Goodwin was born in Treeton, Yorkshire, England, becoming a coal miner for most of his working life.
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Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (May 10, 1887 – July 27, 1918) of Treeton, England was a migrant coal miner who found work in the Cumberland mines; arriving on Vancouver Island in late 1910.
He was managing director of Rother Vale Collieries Ltd which owned several collieries in the area of Treeton near Rotherham, Yorkshire, including Treeton, Fence and Orgreave mines.
He succeeded his father in 1915 as managing director of Rother Vale Collieries which owned mines around Treeton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire and, like his father, became a prominent industrialist with numerous interests and directorships in mining, steel and banking in Yorkshire and elsewhere.
The company was registered in 1918 and the following year saw a joining together of steel makers Samuel Fox and Company of Stocksbridge; Steel, Peech and Tozer of Templeborough and Ickles in Rotherham; the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company of Scunthorpe; and the coal mining and by-products interests of Rother Vale Collieries at Orgreave, Treeton and Thurcroft.
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Nowadays the steel interests at Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Stocksbridge are part of Tata Steel and all the mining interests have been closed, the last, at Treeton, in the 1990s.
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