Northumberland Miners' Association

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

Northumberland Miners' Association

Dissolved	National Union of Mineworkers
Founded	1864
Dissolved	2018
Location	United Kingdom
Members	32,327 (1907[1])
Parent organization	MNU (1864–1898) MFGB (1907–1944) NUM (1945–2018)
Affiliations	Miners' Federation of Great Britain

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

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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