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...
by David Amos | May 31, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Shirland Colliery, Derbyshire, in the 1960’s – Photo Credit – Coal Authority Digging Deeper: Shirland Colliery – The Archives and Beyond. Shirland Colliery – A Brief History Fifty-five years ago, in May 1965, Shirland Colliery in...
by David Amos | May 10, 2020 | Blog, Event, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Vicars Water, Clipstone, in the late 1960’s: Photo: Chad Newspaper Coal, Community and Change (1965-2015) Miners Welfare Fishing Club Memories Competition fishing has a long association with the coalmining industry. On 5th September 1903, an amazing 138...
by David Amos | Apr 25, 2020 | Anniversaries, Event, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Closure of Donisthorpe / Rawdon Complex reported in local press – April 1990. End of Deep Coal mining in South Derbyshire – 30 years on. Closure of Donsithorpe / Rawdon Complex – April 1990. The closure of the Donisthorpe / Rawdon Complex on...
by David Amos | Apr 16, 2020 | Anniversaries, Event, News, Uncategorised
Remains of Portland No.1 Colliery (Isaiah’s Pit) uncovered in 2006. Photo Credit: MuBuMiner Portland Collieries Bicentenary Development of the Portland Collieries in the Nottinghamshire coalfield Two hundred years ago, in the Spring of 1820, development...
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