News and Events
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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Ballots, Blacklegs and Bedlam: The Nottinghamshire Miners and the 1984-85 Miners’s Strike – A Contested History
Talk on the Notts Miners & the 1984-85 Miners Strike to the Kimberley Historical Society on 6th Sept 2018 (7.30pm).
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Langwith Colliery: 40th anniversary of closure.
On 4th August 1978, Langwith Colliery in the NCB North Derbyshire Area, finished production. The colliery was situated near the village of Whaley Thorns.
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Images of Clipstone Headstocks: Exhibition at Mansfield Library
Exhibition – Photos of Clipstone Colliery Headstocks by young people at Mansfield Library 15th Aug – 26th Sept 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.
