History of Trimdon / History of Wingate

This booklet was published by the Coronation Press in Station Road sometime in the Sixties. All text with no pictures at all, the full text is included here without alteration.

The booklet covers both Trimdon and Wingate, so for convenience the two sections are separated here;

Trimdon History

Wingate History


The booklet ‘Where Explosions Are No More’ gives another insight into the lives of miners and Trimdon people over the years

Where Explosions are no more


Also of interest is
The War Years
A transcript from an interview with Hilda Collins from Trimdon Grange about work at the Royal Ordinance Factory at Aycliffe/

....plus articles on the Beckwith vault, a pit cage accident in 1929, a tribute to a Richard Scott from 1913, and finally a short introduction to the hardback book ‘TMS - A Social History’.