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DESCRIPTION:Near You Event - Daw Mill Colliery - a brief history of its dev
 elopment\n\nEvent Type: Technical lecture\n\nIndustry Sector: Coal / Oil /
  Gas\n\nSpeak Details: Wyn Griffith\, President of the Western Institute o
 f Mining and Minerals\, began his career with the then National Coal Board
  in the late 1970s\, finally leaving the UK coal mining industry in 2011 a
 s an Operations Design Engineer responsible for coalface design within UK 
 Coal.\n\nDescription : Link to event poster - feel free to circulate this 
 in your workplace\, etc.\n\n\n\nThe paper will cover the interesting histo
 ry and long-term development of Daw Mill Colliery (which lies 8 miles nort
 h-west of Coventry)\, starting at Kingsbury Colliery which was sunk in 189
 7 and the development of the satellite shaft at Dexter in 1927 and undergr
 ound connections.\n\nThe Kingsbury Colliery workings by 1955 had extended 
 inbye approximately 7 miles and therefore were causing ventilation problem
 s\, so following the decision to sink another satellite shaft\, 3 miles to
  the south close to Daw Mill Cottage in the vicinity of Over Whitacre. Daw
  Mill Colliery commenced with shaft sinking starting in 1957.\n\nDaw Mill 
 worked exclusively in the Warwickshire Thick Seam which is an amalgamation
  of six separate seams that combine to form up to 7 metres of extractable 
 coal.&nbsp\; During the late 1990s major underground development work took
  place to access new working reserves and procure totally new coalface and
  roadway development equipment in what would become 300&rsquo\;s panel of 
 coalfaces.\n\nThe talk will take a brief look at the history of Daw Mill a
 nd the modern equipment which was purchased\, along with the modern mining
  methods employed to enable Daw Mill Colliery to become the one of the mos
 t productive mines in Europe prior to its sad closure due to an undergroun
 d fire in 2013.&nbsp\;\n\nMore info on the speaker can be found here&nbsp\
 ;(scroll down).\n\n======\n\nAgenda -\n\n18:00 Refreshments (tea/coffee/bi
 scuits)\n18:30 Presentation followed by Q+A\n20:00 Close of event (approx.
 )\n\nTo attend in person\, please book to give us an idea of the level of 
 interest\; thanks\nTo attend online\, please book to receive the full MS T
 eams meeting details please book (ideally not immediately before/during th
 e event) then they will be sent by email (not with the immediate\, automat
 ed 'ticket' email)\n\nContact Details: Howard WARRENER
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LOCATION:Rokeby Room\, Benn Hall\, Newbold Road\, Rugby\, CV21 2LN\, United
  Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Daw Mill Colliery - a brief history of its development
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