News and Events
Civilisation Stories: The Art of Mining
BBC 4 TV on Sunday, 10th June 2018 (7.30pm) – featuring the art of East Midlands coalmining industry.
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Tongue and Talk of the People – East Midlands
BBC Radio 4, Sunday 20th May 2018 featuring the Pit-Talk and Pit Poetry from the former Notts Coalfield.
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Shirebrook Colliery: 25th anniversary of closure
25th anniversary of the end of production at North Derbyshire’s penultimate colliery.
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Great Nottinghamshire Local History Fair – Mansfield.
Great Notts Local History Fair on Sunday, 13th May 2018 from 11am – 3pm. Free Event run by Inspire Culture.
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David Coleman: The Eastwood Pitman – Eastwood show
David Coleman, Historical Coalmining Entertainer, at Eastwood, 16th May 2018 at 7.30pm.
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Bolsover Colliery Closure – 25th anniversary.
Finished production 7th May 1993 – known local as Bowser. (1890 – 1993).
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Video
Snaptime represented an opportunity for old-timers to introduce young recruits into the ways of the world. Filmed on location at the D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum and the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
A history of the iconic headstock. How giant pit wheels and steel frameworks came to dominate the landscape of mining communities.
A symbolic walk from Brinsley Headstocks to D.H. Lawrence’s Breach House to commemorate the end of deep coal mining in Nottinghamshire.
