Mining Heritage, East Midlands – News and Events
Pits, Props and Prose: Horse and Jockey, Selston – Sunday, 8th May 2022
A late afternoon and early evening of pit poetry and prose, celebrating our local coal mining heritage and culture. Free event, part of the 2022 Nottingham Poetry Festival.
Coal in the Blood: A morning of poetry and short stories about local coalmining folklore at the Tin Hat Centre.
A morning of poetry and short stories of local coalmining folklore read by local poet Kath Bartholomew and local historian David Amos. Free event at The Tin Hat Centre, Selston, Nottinghamshire. All welcome.
The South Normanton Colliery Disaster 1937: A talk by Roger West
Roger West presents at talk on the 1937 coalmining disaster at South Normanton Colliery at the Post Mill Centre, South Normanton, Derbyshire, on 30th March 2022 at 7.00pm.
Landscape Trails of Coal and Rails: A Post Industrial Digital Pilgrimage
A proposed arts, heritage and cultural project by Mine2Minds Education creating a series of digital trails on former East Midlands colliery sites and the railway trackbeds which served them.
David Coleman: Historical Coalmining Entertainer at Underwood, 26th February 2022.
Historical Coalmining Entertainer, David Coleman, takes his unique one-man show to St Michaels Church, Underwood, Nottinghamshire, on Saturday 26th February 2022.
On Behalf of the People: 75th anniversary of the Nationalisation of the British coalmining industry – The East Midlands coalfield.
Blog on the East Midlands coalfield to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the nationalisation of the British coalmining industry.
Coal in the Blood: Longwall, Lawrence and Literary Legacies
On line talk via Zoom to the DH Lawrence Society of readings from the recently published ‘Coal in the Blood: An East Midlands Coal Mining Anthology’ edited by Natalie Braber and David Amos.
Coal in the Blood, new book available, published by Trent Editions.
Coal in the Blood, An East Midlands Coal Mining Anthology, edited by Natalie Braber and David Amos. Includes works by John Harvey, Deborah Tyler Bennett and DH Lawrence, and pitmen poets from the region.
Gedling Colliery: The Pit of Nations (1899 – 1991).
Gedling Colliery, in the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, closed thirty years ago in November 1991. Locally, it was known as the ‘Pit of Nations’ because of its very diverse workforce from the 1950’s onwards.
Mining Heritage Video
Snap Tin. Based on ‘Coal Miner’ by G.A.W. Tomlinson (c.1930) shot on location at the D.H. Lawrence Museum and National Coal Mining Museum for England.
History of Coal Mining in 10 Objects
Historian and former mining surveyor, Dr Robert Bradley charts the development of the iconic colliery headstocks
‘A Requiem for Coal’ commemorates the end of 700 years of coal mining in Nottinghamshire, with traditional stories, songs and readings from D.H. Lawrence who came from a mining family in the county.
