Our Trustees

I started as an apprentice engineer when l was still 14 years of age, l had to wait 6 weeks before l could go underground at Old Mills training pit.

Born and raised in Radstock, Dennis is descended from a long line of Somerset miners. His family can trace their mining lineage back to the early 1800s.

Julie Dexter is our secretary. She is not a ‘native’ of the coalfield. Julie first got to know the Somerset Coalfield when she was doing post-graduate research.

Our treasurer, Mo Dury, was from a mining family. They lived almost in the pit yard at Kilmersdon Colliery, where his father was senior overman.

My name is Selwyn Rees and I decided to go to work in the mines when I was 15 years old for the money that was being paid to those that worked there.