Mines in Ruspidge & Viney Hill (General)

by maurice , Friday, July 11, 2008, 01:52 (5989 days ago) @ ChrisW

Seeing the replies to your question about mines in Ruspidge,I was surprised no one had mentioned Eastern United the last large working mine in this area.Eastern was situated in the lower part of Ruspidge and was in fact a deep level mine existing from 1906as a Freemine,taken over by Henry Crawshay in 1909 finally closing in 1959 as the Forest coalfield was closed down.The Morse family name was well known in the area and no doubt many of them worked in the mines.There are still quite a few Morses in the area.