News and Events
75th Anniversary: Coppice Colliery Ignition 1943
75th anniversary of the Coppice Colliery (Derbyshire) ignition which occurred on 28th June 1943 resulting in the death of four miners.
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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 during a period of rapid social change in society. Being shown locally at Wirksworth, Bolsover and Creswell during late June / early July 2018.
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Nottinghamshire Heritage Forum Conference and Awards Evening
As part of the Awards Evening, local singer/songwriters will perform some coalmining heritage songs from the forthcoming CD, Singing the Seam.
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Dot Hills: A Landscape Changed
Dot Hills Exhibition at Creswell Crags Visitors Centre from 1st June to 2nd September 2018 – Free Event
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Civilisation Stories: The Art of Mining
The regional BBC programme will be shown nationwide on BBC4 TV on Sunday, 10th June 2018 at 11.30pm.
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Tongue and Talk of the People – East Midlands
BBC Radio 4, Sunday 20th May 2018 featuring the Pit-Talk and Pit Poetry from the former Notts Coalfield.
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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.
