years to ensure production at Londonderry's new Vane Tempest Colliery. 1930s Dawdon Welfare Park completed. 1935 Low Main, Maudlin, Hutton and Main coal seams being worked. 1940 15 August – Dawdon bombed by Luftwaffe. 12 dead, 119 people homeless, 5 houses destroyed, Dawdon Church, Vicarage and 230 houses damaged. 1947 Nationalisation of Coal Industry. 2556 miners employed at Dawdon. 647,555 tonnes of coal produced. 1950 Low Main, Maudlin, Hutton and Main coal seams being worked. 1950s Steam winders replaced by electric Koepe winders. 1960 2348 miners employed. Low Main, Maudlin, Hutton, Main Coal and High Main (Dawdon's highest producing seam) seams being worked. 1969 13 October – Dawdon on strike for 3 days in support of Yorkshire Miners demanding shorter shifts for surface workers. 1972 High Main and Yard Seams being worked. 8 January – National Strike begins demanding substantial wage rise. 28 February – successful conclusion to National Strike. 1974 9 February – 6-week strike began. Again for improved wages and conditions. 1975 High Main and Yard seams being worked. 1980 2106 miners employed. High Main, Yard and Main coal seams being worked. 1984 14 March - All Durham collieries join national strike against the threat of pit closures by the Conservative government 1985 3 March – National Strike over without agreement. Dawdon Miners returned to work behind their banner and promptly marched back out as a gesture of defiance. Only 133 men had returned to work early. High Main, Yard, Main Coal and "C" seams being worked. 2186 miners employed. 1986 E90 Face lost to water. 1988 1700 miners employed. One million tons of coal abandoned for safety reasons in the "G" seam. 1990 1592 miners employed. High Main, Yard, Main Coal and "C" seams being worked. 1991 27 July – Dawdon Colliery closed. Pitmen and boys who lost their lives at Dawdon Colliery Attwood, George: 34, on 6 September 1907, after electric lamp cable broke and fell on him. Bacon, Edward: 51, on 6 June 1963. Barden, James: 34, on 17 March 1930. Baron, Joseph: 32, on 2 November 1968. Black, JA: 27, on 21 December 1941. Boad, G: 60, on 25 January 1943. Bolton, J: 49, on 19 March 1952. Briggs, Robert: 30, on 11 September 1907. Brown, F: 63, on 9 April 1945. Bryan, John: 20, on 27 May 1914, after rock fall. Buckley, J: 16, on 5 January 1940. Carr, S: 62, on 23