- A
checkweighman (occasionally
checkmeasurer or checkweigher) is a
person who is
responsible for
weighing coal or
another mined substance, and thereby...
-
Williams (3
February 1897 – 12
September 1972) was a
Welsh miner and
checkweighman who
became a
Labour Party Member of
Parliament (MP).
Williams was born...
- Colliery, just over the
border in Derbyshire. He was
elected as the pit's
checkweighman, and also
became active in the
South Yorkshire Miners' ****ociation (SYMA)...
- [citation needed] Once back at the pits, he
became chairman and then
checkweighman of the
Cambrian Lodge of the
South Wales Miners Federation. Although...
- branch. In 1876,
Martin was
appointed as sub-
checkweighman at
Fairwell Colliery, then in 1882,
checkweighman at
Ireland Colliery. When the
Derbyshire Miners'...
- Born in Blyth, Northumberland,
Taylor became a coal
miner and then a
checkweighman. He
became active in the
Labour Party,
serving on
Blyth Council from...
-
classes and was part of
minimum wage agitation. In 1911,
Ablett became a
checkweighman at
Mardy Colliery in
Maerdy and
later that year was one of the founders...
- 1860, and he
began working at a
local coal mine. He was
elected as the
checkweighman in 1873, and
alongside this also
began working as a shopkeeper. In 1879...
- the coal-face, and
within a few
months was
elected as an ****istant
checkweighman. He had no
ambition for work
beyond being a hewer, but he did want to...
-
Riding of Yorkshire,
Wadsworth worked as a coal
miner and was
elected checkweighman. He
joined the
Yorkshire Miners ****ociation, a
constituent part of the...
