Northumberland Miners' Association

Northumberland Miners' Association

Founded	1864
Date dissolved	1945
Merged into	National Union of Mineworkers
Affiliation	Miners' Federation of Great Britain
Country	United Kingdom

Burt Hall in Newcastle, former headquarters of the Northumberland Miners' Association.

The Northumberland Miners' Association was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1864 to represent coal miners in Northumberland, following the collapse of a short-lived union covering both Northumberland and Durham miners. Originally named the Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association, it aimed for respectability, requiring high subscriptions and avoiding strikes. It did not affiliate to the national body, the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, until 1907. In 1945, this became the National Union of Mineworkers, and the association became its Northumberland Area.

General Secretaries

1864: William Crawford

1865: Thomas Burt

1913: William Straker

1935: Jim Bowman

1950: Robert Main

1975: Sammy Scott

1985:

1992: Ian Lavery

2010: Denis Murphy

Presidents

John Nixon

1872: William Grieves

John Bryson

1896: Hugh Boyle

1907: Joseph English

J. Hall Scott

1910:

1914: William Weir

1927: William Golightly

1940:

1960s: Tom Holliday

1977:

1980s: Denis Murphy

Financial Secretaries

1906: John Cairns

1918: Ebby Edwards

1929: John Carr

1939:

References

National Union of Mineworkers, Northumberland Miners 1919-1939