Mining Heritage, East Midlands – News and Events
Miners Welfare Fishing Club Memories
Coal, Community and Change (1965-2015): Recalling days out match fishing in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the Miners Welfare Fishing Clubs.
End of Deep Coal mining in South Derbyshire – 30 years on
April 1990 saw the end of deep coal mining in the South Derbyshire Coalfield with the closure of the Donisthorpe / Rawdon Complex.
Portland Collieries Bicentenary
Spring 2020 sees the Bicentenary of the sinking of Portland No.1 Colliery in Nottinghamshire.
Culture in Quarantine goes underground
VR gallery brings Coal, Community and Change exhibition into the home
John King Memorial at Pinxton
Blue Plaque memorial for Pinxton miner John King, inventor of mine safety device
Presentation on Wadsworth Coalmines, Ohio, USA
Hucknall Heritage Society, presentation on the Wadsworth Coalmines, Ohio, USA. Monday 13th Jan 2020
Mining Heritage Video
Snap Tin. Based on ‘Coal Miner’ by G.A.W. Tomlinson (c.1930) shot on location at the D.H. Lawrence Museum and National Coal Mining Museum for England.
History of Coal Mining in 10 Objects
Historian and former mining surveyor, Dr Robert Bradley charts the development of the iconic colliery headstocks
‘A Requiem for Coal’ commemorates the end of 700 years of coal mining in Nottinghamshire, with traditional stories, songs and readings from D.H. Lawrence who came from a mining family in the county.
