News and Events
The Pitmen Poets at Mansfield Palace Theatre
Concert on Sunday, 20th October 2019 at 7.30pm as part of the 2019 tour. Celebrating our coalmining heritage.
Eastwood Collieries Male Voice Choir: Celebrating 100 years.
Illustrated Talk about the Male Voice Choir (1919-2019) to Eastwood Historical Society: 16th October 2019 – 7.30pm.
The East Midlands Coalmining Industry and my part in it.
Illustrated Talk by Ian Revill, Retired Assistant Colliery Surveyor on Tues eve 8th October 2019 – Foresters Arms, Newthorpe, Notts.
Digging Deep: Miners of African Caribbean Heritage Exhibition
Digging Deep: Miners of African Caribbean Heritage Exhibition, NCMME, 2019-2020.
Songs and Rhymes from the Mines: 2019 North Notts Literary Festival
Songs and Rhymes from the Mines as part of the 2019 North Notts Literary Festival on Saturday 14th September 2019 (2pm-4pm). Free Event.
Formation of NUM: Seventy-Fifth anniversary.
Seventy-fifth anniversary of NUM: Founding Conference of NUM held at the Black Boy Hotel, Nottingham on 16th August 1944.
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.
