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.Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram, Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain, 1889-1966, p. 103 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. This was dissolved in 2018.
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 John Nixon 1896: Hugh Boyle 1907: Joseph English 1914: William Weir 1927: William Golightly 1940: Hugh McKay
1960s: Tom Holliday 1977: 1980s: Denis Murphy
Financial Secretaries 1906: John Cairns 1918: Ebby Edwards 1929: John Carr 1939: Jack Besford
Footnotes
References National Union of Mineworkers, Northumberland Miners 1919-1939
External links Catalogue of NMMCA archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick