News and Events
Coal and Dialect Talk: DH Lawrence Society – 13th February 2019
Talk on Coal and Dialect in the East Midlands to the DH Lawrence Society – Wed 13th February 2019 (7.15pm – 9pm)
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Industrial Heritage Day: EMIAC 96 – Saturday 11th May 2019
Industrial Heritage Day – Bicentenary of Mansfield and Pinxton Railway (1819-2019) – Sat 11th May 2019.
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Wonderland – Nottingham Playhouse
Wonderland returns to the Nottingham Playhouse from 8th – 23rd February 2019.
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Pleasley Colliery Winding Engines.
Both preserved colliery winding engines running on Sunday, 14th October 2018 (10am – 2pm). FREE EVENT.
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East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum – next meeting.
4th meeting of the East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum on Saturday, 27th October 2018 (11am – 3pm).
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Digging Deep Photography Exhibition
Launch event for Exhibition on the history of coalminers of African Caribbean descent – Nottingham, 6th October 2018 (2pm-4pm).
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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.
