News and Events
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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The Pub, The Pit and the Plough
Readings, poetry and prose on the theme of DH Lawrence and Communities of the Erewash Valley. Free Event.
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DH Lawrence’s Dialect Poetry
Poetry reading and Group discussion, Wednesday 5th September 2018. Including Lawrence’s poem, A Colliers Wife.
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2018 Brinsley Headstocks Festival
Annual Brinsley Headstocks Festival celebrating Nottinghamshire’s rich coalmining heritage.
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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.
