had died at Markham Colliery, including almost 70 in three incidents in 1938 alone.