News and Events
Kirkby ‘Summit’ Colliery: 50th anniversary of closure
Kirkby ‘Summit’ Colliery – closed 12th July 1968 with the loss of 2,300 jobs and a planned ‘Super Pit’.
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Coal Arts Workshops – Digging Deeper Project
Coal Art Workshops in July, August & September 2018 as part of the Digging Deeper Coalmining Heritage Project.
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Califat Coalmine Excavation – Swannington.
Califat Coalmine excavation 14th and 29th July as part of the 2018 Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology Festival
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Markham Colliery (Derbyshire) – 25th anniversary of closure
Deep coalmining in Derbyshire at large collieries finished 25 years ago on 2nd July 1993 with the closure of Markham Colliery.
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75th Anniversary: Coppice Colliery Ignition 1943
75th anniversary of the Coppice Colliery (Derbyshire) – 28th June 1943 – Four Miners killed in explosion.
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On Behalf of the People by Ray Castleton
A coal mining play set in the post WW2 era of coal nationalisation. On at Bolsover and Creswell early July 2018.
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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.
