Mining Heritage, East Midlands – News and Events
Bagworth Colliery – 30th anniversary of Closure
End of an Era for Leicestershire Coal Mining – Bagworth Colliery closure 30 years on. Production at the last deep coal mine in the north west Leicestershire coalfield finished in February 1991.
Longwall, Landscape and Legacies: The Coal Mining Memorials of the East Midlands
Proposed coal mining arts and heritage project based on the coal mining memorials in the East Midlands at Bilsthorpe, Eastwood, Heanor, Coalville and Church Gresley.
Pit Canaries: End of an Era
Twenty-Fifth anniversary of the end of a proud coal mining tradition, the end for pit canaries. Traditionally used for testing for whitedamp (CO) and blackdamp, they were replaced by the ‘electronic canary’.
Banners and Beyond: New Booklet
‘Banners and Beyond’ considers how Notts’ mining communities found expression in union banners at galas, public events and demonstrations, and how this art-form is still used in the post-industrial age.
Watnall Colliery: Seventieth Anniversary of Closure.
Watnall Colliery, sunk by the Barber Walker Company and known locally as ‘Watna’, finished production on 23rd December 1950.
When Ormonde Shuts
Commemoration Blog about Ormonde Colliery, the last Derbyshire pit in the Erewash Valley, which closed fifty-years ago on 25th September 1970 marking the ‘End of an Era’.
The 1950 Creswell Colliery Disaster: Seventy Years on.
Blog commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the tragic underground accident at Creswell Colliery which occurred on 26th September 1950.
Salistune Sunset: The End of Coal Mining in a Nottinghamshire Parish
Closure of the Pye Hill Complex on 9th August 1985 ends deep coal mining in western Nottinghamshire.
Whats Gray’ner than Gray’n? – Moorgray’n: Moorgreen Colliery closure 35 years on.
Blog commemorating thirty-five years since the last Eastwood pit, Nottinghamshire, closed – Those Coal Town Days!
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.
