News and Events
Friends of Pleasley Pit – Beer and Cider Festival
Friends of Pleasley Pit Beer and Cider Festival – 27th to 29th April 2018
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Digging Deep Project: Miners Reunion 2018
Digging Deep Project: Miners Reunion 2018 at the Mapperley Plains Social Club, Friday 27th April 2018, starting at 1pm.
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Breach House Open Day – Sunday 22nd April 2018
Breach House Open Day as part of BBC Radio Nottingham’s Big Day Out – Sunday 22nd April 2018 (11am – 3pm). Free Event.
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Next meeting of the East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum – Saturday 21st April 2018.
Next meeting of the East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum at the Bilsthorpe Mining Museum on Saturday, 21st April 2018 (11am – 2.30pm).
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Songs and Rhymes from the Mines: Tin Hat Centre, Selston – 24th April 2018
Songs and Rhymes from the Mines: An evening of poems and song celebrating the coalmining industry of the East Midlands – 24th April 2018 (6pm – 9pm).
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Linby Colliery (1873 – 1988) – 30th Anniversary of closure
30th anniversary of the closure of Linby Colliery (1873 – 1988) – last pit in the Hucknall region. Closed 25th March 1988.
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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.
