[1] During this period, George Henry Rowlinson served twice as president of the union.
Initially this strategy proved successful, membership reaching 2,218 again by 1892, but by 1898 it was struggling.
[1][3] The union was renamed as the South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Amalgamated Association of Miners, and Thomas Mansell took over as secretary.
[1][4] Membership peaked during World War I, hitting 4,210 in 1915, but then fell rapidly, declining to 1,031 in 1920.
[5] In 1979, following the closure of the Granville colliery, the last coal mine in the region, the district was dissolved, and its banner was laid up at Blists Hill.