by David Amos | Oct 3, 2020 | Anniversaries, Dialect, Event, News, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Ormonde Colliery, last colliery in the Erewash region of Derbyshire. Photo Credit – Bob Bradley collection. Prologue: When Ormonde Shuts. Fifty-years ago, on 25th September 1970, Ormonde Colliery at Loscoe, near Heanor, Derbyshire closed after sixty-two...
by David Amos | Sep 28, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, News, Uncategorised
Fig 1. Creswell Colliery on the day of the disaster – 26th September 1950. Photo Credit – MuBu Miner collection. Prologue: The Creswell Colliery Disaster. Seventy-years ago on 26th September 1950, Creswell Colliery in North Derbyshire, was hit by a coal...
by David Amos | Aug 11, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, Memorial, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Pye Hill Colliery Sunset, August 1985. Photo Credit – SLHP Archive. Salistune Sunset: The End of Coal Mining in a Nottinghamshire Parish. Closure of Pye Hill Complex thirty-five years on. Deep coalmining in the parish of Selston, Nottinghamshire, came...
by David Amos | Aug 2, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Moorgreen Colliery, near Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in the early 1980’s. Photo Credit: MuBu Miner collection. Whats Gray’ner than Gray’n? – Moorgray’n: Moorgreen Colliery closure 35 years on. “What’s Grayn’ er than Grayn –...
by David Amos | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog, Event, Memorial, News, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Industrial Kirkby-in-Ashfield in 1965 with Kirkby (Summit) Colliery (1890 – 1968) dominating in the foreground. Photo Credit – Coal Authority A Summit Circular An industrial heritage walk looking into aspects of Kirkby-in-Ashfield’s coalmining...
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