Mining Heritage, East Midlands – News and Events
Watnall Colliery: Seventieth Anniversary of Closure.
Watnall Colliery, sunk by the Barber Walker Company and known locally as ‘Watna’, finished production on 23rd December 1950.
When Ormonde Shuts
Commemoration Blog about Ormonde Colliery, the last Derbyshire pit in the Erewash Valley, which closed fifty-years ago on 25th September 1970 marking the ‘End of an Era’.
The 1950 Creswell Colliery Disaster: Seventy Years on.
Blog commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the tragic underground accident at Creswell Colliery which occurred on 26th September 1950.
Salistune Sunset: The End of Coal Mining in a Nottinghamshire Parish
Closure of the Pye Hill Complex on 9th August 1985 ends deep coal mining in western Nottinghamshire.
Whats Gray’ner than Gray’n? – Moorgray’n: Moorgreen Colliery closure 35 years on.
Blog commemorating thirty-five years since the last Eastwood pit, Nottinghamshire, closed – Those Coal Town Days!
Summit Circular – A look into Kirkby-in-Ashfield’s Industrial Past
An industrial heritage walk looking into aspects of Kirkby-in-Ashfield’s coalmining and railways past.
Digging Deeper: Shirland Colliery – The Archives and Beyond
A glance at remaining mining records and documentation for Shirland Colliery, North Derbyshire, fifty-five years after its closure.
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.
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.
