Mining Heritage, East Midlands – News and Events
From the Pits to Paris: George Bissill Derbyshire’s Forgotten Pitman Painter.
From the Pits to Paris: Free Exhibition of the artwork of George Bissill (1896-1973), Derbyshire’s Forgotten Pitman Painter, at the Erewash Museum, Ilkeston from 2nd September to 19th November 2021.
Looking after your Photograph Collections: On Line Workshop
Free on line workshop on Friday morning, 16th July 2021, as part of the coal mining heritage project ‘Mine-Craft the Prequel: The Photographic Story of East Midlands Coal’.
A Brief History of Annesley Colliery (1865 – 2000)
A brief account of the colliery’s intriguing 135 year old history (1865-2000). Known locally as being as a ‘Family Pit’, it was the last deep mine to operate in the NCB South Nottinghamshire Area.
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 and Monuments of the East Midlands
Proposed coal mining arts and cultural project based on the coal mining memorials and monuments 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’.
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.
